Female Directors of 2020
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Eliza Hittman was born on 1 January 1979 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Beach Rats (2017) and It Felt Like Love (2013).Never, Rarely, Sometimes Always- Writer
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Julia Hart is known for Fast Color (2018), I'm Your Woman (2020) and Miss Stevens (2016). She has been married to Jordan Horowitz since 2008. They have two children.Stargirl- Director
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Stella Meghie is known for Jean of the Joneses (2016), The Weekend (2018) and The Photograph (2020).The Photograph- 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.Lost Girls- Director
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Nisha Ganatra is a Golden Globe winner and an Emmy nominee for her work as the Director/Producer of "Transparent." Recently she directed THE HIGH NOTE for Working Title and Focus Features, starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Ice Cube, June Diane Raphael, Dakota Johnson, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Ganatra's previous film LATE NIGHT, starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, premiered at Sundance. It sold to Amazon in a record-breaking deal and garnered the highest streaming numbers of the year.
Her acclaimed debut feature CHUTNEY POPCORN, with Jill Hennessy and Sakina Jaffrey, won audience awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, Newport Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, and many more. Her sophomore feature COSMOPOLITAN, starring Carol Kane and Roshan Seth, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
In television, Ganatra directed Liz Sarnoff's pilot, "Highland," and sold a drama project to ABC and a comedy pilot to NBC, with Amy Poehler producing. She was the Co-Executive Producer/Director for "Better Things" with Pamela Adlon and the Co-Executive Producer/Director on "You Me Her." She also created CODE ACADEMY for the ITVS/PBS series "FutureStates." Ganatra has directed episodes of "Girls," "Dear White People," "Future Man," "Mr. Robot," "Shameless," "Married," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Last Man on Earth," "Love," and "Black Monday."The High Note- Writer
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Veronika Franz was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria. She is a writer and director, known for Goodnight Mommy (2014), The Lodge (2019) and The Devil's Bath (2024). She is married to Ulrich Seidl. They have two children.The Lodge- Director
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Kitty Green was born on 8 August 1984 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a director and writer, known for The Assistant (2019), The Royal Hotel (2023) and Casting JonBenet (2017).The Assistant- 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).The Turning- Director
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Amber Templemore (aka Bert of Bert&Bertie) is a director with a unique style of storytelling and a love for magical realism. Her wealth of creative experience and passion for all the arts ensures that she remains playful while character and story guides her every decision. Amber loves to move between genres and finds herself drawn to stories of consequence, disguised as entertainment. "If the stories we tell don't create some kind of change, then what's the point of telling them?" Amber works hard to initiate mentor-ship opportunities for female directors on all her projects because of the lack of opportunities when she coming up through the industry "I didn't see people like me directing, so I didn't know what was possible."Troop Zero- Director
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Bertie Ellwood is a writer-director from the UK, based in Los Angeles. Her work includes Troop Zero starring academy award winners Viola Davis and Allison Janney, Hulu's The Great starring Elle Fanning, HBO's Our Flag Means Death starring Taika Waititi, and Lessons in Chemistry starring Brie Larson for Apple.
Hailing from the video game industry, she often fuses her narrative sensibilities with her action-based background as seen in her work on Marvel's Hawkeye starring Jeremy Renner, the upcoming pilot of TWD, The Ones Who LIve for AMC starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, and Apple's sci-fi Thriller Silo starring Rebecca Fergusson and Tim Robbins.Troop Zero- Director
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