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

Bite-sized blog post: Rosemary Rodriguez

After her first feature film Acts of Worship (2001) premiered at Sundance Film Festival ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ began directing television thanks to the John Wells Women and Minority Fellowship.

Her film Silver Skies (2015) had Dennis Farina attached who Rodriguez had worked with on Law & Order and eh passed away two weeks before shooting. She dedicated the finished film to him.

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Bite-sized blog post: Tracy Droz Tragos

TRACY DROZ TRAGOS is a documentary and narrative filmmaker who formed her company Dinky Pictures to “tell personal, intimate stories with a focused perspective, giving voice to people, families and circumstances that otherwise would go unnoticed.”

Her first film Be Good Smile Pretty (2003) was inspired by a photograph she found of her father taken the day he died in Vietnam and was part of the Independent Lens series on PBS.

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Bite-sized blog post: Sophie Barthes

SOPHIE BARTHES’ most recent feature film brought to the screen Flaubert’s classic Madame Bovary (2014).

Her short film Happiness (2006) premiered at Sundance in 2007.

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Bite-sized blog post: Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

MARION LPISCHUTZ and ROSE ROSENBLATT are documentarians who teamed up to create Incite Pictures and make movies.

They are known for documentaries about social issues and with strong central characters such as The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about a young woman who fights for sex education and gay rights in Lubbock, Texas.

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Bite-sized blog post: Anna Rose Holmer

ANNA ROSE HOLMER pitched her movie The Fits (2015) in Venice before it premiered at Sundance in 2015.

She studied film at NYU as an undergraduate and went on to work as a Cinematographer before directing her first film.

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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: 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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