THE 2ND SEX &amp; THE 7TH ART: WOMEN DIRECTORS IN FILM

Bite-sized blog post: Tracy Lynch Britton

Nicknamed “Boom Boom Britton” by her crew for her love of action sequences, TRACY LYNCH BRITTON was the first woman to direct for Baywatch.

She made her directorial debut with the low-budget thriller Maximum Breakout (1991) and continues to direct for television and has features in development!

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Bite-sized blog post: Susan Froemke

SUSAN FROEMKE started out as an associate producer for the seminal Maysles brothers film Grey Gardens (1975) and has gone on to let the “truth unfold before [the] camera” through numerous documentaries of her own.

As of the writing of this blog she has won three Emmys.

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Bite-sized blog post: Zeinabu Irene Davis

ZEINABU IRENE DAVIS teaches film at UC San Diego and can boast an eclectic range of films, having made narrative, experimental and documentary.

Her most recent feature is a documentary about the UCLA film movement now known as the LA Rebellion (the group included filmmaker Julie Dash) – Spirits of Rebellion: Black Film at UCLA (2011).

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Bite-sized blog post: Barbra Streisand

BARBRA STREISAND is a musical theater and actress powerhouse who made her directorial debut with Yentl (1983) which she fought to get made and opened the door for future directing and producing opportunities.

Much like Mary Pickford in the early days of the industry Streisand insists on shaping her own career. She was the Oscar presenter for the monumental moment when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.

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Bite-sized blog post: Alice Wu

ALICE WU has a BS amd a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

She left a job at Microsoft in Seattle to pursue filmmaking and directed her first feature film Saving Face (2004), one of the few films with a full Chinese-American cast bank rolled by Hollywood after winning the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment award, was based on a novel she wrote about her experiences coming out to her family.

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Bite-sized blog post: Rainy Kerwin

RAINY KERWIN’s directorial debut premiered recently at the Palm Beach International Film Festival and is making its way to NYC April 23rd at the Manhattan Film Festival.

Kerwin is an actress who wrote and produced shorts getting her feet wet and inspiring her to direct The Wedding Invitation (2016) with an all female crew.

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Bite-sized blog post: Dorothy Davenport

DOROTHY DAVENPORT was one of the women of Early Hollywood. She was an actress, author, producer and all-around filmmaker as many women were in the early days of the industry.

She directed several films but was first officially credited on the film Linda (1929).

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Bite-sized blog post: Karyn Kusama

KARYN KUSAMA’S first film Girlfight (2000) premiered at Sundance and after its success she went on to direct the studio feature Aeon Flux (2005).

Her most recent feature The Invitation (2015) was part of the new narrative fiction funding offspring of Chicken & Egg – Gamechanger films.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Lynch

JENNIFER LYNCH is the daughter of cult classic director David Lynch but she is also a director in her own right.

Her first feature film Boxing Helena (1995) was plagued with a lawsuit with famous actress Nicole Kidman but was still made and led to a successful career for Lynch directing television and features.

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