Tag / Women

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Bite-sized blog post: Bette Gordon

At home with independent film pioneer Bette Gordon Friday, April 2, 2010 on Reade Street in New York. (N.Y.Post/Chad Rachman)

When BETTE GORDON attended film school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA film program she was one of two woman and one of her professors joked when they were working with a Bolex camera “do you girls even know how to use that thing?” She became an expert and has gone on to teach film classes at Columbia as well as continuing to direct award winning features including Luminous Motion (2000) based on the novel by Scott Bradfield and  Handsome Harry (2009).

Her most recent feature starring Josh Charles and Julia Stiles, Border Crossers is in post-production.

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Where to watch her films:

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Read more about her:

ONLINE
Border Crossers Film page
Artists in Conversation
Interview
Columbia Film School Website
New York Times
Film Directors Site
Porn and Being Poor, Then & Now: Bette Gordon Interview, Tribeca 2009

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2003Life on the Line (TV Movie)
 1998Luminous Motion
 1994Love Street (TV Series) (1 episode)
– See Me (1994)
 1989-1991Monsters (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– Desirable Alien (1991)
– Habitat (1990)
– Jar (1989)
– The Mother Instinct (1989)
 1986Seven Women, Seven Sins (segment “Greed – Pay to Play”)
 1983Variety
 1974I-94 (Short)
 1974Michigan Avenue (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Lexi Alexander

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LEXI ALEXANDER went from being a World Kick-boxing champion to a stunt woman to making an Academy Award nominated short film.

She then took her fighting skills to the screen and directed Green Street Hooligans (2005) and Marvel’s Punisher: War Zone (2008) before writing a scathing article on the hypocrisy of Hollywood liberals and gender discrimination.

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Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Lexi Alexander’s Website
Lexi Alexander’s blog
Director Lexi Alexander Talks Directing Arrow and Why More Women Aren’t Directing Superhero Stuff
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2016Supergirl (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Episode #1.14 (2016)
2015Arrow (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Beyond Redemption (2015)
 2012BlackBoxTV (TV Series) (1 episode)
– AEZP: Execution Style (2012)
 2010Lifted
 2008Punisher: War Zone
2005Green Street Hooligans
 2002Johnny Flynton (Short)
 2002Fool Proof

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Bite-sized blog post: Nancy Savoca

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NANCY SAVOCA graduated with an MFA from NYU and then went on to self-fund her first feature True Love (1989) which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She then went on to direct Dogfight (1991) for Warner Brothers.

She continues to direct independent films and for television. Her company Cine-Si is a collaboration with her husband, film producer Rich Guay.

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Where to watch her films:

iTunes

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Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Nancy Savoca’s Website
Interview
Roger Ebert Article
Los Angeles Times
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015If There Be Thorns (TV Movie) (attached)
 2003Dirt
 2002Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (Documentary)
 2001The Mind of the Married Man (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Anywhere, Anytime (2001)
 2000Third Watch (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Know Thyself (2000)
 1996If These Walls Could Talk (TV Movie) (segments “1952”, “1974”)
 1995Murder One (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Chapter Five (1995)
 1995Dark Eyes (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Pilot (1995)
 1991Dogfight
 1989/ITrue Love
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Bite-sized blog post: Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris with Redford

 

LESLIE HARRIS was the first African American woman to win a Special Jury Prize at Sundance with her debut feature film Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992). She got distribution for the film with Miramax for the self-financed, self-produced feature which she edited on her own in her apartment.

Harris teaches at New York University and is fundraising for her feature I Love Cinema. 

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Read more about her:

ONLINE
Finder her on Twitter
Leslie Harris’ Blog
SUBWAY RIDER Leslie Harris’s Low-Budget Trip.
20th Anniversary Screening Of ‘Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.’ + Panel Discussion w/ Leslie Harris (NYC)
Entertainment Weekly
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Holofcener

 

Nicole Holofcener

 

At the beginning of her studies at Columbia’s MFA program NICOLE HOLOFCENER considered herself a screenwriter  but soon realized she liked directing her own work.

After graduating she directed her first feature, a Sundance Film Festival favorite Walking and Talking (1996) and her character driven comedies have led to comparisons with Woody Allen but she has a style all her own.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

HULU

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview
Nicole Holofcener Nails It
Variety
Nicole Holofcener’s Beautiful Imperfections
DGA
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

One Mississippi (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Pilot (2015)
2015Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Fake It Till You Fake It Some More (2015)
 2015Inside Amy Schumer (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Last F… Able Day (2015) … (segment “Last Fuckable Day”)
2015Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Kimmy Goes to a Party! (2015)
 2015Togetherness (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Ghost in Chains (2015)
 2011-2013Parks and Recreation (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– The Pawnee-Eagleton Tip Off Classic (2013)
– Jerry’s Retirement (2013)
– Smallest Park (2011)
– Eagleton (2011)
 2013Enough Said
 2011-2013Enlightened (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– The Key (2013)
– Not Good Enough Mothers (2011)
 2011I Hate That I Love You (TV Movie)
 2010Please Give
 2009Bored to Death (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Case of the Stolen Sperm (2009)
 2006Friends with Money
 2003-2004Six Feet Under (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– Bomb Shelter (2004)
– Timing & Space (2003)
 2002Leap of Faith (TV Series) (pilot)
 2002Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Secrets and Loans (2002)
 2001Lovely & Amazing
 1998-2000Sex and the City (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– Are We Sluts? (2000)
– No Ifs, Ands or Butts (2000)
– Three’s a Crowd (1998)
– Bay of Married Pigs (1998)
 1999Cold Feet (TV Series) (pilot)
 1996Walking and Talking
 1991Angry (Short)

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Bite-sized blog post: Lena Dunham

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LENA DUNHAM began her career making short films that got tons of hits on Youtube.

Her parents told her that they would pay for her to go to graduate school or fund a feature film. Dunham chose to make her first feature Tiny Furniture (2010).

She went on to utilize social media to gain notoriety and create the hit series Girls for HBO.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
It’s Different for ‘Girls’ – Lena Dunham’s new show is like nothing else on TV.
Find her on Instagram
Lena Dunham Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Girls (TV Series) (7 episodes, 2013 – 2014) (written by – 29 episodes, 2012 – 2015) (created by – 20 episodes, 2015 – 2016)

– Episode #5.9 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.8 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.7 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.6 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.5 (2016) … (creator)
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 2014/IIICover Girl (Short) (writer)
 2013Choose You (Short)
 2013/IBest Friends (Short) (written by)
 2012Nobody Walks (written by)
 2010Tiny Furniture (written by)
 2009Creative Nonfiction (written by)
 2009Delusional Downtown Divas (TV Series) (writer)
 2007Tight Shots (TV Series)
 2006Dealing (Short) (written by)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kelly Reichardt

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE

FANDOR

 

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview with Gus Van Sant
To make the movies she wanted, Kelly Reichardt had to go it alone.
Variety Honoree Kelly Reichardt: Still on the Side of the Outsiders
Kelly Reichardt: ‘My films are just glimpses of people passing through’
Senses of Cinema
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Travis (Video short)
 2006Old Joy
 2001Then a Year (Short)
 1999Ode
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Bite-sized blog post: Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Wood

ELIZABETH WOOD runs a production company with her husband Gabriel Nussbaum where they directed and produced their first feature, Wade in the Water (2007), a documentary of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Wood has been included in the 2016 Variety list of “10 Directors to Watch” and her first feature narrative film White Girl (2016), Executive Produced by Christine Vachon premieres at Sundance!

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Where to watch her films:

INDIEPIX FILMS

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Stay tuned for distribution of her Sundance Premiere White Girl

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Find her on Instagram
Bank Street Films Website (Wood’s production company)
WHITE GIRL’ BE THIS GENERATION’S ‘KIDS’?
Variety – 10 Directors to Watch
Wade in the Water website

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Loft (Short)
 2010/IIAutopilot (Short)
 2010/ICut Throat (Short)
 2007Wade in the Water, Children (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: So Yong Kim

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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FANDOR

SHORT – MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Company Website
Filmmaker Magazine
New York Times
Indiewire
For Ellen: director So Yong Kim on how she snared her star Paul Dano
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Lovesong (as So-yong Kim) (completed)
 2014Spark and Light (Short) (as So-yong Kim)
 2012For Ellen (as SoYong Kim)
 20113.11 Sense of Home (Documentary short) (segment “Untitled”, as So-yong Kim)
 2009Chinatown Film Project (as So-yong Kim)
 2008Na-moo-eobs-neun san (as So-yong Kim)
 2006In Between Days (as So-yong Kim)
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Bite-sized blog post: Meera Menon

Meera Menon

Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, where MEERA MENON was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize for a groundbreaking female filmmaker.

Her next film Equity, touted as the first female-driven Wall Street Movie, stars Anna Gunn (star of Breaking Bad) and premieres at Sundance!

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Where to watch her films:

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Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Her Website
Meera Menon to Direct Female-Driven Wall Street Drama for Broad Street Pictures
Farah Goes Bang Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Mark in Argentina (Short)