MIMI LEDER was the first female graduate of the AFI program in 1973.
She directed the hit film Deep Impact (1998) and has a long list of credits despite having opportunities curtailed because of her gender.
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Read more about her:
ONLINE
DGA
Mimi Leder on the Struggles of Being a Female Director
Heroines of Cinema: Mimi Leder and the Impossible Standard for Women Directors in Hollywood
Lesli Linka Glatter & Mimi Leder Team With Indigenous Media For Made By Women Incubator
The Paley Center for Media biography
Wikipedia
FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):
– I Live Here Now (2015)
– A Most Powerful Adversary (2015)
– A Matter of Geography (2015)
– Axis Mundi (2015)
– The Prodigal Son Returns (2014)
– Solace for Tired Feet (2014)
– Drugs Actually (2015)
– Hope Springs Paternal (2014)
– My Oldest Daughter (2014)
– A Long Way from Home (2013)
– A Great Cause (2012)
– Celeste & Tim (2013)
– The Dress Rehearsal (2013)
– Unaired Season Two Premiere (2012)
– Episode #1.9 (2012)
2011Heavenly (TV Movie)
– The Wife’s Tale (2010)
– A Long, Strange Trip (2009)
– The Healers (1996)
– A Miracle Happens Here (1995)
– Days Like This (1995)
– Welcome Back Carter! (1995)
– Everything Old Is New Again (1995)
– Love’s Labor Lost (1995)
– Make of Two Hearts (1995)
– Blizzard (1994)
– Hit and Run (1994)
– The Rising (2003)
– Ashes to Ashes (2003)
– The Mourner (2002)
– Blood Lines (2002)
– Pilot (2002)
2001The Beast (TV Series)
2000Pay It Forward
1999Sentimental Journey (Short)
1998Deep Impact
1997The Peacemaker
1994The Innocent (TV Movie)
1994Baby Brokers (TV Movie)
1993House of Secrets (TV Movie)
1993Rio Shannon (TV Movie)
1993There Was a Little Boy (TV Movie)
1993Marked for Murder (TV Movie)
1992Woman with a Past (TV Movie)
– Through and Through (1991)
– Rewind (1991)
– 100 Klicks Out (1991)
– You, Babe (1990)
– She Sells More Than Sea Shells (1990)
– Phoenix (1990)
– The Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1990)
– Magic (1990)
– Independence Day (1989)
– Skin Deep (1989)
– After It Happened (1988)
– Glory Days (1988)
– Oy Vey! Wilderness! (1987)
– Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover (1987)
