Bite-sized blog post: Julie Dash

Julie Dash behind the camera

The first film directed by an African-American woman to be released theatrically didn’t happen until 1991 with Daughters of the Dust directed by JULIE DASH.

Dash was first exposed to cinematography in an after-school program at the Studio Museum in Harlem where she and a friend believed they were enrolling in a class on still photography, not knowing what cinematography was. She went on to study at AFI with cinema legends such as Ingmar Bergman and UCLA at the tail end of the movement that became known as the LA Rebellion. Keep an eye out for Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl coming soon!

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES FILM CATALOG

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Find her on Facebook
Watch her interview for the 2nd Sex
Flavorwire Interview
Julie Dash and the ongoing struggle of black women filmmakers 
UCLA – Julie Dash & the LA Rebellion
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2002The Rosa Parks Story (TV Movie)
 2000Love Song (TV Movie)
 1999Incognito (TV Movie)
 1997SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (TV Movie) (segment “Sax Cantor Riff”)

 1997Women: Stories of Passion (TV Series) (1 episode)

 1982Illusions (Short)
 1975Four Women (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu behind the camera

The 1996 documentary short Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien won JESSICA YU an Oscar for Best Documentary Short where she quipped, “You know you’ve entered new territory when you realize that your outfit cost more than your film.”

Yu never attended film school but has gone on to direct for television, as well as documentary and fiction features and experimental films – including the 2008 film Ping Pong Playa.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

FANDOR

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
DGA Close-up
Director Jessica Yu Paves The Way For Women in Filmmaking
Indiewire Interview
Los Angeles Times Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013The Guide (Documentary) (completed)
 2015American Crime (TV Series) (1 episode)
Episode Nine (2015)
 2012-2014Parenthood (TV Series) (4 episodes)
Too Big to Fail (2014)
 2014/IMisconception (Documentary)
 2012Scandal (TV Series) (1 episode)
Blown Away (2012)
 2012Meet Mr Toilet (Short)
2006-2011Grey’s Anatomy (TV Series) (6 episodes)
Heart-Shaped Box (2011)
 2011Last Call at the Oasis (Documentary)
 2009The Kinda Sutra (Documentary short)
 2007Protagonist (Documentary)
 2001-2004The West Wing (TV Series) (3 episodes)
Real-To-Reel (2004)
 2004In the Realms of the Unreal (Documentary)
 2003The Lyon’s Den (TV Series) (1 episode)
Pilot (2003)
 2003Mister Sterling (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Sins of the Father (2003)
2003The Guardian (TV Series) (1 episode)
You Belong to Me (2003)
 2002ER (TV Series) (1 episode)
Bygones (2002)
 1998The Living Museum (Documentary)
 1998Better Late (Short)
 1993Sour Death Balls (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Alice Guy-Blaché

benatural alice guy blache dvd. 4

One of the first narrative films, La Fée aux Choux, was shot by a secretary for Léon Gaumont, ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (1873-1968), who asked to use the company camera (a device considered used for observational purposes or as Gaumont referred to it, “simply a toy”) on weekends to do some shooting.

Guy-Blaché became a fixture of what would become the Gaumont Film Company and moved with her husband to head up their division in America. Later they would form their own studio in New Jersey Solax Studios which she would helm.

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Where to watch her films:

FANDOR

YOU TUBE

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

BOOKS
Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema by Alison McMahan
The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché by Roberta and Simone Blaché
ONLINE
Alice Guy cinema pioneer
Be Natural – a movie being made about Alice
Biography
Blog
National Women’s History Museum
Women’s Film Pioneer Project
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 1920Vampire
 1920Tarnished Reputations (as Alice Blaché)
 1917Behind the Mask (as Alice Blaché)
 1917When You and I Were Young (as Alice Guy Blaché)
 1917House of Cards (as Alice Guy Blaché)
 1917A Man and the Woman (as Alice Blaché)
 1917The Empress (as Alice Guy Blaché)
 1916The Ocean Waif (Short) (uncredited)
 1915My Madonna (as Alice Blaché)
 1915The Song of the Wage Slave (as Alice Blaché)
 1915The Vampire (as Alice Blaché)
 1915The Heart of a Painted Woman (as Alice Guy-Blaché)
 1914The Tigress (unconfirmed)
 1914The Lure
 1914The Woman of Mystery (as Alice Blaché)
 1914The Monster and the Girl (as Alice Blaché)
 1914The Dream Woman (as Alice Blaché)
 1914Beneath the Czar (as Alice Blaché)
 1913Shadows of the Moulin Rouge (as Alice Blaché)
 1913The Rogues of Paris (as Alice Blaché)
 1913The Little Hunchback (Short)
 1913A Terrible Night (Short)
 1913Matrimony’s Speed Limit (Short) (uncredited)
 1913/IA House Divided (Short) (uncredited)
 1913Dick Whittington and his Cat (unconfirmed)
 1913Burstup Holmes (Short)
 1912The Finger Prints (Short)
 1912Hearts Unknown (Short)
 1912/IThe Face at the Window (Short)
 1912Making an American Citizen (Short) (uncredited)
 1912A Fool and His Money (Short)
 1912Canned Harmony (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912Treasures on the Wing (Short)
 1912Playing Trumps (Short)
 1912Phantom Paradise (Short)
 1912The Blood Stain (Short)
 1912Fra Diavolo (Short)
 1912Micky’s Pal (Short) (uncredited)
 1912In the Year 2000 (Short)
 1912Souls in the Shadow (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912The Wooing of Alice (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912The Detective’s Dog (Short)
 1912Child of the Tenements (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912Falling Leaves (Short) (unconfirmed, uncredited)
 1912The Animated Bathtub (Short)
 1912Blighted Lives (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912God Disposes (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912Hubby Does the Washing (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912A Terrible Lesson (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912Mrs. Cranston’s Jewels (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1912/IMignon (Short)
 1912His Musical Soul (Short)
 1911Five O’Clock Tea (unconfirmed)
 1911Road Leads Home (unconfirmed)
 1911The Cure (unconfirmed)
 1911The Little Rangers (unconfirmed)
 1911His Mother’s Hymn (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1911Cupid and the Comet (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1911Rose of the Circus (Short)
 1911A Midnight Visitor (Short)
 1911Put Out (Short)
 1911Out of the Arctic (Short)
 1911A Costly Pledge (Short)
 1911Love’s Test (Short)
 1911Corinne in Dollyland (Short)
 1911Mixed Pets (Short)
 1911Ring of Love (Short)
 1911His Best Friend (Short)
 1911The Nightcap (Short)
 1910Mrs. Richard Dare (Short)
 1910The Pawnshop (Short)
 1910Two Suits (Short)
 1910One Touch of Nature (Short)
 1910Her Father’s Sin (Short)
 1910A Widow and Her Child (Short)
 1910A Fateful Gift (Short)
 1910A Child’s Sacrifice (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1907Course à la saucisse (Short)
 1907Fanfan la Tulipe (Short)
 1907Le ballon dirigeable ‘Le patrie’ (Documentary short)
 1907Madam’s Fancies (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1907The Glue (Short)
 1907The Rolling Bed (Short)
 1907Reformation (Short)
 1906Conscience de prêtre (Short)
 1906Course de taureaux à Nîmes (Short) (co-director)
 1906Effets de mer (Short)
 1906L’honneur du corse (Short)
 1906La chaussette (Short)
 1906La fée printemps (Short)
 1906La messe de minuit (Short)
 1906La pègre de Paris (Short)
 1906La régiment moderne (Short)
 1906La vie du marin (Short)
 1906Le fantassin Guignard (Short)
 1906Les Druides (Short)
 1906Le songe du pêcheur (Short)
 1906Mireille (Short) (co-director)
 1906Pauvre pompier (Short)
 1906Un cas de divorce (Short)
 1906Une histoire roulante (Short)
 1906Voyage en Espagne (Short)
 1906The Drunken Mattress (Short)
 1906La crinoline (Short)
 1906La femme collante (Short)
 1906La voiture cellulaire (Short)
 1906Sealed Lips (Short)
 1906La femme du masque (Short)
 1906Le cochon de lait (Short)
 1906Questions indiscrètes (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1906The Stepmother (Short) (unconfirmed)
 1905À la cabane bambou (Short)
 1905Au poulailler! (Short)
 1905C’est une ingénue (Short)
 1905Cake-walk nègre (Short)
 1905Chez le dentiste (Short)
 1905Cucurbitacée (Short)
 1905Espagne (Documentary short)
 1905Être légume (Short)
 1905Five O’Clock Tea (Short)
 1905La mattchiche (Short)
 1905La paimpolaise (Short)
 1905La polka des trottins (Short)
 1905La statue (Short)
 1905Le képi (Short)
 1905Le lorgnon accusateur (Short)
 1905Le pantalon coupé (Short)
 1905Le pavé (Short)
 1905Le petit Grégoire (Short)
 1905Le petit panier (Short)
 1905Le plateau (Short)
 1905Le rire du nègre (Short)
 1905Les maçons (Short)
 1905Le tango (Short)
 1905Lilas blanc (Short)
 1905Peintre et ivrogne (Short)
 1905Roméo pris au piège (Short)
 1905Saharet, boléro (Short)
 1905Si ça t’va (Short)
 1905Viens, poupoule (Short)
 1905Villa dévalisée (Short)
 1905Esmeralda (Short)
 1905Allumeur-Marche (Short)
 1905Les p’tits pois (Short)
 1905My Quay’s Hole (Short)
 1905V’la le rétameur (Short)
 1905Valsons
 1904Après la fête (Short)
 1904Cambrioleur et agent (Short)
 1904Cible humaine (Short)
 1904Clown en sac (Short)
 1904Concours de bébés (Short)
 1904Culture Intensive (Short)
 1904Duel tragique (Short)
 1904Électrocutée (Short)
 1904Erreur de poivrot (Short)
 1904Gage d’amour (Short)
 1904L’oiseau envolé (Short)
 1904La leçon de pipeau (Short)
 1904La rêve du chasseur (Short)
 1904Le jour du terme (Short)
 1904Le monolutteur (Short)
 1904Les deux rivaux (Short)
 1904Lui (Short)
 1904Magie noire (Short)
 1904Mauvais coeur puni (Short)
 1904Militaire et nourrice (Short)
 1904Paris la nuit (Short)
 1904Rafle de chiens (Short)
 1904Scènes directoire (Short)
 1904The Enchanted Bean (Short)
 1904Transformations (Short)
 1904Vieilles estampes (Short)
 1904Pierrot, Murderer (Short)
 1903Jocko musicien (Short)
 1903La mouche (Short)
 1903La poule fantaisiste (Short)
 1903La valise enchantée (Short)
 1903Le fiancé ensorcelé (Short)
 1903Le liqueur du couvent (Short)
 1903Les braconniers (Short)
 1903Le voleur sacrilège (Short)
 1903Lutteurs américains (Short)
 1903Modelage express (Short)
 1903Ne bougeons plus (Short)
 1903Nos bons étudiants (Short)
 1903Potage indigeste (Short)
 1903Service précipité (Short)
 1902A Peculiar Cabinet (Short)
 1902Danse excentrique (Short)
 1902Danse fantaisiste (Short)
 1902Danse mauresque (Short)
 1902En faction (Short)
 1902Farces de cuisinière (Short)
 1902Fruits de saison (Short)
 1902L’équilibriste (Short)
 1902La cour des miracles (Short)
 1902La dent recalcitrante (Short)
 1902La fiole enchantée (Short)
 1902La gavotte (Short)
 1902La gigue (Short)
 1902La première gamelle (Short)
 1902Le lion savant (Short)
 1902Le pommier (Short)
 1902Les chiens savants (Documentary short)
 1902Les clowns (Short)
 1902Les malabares, acrobats (Documentary short)
 1902Quadrille réaliste (Short)
 1902Trompé mais content (Short)
 1901Charmant froufrou (Short)
 1901Danses basques (Short)
 1901Folies masquées (Short)
 1901Frivolité (Short)
 1901Hussards et grisettes (Short)
 1901Lavatory moderne (Short)
 1901Lecture quotidienne (Short)
 1901Les vagues (Short)
 1901Pas de colombine (Short)
 1901Scène d’amour (Short)
 1901Scène d’ivresse (Short)
 1901Vendetta (Short)
 1900Au bal de Flore (Short)
 1900Avenue de l’opéra (Short)
 1900Badinage (Short)
 1900Ballet japonais (Short)
 1900Chez le photographe (Short)
 1900Dance de l’ivresse (Short)
 1900Danse des saisons (Short)
 1900Danse du papillon (Documentary short)
 1900Danse du voile (Short)
 1900Danses (Short)
 1900Danse serpentine (Documentary short)
 1900Dans les coulisses (Short)
 1900Gavotte directoire (Short)
 1900Guillaume Tell (Short)
 1900L’angélus (Short)
 1900L’arléquine (Short)
 1900L’écossaise (Short)
 1900L’Habanera (Short)
 1900La concierge (Short)
 1900La danse du ventre (Short)
 1900La paysanne (Short)
 1900La petite magicienne (Short)
 1900La poupée noire (Short)
 1900La reine des jouets (Short)
 1900La source (Short)
 1900La tarentelle (Short)
 1900Le bébé (Short)
 1900Leçon de danse (Short)
 1900Le lapin (Short)
 1900Le marchand de coco (Short)
 1900Le matelot (Short)
 1900Le Polichinelle (Short)
 1900Little Tich and His Funny Feet (Short) (as Alice Guy Blaché)
 1900Mort d’Adonis (Short)
 1900Pas de grâce (Short)
 1900Pas des éventails (Short)
 1900Pas du poignard (Short)
 1900Pas Japonais (Short)
 1900Retour des champs (Documentary short)
 1900Suite de la danse (Short)
 1900Sydney’s joujoux (Short)
 1900Une rage de dents (Short)
 1900Valse directoire (Short)
 1900Valse lente (Short)
 1900Vénus et Adonis (Short)
 1899Au cabaret (Short)
 1899Courte échelle (Short)
 1899Erreur judiciaire (Short)
 1899L’aveugle (Short)
 1899La bonne absinthe (Short)
 1899/ILa descente de croix (Short)
 1899La mauvaise soupe (Short)
 1899/ILa résurrection (Short)
 1899Le chiffonnier (Short)
 1899/ILe crucifiement (Short)
 1899Le tondeur de chiens (Short)
 1899Le tonnelier (Short)
 1899Monnaie de lapin (Short)
 1899Transformations (Short)
 1899Un lunch (Short)
 1899Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine (Documentary short)
 1898Jésus devant Pilate (Short)
 1898Je vous y prrrrends! (Short)
 1898La cène (Short)
 1898La flagellation (Short)
 1898La fuite en Égypte (Short)
 1898Le chemin de croix (Short)
 1898Leçons de boxe (Short)
 1898Les farces de Jocko (Short)
 1898Scène d’escamotage (Short)
 1897Au réfectoire (Short)
 1897Ballet libella (Documentary short)
 1897Chez le magnétiseur (Short)
 1897Coucher d’Yvette (Short)
 1897Danse fleur de lotus (Documentary short)
 1897En classe (Short)
 1897Idylle (Short)
 1897Idylle interrompue (Short)
 1897L’arroseur arrosé (Short)
 1897L’aveugle (Short)
 1897Leçon de danse (Short)
 1897Le planton du colonel (Short)
 1897Les cambrioleurs (Short)
 1897Une nuit agitée (Short)
 1897France et Russie (Short)
 1896La fée aux choux (Short)

 

Nadia Munla – Making Movies about women with women

Want to celebrate women making movies. Check out Hannah has a Ho-Phase. Nadia Munla with screenwriting partner Jamie Jensen directed the female-driven movie Hannah Has a Ho-Phase  and made the movie with an all-female crew. I met Nadia after contacting USC about my female filmmakers project – and got the opportunity to shoot the interview above, edited by Dana Hayes.

HOPHASE POSTER May 30

Nadia and Jamie shopped around the script for Hannah in the traditional fashion and struggled with the consistent note, “It’s really funny. Like a female Hangover – but where is the male perspective?” …. So, Hollywood … here is the female perspective for a change!

Hannah production shot

Check out Nadia’s movie Hannah has a Ho-Phase on hulu – http://www.hulu.com/watch/527807
and the movie’s website – http://ho-phase.com/

 

Sometimes the best feminists are men…

I have to give a shout out to two of the men who helped make the Directed by Women – Short and Fun in NYC event happen. Eric Rice who made the program, Facebook banner image and helped coordinate – and Jesse Deganis Librera who shot our Q&A for us.

So there’s the negative aspect of the title of this blog post which is that, as much as I would like to think it’s not true, women can often undermine each other. But that’s a blog post in and of itself.

Group photo

And events like the Directed by Women series provide a wonderful counterpoint to that story. I have had nothing but incredible interactions with the talented women who took part in the screening series – and am inspired by Barbara Ann O’Leary’s endeavor and all of the women and men she has gathered to make this all happen.

So now for a few of the men in the equation…

Michael Nazarewycz with the MOT Film Society has put together a screening series to celebrate – check it out – https://www.westownmovies.com/women/

Eric Rice who helped us put on the Directed by Women – Short and Fun in NYC event has a project where he watches movies by female filmmakers and puts them out there on the twittersphere with #shecandowhatyoucando. Take part in this celebration by checking out the hastag via twitter and watch some of those movies. He has some features but many are shorts (some from established directors, some up and coming or lesser known gems). A great way to celebrate works Directed by Women.