film
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...
and
television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
directors. Their works may include
live action
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film. Live action is used to define film, video games o ...
and/or
animated
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...
features
Feature may refer to:
Computing
* Feature recognition, could be a hole, pocket, or notch
* Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob
* Feature (machine learning), in statistics: individual measurable properties of the phenome ...
,
shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" because they ar ...
,
documentaries
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill ...
TV programs
A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, and cable, or distributed digitally on streaming platfo ...
, or
videos
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) system ...
.
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Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott (born January 8, 1965) is a Sundance and Genie award-winning film director, writer, editor, producer and sound designer who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
Early life, family and education
Bor ...
Abiola Abrams
Abiola Abrams (born July 29, 1976) is an American author, podcaster, motivational speaker and spiritual life coach. Abrams has penned three books, including ''African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy'', her ...
(USA)
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Mona Achache
Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, screenwriter, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature films ''The Hedgehog'' (2009), '' Les Gazelles'' (2014), '' Valiant Hearts'' (2021), and '' Little Girl Blue'' ( ...
(France)
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Nan Achnas
Nan Triveni Achnas is an Indonesian film director.
Born in Singapore in 1963, she grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Achnas graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts. She also completed a master's deg ...
Kasia Adamik
Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik (born 28 December 1972) is a Polish director and storyboard artist. She has directed TV series including ''1983'', ''Axis Mundi'', and '' Absentia.'' Her debut film feature as director, ''Bark!'', was in competition at Su ...
(Poland)
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Catlin Adams
Catlin Adams (born October 11, 1950) is an American actress, acting coach and film director. As an actress, she appeared in films including '' The Jerk'' and '' The Jazz Singer''.
Early life
Catlin Adams was born as Nira Barab on October 11 ...
(USA)
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Joey Lauren Adams
Joey Lauren Adams (born January 9, 1968) is an American actress and director. Adams starred in ''Chasing Amy'', for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and played smaller role ...
(USA)
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Perry Miller Adato
Perry Miller Adato (December 22, 1920 – September 16, 2018) was an American documentary film producer and director and writer. Adato was born Lillian Perry Miller in Yonkers, New York. At age 18 she moved to Greenwich Village. She married Neil ...
Maren Ade
Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she ...
(Germany)
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Harmony Adesola
''Being Black in Halifax'' is a Canadian documentary film and television series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Television and CBC Gem. Created in conjunction with Fabienne Colas's Being Black in Canada foundation, the series selects several emergi ...
(Canada)
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Elvire Adjamonsi
Elvire Adjamonsi (born February 18, 1971) is a Beninese filmmaker, actor, journalist and cultural developer. She is known for her documentary films and for her work in creating and managing film festivals and cultural institutions across Africa.
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(Benin)
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Dianna Agron
Dianna Elise Agron ( ; born April 30, 1986) is an American actress and singer. List of Dianna Agron performances, Her work spans screen and stage, and her accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award and nomination for a Brit Award. Agron bega ...
(USA)
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Yasmin Ahmad
Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia fo ...
(Malaysia)
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Peggy Ahwesh
Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She received her B.F.A. at Antioch College. A bricoleur who has created both narrative works and documentaries, some projects are script ...
Kyōko Aizome
is a Japanese erotic actress, singer, writer, and audiovisual, AV and film director. She has been called "the first Hardcore pornography, hard-core porn actress in Japan".
Life and career
Early life
Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda, Chiba, Noda, ...
Mania Akbari
Mania Akbari (, born 1974) is an Iranian filmmaker, artist, writer, and curator whose works explore women's rights, marriage, sexual identity, disease and body image.
(Iran)
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.
Akerman is best known for her films (1974), (1975), and '' News from Home'' (1976). The ...
(Belgium-France)
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Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan (, born December 27, 1984) is an American filmmaker, writer, and actress. She is best known for her 2014 feature film debut '' Appropriate Behavior'', and her 2018 film ''The Miseducation of Cameron Post''. She appeared in the f ...
(USA)
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Zoya Akhtar
Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi films and series. Born to Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, she completed a diploma in filmmaking from New York University, NYU and assisted dire ...
(India)
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Nargis Akhter
Nargis Akhter is a Bangladeshi film director, screenwriter and producer. Her first directed film was ''Meghla Akash''. After her first film, she directed various films including ''Megher Koley Rod'' (2008), ''Abujh Bou'' (2010), and ''Poush Mase ...
Zaynê Akyol
Zaynê Akyol (born in 1987 in Turkey) is a Canadian filmmaker, producer and photographer. She predominantly focuses on documentary film and is known for her feature-length documentary film ''Gulîstan, Land of Roses '' (2016), which was supporte ...
Gina Alajar
Regina Liguid Alatiit (born June 28, 1959), professionally known as Gina Alajar (), is a Filipino film and television actress and director. One of the most awarded actresses in Philippine cinema, she has won the Philippine movie grand slam, r ...
(Philippines)
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Maite Alberdi
Maite Alberdi Soto (born 29 March 1983 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean film producer, director, documentarian, screenwriter, and film critic. She is the founder of Micromundo Producciones.
She is internationally known for her film '' The Mole ...
(Chile)
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Barbara Albert
Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.
She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was '' Nordrand'', which describes the reality of ...
(Austria)
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Karin Albou
Karin Albou is a French-Algerian female director, writer, editor, producer and actress.
Early life
Karin Albou was born on March 12, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine to History of the Jews in Algeria, Jewish Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was o ...
Lexi Alexander
Alexandra Mirai (; born 23 August 1974), known professionally as Lexi Alexander, is a German-Palestinian filmmaker and martial artist. A former competitor in karate-point fighting and kickboxing, Alexander entered the film industry as a stunt pe ...
(USA)
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Debbie Allen
Deborah Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award ...
Jennifer Alleyn
Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, writer and photographer who lives and works in Montreal.
Biography
The daughter of artist Edmund Alleyn, she was born in Switzerland. She studied film at Concordia University. Alleyn w ...
(Canada)
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Natalia Almada
Natalia Almada is a Mexican-American photographer and filmmaker. Her work as a filmmaker focuses on Mexican history, politics, and culture in insightful and poetic films that push the boundaries of how the documentary form addresses social issues. ...
(Mexico-USA)
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Mairzee Almas
Mairzee Almas is a Canadian filmmaker and television director from Vancouver. She has directed numerous TV shows, including '' Shadow and Bone'', '' Y The Last Man'', '' The Sandman'', ''Locke & Key'', '' Outlander'', ''Impulse'', ''Jessica Jone ...
(Canada)
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Chihiro Amano
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Amano was born on July 30, 1982. After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 ''Sayonara Muffler'' which was shown at the Cine ...
(Japan)
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Suzana Amaral
Suzana Amaral Rezende (March 28, 1932 – June 25, 2020) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She was best known for the 1985 film ''A Hora da Estrela'' ('' Hour of the Star'').
Career
Amaral's film career started at the age of 37 whe ...
(Brazil)
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Tata Amaral
Tata Amaral (born 1960, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian director, writer, producer and actress. She has won various awards across South America, including 'Best director' and 'Best film'.
At a young age, Tata lost the father of her daughter. As a ...
(Brazil)
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Barbra Amesbury
Barbra Amesbury (born 1948) is a Canadian philanthropist, singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker, who had several Top 40 hits in Canada in the 1970s. Amesbury was the long-time partner of Canadian philanthropist Joan Chalmers until her death ...
(Canada)
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Ana Lily Amirpour
Ana Lily Amirpour (;, is an American filmmaker of Iranian descent. She is best known for her feature film debut '' A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', promoted as "the first Iranian vampire western," which made its debut at the Sundance Film Fes ...
Allison Anders
Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include '' Gas Food Lodging'', '' Mi Vida Loca'' and '' Grace of My Heart''. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Telev ...
(USA)
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Deborah Anderson
Deborah Leigh Anderson (born 16 December 1970) is an English musician, photographer, and film director. Her early music work was as a vocalist on her father Jon Anderson's albums. Her 1995 single " Feel the Sunshine" was her first song that cha ...
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson ( ; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and activist. She is best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi series ''The X-Files'' (1993–2002; 2016–2018), Lily Bart in the dr ...
(USA)
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Jane Anderson
Jane Anderson is an American playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature film '' The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio'' (2005), and wrote the film '' It Could Happen to You'' (1994), starring Nicolas Cage. ...
(USA)
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Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting,Amirkhanian, Cha ...
(USA)
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Madeline Anderson
Madeline Anderson (born ca. 1923) is an American filmmaker, television and documentary producer, film director, editor and screenwriter. She is best known for her films ''Integration Report One'' (1960) and ''I Am Somebody'' (1970), the latter o ...
(USA)
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Sarah Pia Anderson
Sarah Pia Anderson (born 1952) is an English born television and theatre director, and Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at University of California, Davis.
(UK-USA)
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Sini Anderson
Sini Anderson (born November 6, 1969) is an American film director, producer, performance artist, choreographer, dancer and poet, from Chicago, Illinois. Anderson is widely known for directing '' The Punk Singer'' (2013), a documentary about riot ...
(USA)
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Kamila Andini
Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known for her critically acclaimed debut, '' The Mirror Never Lies''.
Biography
Andini was born on 6 May 1986 and is the eldest daughter of filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Although uninteres ...
(Indonesia)
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Momoko Ando
is a Japanese film director and novelist.
Life and career
Ando's father is actor Eiji Okuda and her mother the essayist Kazu Ando. She studied in the United Kingdom, and graduated from the University of London's Faculty of Arts. Later on, Ando ...
(Japan)
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Fern Andra
Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs (born Vernal Edna Andrews, November 24, 1893 – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer, and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen, she was one of the most popu ...
Joanna Angel
Joanna Mostov (born 1980), professionally known as Joanna Angel, is an American pornographic film actress, director, and writer of pornographic film, adult films. She founded the website ''BurningAngel.com'' in April 2002 with her roommate Mitch ...
(USA)
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Irene Angelico
Irene Lilienheim Angelico (born December 9, 1946) is a Canadian film director, producer and writer.
Early life
Angelico was born in 1946 in Munich. Her parents, survivors of the Vilna Ghetto, emigrated to Canada. She received a BA degree from Si ...
(Canada)
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Lucia Aniello
Lucia Aniello (born 1983) is an Italian-born American director, writer, and producer best known for her work on '' Hacks'', for which she won multiple Emmy Awards, and ''Broad City.'' She has directed and written episodes of both shows, as well a ...
(USA)
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Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom ''Friends'' from 1994 to 2004, which earned her Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Scr ...
(USA)
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Catherine Annau
Catherine Annau is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and writer.
Annau's debut feature '' Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation'' won numerous awards including a Genie Award, and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery ...
(Canada)
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Martha Ansara
Martha Ansara is a US-born Australian documentary filmmaker, writer, oral historian, and educator. Ansara was one of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer, and a founding member and/or convenor of the Sydney Women's Film G ...
Lisa Rose Apramian
Lisa Rose Apramian (), also known as Dr. Lisa, is an Armenian-American psychologist and filmmaker most notable as the director, writer, and producer of the Documentary film, documentary film ''Not Bad for a Girl''.
Career
Apramian studied at t ...
(USA)
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Shamim Ara
Shamim Ara (, 22 March 1938 – 5 August 2016) was a Pakistani film actress, director, and producer. She was known as ''The Tragic Beauty'' because of the tragic heroine roles she often portrayed in films. She was one of the most popular actr ...
(Pakistan)
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Danielle Arbid
Danielle Arbid is a French filmmaker of Lebanese origin who has been directing films since 1997.
Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto FF, New York FF, San Francisco, Locarno Festival ...
(Lebanon)
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Louise Archambault
Louise Archambault is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.Adam Nayman"Louise Archambault" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', August 20, 2014. She is best known for her films '' Familia'', which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005 ...
(Canada)
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Francesca Archibugi
Francesca Archibugi (; born 16 May 1960) is an Italian film director and scriptwriter.
Life and career
Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family (her elder brother is the political and economic theorist Daniele Archibugi), she started ...
(Italy)
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Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and film director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumière Award.
Early life
Ardant was born on 22 March 1949, in Saumur, ...
Asia Argento
Asia Argento (; born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with ...
(Italy)
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Allison Argo
Allison Argo (born December 23, 1953) is an American film producer, director, writer, editor, and narrator. She is best known for her documentaries that focus on endangered wildlife and conservation. Her films have received awards including six ...
(USA)
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Kay Armatage
Kay Armatage (born 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, former programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival and Professor emerita at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute and Women & Gender Studies Institute. Though she attained ...
(Canada)
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Aviva Armour-Ostroff
Aviva Armour-Ostroff is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker. She is most noted as the star, co-writer and co-director of the 2021 film ''Lune'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 10th Canadian S ...
(Canada)
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Franny Armstrong
Franny Armstrong (born 3 February 1972) is a British documentary film director working for her own company, Spanner Films, and a former drummer with indie pop group The Band of Holy Joy. She is best known for three films: '' The Age of Stupid ...
(UK)
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Gillian Armstrong
Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary film director, director, best known for ''My Brilliant Career (film), My Brilliant Career'' (1979), ''Mrs. Soffel'' (1984), ''High Tide (1987 film), Hi ...
(Australia)
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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (born May 9, 1978) is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian M ...
(Canada)
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Gwen Arner
Gwen Arner (born 1936 or 1937) is an American director and actress. She co-founded the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre and directed stage productions there, as well as at the Mark Taper Forum and in the Midwestern United States. She also directed ...
(USA)
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Andrea Arnold
Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include '' Red Road'' (2006), '' Fish Tank'' (2009) and '' American Hon ...
(UK)
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Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (; born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987) and has since received several awards, including an Academy Award, two P ...
(USA)
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Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lisa Arquette (; born August 10, 1959) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film '' The Executioner's Song'' (1982) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for th ...
(USA)
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Karen Arthur
Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American television and film director, producer, and actress. She directed more than 40 feature and made-for-television movies, miniseries, and television series. In 1985 she become the first woman to win ...
(USA)
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Natasha Arthy
Natasha Arthy (born 23 May 1969 in Gentofte, Denmark) is a Denmark, Danish screenwriter, film film director, director and Film producer, producer, best known for her 2003 Dogme 95, Dogme film ''Se til venstre, der er en Svensker'' (USA Title: ''O ...
(Denmark)
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Larysa Artiugina
Larysa Mykhailivna Artyugina (born 23 May 1971) is a Ukrainian documentary film director and activist. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine, the creative association Babylon'13 and the ...
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, fro ...
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Dinara Asanova
Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (; 24 October 1942 – 4 April 1985) was a Kyrgyz people, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed female filmmakers of the late Soviet Union. She is best known for her films ''Woodpec ...
(Soviet Union)
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Amma Asante
Amma Asante (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London to parents from Ghana. Her love for the film industry started when she receive ...
(UK)
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Mari Asato
is a Japanese film director.
Primarily known for the film '' Ju-On: Black Ghost'' (2009), part of ''The Grudge'' film installments, her other films include the politically undertoned ''Samurai Chicks'' (''Dokuritsu Shôjo Gurentai'') (2004), t ...
(Japan)
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Katie Aselton
Kathryn Aselton (born October 1, 1978) is an American actress, film director and producer. She directed and co-starred in '' The Freebie'', which was shown in the non-competition "Next" category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. She also st ...
Ratna Asmara
Ratna Asmara (born Suratna; 1913 – 10 August 1968), also known as Ratna Suska, was an Indonesian actress and director. Originally active in theatre, she starred in the romance film ''Kartinah'' (1940), which her first husband Andjar Asmara, ...
(Indonesia)
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Dorothy A. Atabong
Dorothy A. Atabong ( Ayinke Dorothy Atabong) is a Cameroonian-Canadian actress, writer, and producer. She is best known for ''Sound of Tears'' for which she's won various awards including an Africa Movie Academy Awards, Africa Movie Academy Awa ...
(Canada)
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Daisy Aitkens
Daisy Aitkens (born 25 March 1986) is an English actress, screenwriter and director best known for her role as Lucy Chadwick in the television series ''Fear, Stress & Anger'', and sketch characters in '' Watson and Oliver''. She wrote and direct ...
(UK)
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Jacqueline Audry
Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...
(France)
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Shona Auerbach
Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.
Early career
Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at the ...
Ashley Avis
Ashley Avis (born January 27, 1987) is an American screenwriter, director, editor, and producer. Her feature films include Disney's Black Beauty (2020) starring Kate Winslet and Mackenzie Foy along with the Critics Choice nominated documentary, ...
(USA)
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Nurith Aviv
Nurith Aviv () is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine).
Biography
Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central ...
(France)
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Ronit Avni
Ronit Avni is a Canadian entrepreneur, tech founder, human rights advocate, and Peabody Award-winning film director and producer.
Early life and education
Avni was born and raised in Canada. She graduated with honors with an A.B. in politica ...
Lisa Azuelos
Lisa Azuelos (born Elise-Anne Bethsabée Azuelos; 6 November 1965) is a French director, writer, and producer. She is the daughter of singer Marie Laforêt.
Biography
Lisa Azuelos is the daughter of French singer and actress Marie Laforêt an ...
(France)
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Beth B
Scott B and Beth B (also known as Scott and Beth B, Beth and Scott B or The Bs after B Movies) were among the best-known New York No Wave underground film makers of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
They went on to form an independent film ...
(US)
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Jamie Babbit
Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films '' But I'm a Cheerleader'' (1999), '' The Quiet'' (2005), and '' Itty Bitty Titty Committee'' (2007). She has also directed ep ...
(US)
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Iskra Babich
Iskra Leonidovna Babich (; 10 January 1932 – 5 August 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Her 1981 film '' Muzhiki!'' was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won an Honourable Mention.
Filmog ...
Marina Rice Bader
Marina Rice Bader is a writer, director, and film producer. She is known for the films '' Anatomy of a Love Seen'' (2014), ''Raven's Touch'' (2015), and '' Ava's Impossible Things'' (2016). She was executive producer for '' Elena Undone'' (2010 ...
(Canada)
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Cindy Baer
Cindy Baer is an American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur. She helms the production company Free Dream Pictures, located in Burbank, California.
She directed and produced the independent feature films '' Purgatory House'' and '' ...
(US)
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Jennifer Baichwal
Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer.
Biography
Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.
(Canada)
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Norma Bailey
Norma Bailey (born 1949, in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian film writer, producer, and director whose work is rooted in feminist and intersectional film theory. Bailey has directed several films, both in English and French and in various dif ...
(Canada)
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Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon (born July 19, 1945) is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'', and was a nominee for Best Director for ''The Sex ...
(Canada)
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Robin Bain
Robin Bain is an American film director, writer, producer, and former actress.
Career
Early work
Robin Bain is a graduate of the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from the USC School of Dramatic A ...
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Catherine Bainbridge
Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer ...
(Canada)
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Josiane Balasko
Josiane Balasko (born Josiane Balašković; 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice.
Career
One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is ...
(France)
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive. She was recognized by ''Time (magazine), Time'' in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for h ...
(US)
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Marta Balletbò-Coll
Marta Balletbò-Coll (born 1960, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Catalan actress, film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Biography
Balletbò-Coll earned a degree in analytical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry of the ...
(Spain)
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Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, tw ...
Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Irene Banks (; February 10, 1974) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is known for playing chaperone Effie Trinket in ''The Hunger Games'' film series (2012–2015) and an ICCA commentator in the ''Pitch Perfect'' ...
(US)
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Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. Banzhaf was born in Germany and spent part of her early life in the United States. She is most noted for her 2019 short film '' I Am in the World as Free and Slender ...
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematograph ...
(Canada)
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Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (born 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter
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Laura Bari
Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression.
Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is a documentary about a 5 ...
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Céline Baril
Céline Baril (born 1953) is a Canadian artist and film director.
Early life
Baril was born in Gentilly, Quebec. In 1982, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Career
Her film ''24 Davids'' wa ...
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Neema Barnette
Neema Barnette is an American film director and producer, and the first African-American woman to direct a primetime sitcom. Barnette was the first African-American woman to get a three-picture deal with Sony Pictures. Since then, she accumulate ...
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Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952), also known mononymously as Roseanne, is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She began her career in stand-up comedy before gaining acclaim in the television sitcom ''Roseanne'' (19 ...
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Katherine Barrell
Katherine Barrell is a Canadian actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known for her role as Sheriff Nicole Haught in the Syfy supernatural weird West television series '' Wynonna Earp''. In 2020, she joined the cast of the ...
Drew Barrymore
Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, talk show host, and businesswoman. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received multiple List of awards and nominations received by Drew Barrymore, awards a ...
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Maria Basaglia
Maria Basaglia (1912 – 5 May 1998) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Cremona, Basaglia started her career as dubbing director for the production company Scalera Film. Between 1939 and 1944 she wrote several ...
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Svetlana Baskova
Svetlana Yurievna Baskova (; born 25 May 1965, Moscow) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and painter.
Biography
Svetlana Baskova was born 25 May 1965 in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1989. Since 199 ...
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Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Angela Bassett, various accolades, including a Primetime ...
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Michal Bat-Adam
Michal Bat-Adam (; born March 2, 1945) is an Israel, Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the l ...
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Joy Batchelor
Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the anim ...
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Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress. Kathy Bates filmography, Her work spans over five decades, and List of awards and nominations received by Kathy Bates, her accolades include an Academy Awards, Academy Award, t ...
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Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane (born 7 August 1964) is a Latvian animator, artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of the Ne ...
Amanda Bearse
Amanda Bearse (born August 9, 1958) is an American actress, comedian and director. She starred in the 1985 supernatural horror film ''Fright Night'', and later starred as Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy in the Fox sitcom ''Married... with Children'' (1987 ...
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Maria Beatty
Maria Beatty is a Venezuelan filmmaker who directs, acts, and produces. Her films are often made in black and white and cover various aspects of female sexuality, including BDSM and fetishism. She was inspired by expressionist German cinema, Fr ...
Gabrielle Beaumont
Gabrielle Beaumont (7 April 1942 – 8 October 2022) was a British film and television director.
Her directing credits range from ''Hill Street Blues'' to '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. She became the first woman to direct an episode of ' ...
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André-Line Beauparlant
André-Line Beauparlant (born 1966 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian art director, production designer, set decorator and film director. She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design for her work in '' ...
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Aida Begić
Aida Begić (born 9 May 1976) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.
Education and career
She graduated in Film and Theater Directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 2000. Her graduation film "The First Death Experience ...
(Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Fatma Begum
Fatma Begum (1892 1983) was an Indian actress, director, producer and screenwriter. She is known as ''The First Female Film Director in Indian Cinema''.
Within four years, she went on to write, produce and direct many films. She launched her ...
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Nancy Beiman
Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, animator, author and comic strip creator. She attended the Character Animation program at CalArts.
Career
Comic strips
Nancy Beiman's first comic strip FurBabies was accepted by Andrews ...
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Esther Bell
Esther Bell is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, social activist, and community entrepreneur. Her two feature films, ''Godass'' and ''Exist'', received critical acclaim in ''The New York Times'' and ''Variety'' for their tones of ...
Mary Lou Belli
Mary Lou Belli is an American television director and author.
Career
Belli attended Penn State where she received a Bachelor's degree. For many years she acted in musical theatre and soap operas in New York City, followed by a Los Angeles career ...
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Edet Belzberg
Edet Belzberg is a documentary filmmaker. She won a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship.
Biography
Belzberg received a B.A. in 1991 from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. in 1997 from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia ...
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María Luisa Bemberg
María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine screenwriter, film director and actress. She was one of the first Argentine female directors with a powerful presence both in the filmmaking and the intellectual world of Latin ...
Jessica Bendinger
Jessica Bendinger (born November 10, 1966) is an American screenwriter and novelist.
Education
Bendinger graduated from Columbia University in 1988. She is a classmate of screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. While at Columbia, Bendinger interned for ...
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Yamina Benguigui
Yamina Benguigui (born Yamina Zora Belaïdi; in Lille on 9 April 1955) is a French film director and politician of Algerian descent. She is known for her films on gender issues in the North African (both Berbers in France, Berbers and Arabs in F ...
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Sadie Benning
Sadie T. Benning (born April 11, 1973) is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound. Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, ge ...
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Denyse Benoit
Denyse Benoit is a Canadian actress, director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec. She is mostly known for ''La Crue'' (1977), ''La belle Apparence'' (1979) and ''Le dernier Havre'' (1986).
Early life and education
Denyse Benoit was born on Ju ...
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Amber Benson
Amber Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1999–2002), and has directed, produced and starred in her o ...
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Emmanuelle Bercot
Emmanuelle Bercot is a French actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Career Filmmaking
Bercot wrote, directed, and played a lead role in the film '' Clément'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film ...
Zaida Bergroth
Zaida Bergroth (born 8 February 1977) is a Finnish film director best known for her 2020 film '' Tove''.
Career
Bergroth was born in Kivijärvi in 1977. She graduated from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2004. H ...
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Shari Springer Berman
Shari Springer Berman (born July 13, 1963) and Robert Pulcini (born August 24, 1964) are an American team of filmmakers.
Biographies
Both Springer Berman and Pulcini were born in New York City, New York, New York (state), New York. Springer Be ...
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Joyce Bernal
Joyce E. Bernal (born May 6, 1968) is a Filipina film and television director. Her entry to the film industry began when she became a film editing apprentice under Ike Jarlego Jr. for Viva Films in 1989, the year she worked on Eddie Garcia's fil ...
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Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry ( ; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986 and also placing six ...
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Juliet Berto
Juliet Berto (16 January 1947 – 10 January 1990), born Annie Jamet, was a French actress, director and screenwriter.
A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Two or Three ...
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Diane Bertrand
Diane Bertrand (born 20 November 1951) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her film ''A Saturday on Earth, Un samedi sur la terre'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmography
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Julie Bertuccelli
Julie Mathilde Charlotte Claire Bertuccelli is a French director born February 12, 1968, in Boulogne-Billancourt.
She is particularly known for her documentary La Cour de Babel released in 2014 and the feature film The Tree (2010 film), L'Arbre ...
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Maïwenn Le Besco
Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Early life
Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Cather ...
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Jane Marsh Beveridge
Jane Marsh Beveridge (born Jane Smart; December 2, 1915 – September 16, 1998) was a Canadian director, producer, editor, composer, screenwriter, teacher and sculptor. She was best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film ...
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Troy Beyer
Troy Byer is an American psychologist, author, director, screenwriter, and actress. For most of her acting career she was credited as Troy Beyer.
Early life and education
Byer was born in New York City to an African-American mother and Jewish ...
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Pooja Bhatt
Pooja Bhatt (born 24 February 1972) is an Indian actress, director, and filmmaker who works in Hindi films. She established herself as one of the leading actresses of the 1990s and is the recipient of several accolades, including two National ...
Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier (; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award ...
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Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most i ...
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Anna Biller
Anna Biller is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed the feature films ''Viva'' (2007) and '' The Love Witch'' (2016). Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including ...
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Patricia Birch
Patricia Ann Birch (born October 16, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, film director, and theatre director.
Early life
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Birch began her career as a dancer in Broadway musicals, including '' Brigadoon'', '' ...
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Antonia Bird
Antonia Jane Bird, FRSA (27 May 1951 – 24 October 2013Kate Hardi"Antonia Bird obituary" ''The Guardian'', 28 October 2013) was an English producer and director of television drama and feature films.
Career
In 1968, at the age of 17, Bird beg ...
Sophie Bissonnette
Sophie Bissonnette (born September 18, 1956) is a Canadian filmmaker and producer. After graduating from Queen's University, she began making films in Montreal and released most of her documentary films in the 1980s. In these films, Bissonnette ...
Simone Bitton
Simone Bitton (; born January 3, 1955) is a French-Moroccan documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize ( ...
Marthe Blackburn
Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne ...
Sonia Blangiardo
Sonia Blangiardo (born April 18, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American television soap opera director and producer. She is also the creator and director of the web series '' Tainted Dreams'', which debuted on YouTube in December 2013.
P ...
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Katja Blichfeld
Katja Blichfeld (born 1979) is an American writer, director, producer and casting director. She is known for co-creating and directing ''High Maintenance'', a Vimeo web series and HBO television series. She won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstan ...
Lidia Bobrova
Lidia Bobrova (born 13 June 1952) is a Russian film director born in Zabaikalsk, Soviet Union (now Russia). One of her films was ''Granny (film), Granny'', which earned her a special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2 ...
Anna Boden
Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. The duo rose to prominence for their work on the 2004 short film ''Gowanus, Brooklyn'', which earned the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. They went on to collaborate on ...
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Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut in 2016 with ''Never Eat Alone''. Her second feature film, ''Maison du Bonh ...
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Sonia Bonspille Boileau
Sonia Boileau is a Canadian First Nations filmmaker belonging to the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Biography
Sonia Bonspille-Boileau was raised between Oka, where her French-Canadian father hails from, and Kanesatake, the com ...
Icíar Bollaín
Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born 12 June 1967) is a Spanish filmmaker and actress. She is best known for directing '' Te Doy Mis Ojos'' (''Take My Eyes''), which won 7 Goya Awards. Bollaín has won other awards for acting and script-writing ...
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Natalya Bondarchuk
Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk () (born 10 May 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's ''Solaris'' as "Hari". She is the daughter of Soviet director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk an ...
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Lisa Bonet
Lilakoi Moon (born Lisa Michelle Bonet ; November 16, 1967) is an American actress. She portrayed Denise Huxtable on the sitcom ''The Cosby Show'' (1984–1992), for which she earned widespread acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Aw ...
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Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for '' À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actre ...
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Manju Borah
Manju Borah is a multiple international and national award-winning Indian female film director and short story writer from Guwahati, Assam. Borah also served as Jury Member, Indian Panorama, IFFI 2007, 10th MAMI International Film Festival 20 ...
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Uisenma Borchu
Uisenma Borchu (; born Borkhüügiin Uizenmaa; 1 June 1984) is a Mongolian-German film maker and film actress. In 1989, she moved with her family from Communist Mongolia to East Germany—which was on the brink of reunification, where she grew up. ...
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Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was Trial, tried and Acquittal, acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her Patricide, father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was c ...
Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose (born 3 June 1965) is an Indian film director, writer and film producer. Having made her feature film debut in 2005, she has since won such accolades as a National Film Award, a Bridgestone Narrative Award, and a Sundance Mahindr ...
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Karen Boswall
Karen Boswall is an independent film maker, known for documentaries that she made while living and working in Mozambique between 1993 and 2007. She is a part-time lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Kent. Her films cover a range o ...
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Leyla Bouzid
Leyla Bouzid (born 1984 in Tunis), is a Tunisian screenwriter and film director.
Early life and education
Born in Tunis in 1984, Bouzid is the daughter of the director Nouri Bouzid. She grew up in Tunisia, spending her adolescence in Tunis. A ...
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Kansas Bowling
Kansas Bowling (born August 2, 1996) is an American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actress. She is best known for directing '' B.C. Butcher'' (2016) and ''Cuddly Toys'' (2022) and acting in ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' (2 ...
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Muriel Box
Violette Muriel Box, Baroness Gardiner, (22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991) was an English screenwriter and director, Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette. Her screenplay for '' The Sevent ...
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Maureen Bradley
Mo Bradley (formerly Maureen Bradley; born 1967) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, media artist, professor, and curator. They have produced over fifty short films and their work has been recognized internationally.
Early life ...
Maryann Brandon
Maryann Brandon ''A.C.E''., is an American television and film editor. She is a frequent collaborator with J. J. Abrams.
Brandon earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her editing work on the popular television series '' Alias'', created ...
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Netalie Braun
Netalie Braun (Hebrew: נטעלי בראון; born June 12, 1978) is an Israeli poet, writer and filmmaker. She won the 2017 Ophir Award for the best short documentary film.
Career
Braun completed her BA in literature and philosophy, and an MA ...
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Janicza Bravo
Janicza Bravo () is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Her films include '' Gregory Go Boom'', a winner of the short-film jury award at the Sundance Film Festival; ''Lemon'', co-written with Brett Gelman; and '' Zola'', c ...
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Anja Breien
Anja Breien (born 12 July 1940) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. One of the leading figures of the Norwegian film industry, and one of the first women to rise to prominence as a writer-director in Norway, Breien's body of work in f ...
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Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.
Life and career
Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to becom ...
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Zabou Breitman
Zabou Breitman (born Isabelle Breitman; 30 October 1959), or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and . At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted ...
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Pietra Brettkelly
Pietra Brettkelly (born 1965) is a New Zealand filmmaker, known for her documentaries. She is a documentary filmmaker submitted three times for Oscar consideration, a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and was recently ...
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Amit Breuer
Amit Breuer () is a Canadian-Israeli documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the founder of Amythos Media, formerly known as Amythos Films.
Early life
Amit Breuer was born in Israel and received her Bachelor of Arts in general history of art ...
Zana Briski
Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for '' Born into Brothels'', the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non ...
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Tricia Brock
Patricia Elaine "Tricia" Baumhardt (née Brock; born July 7, 1979) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Dillsboro, Indiana. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the American Christian rock
Christian rock is ...
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Beth Broderick
Elizabeth Alice Broderick (born February 24, 1959) is an American actress. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in the ABC/ WB television sitcom ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003).
Katrina Holden Bronson
Katrina Holden Bronson is an American film director, screenwriter and actress.
Bronson is the daughter of actress Jill Ireland and the adopted daughter of actor Charles Bronson.
Bronson's work as director includes ''Daltry Calhoun'' (2005), h ...
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Katherine Brooks
Katherine Brooks (born March 15, 1976) is an American film writer and director. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, a Jury Member for Samsung Fresh-Films 2007, and the recipient of the LACE Award for Arts and Entertainment. In 201 ...
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Julie Brown
Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1958) is an American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and director.
Early life
Brown was born in Van Nuys, California, the daughter of Celia Jane (née McCann) and Leonard Francis Brown. Her father worked ...
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Christene Browne
Christene Browne (born 1965 in Saint Kitts) is a Canadian director and writer. Browne is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada.
Biography
Born in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, Browne moved with her family to Ca ...
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Frances Buss Buch
Frances Buss Buch (June 3, 1917 – January 19, 2010) was the first female television director in the United States.
Career
Buch grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri, and attended Washington University. In the early 1940s she relocated to New York Ci ...
Valerie Buhagiar
Valerie Buhagiar (born May 12, 1963) is a Maltese-Canadian actress, film director and television host.
She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was ''The Passion of Rita Camill ...
Kathy Burke
Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress and comedian. She appeared in sketch shows such as '' French and Saunders'' (1988–1999), played a recurring role as Magda on the BBC sitcom '' Absolutely Fabulous'' (1992 ...
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Nanette Burstein
Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed, and co-directed several documentaries including the Academy Award nominated and Sundance Special Jury Prize winning film '' On the ...
Maria Burton
Maria Burton is an American director, producer, and actress. She directed the feature films ''For the Love of George'' (2018), ''A Sort of Homecoming (film), A Sort of Homecoming'' (2015), ''Manna from Heaven (film), Manna From Heaven'' (2002), ...
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Sophia Bush
Sophia Anna Bush (born July 8, 1982) is an American actress. She starred as List of One Tree Hill characters#Brooke Davis, Brooke Davis in The WB/The CW, CW drama series ''One Tree Hill (TV series), One Tree Hill'' (2003–2012), and as Erin Li ...
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Akosua Busia
Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, writer and songwriter. She is known to film audiences for playing Nettie Harris in the 1985 film '' The Color Purple''. She is the daughter of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa ...
Mary Ellen Bute
Mary Ellen Bute (November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983) was a pioneer American film animator, producer, and director. She was one of the first female experimental filmmakers, and was the creator of some of the first electronically gen ...
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Dominique Cabrera
Dominique Cabrera (born 21 December 1957) is a French film director. She has taught filmmaking at La Fémis and at Harvard University. Her film '' Nadia et les hippopotames'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film ...
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Sophia Cacciola
Sophia Cacciola is an American filmmaker, artist, and musician.
Career overview Film
Cacciola is known for her sociopolitical genre feature films that showcase women: ''TEN (2014 film), TEN'', Magnetic (2015 film), Magnetic, Blood of the Tr ...
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Anne-Marie Cadieux
Anne-Marie Cadieux (born September 23, 1963) is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing)'' and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie A ...
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Diane Cailhier
Diane Cailhier (1947 – 5 February 2020) was a Canadian filmmaker and director. She was married to fellow film director Alain Chartrand.
Biography
Cailhier was born in 1947 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Her father, Antonin Cailhier, was a profes ...
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Liz Cairns Liz Cairns is a Canada, Canadian film director and production designer from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted as a production designer on the 2017 film ''Never Steady, Never Still'', for which she and Sophie Jarvis received a Canadian S ...
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Terril Calder
Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator. She is most noted for her short film '' Snip'', which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2016.
Life and education
Calder was born in ...
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Julia Cameron
Julia B. Cameron (born March 4, 1948Floor Sample, by Julia Cameron, (Tarcher, 2006; ), a memoir) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her book ''The Artis ...
Peg Campbell
Peg Campbell is a Canadian filmmaker. She is most noted for her short films '' It's a Party!'', which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Genie Awards, and '' In Search of the Last Good Man'', which won the same a ...
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Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Michelle Campbell (born October 13, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1986 rock musical comedy film ''Little Shop of Horrors'', and later starred on the NBC musical comedy drama ''Rags to ...
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Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and ''The Power of the Dog (film), The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for ...
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Kat Candler
Kat Candler (born November 11, 1974) is an American film writer, producer, and director. She wrote and directed the 2014 film '' Hellion,'' and has worked on television shows including ''13 Reasons Why'' and ''Queen Sugar''.
Life
Candler grew up ...
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Jordan Canning
Jordan Canning is a Canadian director for film and television. She is known for her independent feature films '' We Were Wolves'' (2014) and '' Suck It Up'' (2017), as well as her work directing on television series '' Baroness Von Sketch Show,'' ...
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Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, filmmaker, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sh ...
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Kay Cannon
Kay Cannon (born August 21, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is best known for writing and producing the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with the comedy film '' ...
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Dominique Cardona
Dominique Cardona (born 1955) is an Argentinian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. She works primarily but not exclusively in collaboration with Laurie Colbert.Seana Stevenson"Catch and Release Interview: Dominique Cardona and ...
Patricia Cardoso
Patricia Cardoso is a Colombian and American filmmaker. She is best known for her 2002 film ''Real Women Have Curves'', which centers around the experiences of a young Mexican-American woman navigating the challenges of family, culture, and bod ...
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Maggie Carey
Maggie Carey (born ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She has directed comedy shorts for television, and she wrote and directed the 2013 film '' The To Do List''.
Early life and education
Carey was raised in Boi ...
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Edith Carlmar
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Niki Caro
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Ana Carolina
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Albertina Carri
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Shelagh Carter
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Alexandra Cassavetes
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Zoe Cassavetes
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Gurinder Chadha
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Lydia Chagoll
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Lilyan Chauvin
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Abigail Child
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Joyce Chopra
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Věra Chytilová
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Katerina Cizek
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* List of lesbian filmmakers
* List of LGBT-related films directed by women
* Women's cinema
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