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

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Bite-sized blog post: Karyn Kusama

KARYN KUSAMA’S first film Girlfight (2000) premiered at Sundance and after its success she went on to direct the studio feature Aeon Flux (2005).

Her most recent feature The Invitation (2015) was part of the new narrative fiction funding offspring of Chicken & Egg – Gamechanger films.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Lynch

JENNIFER LYNCH is the daughter of cult classic director David Lynch but she is also a director in her own right.

Her first feature film Boxing Helena (1995) was plagued with a lawsuit with famous actress Nicole Kidman but was still made and led to a successful career for Lynch directing television and features.

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Bite-sized blog post: Neema Barnette

NEEMA BARNETTE is the first African-American sticom director and she has directed numerous sitcoms.

Barnette has joined forces with Ava Duvernay on her new show Queen Sugar which brags an all female directing slate. She graduated with a BA from the City College of New York and an MFA from NYU Tisch School o f the Arts.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lisa Gottlieb

LISA GOTTLIEB credits her opportunity to make the gender role reversal comedy classic Just One of the Guys (1985) to the lawsuit filed against Columbia Pictures in the early eighties by the Original Six and the DGA.

Gottlieb has gone on to direct for television and teach filmmaking at various Universities including USC.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lesli Linka Glatter

LESLI LINKA GLATTER was a graduate of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women in 1984 and went on to Academy Award nominations and Emmy wins.

On Homeland Glatter was not only a regular director but also a producer.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lori Precious

LORI PRECIOUS began her career as a visual artist before moving into directing commercials and has gone on to direct hundreds of them with high profile talent.

She has a narrative fiction film in development and as a successful female commercial director she is active with the Women’s Steering Committee in the DGA to get more women working in the industry.

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Bite-sized blog post: Gwen Arner

GWEN ARNER is a television director who also worked as an actor.

She directed for television and the stage for over twenty years. Back in 1996 in a Los Angeles Times article she commented about the prospect for women directing in film and theatre, “It’s opened up a lot now, but it’s still not as good as it should be. It just doesn’t make sense statistically. When you go into a university and [you see a] 50-50 [gender ratio] in all your creative classes and then you get out into the profession and the ratio drops dramatically, you know there’s something wrong. … It doesn’t have to do with a person’s talent or abilities.”

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Bite-sized blog post: Courtney Hunt

COURNEY HUNT went to law school before attending Columbia film school and used her legal background to work and pay for film school.

Her first feature film Frozen River (2008) won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay.

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