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

Bite-sized blog post: Jerusha Hess

JERUSHA HESS wrote the cult film Napoleon Dynamite (2004) directed by her husband Jared Hess who she met while studying film at Brigham Young University.

She went on to direct the film Austenland (2013) based on the novel by Shannon Hale about the world of Jane Austen fans.

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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Conn

NICOLE CONN’s film A Perfect Ending (2012) is currently the best selling lesbian themed movie of all time.

Conn has done both narrative fiction and documentary films which includes Little Man (2005), a documentary about her experiences having a son born 100 days premature.

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Bite-sized blog post: Diane Bell

DIANE BELL is a yoga teacher as well as a director. Her first feature film Obselidia (2010) premiered at Sundance.

After successfully getting her feature in Sundance and receiving an award for it she started her production company Rebel Heart.

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Bite-sized blog post: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan

BERTHA BAY-SA PAN was born in New Jersey and raised in Taiwan and returned to the US to study at Boston University and get her MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Her first feature film Face (2002) premiered at Sundance. She followed it up with the feature Almost Perfect (2011).

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Bite-sized blog post: Cherien Dabis

CHERIEN DABIS is a Palestinian-American filmmaker who graduated from Columbia with an MFA before making her first Amreeka (2009).

She began her life in politics and has said that she felt she could “reach more people through fiction than politics.”

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Bite-sized blog post: Ann Marie Bryan

ANN MARIE “JADE” BRYAN is the first (and only at the moment) deaf person to graduate from the NYU film production program. She received her BFA and went on to a non-profit DeafVision Filmworks.

She has worked in narrative and documentary and continues to break barriers. Her feature length fiction film If You Could Hear My Own Tune (2011) is about a deaf women looking for love.

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Bite-sized blog post: Kirsten Johnson

KIRSTEN JOHNSON is a renowned cinematographer who has won numerous awards for shooting documentaries including for The Oath (2010), Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) and CitizenFour (2014).

She has also directed documentaries including the recent Sundance premiere Cameraperson (2016) which delves into her experiences shooting documentaries.

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CAMERAPERSON SCREENINGS

Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Kent

JENNIFER KENT first learned directing by reaching out to Lars Von Trier and asking to study under him and she assisted him with his film Dogville (2003).

Her feature The Babadook (2014) premiered at Sundance and was based on her short film Monster (2005).

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Bite-sized blog post: Katie Aselton

The Duplass brothers are known for their indie film making as well as their acting – KATIE ASELTON is part of that production team and directed her first feature, which was self-funded thanks to her acting work, The Freebie (2010).

Her second feature was the the indie thriller Black Rock (2012).

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