Early Women Filmmakers

More women worked in film's first 20 years than anytime since. Many have been cut from film history, their contributions lost to time. This collection highlights the contributions of 14 important women directors of cinem

Seven Blind Women Filmmakers

This film was seven blind women's self portrait with the limitation of not employing any sighted individual's and was filmed with light weight digital cameras

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers

In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its developme

A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers: An Introduction

Among the informative talking heads spread throughout all of these featurettes are Rob Stone, George Willeman and Lynane Schweighofer of the Library of Congress, along with Anthony Slide, Jane M. Gaines, Shelley Stamp, K

Even with Their Nails: Women Filmmakers in Nicaragua

Film production in Nicaragua prevails despite the lack of a film industry. This documentary explores the role of women filmmakers in continuing this art form and their passion to mobilize production efforts since the end

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers: About the Restorations

A documentary short about the restoration of forgotten female-directed films of the 1910s

Mutual Gaze: Women Filmmakers Support Fund

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriter

The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker

An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.