''Cinéast(e)s'' is a 2013 French
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
about filmmakers who are women.
Julie Gayet
Julie Gayet (; born 3 June 1972) is a French actress and film producer.[< ...]
interviews twenty-one French female filmmakers about the relevance of gender to filmmaking and the issues encountered by women in making films. It begins with the question: "is cinema
gendered?"
Cast
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Mona Achache
Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, actress and screenwriter.
Career
Following a literary and theatrical education Mona Achache becomes an assistant director followed by screenwriting for fictional and documen ...
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Lisa Azuelos
Lisa Azuelos (born Elise-Anne Bethsabée Azuelos; 6 November 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) 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 actr ...
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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 ...
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi (; born 16 November 1964), is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, ''A Castle in Italy,'' was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy (; born 21 December 1969) is a French-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, includi ...
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Lola Doillon
Lola Doillon (born 9 January 1975) is a French director and screenwriter.
Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of director Jacques Doillon and film editor Noëlle Boisson.
She is married to director Cédric Klapisch. They have a son, Émile, ...
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Valérie Donzelli
Valérie Donzelli (born 2 March 1973) is a French actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films and two short films since 2008, including the film ''Declaration of War'' (2011).
Early life
Valérie Donzelli was born i ...
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Pascale Ferran
Pascale Ferran (; born 17 April 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2007, her film ''Lady Chatterley'' won five César Awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Adaptation. Her 2014 film '' Bird People'' was sele ...
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Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Charlie Says'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film ''Going Away'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 20 ...
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Julie Gayet
Julie Gayet (; born 3 June 1972) is a French actress and film producer.[< ...]
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Mia Hansen-Løve
Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She has won several accolades for her work. Her first feature film, '' All Is Forgiven'', won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2007 ...
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Tonie Marshall
Tonie Marshall (29 November 1951 – 12 March 2020) was a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director. In 2000, she became the first female director to win a César award for her film ''Venus Beauty Institute.''
Life and career
Ma ...
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Patricia Mazuy
Patricia Mazuy (; born 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Peaux de vaches'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Eleven years later her film '' Saint-Cyr'' was screened in ...
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Yolande Moreau
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations.
Career
She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept piè ...
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Géraldine Nakache
Géraldine Nakache (born 16 February 1980) is a French actress, director and screenwriter of Algerian Jews, Algerian Jewish descent.
Life and career
Nakache grew up in an Algerian Jews, Algerian Jewish family. She earned a Diplôme d'études uni ...
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Katell Quillévéré
Katell Quillévéré (born 30 January 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter, known for directing the films ''Love Like Poison'' (2010) and ''Suzanne (2013 film), Suzanne'' (2013). In 2015 she was selected to be a member of the jury for ...
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Brigitte Roüan
Brigitte Roüan (born 28 September 1946) is a French director, screenwriter and actress.This article borrows largely from a profile of the artist in ''The New York Times''. Riding, Alan. "When the Tables Are Turned in Adultery's Secret Rooms", ' ...
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Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma (; born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director. She is especially known for her films Girlhood (film), ''Girlhood'' (2014), ''My Life as a Courgette'' (2016), and ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire'' (2019), winni ...
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Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...
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Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Education
A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. ...
References
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2013 films
2013 documentary films
Documentary films about film directors and producers
Documentary films about women in film
Films shot in France
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French documentary films
2010s French films
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