January 17, 2016January 17, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Martha Coolidge

MARTHA COOLIDGE was the first female president of the Directors Guild of America from 2002-2003. She got her MFA at NYU before moving to Los Angeles to begin her career as a director.

Her first feature film Not a Pretty Picture (1976) is a hybrid documentary fiction film exploring a date rape Coolidge suffered as a young woman. She went on to direct commercial fiction feature films starting with Valley Girl (1983) which launched Nicholas Cage’s career as well as her own.

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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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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)

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 by JENDEAN

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: Mira Nair

MIRA NAIR began her career as a documentarian and then went on to make fiction films including one of Denzel Washington’s first features Mississippi Masala (1991).

Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the United States to study on a scholarship at Harvard before embarking on her film career.

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Bite-sized blog post: Elaine May

Known for her comedy, ELAINE MAY was one of very few women in Hollywood to direct films in the 1970s. An actor and director she has helmed now classic films such as Neil Simon’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972).

After the financial and critical disaster of Ishtar May has acted in several films but hasn’t directed since (arguably a fate that would not have befallen an equally skilled male director). She is slated to direct a documentary on her comedian partner Mike Nichols who passed away in November 2014.

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Bite-sized blog post: Ava DuVernay

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After being told, “African Americans don’t go to indie films so we can’t fund your indie film with an African American cast,” AVA DUVERNAY made Middle of Nowhere (2012) without industry support and it screened at Sundance where she became the first African American woman to win Best Director at the festival. Using her experience as a publicist she formed a distribution company AFFRM to distribute her own films and those of other African American filmmakers.

Her next feature film Selma (2013) was nominated for an Academy Award and she re-branded her distribution company AFFRM to ARRAY to encompass female filmmakers as well as people of color.

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

Female filmmakers: Investigating their works, history and advocacy in the U.S. from 1896-present.

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