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Learn about the women who have innovated and pushed boundaries in cinema history, from the early pioneers to the contemporary trailblazers. This list features filmmakers who have directed films in different genres, styles and formats, from silent shorts to animated features.

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The All-Time Greatest Films Directed by Women. Films by Julie Dash, Chantal Akerman, Chloe Zhao, Forough Farrokhzad, Jennifer Lee, and many other female filmmakers made the list. By Kate Erbland

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A comprehensive list of talented and accomplished female filmmakers from around the world, working in various genres and formats. Learn about their careers, achievements, and challenges in the film industry.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll
The result is a stunning collection of films that demonstrates the power, creativity and diversity of cinema made by women around the world, from Lois Weber's silent film Shoes (1916) - right

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Unfortunately, female filmmakers are often overlooked, and it's therefore important to recognize the achievements they've made in the industry, from the earliest days of cameras to the present day. Here are our picks for the greatest female movie directors of all time and their best films that have had the most impact. 12. Chloé Zhao. Chloé

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March 8, 2022 12:00 pm. Deborah Chow, Nikyatu Jusu, Mimi Cave, Aitch Alberto, and Adamma Ebo. IndieWire screenshot. Every year, IndieWire compiles a list of top female filmmakers to watch over the

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Ava DuVernay. Rich Polk/Getty Images. In 2021, one of the most famous female filmmakers is Ava DuVernay. DuVernay is known for both her narrative films and her documentaries, and is the most

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Alice Guy-Blaché — The First Woman to Direct a Movie. Any true discussion about this history of women filmmakers has to begin with Alice Guy-Blaché. The first female director started off as a

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The film earned her nominations for Best Feature and Best Director at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards. At the same ceremony, Zhao became the inaugural winner of the Bonnie Award, named after Bonnie Tiburzi, which recognizes a mid-career female director. The film was released on April 13, 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics and was critically

https://collider.com/groundbreaking-movies-directed-by-women/
From 1894 to 1922, French Alice Guy Blaché was the first woman to ever direct a movie. She was also one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film: an 1896 short called The Cabbage

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-directed-by-women-of-the-21st-century/
A guide to the 270 best-reviewed movies by women filmmakers since 2000, covering a wide range of topics, characters, and stories. See the list of 2023 additions, including Oscar nominees Anatomy of a Fall and Past Lives.

https://variety.com/lists/best-picture-women-directed-movies-listed/
Women filmmakers hit a milestone with this year's 2024 Oscar nominations. For the first time in history, three of the 10 movies nominated for best picture — Justine Triet's "Anatomy of a

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-female-directors/jeff419
Isa Lupino, Patty Jenkins, Penny Marshall, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, and Amy Heckerling are just a few of those names and each directing poignant and quality films on a regular basis. Including American female film directors and more, this list of great women in directing has them all. Vote for the best woman directors in Hollywood to move

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/g35743038/best-films-directed-by-women/
Jenkins' 2003 film brought her to life once more, however, along with her female lover (Christina Ricci), in what Roger Ebert would later call one of the best films of a decade. Watch on IMBd TV 14.

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The 25 best working female filmmakers: 25. Emerald Fennell . Though Emerald Fennell may have been an actor for many years before her big directorial break, appearing in movies such as Albert Nobbs, Anna Karenina, and The Danish Girl, the British creative is now better known as a filmmaker thanks to her 2020 Oscar-winner Promising Young Woman.Taking home an esteemed statuette for 'Best

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The closest thing to a superhero movie is the Iranian film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour), in which a female vampire preys on exploitative men. The highest rating comedy is

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The historical canon of female filmmakers, Cousins argues, is still limited, and reflected by the repetition of well-known female directors among the top 25 films in BBC Culture's poll.

https://www.highonfilms.com/20-greatest-female-filmmakers-of-all-time/
Related to Female Filmmakers of All Time - Feminism and its Eternal affair with film-making. Lupino made really low-budget, socially relevant films, reusing sets from other studio productions and accommodating her friends/family in character roles. She shot in public places to avoid the costs of sets and planned scenes in pre-production to

https://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/the-20-greatest-female-filmmakers-in-cinema-history/
A list of female directors who have made significant contributions to the art and history of cinema, from Leni Riefenstahl to Kelly Reichardt. Learn about their styles, achievements, challenges and controversies in this article.

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Pioneer filmmakers Josefina Molina, Helena Cortesina, Rosario Pi were among the first women film directors of Spain. María Forteza was the first woman director of a sound picture in 1934 with the short film documentary Mallorca. Ana Mariscal was a prolific actress in the 1940s and 1950s. In the early 1950s she became a producer and shortly

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/female-filmmakers-to-watch-2023/
28 Rising Female Filmmakers to Watch in 2023. From "A Thousand and One" Sundance breakout A.V. Rockwell to "Daisy Jones and the Six" helmer Nzingha Stewart, get to know this year's top new female

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Femme Frontera is a film organization founded and led by women and gender-expansive filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Femme Frontera centers the experiences of women and gender-expansive people within the U.S./Mexico border diaspora, as well as border

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Mentors this year include top executives from Netflix, A+E, LuckyChap, MTV, Echo Lake, Davis Entertainment, Color Force, Fifth Season, Tomorrow Studios and more. By Chris Gardner Women in Film has

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A Mistake is a captivating medical drama that premiered at this year's Tribeca Festival. Set in New Zealand, the film tells the story of a surgeon, played brilliantly by Elizabeth Banks, whose

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The 1996 film neo-noir thriller "Bound" pushed boundaries in its portrayals of sex and gender on screen. It was re-issued as part of the Criterion Collection this past week.

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The film is set in Germany, where a mysterious disease afflicting only men strikes, leading to a women-led government takeover. A group of scientists, the "protected men," are tasked with

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The girl is the young MaXXXine Minx , and, though the film doesn't expressly spell it out for a while, prior to the shocking events of X — "The Texas Porn-Shoot Massacre," as the tabloid

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March 8, 2024 3:00 pm. Issa Lopez directing. Getty. In honor of International Women's Day, IndieWire is pleased to share its annual female filmmakers to watch list featuring a rising assortment

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2024/06/26/carolina-7th-in-final-learfield-directors-cup-standings/
Three other Tar Heel teams - women's basketball, women's lacrosse and women's swimming and diving (which featured two-time NCAA diving champion Aranza Vazquez Montaño) - had top-20 finishes. Carolina's average finish in the 30 years of the Directors' Cup is No. 7 (the next-best ACC average finish is 15th by University of Virginia).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/us/houston-venezuelan-immigrants-murder-jocelyn-nungaray.html
The killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston has become the latest crime seized on by Republicans to attack President Biden over his immigration policies.