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

Bite-sized blog post: Kelly Reichardt

KELLY REICHARDT almost missed the debut her first feature film at Sundance, River of Grass (1994) because she couldn’t afford the plane ticket across country and got stuck on a train that took five days instead of three to make the trek.

Many of Reichardt’s films are set and shot in Oregon and she is known for character driven pieces including Wendy and Lucy (2008) starring Michelle Williams who she reunites with for her most recent film Certain Women premiering at Sundance.

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Bite-sized blog post: So Yong Kim

SO YONG KIM is a Korean born director who grew up in Los Angeles. She first delved into filmmaking through producing her husband’s film Salt (2003) and then decided she wanted to write and direct a film of her own film and embarked on her directorial debut with In Between Days (2003) which her husband produced.

Her most recent film For Ellen stars Paul Dano and premieres at Sundance 2016!

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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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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: Deborah Kampmeier

DEBORAH KAMPMEIER made her first film Virgin (2003) with a budget of only $65,000.00 thanks to digital technology and to actress Robin Wright who agreed to take part in the film despite the lack of a big budget because she loved the script and knew and respected Kampmeier. The film went on to critical acclaim and to receive the accolades of audiences.

Kampmeier’s second film Hounddog (2007) was plagued with controversy due to a rape scene involving the then 12 year old Dakota Fanning. The scene in no way exploited Fanning due to the way in which it was shot but the controversy eclipsed the reality and ignored the horror of the story being told which is a reality for many young girls and focused on the fictional circumstances of the actress playing the scene. Kampmeier teaches acting in NYC and continues to direct.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Phang

San Francisco-based filmmaker born in Berkeley JENNIFER PHANG attended AFI for an MFA and went on to make sci-fi films Half-Life and Advantageous.

Phang is one of six women chosen for the 2015-2016 Women of Sundance Fellowship.

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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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Bite-sized blog post: Chantal Akerman

I had the opportunity to study with CHANTAL AKERMAN right before she left this world in October 2015. She was definitely eccentric in her brilliance and never filtered her points of view … which sometimes caused for controversy… nonetheless she clearly cared about film and those studying it and her passion for it never dulled.

Best known in academic and art house circles for her feminist epic Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) which she directed at the young age of 25 Akerman vacillated between documentaries and fiction but always remained faithful to expressing the truth as she saw it.

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Bite-sized blog post: Maggie Greenwald

Unlike many up -and-coming filmmakers in the 1980s who went the film school route MAGGIE GREENWALD learned the ropes of filmmaking directly through working on sets, driving vans, editing and exposing herself to the ins-and-outs of the industry before making her first feature Home Remedy (1987).

Her film noir The Kill-Off (1989) based on the novel by Jim Thompson is listed as one of the top 100 American Independent Films by the British Film Institute. Greenwald went on to direct The Ballad of Little Joe (1993) taking over the traditionally male-genre of the Western and putting a woman at the center of it and she continues to direct films and for television.

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Bite-sized blog post: Julie Dash

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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