From Agnès to Zeinabu...
A lively thread inviting exploration and celebration of some of the world's most dynamic and engaging directors... women directors!
Join in on the fun during the 7th annual #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party... happening NOW!
I'll be sharing in this thread throughout the month, but other film lovers are invited to contribute as well. If you do, please share about one or 2 women directors at a time in any given post. And please include a little info to help people learn about & explore their work.
Today - Day 3 of the 7th Annual #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party - I'll be sharing about women directors whose first names begin with "A".
I like to help people get on a first name basis with women directors. Feel free to join in.
Agnès Varda
“They called Varda the grandmother of the French New Wave. So unique and propulsive was her vision that she could be said to be her own ancestor and her own progeny.” ~ Alexandra Hidalgo @SabanaGrandePro @agnesfilms #DirectedbyWomen
criterion.com/current/posts/…
Ayten Amin
"Ayten Amin’s feature film [Souad] is an assured, harrowing glimpse at the difficulty of knowing, let alone fully realizing, oneself." @boyerfred1975
tribecafilm.com/films/souad-20…
Souad screens in Birmingham, UK later this month:
directedbywomen.com/events-directo… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Annemarie Jacir...
"...the brilliance of Jacir and her work is that she is not a filmmaker who conforms."
deadline.com/2021/07/annema…
#DirectedbyWomen @AnnemarieJacir
Celebrating Andrea Arnold...
"The British auteur's first nonfiction feature [Cow] may be a departure in many respects, but her distinctively harsh lyricism is still present." @GuyLodge @Variety
variety.com/2021/film/revi…
Celebrating Alice Wu...
"Everybody wants to see visions of love and connection." @thatalicewu
@Merryn1 @queerforty #DirectedbyWomen
queerforty.com/meet-alice-wu-…
Celebrating Agnieszka Holland...
"The universe of the story, and the universe of the main character dictates the visual style."
seventh-row.com/2021/03/01/agn…
#DirectedbyWomen @bwestcineaste @SeventhRow
Celebrating Akosua Adoma Owusu...
"...Owusu seamlessly transitions between experimental cinema, fine art and African tradition in order to create avant-garde films that question the nature of identity.
indiewire.com/2015/10/6-avan…
#DirectedbyWomen @akosuadoma
Celebrating Anocha Suwichakornpong...
"...in her cinematic labyrinth, people take action by moving silently, enigmatically, into the unknown." @mayadadol @DAAD_Artists #DirectedbyWomen
berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/artist/anoc…
Celebrating Ava DuVernay...
"...she's created a movement that is helping change how movies are made—and who gets to make them." @guyraz @HowIBuiltThis @ava @ARRAYNow
npr.org/2021/06/15/100…
Celebrating Atsuko Hirayanagi
"Atsuko Hirayanagi isn’t selling a packaged idea about what it means to be human; she does something trickier and more honest here [@ohlucymovie], merely by tracing the ordinary absurdities and agonies of one woman’s life." @nytimes #DirectedbyWomen
Here's the link to Manohla Dargis's review of Atsuko Hirayanagi's feature film Oh, Lucy!: nytimes.com/2018/02/28/mov…
Atsuko Hirayanagi is set to direct Awkwafina in “The Last Adventures of Constance Verity”:
deadline.com/2021/04/atsuko…
Celebrating Alison Klayman...
"youngest director named by the New York Times chief film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis on their international list of 20 Directors to Watch."
@aliklay's Jagged about @Alanis to premiere at #TIFF21 then air on @HBO
alisonklayman.com
Celebrating Aisling Walsh...
"The best aspect of my job is working with the people I work with and going on a journey together."
iftn.ie/news/?act1=rec… @WalshAisling #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Alice Guy-Blaché...
The first woman film director!
"Even before women had the right to vote, Blaché, in her actions and in her films, expressed female drives, desires and self-determination." @nytimes
nytimes.com/2019/09/06/obi…
@BeNaturalMovie #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Angela Schanelec...
"Angela Schanelec’s films make extensive use of ellipses, and narratives often branch out to new characters without warning...her work is remarkable for its humanity." #DirectedbyWomen
thefilmstage.com/angela-schanel…
Celebrating Alanis Obomsawin...
"In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television." nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/97… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Ariel Dougherty...
Filmmaker and co-founder of @womenmakemovies!
"We were not only empowering ourselves, but other women along with us."
@MediaEquity #DirectedbyWomen agnesfilms.com/interviews/int…
Celebrating Athina Rachel Tsangari...
"I don’t do psychoanalysis, I do cinema."
criterion.com/current/posts/…
#DirectedbyWomen @Criterion
Celebrating Ash Mayfair...
"I love the theme of womanhood. I think I could spend my whole life on that, probably."
filmmakermagazine.com/107536-everyth…
@NinjaWorrier @FilmmakerMag #DirectedbyWomen
An IU Cinema Exclusive Interview:
Celebrating Allison Anders...
"I think that films should not be a rollercoaster ride. ... That's for amusement parks."
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Aparna Sen...
"A lot of people have said that almost all my films have been about loneliness..."
researchgate.net/publication/34… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Antonia Bird...
"Bird looked the horror created by man in the face again and again, making dynamite narratives out of abuses of power."
directedbywomen.com/antonias-line-…
#DirectedbyWomen @Such_Mayer
Celebrating Ann Hui...
"...one of the most talented filmmakers of her generation."
scmp.com/magazines/styl… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Ayo Akingbade...
"Akingbade is often mislabelled as a documentary-maker, but her films come together more by intuition."
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… #DirectedbyWomen @guardian
There are SO MANY MORE amazing women directors whose first names begin with "A", but I need to get some sleep, so this is as many as I have time to share.
Tomorrow - Day 4 of the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party - I move on to "B"...
Watch films. Share. Repeat.
Today - Day 4 of the 7th Annual #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party - I'll be sharing about women directors whose first names begin with "B".
I like to help people get on a first name basis with women directors. Feel free to join in.
Celebrating Barbra Streisand...
“I directed because I couldn’t be heard”
womenandhollywood.com/barbra-streisa… @WomenaHollywood @BarbraStreisand #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Bette Gordon...
"I was interested in doing anything but being safe."
grandlife.com/culture/interv… #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Barbara Loden...
"Loden’s one and only feature-length directorial achievement [Wanda] is now widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of independent cinema, and also as a cornerstone of women’s filmmaking"
criterion.com/current/posts/… #DirectedbyWomen @Criterion
Celebrating Barbara McCullough...
"...always striving to “tap the spirit and richness of her community by exposing its magic..."
barbaramccullough.com #DirectedbyWomen #LARebellion
Celebrating Barbara Hammer...
"From her earliest experimental work, her films are playfully and relentlessly challenging of accepted norms and taboos."
barbarahammer.com #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Betzabé García...
"The director shows no signs of conforming to any one style of filmmaking." @Variety #DirectedbyWomen
variety.com/2018/film/fest…
Celebrating Bridgett M. Davis...
Naked Acts is "Celebrated as a key film in the canon of independent cinema by African-Americans in the ’90's..."
@bridgettmdavis bridgettdavis.com/naked-acts/ #DirectedbyWomen
Naked Acts Collection @IU @BlackFilmCenter: webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/vi…
Celebrating Barbara Kopple...
"...one of film’s more versatile and persistent documentarians."
filmint.nu/the-films-of-b… #DirectedbyWomen
cabincreekfilms.com @barbarakopple
Celebrating Beth B...
"Beth B’s career has been characterized by work that challenges society’s conventions..."
bethbproductions.com #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Binka Zhelyazkova...
"We need to rediscover the work of women filmmakers like Binka Zhelyazkova and cherish it and study it." @nikol_elka @binka_docfilm @closeupcentre
closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazi… #DirectedbyWomen #Bulgaria
Celebrating Basma Alsharif...
"This is the point. My work deals with the fact that our reading of anything is subjective."
thewhitereview.org/feature/interv… @helenmackreath @thewhitereview #DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Becs Arahanga...
"I want to tell stories that my family can be proud of"
womanmagazine.co.nz/nz-women/kiwi-…
#DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Byambasuren Davaa...
Veins Of The World was Mongolia's selection for the 2021 Oscars.
View @tcm's original video profile here:
tcm.com/video/66666928…
#DirectedbyWomen
Celebrating Bronwen Hughes...
"For myself, my No. 1 job is to make movies no matter what it takes..."
thewrap.com/bronwen-hughes… #DirectedbyWomen @TheWrap
Celebrating Brett Story...
"I’m interested in what’s messy and contradictory about life, so the forms of my films end up imitating that." @brettpstory
thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmmak…
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