Women's cinema
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Women's cinema primarily describes cinematic works directed by women filmmakers. The works themselves do not have to be stories specifically about women, and the target audience can be varied.
Faten Hamama (1931–2015), Egyptian film legend, inspired women all over the Middle East and Africa.
American film director and actress Helen Gardner was the first film actor to found a production company.
Film director Dorothy Arzner was one of the top directors of 1920s–1940s Hollywood.
American film director Claudia Weill directed the critically acclaimed film Girlfriends in 1978.
Alice Guy-Blaché
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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was the first filmmaker to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she wa
Women's cinema
…development through screenplays (on the other hand, films made by men about women are instead called Woman's film). Renowned female directors include Alice Guy-Blaché, film pioneer and one of the first film directors, Agnès Varda, the first French New Wave director, Margot Benacerraf, the first woman to win the Cannes…
Alice Guy-Blaché in 1896
Still from Two Little Rangers (1912)
Catherine Calvert in House of Cards (1917)
Still from Tarnished Reputations (1920)