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

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Bite-sized blog post: Lexi Alexander

LEXI ALEXANDER went from being a World Kick-boxing champion to a stunt woman to making an Academy Award nominated short film.

She then took her fighting skills to the screen and directed Green Street Hooligans (2005) and Marvel’s Punisher: War Zone (2008) before writing a scathing article on the hypocrisy of Hollywood liberals and gender discrimination.

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Bite-sized blog post: Debra Granik

Before attending New York University’s MFA program in Film DEBRA GRANIK worked as a videographer for trade unions where she first became interested in characters and sharing their stories.

In 2011 her film Winter’s Bone was nominated for an Academy Award and catapulted Jennifer Lawrence into the category of A-list actor.

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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Holofcener

At the beginning of her studies at Columbia’s MFA program NICOLE HOLOFCENER considered herself a screenwriter but soon realized she liked directing her own work.

After graduating she directed her first feature, a Sundance Film Festival favorite Walking and Talking (1996) and her character driven comedies have led to comparisons with Woody Allen but she has a style all her own.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lena Dunham

LENA DUNHAM began her career making short films that got tons of hits on Youtube.

Her parents told her that they would pay for her to go to graduate school or fund a feature film. Dunham chose to make her first feature Tiny Furniture (2010).

She went on to utilize social media to gain notoriety and create the hit series Girls for HBO.

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Bite-sized blog-post: Joan Micklin Silver

A producer once told her, “Feature films are expensive to make and expensive to market and women directors are one more problem we don’t need.” In response her husband insisted that they raise the funds and give her the chance to make a movie.

Silver went on to direct Hester Street (1975) and along with her husband and a few others successfully self distributed – before the age of the internet.

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Bite-sized blog post: Gina Prince-Bythewood

After attending UCLA film school GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD began working in the industry as a writer on A Different World. She used her free time and experiences as a basketball player to write her first feature Love & Basketball (2000) where she worked with actress Sanaa Lathan to turn her into a realistic basketball player (her first instinct was to hire a player not an actor).

Bythewood is in talks with Fox for a new television series, Shots Fired, about the aftermath of police shootings in a small town in Tennessee, where she would reunite with Lathan

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Bite-sized blog post: Ida Lupino

One of the only women to work as a director in Hollywood in the 1940s IDA LUPINO began her career as an actress and succeeded directing and acting in numerous films of the era – specializing in noir.

Well before “indie film” became a household phrase she, along with her husband, ventured out on her own to direct and produce her own work outside of the studio system. As the only woman in the DGA meetings opened with, “Gentleman – and Mrs. Lupino.”

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ONLINE
Ida Lupino And Her Role As Auteur
How Ida Lupino broke into man’s world of directing
Turner Classic Movies
New York Times Obituary
Encyclopedia Britannica
Sense of Cinema
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

1968The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Madeira, My Dear? (1968)
1967Dundee and the Culhane (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Thy Brother’s Keeper Brief (1967)
1967Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The King’s Shilling (1967)
1966The Virginian (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Dead-Eye Dick (1966)
1964-1966Gilligan’s Island (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– The Producer (1966)
– The Return of Wrongway Feldman (1965)
– Wrongway Feldman (1964)
– Good Night Sweet Skipper (1964)
1966Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Holloway’s Daughters (1966)
1966The Trouble with Angels
1966Honey West (TV Series) (1 episode)
– How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy (1966)
1963-1965Mr. Novak (TV Series) (3 episodes)
– May Day, May Day… (1965)
– Day in the Year (1964)
– Love in the Wrong Season (1963)
1964-1965The Rogues (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– Bow to a Master (1965)
– Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea (1964)
1965Bewitched (TV Series) (1 episode)
– A Is for Aardvark (1965)
1964The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Masks (1964)
1964Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Threatening Eye (1964)
1964Dr. Kildare (TV Series) (1 episode)
– To Walk in Grace (1964)
1963-1964The Fugitive (TV Series) (3 episodes)
– The Garden House (1964)
– Glass Tightrope (1963)
– Fatso (1963)
1963Breaking Point (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Heart of Marble, Body of Stone (1963)
1962-1963The Untouchables (TV Series) (3 episodes)
– The Torpedo (1963)
– The Man in the Cooler (1963)
– A Fist of Five (1962)
1962-1963Sam Benedict (TV Series) (3 episodes)
– Sugar and Spice and Everything… (1963)
– Everybody’s Playing Polo (1962)
– Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells (1962)
1961-1962Thriller (TV Series) (9 episodes)
– The Lethal Ladies (1962)
– The Bride Who Died Twice (1962)
– La Strega (1962)
– The Closed Cabinet (1961)
– The Last of the Sommervilles (1961)
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1961-1962General Electric Theater (TV Series) (5 episodes)
– A Very Special Girl (1962)
– The Little Hours (1962)
– The Iron Silence (1961)
– The Joke’s on Me (1961)
– A Possibility of Oil (1961)
1961The Rifleman (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Assault (1961)
1959-1961Have Gun – Will Travel (TV Series) (8 episodes)

– The Gold Bar (1961)

– The Trial (1960)

– Lady with a Gun (1960)

– The Lady on the Wall (1960)

– The Day of the Bad Man (1960)

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1960-1961Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– A Crime for Mothers (1961)

– Sybilla (1960)
1960Hong Kong (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Turncoat (1960)

– Clear for Action (1960)
1960Dante (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Opening Night (1960)
1960Tate (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Mary Hardin Story (1960)

– Stopover (1960)
1959-1960Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Sundance and the Boat Soldier (1960)

– The Man Who Believed in Law (1959)
195977 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Jukebox Caper (1959)

– A Check Will Do Nicely (1959)
1959The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) (1 episode)

– A Difference of Opinion (1959)
1958Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Teenage Idol (1958)

1958Teenage Idol (TV Movie)
1956The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Trial of Mary Surratt (1956)
1956Climax! (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Fury at Dawn (1956)
1956Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)

– No. 5 Checked Out (1956)

1953The Bigamist

1953The Hitch-Hiker

1951On Dangerous Ground (uncredited)

1951Hard, Fast and Beautiful

1950Outrage

1949Never Fear

1949Not Wanted (uncredited)

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Bite-sized blog post: Mira Nair

MIRA NAIR began her career as a documentarian and then went on to make fiction films including one of Denzel Washington’s first features Mississippi Masala (1991).

Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the United States to study on a scholarship at Harvard before embarking on her film career.

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Bite-sized blog post: Susan Seidelman

After graduating from NYU Susan Seidelman did what many filmmakers did in the eighties and made an indie film on a shoe string budget which received critical acclaim, Smithereens (1982).

Following the success of Smithereens Seidelman went on to make the classic Desperately Seeking Susan giving her neighbor Madonna her first film role

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