Women Filmmakers
So, I started compiling a list highly rated films made by women to use as a specific watchlist (aka 'Best Films Directed/Written by Women' - here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058645861/)
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-this list is those women.
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Megan Griffiths is a writer/director working in film and television. She has directed shows for HBO (Room 104), EPIX (Graves), TNT (Animal Kingdom), Hulu (Looking for Alaska), USA (Dare Me), Fox (Prodigal Son), Netflix (The Society, Trinkets), and Amazon (Panic). Prior to this, she wrote and directed Sadie, which stars Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr, Danielle Brooks, and Tony Hale, and features breakout performances from its young stars Sophia Mitri Schloss and Keith L. Williams, and premiered at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival. She also created the thriller The Night Stalker, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as serial killer Richard Ramirez, which premiered on Lifetime Television. Her film Lucky Them starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Griffiths's film Eden, based on the true story of a young woman captured into the world of human trafficking, was a breakout at SXSW 2012, winning the Emergent Narrative Director Award, the Audience Award for Narrative Feature as well as a Special Jury Prize for lead actress Jamie Chung. Griffiths's feature The Off Hours, distributed by Film Movement, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Additionally, Griffiths has produced several other projects including the Sundance absurdist buddy comedy The Catechism Cataclysm, as well as Your Sister's Sister, directed by the late Lynn Shelton, Griffiths's close friend and frequent collaborator. Griffiths and Shelton also co-wrote a feature for This American Life, and together with producer Gregg Fienberg sold an original pitch to HBO.
Griffiths is a member of the director's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In her adopted hometown of Seattle, Griffiths was the recipient of the 2012 Stranger Genius Award for Film, was named the 2013 City Arts Film Artist of the Year, and received the 2015 Seattle Mayor's Award for Film. She serves on the board of Northwest Film Forum and is an active advocate for sustainable production.
Griffiths also writes about her experiences in the entertainment industry for her blog Thoughts on Film, and discusses recent releases for the film commentary site The Talkhouse.- Director
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Julia Bacha was born in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is a director and editor, known for Naila and the Uprising (2017), My Neighbourhood (2012) and Budrus (2009).- Director
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Hanan Abdalla is known for In the Shadow of a Man (2012).- Director
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Marina Zenovich is an American filmmaker known for her biographical documentaries. Her films include Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which won two Emmy awards. Zenovich was born in Fresno, California. She is the daughter of George N. Zenovich, a former California State Senator and Judge, and Vera "Kika"" Zenovich, who was born in Yugoslavia. Her sister is actress Ninon Zenovich (aka Ninon Aprea). The Fifth District Court of Appeals Courthouse in Fresno is named after her father. When he passed away in 2013, she made a film for the memorial service to celebrate his life.
Zenovich first studied drama at the University of Southern California and then switched majors, graduating with a degree in Journalism. During college, she worked for Hollywood producer Mike Frankovich and also in the press department of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. Following graduation, Zenovich moved to New York City, where she acted in short films and off-Broadway plays. Zenovich studied acting at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, furthering her studies with Ron Burrus and Stella Adler. She later acted in several movies including Robert Altman's The Player and actress Talia Shire's One Night Stand. Zenovich's voiceover work includes Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. She is also the voice of a rubber band in the 2011 children's film Bands on the Run. In 1997, Zenovich began working as a segment producer on John Pierson's TV series Split Screen, which was broadcast on the Independent Film Channel. Due to her work on Split Screen, she became interested in becoming a director and working on feature documentaries.
Marina's Films Include The Critically Acclaimed Fantastic Lies -- About The Duke Lacrosse Scandal - Widely Considered One Of The Best Episodes Of Espn's "30 For 30". (Sxsw 2016); Water And Power: A California Heist For National Geographic (Sundance Film Festival 2017); Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic (Tribeca Film Festival 2013, Naacp Image Award Winner For Best Tv Documentary); Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (Sundance And Cannes Film Festivals 2008, Emmy Winner, Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming And Outstanding Writing For Nonfiction Programming) For Hbo; And Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (Toronto And New York Film Festivals 2012) For Showtime. Her Upcoming Documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Sundance Film Festival 2018) Will Premiere On Hbo In July.- Actress
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Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid Veninger formed pUNK Films in 2003 with a 'nothing is impossible' manifesto. Since 2008, Ingrid has directed six narrative fiction feature films, Only (2008), Modra (2010), I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person (2011), The Animal Project (2013), He Hated Pigeons (2015), Porcupine Lake (2017), and one feature documentary, The World or Nothing (2019), with premieres at festival worldwide including, TIFF, Rotterdam, Slamdance, Busan and Hot Docs. In addition to directing, Ingrid has produced features with Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008)), Anais Granofsky (Re-Generation (2004)), Peter Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002), The End of Time (2012)). She is the winner of the TFCA Jay Scott Prize, EDA Award for Best Director, and the Women's International Film & Television Showcase (WIFTS) International Visionary Award. Ingrid is a filmmaking mentor at the Canadian Film Centre and full-time faculty in Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto. She has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus, Rotterdam Lab, and the inaugural TIFF Studio. In 2014, Ingrid initiated the pUNK Films Femmes Lab to foster more competitive feature films written and directed by Canadian women, sponsored by Academy Award winner Melissa Leo. Ingrid continues to champion gender parity in the entertainment industry.- Director
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Born in China in 1947, Ann Hui moved to Hong Kong when she was still in her youth. After graduating in English and Comparative Literature from Hong Kong University, she spent two years at the London Film School. Returning to Hong Kong, she worked as an assistant to director King Hu before joining TVB to direct drama series and short documentaries. In 1978, she directed three episodes for the RTHK series Si ji san ha (1972). After that, she directed her debut feature The Secret (1979).- Writer
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Ivy Ho is known for Claustrophobia (2008), Crossing Hennessy (2010) and Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996).- Writer
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Born in Madrid, Iciar Bollain has worked as an actress in films such El Sur (1983), directed by Víctor Erice; Sublet (1991) directed by Chus Gutiérrez, Malaventura (1988) directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; El Mejor de los Tiempos (1990) and Un Paraguas para Tres (1992) directed by Felipe Vega, Tierra y Libertad (1995) directed by Ken Loach, LEO (2000) directed by Jose Luis Borau, Nos Miran (2002) directed by Norberto Pérez, La Balsa de Piedra (2003) directed by Geogre Sluiezer and La Noche del Hermano (2005) directed by Santiago García de Leániz. As a director, Icíar has written and directed many renowned films. Flowers from Another World, her second film, was awarded at Cannes Film Festival in 1999 (Best Film in the International Critics' Week). Take my eyes (2003), her following film as writer and director, won 7 Goyas (Spanish Academy Awards), including Best Film, among many other international awards. She directed a script by Paul Laverty in 2009, Even the Rain. The film obtained national and international recognition: 13 nominations to the Goya Awards, Panorama Award at the Berlinale, Ariel Award to best Latin-American film and it was in the short list of the foreign films selected for the Academy Awards in 2010 representing Spain. In 2011 she directed and co-wrote Katmandú, un Espejo en el Cielo. The film was nominated to the Goya Awads in the categories of Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014 it was released En Tierra Extraña, a documentary that Iciar directed about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment Iciar Bollain is currently in pre-production of his next film, The Olive Tree, a new collaboration with the writer Paul Laverty and Morena Films. The film will start principal photography in May 2015.- Alicia Luna is known for Take My Eyes (2003), Rosa's Wedding (2020) and Mapa de recuerdos de Madrid (2014).
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Samira Makhmalbaf Filmmaker
Born on February 15,1980 in Tehran. At the age of eight, she played in "The Cyclist" directed by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf the celebrated Iranian filmmaker.
At the age of 17, she directed her first feature titled "The Apple" and She went on to become the youngest director in the world participating in the official section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. She was praised on different occasions by the legendary Jean-Luc Godard for her film. The Apple was invited to more than 100 international film festivals in a period of two years, while going to the screen in more than 30 countries.
In 1999, Samira made her second feature film titled "Blackboards" in Kurdistan of Iran, and for the second time was selected by the Cannes Film Festival to compete in the official section in 2000. She was granted the Special Jury Award. The Blackboards received many international awards including the "Federico Fellini Honor Award" from UNESCO and "Francois Truffaut Award" from Italy. The film was widely released across the world and more than two hundred thousand people watched the film in France alone.
Samira alongside other prominent director like Ken Loach, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine, Sean Penn.... made one of the eleven episodes of the film "September 11". The film was premiered at Venice International Film Festival in 2002.
The third feature by Samira Makhmalbaf titled "At Five in the Afternoon", the first feature film shot in Afghanistan post Taliban. The film was selected for the competition section of Cannes Film Festival in 2003, receiving the Jury's Special Award for the second time. In 2004, she was selected as one of forty best directors of the world by Guardian newspaper.
Samira Makhmalbaf shot her fourth feature film in Afghanistan titled Two-Legged Horse in 2007, receiving the Grand Jury Awardof San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.
Samira Makhmalbaf has also participated as jury member in reputable film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Moscow, Montreal...- Producer
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Shirin Neshat was born on 26 March 1957 in Ghazvin, Iran. She is a director and producer, known for Women Without Men (2009), Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017) and Land of Dreams (2021).- Director
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Jennifer Steinman Sternin has directed, produced and edited award-winning content for film and television for over 20 years. Her credits as Director include "Hi, I'm Nancy Rubin" (Director/Executive Producer, HBOMax/Discovery+, 2022), "Gramma & Ginga: The Movie" (Director, Peacock, 2020), "Desert Runners" (Director/Producer, IDFA, 2013) and "Motherland" (Director/Producer, SXSW Audience Award Winner, 2009). She also Produced Emmy Award® winner "Time for Ilhan" (Tribeca FIlm Festival, 2018), and Field Produced/Co-Wrote "Dear Santa, The Series" (Hulu, 2022). Her fiction Directing debut, "The Other Road" (2023), is on the film festival circuit.
Steinman Sternin is also an accomplished film editor whose films have been accepted into many major film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, and Sundance. Most recently she edited "Dear Santa" (IFC Films, 2020) and was the Lead Editor of "Pick of the Litter: The Series" (Disney+). She has produced and edited content for ABC, MTV, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo and many other television networks. She won a Telly Award and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. Jennifer is the Founder of Walnut & Rose Pictures, a boutique production company in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has several new films in development, has done a TEDx talk and does speaking engagements around the world.- Actress
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Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942. In the 1960s she moved to Paris where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films. She also pursued an acclaimed acting career, starring in films by well known German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Volker Schlöndorff. In 1971, von Trotta divorced her first husband Juergen Moeller (with whom she had a child) and married Schlöndorff. She co-wrote many of the scripts for his films, and in 1975 the two of them co-directed The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975). In 1977, von Trotta directed her first solo feature The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978). With her third film, Marianne & Juliane (1981), von Trotta's position as New German Cinema's most prominent and successful female filmmaker was fully secured.
Her films feature strong female protagonists, and are usually set against an important political background. Themes in her work include the effect of the political on the personal, and vice versa, as well as the relationships between female characters, often sisters.- Director
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Deborah Chow is known for The High Cost of Living (2010), Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) and The Mandalorian (2019).- Director
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Has directed many major commercials for Absolute Vodka, The Observer, Philips, Evian, Wella, Johnny Walker and Baileys. She also directed various arts documentaries for the BBC series 'Building Sights' and two documentaries on the world of boxing for Channel Four. She wrote and directed her first feature film The Governess (1998) starring Minnie Driver and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. For that film she was nominated for a BAFTA for best newcomer and won a Hitchcock Award at the Dinard British Film Festival. She also won the Audience Award and a Special debut Prize at the Karlovyvary International Film Festival and the Kodak Vision Award.- Director
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Sloane U'Ren is known for Dimensions (2011), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Batman Begins (2005). Sloane is married to Antony Neely.- Director
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Tatiana Huezo was born on 9 January 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. She is a director and cinematographer, known for The Echo (2023), Prayers for the Stolen (2021) and El lugar más pequeño (2011).- Producer
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Maya Gallus is a director, writer and producer, known for Derby Crazy Love (2014); The Mystery of Mazo De La Roche (2012); Dish- Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service (2010); Girl Inside (2007); Punch Like A Girl (2008); Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality (1997); Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels (1991).- Director
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Heddy Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru. She was a director and writer, known for Forever (2006), Oblivion (2008) and Crazy (1999). She was married to Frans van de Staak, Henk Timmermans and Gustavo Riofrio . She died on 21 May 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.- Director
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Ami Canaan Mann was born in 1969 in London, England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for Jackie & Ryan (2014), Morning (2001) and Texas Killing Fields (2011).- Director
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Naomi Kawase was born on 30 May 1969 in Nara, Japan. She is a director and writer, known for Sweet Bean (2015), Still the Water (2014) and Suzaku (1997). She was previously married to Takenori Sentô.- Director
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Katja von Garnier was born on 15 December 1966 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Bandits (1997), Iron Jawed Angels (2004) and Windstorm (2013). She is married to Markus Goller. They have one child.- Actress
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Although Lily Mariye is a DGA Award nominee for "Just Add Magic," she may be best known for her role as Nurse Lily Jarvik on ER (1994) for its entire 15 season run. An award-winning actress/dancer/singer, she was discovered by agent Joan Scott in the LA stage production of Elizabeth Swados musical, Runaways. Now a successful TV and film director, she directed "The Walking Dead," "The Good Fight," "The Terror: Infamy," "Prodigal Son," "Council Of Dads," "Stumptown," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Chicago PD," "Criminal Minds," "Nashville," and "Partner Track" after her feature film debut, "Model Minority." She is active at the DGA, appointed by President Tommy Schlamme to the DGA PAC Leadership Council and the Special Projects Committee, as well as being elected twice as Co-chair of the DGA Asian American Committee. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, she has a BA in Theatre from UCLA. She is married to Grammy-nominated Concord Recording artist, Boney James.- Director
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Nina Paley was born on 3 May 1968 in Champaign, Illinois, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Sita Sings the Blues (2008), Seder-Masochism (2018) and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014). She was previously married to Liam.- Director
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Marjane Satrapi was born on 22 November 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She is a director and actress, known for Persepolis (2007), The Voices (2014) and Chicken with Plums (2011). She is married to Mattias Ripa. She was previously married to Reza.- Producer
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Freida Lee Mock is known for Return with Honor (1998), Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (2013) and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994). She is married to Terry Sanders.- Director
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Isabel Coixet was born on 9 April 1960 in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is a director and writer, known for My Life Without Me (2003), The Secret Life of Words (2005) and The Bookshop (2017).- Producer
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Liz Garbus was born on 11 April 1970 in the USA. She is a producer and director, known for What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015), The Farm: Angola, USA (1998) and Becoming Cousteau (2021). She is married to Dan Cogan. They have two children.- Director
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Laura Colella is known for Breakfast with Curtis (2012), Tax Day (1998) and Stay Until Tomorrow (2004).- Director
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Gauri Shinde was born on 6 July 1974 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. She is a director and writer, known for English Vinglish (2012), Dear Zindagi (2016) and Chup (2022).- Director
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Vittoria Colonna is a writer, director and producer. Growing up between Ireland and Italy, Vittoria was influenced to study fine art painting in Rome's L'Accademia di Belle Arti. Having trained as an Opera singer in Tuscany, she then continued in the performing arts, finishing her studies at the Gaiety school of Acting in Dublin 2004. Later she turned to directing where she found her niche.
Vittoria has directed numerous music videos, which have received international acclaim, such as an Irish Music Television Award (IMTV) in 2009, Best Music Video at the The Los Angeles Film and Script Festival 2012, The Golden Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival 2012 and The Golden Palm Award at The Mexico International Film Festival 2012. However most impressive has been the touring success of her debut feature documentary, Identities and short feature My Identity which she wrote, directed and co- produced, winning awards such as The Irish Council of Civil Liberties (ICCL) Human Rights Film Award among other nominations such as The Celtic Media Award for best Factual Documentary 2010, European Short Debut Award at The Era New Horizons International Film Festival 2010 and The Current Award at the Rome Independent Film Festival in 2010. The performance art pieces from the film were selected by the Italian Cultural Minster as part of the Worldwide Italian Pavilion & 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2011.
To date, Vittoria has built a reputation for investigating complex ethical questions, using film, documentary, video and art to reveal the harsher aspects of existence, yet exploring sensitive and dramatic themes with honesty and dark humour. She is also a member of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI).- Director
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As a filmmaker, Anne Aghion has been drawn to places as far-ranging as rural Rwanda, the ice fields of Antarctica and the slums of Managua. She has been praised by critics both as a director of unique and poetic vision, and a documentarian who conveys a strong sense of the people and places she covers. Her work has also earned her, among other honors, a UNESCO Fellini Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Emmy, and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's Nestor Almendros Award for courage in Filmmaking.
Her new feature documentary "My Neighbor My Killer" caps nearly ten years of filming in post-genocide Rwanda, where a daring experiment in reconciliation and justice-the Gacaca Law (pronounced ga-CHA-cha)-has been put in place. There, over time, Aghion charted the emotional impact of a system of local open-air courts that adjudicates genocide crimes, and returns killers to their homes in exchange for confessions.
For most of her life, Aghion has been a dual resident of New York and Paris. She spent the first eight years of her career in both editorial and administrative capacities at The New York Times Paris bureau, and at the International Herald Tribune. Moving into film, she worked in a variety of capacities including videographer, production and postproduction manager with filmmakers such as Richard Leacock & Valérie Lalonde, and Judith Abitbol, and for documentaries aired on major cable networks such as Canal+ and ARTE.
Aghion was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and has received repeat grants from the Soros Documentary Fund, the Sundance Documentary Fund, and the United States Institute of Peace. She also received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Compton Foundation, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation. In addition, she was able to generate funding for the Gacaca Trilogy from the Austrian Development Agency, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Development Cooperation, and Oxfam Novib thanks to the significant impact of "Gacaca."
Anne Aghion holds a Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude in Arab Language and Literature from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York, and following her studies, spent two years living in Cairo.- Director
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Kim Cummings was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Clearwater, Florida when she was six-years-old, where she lived until attending college at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father, Robert Cummings (not the actor), was a Systems Analyst and her mother, Marie Cummings is an artist. Cummings holds a BS degree in Math/Computer Science from Emory and a Certificate in Film from New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is also mother to boy/girl twins, born in 2001.
Cummings' breakthrough short film, "Weeki Wachee Girls", played in over 70 festivals around the world and picked up three best-of awards. It's based on her high-school experience of watching a close friend struggle with her attraction to another girl.- Producer
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Amy Berg was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is known for Deliver Us from Evil (2006), West of Memphis (2012) and Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015).- Writer
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Sandra Nettelbeck was born on 4 April 1966 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and director, known for Mostly Martha (2001), Last Love (2013) and No Reservations (2007).- Writer
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During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the direct heirs to the neo-realists - Wertmüller was also one of the first woman directors to be internationally recognized and acclaimed. Armed with a keenly satiric and Rabelaisian humor, Wertmüller reinvented the narrative forms and character types of Italian comedy to create one of the rare examples of a radical, politically galvanized cinema that managed to achieve widespread popularity. Indeed, the fierce invectives against social, cultural and historical inequities at the heart of Wertmüller's mid-1970s masterworks Love and Anarchy, Seven Beauties and Swept Away seemed only to help the films find an appreciative audience, especially in the United States, where they broke box office records for foreign films and even secured Wertmüller an Oscar nomination for Best Director - the very first woman named for this category. Although Wertmüller remains a well-known name, her remarkable films are strangely overlooked and only selectively revisited. And yet, the incredible energy and daring of her most popular works is equally present in lesser-known masterpieces such as All Screwed Up and The Seduction of Mimi, films that are both extremely topical and yet still totally relevant today.- Producer
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Juanita Wilson is known for As If I Am Not There (2010), Tomato Red: Blood Money (2017) and The Door (2008). She was previously married to James Flynn.- Director
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Holly Dale is one of Canada's premiere directors recognized globally for her outstanding, award-winning television and cinema work crafted over the past twenty-five years. Ms Dale has directed movies, entire mini series, pilots and episodic. She has worked in all genres.
Recently, Ms Dale was taped to be the Producer Director for showrunner Nick Santora's upcoming Netflix/Skydance series FUBAR starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monica Barbaro and Fortune Feimster. The series will start streaming on Netflix in the Summer of 2023.
Previously Ms Dale was the Producer Director on the Warner Bros/Berlanti Productions series Batwoman for three seasons where she directed 13 episodes.
Ms Dale was also Producer Director of the international sensation Transplant. She block shot the pilot and first 3 episodes of Transplant, creating its stunning visual template. Transplant focuses on a Syrian trauma surgeon who himself is the transplant. The series holds the distinction of becoming the #1 drama series of the year in both its Canadian run and US network run on NBC.
Among many prestigious awards Ms Dale has earned is the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture and Best Director for the groundbreaking hard edged serial killer miniseries Durham County. She was also honoured with a Canadian Screen Award for Best Director for Mary Kills People, a limited series delving into the murky waters of euthanasia which she directed/co-executive produced the entire first season of six hours. Variety selected Mary Kills People as one of their top ten series of the year.
The Directors Guild of Canada has recognized Ms Dale as their Best Director of Drama series on four [4] separate occasions for her work on the acclaimed one hour shows Flashpoint, Durham County, Mary Kills People and most recently for Transplant.
Highlights of the many extraordinary series Holly has guest directed include Dexter, The Americans, Chris Carter's X-Files, Joan Allen's The Family, Dick Wolf's Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Law & Order:SVU, Halle Berry's Extant, Bradley Cooper's Limitless, Marvel's Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D, Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies as well as 12 individual hours of the Jerry Bruckheimer anthological series Cold Case, to name just a few.- Director
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Zana Briski was born on 25 October 1966 in London, England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004), The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) and The WIN Awards 2006 (2006).- Actress
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A tall, slim brunette with deep red puckered lips, Valérie Donzelli plays wonderfully clumsy, gawky, goofy girls, failed seductresses and successful charm freaks. She is also a noted film director, whose works explore very different registers, which she does not hesitate to mix whether comic, offbeat, sentimental, tragic, sometimes with little concern for the Cartesian spirit.
The granddaughter of painter-sculptor Dante Donzelli, Valérie was born in 1973 in Épinal, a town in the North-East of France. At 18 she went to Paris to study studied architecture, but after a while decided instead to become an actress, which was encouraged by a young performer she met, Jérémie Elkaïm, who later became her companion..
She soon landed a title role, that of a neurotic young mother in Sandrine Veysset's « Martha... Martha » (2001). The next parts in movies were only supporting roles (« Who Killed Bambi? », « The Best Day of My Life », « In His Hands ») but she was treated better by television, for instance in the series « Clara Sheller », in which she played Clara Sheller's best friend and which made her known to the general public..
But playing was not enough for Valerie Donzelli. She was just itching to write and direct (and produce, which she did later in her career). It was not long before she took action, often with the collaboration of her life partner Jérémie Elkaïm as her leading man and/or co-writer. After two shorts, she made a notable feature, « The Queen of Hearts » (2009), in which she imposed the character of the insecure Adèle, both comic and pathetic, who finds it hard to recover after a painful breakup. A breakup that took place in real life between Jérémie and her, although the ex-pair remained in good terms afterwards and went on working together, the most striking of their work together being unquestionably « War is Declared » (2011), which tells the heart-breaking story of how their young couple went through the terrible illness of their 18-month-old child. It was both a great critical and box-office success.
Less of a hit at the box office but interesting for their artistic options though were « Hand in Hand », (2012) the story of a a passionate love affair that literally sticks together a dance teacher and a young glass-worker as well as « Marguerite et Julien » (2015), a Romeo and Juliet-like story between... a brother and a sister.
Her last picture to-date, « Notre dame » features two stars, Paris's Notre Dame cathedral filmed a few months before the April 2019 fire that devastated the building and Valérie Donzelli herself, who more or less reprises the role of the clumsy, overwhelmed heroine of « The Queen of hearts », now turned an architect (doesn't it remind you of something?) - caught up in a reality that's beyond her.
Between the films she makes, those she plays in generally interesting films such as the hilarious Swiss comedy « Longwave » (2013) or the more serious « The White Knights » (2015).
A hyperactive creator and performer, Valérie Donzelli will certainly continue to amaze us, to amuse us and to make us think for yet a long time to come- Director
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Laurie Collyer was born in 1967 in Mountainside, New Jersey, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Sherrybaby (2006), Nuyorican Dream (2000) and Sunlight Jr. (2013).- Producer
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Barbara Kopple was born on 30 July 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).- Director
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As a successful director working both inside and outside the Hollywood studio system, Joan Micklin Silver was a true lamplighter. Garnering a steady stream of awards and box office successes, she proved herself time and again as one of the most important woman directors to come out of the United States, and demonstrated that films about Jewish topics can succeed with both Jews and non-Jews alike.
Based in New York, where she lived for many decades, Joan Micklin was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1935. She was the daughter of Maurice David and Doris (Shoshone) Micklin, Russian Jewish immigrants who came separately to the United States before the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Her father later founded the Micklin Lumber Company. Her deep love for the movies was first nurtured during her earliest days in pre-television Omaha, where she attended the local cinema religiously. She attended Temple Israel Synagogue and graduated from Central High School in 1952 and often wrote sketches for school plays.
Fresh after graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 1956, she married Raphael D. Silver, son of the famous Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. The Silvers lived in Cleveland from 1956 to 1967 and raised three daughters there: Dina (born 1958), Marisa (born 1960), and Claudia (born 1963). While in Cleveland, Silver taught music and wrote plays, two of which were performed at local Cleveland theaters. In 1967, the Silvers moved to New York, where she worked briefly for the Village Voice and was then hired to adapt Lois Gould's 1970 novel Such Good Friends for legendary director Otto Preminger (she was replaced by a long line of others that included Joan Didion and Elaine May). Her first original screenplay, Limbo, about the wives of prisoners of war in Vietnam, was purchased by Universal Pictures and made into a film directed by Mark Robson. When Silver clashed with the director over her vision for the film, she was fired and replaced by James Bridges, though she received story and co-scripting credit in the final film.
The Learning Corporation of America then commissioned her to write and direct a series of short films, among them The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972), which went on to win several awards. When her success as a screenwriter and director of short films failed to score her a break in directing feature films, and when a studio executive actually told her that "women directors were another problem the studios didn't need," Silver's husband agreed to raise the money for her debut feature and serve as its producer. The film became Hester Street (1975), adapted by Silver from the 1890s novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, the founder of the Jewish Daily Forward. Turned down by every major studio as an "ethnic oddity" with a limited audience appeal, Hester Street was independently distributed by the Silvers, with the guidance of John Cassavetes. Joan and Ray formed the production and distribution company Midwest Films, through which the film was seen worldwide and admired by Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. Hester Street became one of the earliest independent films to be nominated for Academy Awards, securing a Best Actress nod for lead Carol Kane. The following year, she adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair (starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort and Veronica Cartwright) as part of a series of median-length features taken from classic American short stories.
Despite the critical and surprise commercial success of Hester Street, major studios still would not back Silver's next film. Her second feature, Between the Lines (1977), about a group of people who work for an alternative newspaper in Boston, was once again produced by her husband. That comedy feature an ensemble cast of now-famous faces, including Jeff Goldblum, John Heard and Stephen Collins. Her third feature, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), based on the novel by Ann Beattie, marked Silver's first experience working with a major Hollywood studio, namely United Artists. Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne selected the film for inclusion in a special festival recognizing pictures that were "woefully overlooked and under-appreciated," then later programmed the film for his "night of favorites" on TCM in 2007. In November 2014, Chilly Scenes of Winter played to a sold-out crowd at New York City's IFC Center.
After years of directing stage productions, including the well-received A...My Name is Alice (1983), she returned to features in 1985 with the comedy-drama Finnegan Begin Again, starring Robert Preston, Mary Tyler Moore and Sam Waterston. The first effort produced by the fledgling HBO Premiere Films, the film won the Silver Leopard's Eye at the Locarno Film Festival. Her next film with a Jewish subject, the beloved Crossing Delancey, a hit romantic comedy about an assimilated Jewish Manhattanite (played by Amy Irving) and her Lower East Side pickle-salesman suitor (played by Peter Riegert), was produced for Warner Brothers and released in 1988. Her other theatrical releases include Loverboy (1989) for Tri-Star and Stepkids (a.k.a. Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even) (1992) for New Line.
Silver's other theater works include A...My Name Is Still Alice (1992), Album (1980), and Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong (1982). She has directed several films for television, among them Parole Board (1990), A Private Matter (1992), Invisible Child (1999) and Hunger Point (2003). In 2002, she directed independent film acting legend Gena Rowlands in Charms for the Easy Life (2002) for Showtime.
In 1995, Silver proved her versatility when she directed a series for National Public Radio called Great Jewish Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, which was co-produced by the National Yiddish Book Center. In 1983, she also directed Wallace Shawn and Hermione Gingold in How to Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days.
Joan Micklin Silver died at her Manhattan home on December 31, 2020. She was 85.- Director
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Annemarie Jacir was born on 17 January 1974 in Bethlehem, Palestine. She is a director and writer, known for When I Saw You (2012), Salt of This Sea (2008) and Wajib (2017).- Director
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Randa Haines was born on 20 February 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), Antwone Fisher (2002) and Something About Amelia (1984).- Director
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Marleen Gorris was born on 9 December 1948 in Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands. She is a director and writer, known for Antonia's Line (1995), A Question of Silence (1982) and Broken Mirrors (1984).- Director
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Courtney Hunt was born in 1964 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Frozen River (2008), The Whole Truth (2016) and Utopia (2020).- Actress
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Shola Lynch is known for Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012), Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004) and Untitled Yusuf D Jackson/Yucaipa Companies Project. She has been married to Vincent Morgan since 1 September 2006.- Writer
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Céline Sciamma was born on 12 November 1978 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France. She is a writer and director, known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Petite Maman (2021) and Tomboy (2011).- Director
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Anne Buford is known for Elevate (2011) and How We Covered It (2013).- Director
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Natalia Almada was born on 21 December 1974 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is a director and producer, known for Everything Else (2016), Users (2021) and El general (2009).- Director
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Marie Kreutzer was born on 4 December 1977 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for Corsage (2022), The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019) and The Fatherless (2011).- Director
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A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Sontag. Later she earned a scholarship to study film at Columbia University School of Arts, graduating in 1979. She was also a member of the British avant garde cultural group, Art and Language. Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.- Director
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Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and Cosima. She was previously married to Spike Jonze.- Director
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Lynne Ramsay was born on 5 December 1969 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She is a director and writer, known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Ratcatcher (1999). She was previously married to Rory Stewart Kinnear.- Casting Director
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Director Jennifer Venditti makes her directorial debut with "Billy The Kid". Venditti started her New York City based casting agency JV8INC in 1998. Traveling all over the world, street scouting real people for advertising, fashion, and film she discovers an inspired repertoire of diverse talent otherwise ignored by traditional casting methods. Photographers Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber and director Spike Jonze are just a few who have been impassioned by her refined aesthetic. It is her interest in finding the beauty in everyday heroes that provided her natural transition into filmmaking. While casting Carter Smith's short film "Bugcrush" (Sundance Short Film Winner 2006) in a rural Maine high school, Venditti discovered Billy Price whose unique and winning character inspired her feature documentary.- Director
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Floria Sigismondi is a photographer and director. Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People", has been replicated by a great number of directors since. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Later, from 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major. Floria started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians. With her photography and sculpture installations she had solo exhibitions in Hamilton and Toronto, New York, Brescia, Italy, Göteborg, Sweden and London. Her photographs also were included in numerous group exhibitions, together with those of photographers like Cindy Sherman and Joel-Peter Witkin. The German art press Die Gestalten Verlag has published two monographs of her photography, "Redemption" (1999) and "Immune" (2005).- Director
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Daisy Asquith is known for Queerama (2017), After the Dance (2015) and Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings (2020).- Writer
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FINA TORRES is currently a director/producer who brings experience from all areas of filmmaking to the role. After studying design, photography and journalism in Venezuela, Torres moved to Paris, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in cinematography from the Institute de Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques, IDHEC. She worked as a film editor, camera operator, and script supervisor after graduating, making short films and documentaries on the side. In 1985, Torres won the Cannes Festival Camera d'Or, among other twelve international prices, for directing and producing her debut feature "Oriana". She co-wrote, produced and directed her second feature, a comedy, "Celestial Clockwork", in 1993, winner of four international prices. Most recently, she directed for Fox Searchlight romantic comedy "Woman on Top", nominated for Best Director at the 2001 Alma Awards.- Writer
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Jill is an award winning screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker who focuses on gritty character driven material and exposing the truth in compelling unexpected ways. Her screenwriting has received accolades from the Austin Film Festival, the Writer's Lab, the Athena List, Unique Voices, Screencraft, the Almanack Writer's Lab and Final Draft's Big Break competition. "See Jane Fight" was one of three feature screenplays selected for the prestigious Middlebury Script Lab and is in the top 3% on Coverfly. "Bloody Burlesque" was selected for Meg Lefauve's Screenwriting Retreat at Hedgebrook and won Best Original Screenplay in "The Hollywood Blood Horror Competition."
Jill's recent doc short "Squirrel Wars" received rave reviews when it premiered at Aspen Shorts and Hot Docs, won Best Short Documentary at Hamilton NY Film Festival. It's continuing its festival run.
Her feature doc, "Fight Like A Girl," is about women using boxing to fight their demons and empower themselves. It played at several festivals, winning "Best Documentary" at The American Documentary Film Festival, the Artemis Film Festival and the Other Venice Film Festival. Jill was presented with an award from the World Boxing Council and from the Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.
Jill's critically acclaimed documentary film, "Stripped" won awards at festivals, ran theatrically in New York and LA, sold internationally and ran on the Sundance Channel. Other shorts she directed and shot, played festivals such as Hot Docs, Aspen Shorts, Newport Beach, AFI, Santa Barbara Film Festival, The Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival and the International San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Jill was a producer and host on Vice's "Cris Cyborg: On Fighting Like a Girl" and also produced a spot for Playboy's "Journalista." She worked as a researcher on Davis Guggenheim's "The Dream Is Now" about immigration reform.
Morley wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play, "True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl," which was published in "The Best Women's Plays of 1998," ran Off Broadway for several years, was performed across the country, including the San Francisco's "Solo Mio Festival;" and was made into a Lifetime Movie of the Week.
A contributing writer to several periodicals including; "The Village Voice," "Bust Magazine," and "The New York Press," she was a producer/correspondent with Michael Moore for "The Awful Truth." Jill also produced radio documentaries for NPR's "This American Life" and "The World." Her short stories and monologues are published in several anthologies, including "True Tales of Lust and Love," "Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong," "Ho's Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys," and "Honey On a Razor," Jill is honored to have her monologues published in several monologue collections by Gerald Lee Ratliff along with Arthur Miller, Steve Martin, David Hare,and Wendy Wasserstein.
In 2015, she won the National Golden Gloves in the Masters Division and she continues to teach women boxing and coach young girls.
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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is known for Eagles (2021), Going on 13 (2008) and Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012).- Producer
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Dawn Valadez (she/ her/ ella) is a queer, Xicana, social worker, filmmaker, activist, fundraiser, and impact strategist. Her award-winning first film, Going on 13 (with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan), premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Dawn is the Producer/ Co-director of The Pushouts (2018) with Katie Galloway which won the 2019 Imagen Best Documentary award and is a Sundance/ SKOLL Stories of Change project.
A 2020 recipient of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media - See It, Be It Development Fellow, Dawn is in pre-production on a number of projects including her first horror film. She is a consulting producer on a number of projects including When You Were Young (Tracey Quesada, in production), Vivien's Wild Ride (Vivien Hillgrove, in production), What We Carry (Cady Voge, in production), and Manzanar, Diverted (Ann Kaneko, 2021).
Dawn is an alumnus of the CPB Producers Academy, BAVC Media National MediaMaker Fellowship, NALIP's Latino Producers Academy and Media Market, and the Women of Color Filmmakers' Residency. Dawn co-founded the award-winning BAYAC AmeriCorps (Youth Development) Program, created a Cesar Chavez Memorial Youth Leadership Council, and trained hundreds of teachers and youth development workers. She provides consultation to a number of racial and social justice organizations in the SF Bay Area.
She is the Director of Youth and Artistic Development and the Co-director of the Media Maker Fellowship at BAVC Media. She is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare.- Editor
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Alison Ellwood was born on 20 July 1961 in Australia. She is an editor and producer, known for Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011), American High (2000) and Laurel Canyon (2020).- Producer
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Lori Silverbush is known for On the Outs (2004), A Place at the Table (2012) and Mental Hygiene (2001). She has been married to Tom Colicchio since 15 September 2001. They have two children.- Producer
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Anna Mastro is known for Secret Society of Second Born Royals (2020), Runaways (2017) and UnREAL (2015).- Director
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Nahid Persson was born on 24 May 1960 in Shiraz, Iran. She is a director and writer, known for My Stolen Revolution (2013), Be My Voice (2021) and Prostitution bag sløret (2004). She has been married to Thorbjörn Persson since 1987. They have three children.- Director
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China Moo-Young was born on 23 August 1977 in London, England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for Everything I Know About Love (2022), Pennyworth (2019) and The Rook (2019). She was previously married to Neil Newbon.- Writer
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Molly Green was born on 19 September 1985 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Forev (2013), 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020) and Thor (2011).- Producer
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Ricki Stern is known for The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) and The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006).- Producer
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Susan Froemke is known for The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006), Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012) and Soldiers of Music (1991).- Director
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Maggie Carey was born in 1975 in Boise, Idaho, USA. She is a director and writer, known for The To Do List (2013), Twisted Metal (2023) and The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021). She was previously married to Bill Hader.- Director
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Maria Demopoulos is known for The Source Family (2012) and Great Directors (2009).- Director
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Jodi Wille is known for The Source Family (2012), Welcome Space Brothers (2023) and Goodbye Lover (1998). She was previously married to Adam Parfrey.- Director
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Alana Cash is known for Tom's Wife (2004), Marie Curie: The Woman Behind the Mind (2002) and Anna Freud: Under Analysis (2003).- Director
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Ditsi Carolino is known for Bunso: The Youngest (2005), Made in the Philippines... To Fukuoka with Love (1999) and Riles (2003).- Script and Continuity Department
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Chiemi Karasawa was born in 1968. She is a producer, known for Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) and Arizona Dream (1993).- Director
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Alina Marazzi was born on 5 November 1964 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for All About You (2012), Vogliamo anche le rose (2007) and For One More Hour with You (2002).- Director
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Clio Barnard was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for The Selfish Giant (2013), Ali & Ava (2021) and The Arbor (2010).- Producer
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Jessie most-recently produced the feature documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, with Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney for HBO that premiered at the 2019 Sundance film festival. Jessie also produced Do You Trust This Computer?, a feature documentary about artificial intelligence. Jessie directed and produced A Revolution in Four Seasons, profiling Tunisia after the Arab Spring, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2016. Her other directing and producing credits include Spark: A Burning Man Story, which debuted at SXSW in 2013 and aired on Showtime and Death by Fire which opened PBS's FRONTLINE season in 2010. Jessie is the producer of Who Killed the Electric Car? (Sony Pictures Classics, 2006) and she produced Revenge of the Electric Car, which aired on PBS's Independent Lens in 2011. She also produced on Alex Gibney's Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Jessie has an MJ and MA from UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright scholar in Oman, Morocco and Tunisia in 2010-11.- Director
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Sara St. Onge is a writer and director who was born in Canada, but spent her formative years in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 with a degree in photography, but never attended film school. Her films have screened at major festivals such as Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival and MOMA. She lives in Toronto.- Producer
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Jennifer Lee was born on 22 October 1971 in Barrington, Rhode Island, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Frozen (2013), Frozen II (2019) and Wreck-It Ralph (2012). She has been married to Alfred Molina since August 2021. She was previously married to Robert Joseph Monn.- Director
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Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller then a writer of feature films, "Thieves Like Us" and "Nashville" and the director of "Old Boyfriends" which was presented at "Director's Fortnight" at the Cannes Film Festival.
She has also written, directed numerous projects for Cable and Network television: "The Tenth Month," "Acorn People", "Cold Sassy Tree", "Sudie and Simpson", "Wild Texas Wind", the HBO's series "The Stranger", "On Promised Land", "Elysian Fields" and was a consulting producer for the CBS series, "The Guardian".
For the stage she wrote, directed and choreographed "Dance Card" for the Oregon Ballet theatre, wrote and directed "Jammed" presented at the Edinburgh Festival and wrote, directed and produced "Retrospective" at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.
Ten years ago she developed a class, "Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous Response" which she has presented at Art Center, American Film Institute, Bard College, Chapel Hill, U.C.L.A., N.A.L.I.P. and various film maker labs and emersions though out the United States, Israel, Europe and Japan.
She participates as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute Native Lab, the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and has created a Writers Forum at Los Luceros in Alcalde, New Mexico.
Her work has been honored by the Writers Guild, Humanitas, Golden Globes, the British Academy Awards, Cable Ace, Academy Awards best picture nomination for "Nashville" and the Los Angeles Critics award for best original screenplay.- Cinematographer
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Kalyanee Mam is known for A River Changes Course (2013), Lost World (2018) and Cries of Our Ancestors (2020).- Producer
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Maro Chermayeff is known for The Kindness of Strangers (1998), Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020) and Hostages (2022).- Director
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Jenn Page is an accomplished feature and series director who was selected by Take The Lead as one of the "50 Women Who Can Change The World in Media & Entertainment" and one of Production Hub's "Women to Watch 2023." She's filmed projects for/with internationally known brands and artists including Marvel's Agents of Shield, The Voice, The Mindy Project, Blackmagic Design, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Billy Ray Cyrus, Wolfmother, Estee Lauder, and Hans Zimmer.
With a passion for romantic & family dramedy and almost anything musical, her multi-award-winning best films work includes the comedy musical feature film "Waiting in the Wings" starring Lee Meriwether and Shirley Jones and the dramatic rock opera "The Breakout." Her most recent feature film, "Playing with Beethoven," starring Kadeem Hardison and Shannon Elizabeth, debuted in theaters and is now available on demand.
A proud member of Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy director peer group, Jenn also is the Executive Director of Blackmagic Collective and creator of Female Filmmaker Collective and The Working Director. Beyond directing, Jenn's mission is to help underrepresented filmmakers hone their craft and get working as paid directors.
She is also the owner of Heart on Fire Productions, a women-led and run full-service production company based in Los Angeles.- Director
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Lucy Walker was born in London, England, UK. She is known for The Crash Reel (2013), Waste Land (2010) and Blindsight (2006).- Producer
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Margaret Brown is known for The Order of Myths (2008), Descendant (2022) and 99 Threadwaxing (1998).- Actress
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Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in a funeral parlor and as a bricklayer while taking small parts on Broadway. She moved to California and worked with improv groups, including Spontaneous Combustion, and developed her skills as a stand-up comedienne. Goldberg came to prominence doing an HBO special and a one-woman show as Moms Mabley. She has been known in her prosperous career as a unique and socially conscious talent with articulately liberal views. Among her boyfriends were Ted Danson and Frank Langella. Goldberg was married three times and was once addicted to drugs.
Goldberg had her first big film starring role in The Color Purple (1985). She received much critical acclaim, and an Oscar nomination for her role and became a major star as a result. Subsequent efforts in the late 1980s were, at best, marginal hits. These movies mostly were off-beat to formulaic comedies like Burglar (1987), The Telephone (1988) and Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). She made her mark as a household name and a mainstay in Hollywood for her Oscar-winning role in the box office smash Ghost (1990). Whoopi Goldberg was at her most famous in the early 1990s, making regular appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She admitted to being a huge fan of the original Star Trek (1966) series and jumped at the opportunity to star in "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
Goldberg received another smash hit role in Sister Act (1992). Her fish-out-of-water with some flash seemed to resonate with audiences and it was a box office smash. Whoopi starred in some highly publicized and moderately successful comedies of this time, including Made in America (1993) and Soapdish (1991). Goldberg followed up to her success with Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), which was well-received but did not seem to match up to the first.
As the late 1990s approached, Goldberg seemed to alternate between lead roles in straight comedies such as Eddie (1996) and The Associate (1996), and took supporting parts in more independent minded movies, such as The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998). Goldberg never forgot where she came from, hosting many tributes to other legendary entertainment figures. Her most recent movies include Rat Race (2001) and the quietly received Kingdom Come (2001). Goldberg contributes her voice to many cartoons, including The Pagemaster (1994) and Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990), as Gaia, the voice of the earth. Alternating between big-budget movies, independent movies, tributes, documentaries, and even television movies (including Theodore Rex (1995)).
Whoopi is accredited as a truly unique and visible talent in Hollywood. Perhaps she will always be remembered as well for Comic Relief, playing an integral part in almost every benefit concert they had. Whoopi is also the center square in Hollywood Squares (1998), sometimes hosts the Academy Awards, and is an author, with the book "Book."- Writer
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Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was born on 15 April 1947 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Designing Women (1986), Bridegroom (2013) and Evening Shade (1990). She has been married to Harry Thomason since 23 July 1983.- Writer
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Mo Ogrodnik was born in 1966. Mo is a writer and director, known for Deep Powder (2013), Uptown Girls (2003) and Ripe (1996).- Director
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Steph Green is an Oscar and Emmy nominated film and TV director, whose cinematic projects range from independent features to award-winning television. Green was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 for her short film "New Boy" which she wrote and directed in Ireland. She has directed top TV shows such as "The Americans," "The Deuce," "Man in the High Castle," "American Crime," "Bates Motel," "You're the Worst," "Billions," "Preacher," "Luke Cage," and "Scandal." Green went on to direct and executive produce the pilot of USA's "Dare Me" as well as direct and executive produce Showtime's "The L Word: Generation Q". Most recently, Green was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 for Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series for her work on the highly acclaimed HBO series "Watchmen."- Director
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Annaleena Piel Linnå is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist living in London. She studied film at London College of Printing (UAL), following that with an MA in feminist politics and philosophy at Birkbeck College. Her fiction debut "The Undertaker" (2005) garnered many awards from the international festival circuit, most notably winning Golden Bear at the Ebensee Festival and earning a Seal of Excellence as a finalist at the Boston Motion Picture Awards. Based on its success, Annaleena was voted winner of Media Directions' Emerging Female Filmmaker Competition held in partnership with Sony and Pinewood Studios. In 2007, she was chosen to participate at Berlinale Talent Campus. 2010 saw the release of "Bye Bye Butty," a 52minute observational documentary. In 2018, Annaleena completed her first feature-length documentary, a historical biopic about sculptor Dora Gordine. The project participated in Baltic Sea Docs co-financing forum and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival's Ex Oriente development workshop. In 2021 In November 2021, she finished "Dorich" - a documentary commissioned by Dorich House Museum and made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The film is now on display at the museum as part of their permanent collection. (2023) Annaleena is developing a dark comedy to be shot in Finland and an animated feature drama about the 1890s sisterhood of first-ever pro cyclists.