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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“Women Directors are One More Problem We Don’t Need”: Joan Micklin Silver on Chilly Scenes of Winter
Turner Classic Movies
Film Directors Site
Jewish Women’s Archive
Wikipedia
FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):
2003Hunger Point (TV Movie)
2002Charms for the Easy Life (TV Movie)
1999Invisible Child (TV Movie)
1997In the Presence of Mine Enemies (TV Movie)
1995Sisters (TV Series) (1 episode)
– For Everything a Season: Part 1 (1995)
1992A Private Matter (TV Movie)
1991Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (TV Movie) (segment “2”)
1989Loverboy
1985Finnegan Begin Again (TV Movie)
1983How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (TV Movie)
1976Bernice Bobs Her Hair (TV Movie)
1975Hester Street
1974The Case of the Elevator Duck (Short)
1973The Fur Coat Club (Short)
1972The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (Short)