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Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on 5 October 2015 in Paris, France.(Belgian) - “I wrote a story that I liked. Everybody thought it was political. But it was a normal love story. It's not a feminist movie. I'm not saying it's a gay movie. If I did, then you go to it with preconceived notions.”- 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).(French) - “Women have been objectified by fiction and by the patriarchal load throughout history, so giving them back their subject status, their subjectivity, is giving them back their desires.”- Director
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Greta Schiller is known for International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1986) and The Land of Azaba (2020).(American, 1954)- Director
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Léa Pool was born on 8 September 1950 in Genève, Switzerland. She is a director and writer, known for Set Me Free (1999), The Passion of Augustine (2015) and La femme de l'hôtel (1984).(Swiss-Canadian)- Director
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Marialy Rivas is a Chilean director. Her work includes two feature films, "Joven y Alocada" and "Princesita," three short films, "Blokes," "Melody," and "Desde Siempre," commercials, music videos, and several episodes for TV shows such as HBO's "Perry Mason" and BBC's "The Jetty."
Her work has been selected in festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Sebastian, Stockholm Film Festival, Havana, and Bafici.
She has received several awards, such as Best Screenplay in the International Competition at Sundance 2012, Maguey Award at San Sebastian 2012, and Best Vanguard Film at Bafici for "Joven y Alocada"; Best Short Film at San Francisco Film Festival and Miami Film Festival for "Blokes" and Best Film at Raindance for Princesita among others.
She has also directed more than 500 advertising campaigns, including President Michelle Bachelet's presidential campaign in 2005. That same year, she was elected "Best Advertising Director" in the Ojo de Iberoamerica.
Marialy Rivas is a Sundance Alumni; she has attended two of its prestigious and exclusive programs: Screenwriters Lab in 2012 and Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound in 2015.
She obtained international funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded by Sundance, to make her short film "Melody." NYTimes then selected this short film for their online series Opdocs. She has also won several grants from the Chilean government to produce and shoot her movies ("Blokes," "Joven y Alocada," and "Princesita"). Marialy's films have been produced by Fábula, a production company led by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, renowned Latin American producers, winners of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film with "Una Mujer Fantástica."(Chilean, 22 April 1976)- Actress
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Clea DuVall was born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1977, to Rosemary (Hatch) and actor Steph DuVall. DuVall's teenage years presented her with many challenges. Her parents divorced when she was twelve, and, when her mother remarried, DuVall moved out because she did not feel at home in the newly-reconstituted family, dropping out of high school and getting her own apartment. An only child, she sought entertainment in movies and television programs, which she consumed voraciously, memorizing entire scenes from movies. Though a rather shy person, DuVall decided she wanted to be an actress, and returned to high school, this time the Los Angeles High School of the Arts. However, the rigors of independent living (she had to work to support herself) meant that she could spend little time in class, and, as a result, she fared poorly in the school.
Nonetheless, DuVall had intensity, commitment and strong natural talent, and soon after graduating, the roles began to come, at first guest spots in television programs and small roles in small films. Soon her first major role came, in Robert Rodriguez's successful 1998 take on the alien-body-snatcher genre, The Faculty (1998), which featured many other up-and-coming young actors such as Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett, as well as a strong cast of established adult performers. DuVall played Stokely, a bizarre, tough Goth Girl. This role was typical of DuVall's casting - the outsider, attractive though in an edgy and sometimes slightly disturbing way. (DuVall is pretty and can be glamorous, or can appear rough-around-the-edges, for a role.) Similar roles came in But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) as a tattooed lesbian and Girl, Interrupted (1999) as a mental patient.
DuVall is a complex person - soft-spoken and friendly, yet tough and independent - and she ably lends this complexity to her characters, making her a popular casting choice. She continues to turn in strong performances in such productions as the ensemble thriller Identity (2003), the HBO supernatural series Carnivàle (2003) and the critically-praised 21 Grams (2003). DuVall is a chain smoker and a close friend of director Jamie Babbit. She is no relation to veteran actors Robert Duvall or Shelley Duvall.(American)- Director
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Dana Goldberg was born on 1 March 1979 in Israel. She is a director and writer, known for Alice (2012), Death of a Poetess (2017) and Debbie Was Here (2023).(Israeli)- Director
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Born in 1972. Director and storyboard artist. She studied at the Art High School (Paris), and at the Institute St. Luc (Brussels). Her first feature film Bark was nominated for the Best Feature Film at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. and she travels to many international film festivals. Her cinematic feature debut The Offsiders 2008 received Best Supporting Actor Award for Eryk Lubos, and the Best Costume Award for Katarzyna Lewinska and Magdalena J. Rutkiewicz at Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2008 as well as First Prize in Polish Film Competition at Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2008.(Polish)- Director
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Zero Chou was born on 24 July 1969 in Keelung, Taiwan. She is a director and producer, known for Ripples of Desire (2012), Spider Lilies (2007) and Yan guang si she ge wu tuan (2004).(Taiwanese)- Director
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Ana Kokkinos graduated from Melbourne's Monash University law school in 1982 and worked for nine years as an industrial lawyer. In 1991 she applied to film school and was accepted in the graduate film and TV programme at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Her graduation short film, Antamasi (1992), won several awards and played at a number of international film festivals.(Australian)- Director
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Cheryl Dunye was born on 13 May 1966 in Liberia. She is a director and producer, known for The Watermelon Woman (1996), The Owls (2010) and Mommy Is Coming (2012).(Liberian-American)- Director
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Catherine Corsini was born on 18 May 1956 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France. She is a director and writer, known for The Divide (2021), Summertime (2015) and Three Worlds (2012).(French)- Director
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Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival circuit. From 1995 to 1998, she made a series of documentaries for TV as well as a children's TV programme, hailed by the Argentinian press for its unusual dark humor. From 2001 until today, Lucrecia Martel has managed to make three very personal feature films, The Swamp (2001), The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), in which she explores her favorite theme, troubled minds.(Argentine)- 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).(Dutch)- Director
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Ulrike Ottinger was born on 6 June 1942 in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989), China. Die Künste - der Alltag. Eine filmische Reisebeschreibung (1986) and Prater (2007).(German)- Director
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Monika Treut was born on April 6, 1954 in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an award-winning director and writer of documentaries and features. Treut is known for Of Girls and Horses (2014) , Kriegerin des Lichts (2001), Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities (1999) She has been teaching film at various universities in the U.S. and served on jurys at international film festivals like Toronto (TIFF); Amsterdam (IDFA) and many others. At Berlin film festival 2017 she's been awarded the Special Teddy for her lifetime achievement.(German) - “I think it’s very important to show women who don’t fit in and who don’t care if society judges them. Let other people be upset, but let these women speak out.”- Cristina Perincioli is known for Die Macht der Männer ist die Geduld der Frauen (1978), Für Frauen. 1. Kapitel (1972) and Wochenschau II (1969).(Swiss, 11 November 1946) - One of the founders of the lesbian movement (1972), the Berlin Women’s Center (1973) and the first German rape crisis hotline (1977).
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Yvonne Rainer was born on 24 November 1934 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a director and editor, known for Privilege (1990), MURDER and murder (1996) and Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980).(American) - “I made the transition from choreography to filmmaking between 1972 and 1975. In a general sense my burgeoning feminist consciousness was an important factor.”- Director
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Donna Deitch was born on 8 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a director and editor, known for Desert Hearts (1985), NYPD Blue (1993) and Angel on My Shoulder (1998).(American) - Desert Hearts was the first feature film to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream vein, with positive and respectful themes.