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and

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

directors. Their works may include

live action Live action (or 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 film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...

and/or

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...

features Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob * Feature (software design) is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item ...

shorts Shorts are a garment worn over the human pelvis, 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" b ...

documentaries A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

, telemovies,

TV programs A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed betw ...

, 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) syste ...

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Jennifer Abbott Jennifer Abbott (born January 8, 1965) is a Sundance Film Festival, Sundance and Genie Awards, Genie award-winning film film director, director, film editor, writer, editor, producer and sound designer who specializes in social justice and envir ...

(Canada) * Sarah Abbott (Canada * Jennifer Abod (USA) *

Marguerite Abouet Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series '' Aya''.Abiola Abrams Abiola Abrams 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 first book from self- ...

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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 ...

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Ally Acker Ally Acker (born August 17, 1954, New York) is an American filmmaker, poet, author, and film historian. Her book, ''Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema'', was the first on the market to reveal the entrepreneurial, and transformative roles that wom ...

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Jill Ackles Jill Ackles is an American television soap opera director. Jill has directed for soap operas such as Days of Our Lives, All My Children, and One Life to Live. Jill occasionally draws doodles for Doodle Day. Jill was nominated for a Daytime Em ...

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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 Sun ...

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Catlin Adams Catlin Adams (born Nira Barab; October 11, 1950) is an American actress, acting coach and film director. She has coached Oscar-winning actors Jane Fonda, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Amy Adams, as well as Brad Pitt, Kate Beckins ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Anita W. Addison Anita Laraine Wharton Addison (September 6, 1952 – January 24, 2004) was an American television and film director and producer. She was one of the first African American women to be a senior producer for a major television network. Biography ...

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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 r ...

(Germany) *

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) *

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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Dianna Agron Dianna Elise Agron ( ; born April 30, 1986) is an American actress and singer. After primarily dancing and starring in small musical theater productions in her youth, Agron made her screen debut in 2006, and in 2007, she played recurring charac ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Shirikiana Aina Shirikiana Aina (born September 9, 1955) is an American film director, cinematographer, producer, and writer. Shirikiana was born in Detroit, MI. She is a member of the LA Film Rebellion. She founded Mypheduh Films, Inc., a distribution company ...

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Kyōko Aizome is a Japanese erotic actress, singer, writer, and AV and film director. She has been called "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan". Life and career Early life Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda Chiba Prefecture. She grew up in a troubled hou ...

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Omolola Ajao ''Being Black in Toronto'' is a Canadian documentary series, which was broadcast by CBC Gem in 2020. The series consisted of six short documentary films by emerging Black Canadian filmmakers from Toronto, who had been mentored through Fabienne Col ...

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Mania Akbari Mania Akbari ( fa, مانيا اکبری, born 22 September 1974Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...

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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'',Zoya Akhtar Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. After completing a diploma in filmmaking from NYU, she assisted directors such as Mira Nair, Tony Gerber and Dev Benegal, before becomin ...

(India) *

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 Mas ...

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Atuat Akkitirq Atuat Akkitirq is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, actress and costume designer. A partner in the filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions, she was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best ...

(Canada) *

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 ...

(Canada) *

Haifaa al-Mansour Haifaa al-Mansour ( ar, هيفاء المنصور ''Hayfā’a al-Manṣūr''; born 10 August 1974), is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and most controversial directors, and the first female Saudi filmmaker ...

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Gina Alajar Regina Liguid Alatiit (born June 28, 1959), professionally known as Gina Alajar (), is a FAMAS and Gaward Urian Award winning Filipino film and television actress and television director. Career Since appearing as a child actress in the earl ...

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Barbara Albert Barbara Albert (born 1970 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 ...

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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 Jewish Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was only 16 when she was born. In 1 ...

(France) * Victoria Aleksanyan (Armenia) *

Lexi Alexander Alexandra Mirai ( ar, الكسندرا ميراي; born 23 August 1974), known professionally as Lexi Alexander, is a German-Palestinian film and television director, martial artist, and actress. She is a former World Karate Association world c ...

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Debbie Allen Deborah Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She has been nominated 20 times for an ...

(USA) * Elizabeth Allen (USA) * Jennifer Alleyn (Canada) *

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. ...

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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 Jones' ...

(Canada) * Chihiro Amano (Japan) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

Ana Lily Amirpour Ana Lily Amirpour ( fa, آنا لیلی امیرپور) is a British-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her Directorial debut, feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-descr ...

(UK/USA) * Bonnie Ammaq (Canada) * Valerie Amponsah (Canada) *

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 Televisio ...

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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 char ...

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Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson ( ; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series ''The X-Files'', ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film ''The House of Mirth'' ...

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Jane Anderson Jane Anderson (born 1954 in California) is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and director. She wrote and directed the feature film ''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio'' (2005), and wrote the Nicolas Cage film '' It Could Happen to ...

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Laurie Anderson Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...

(USA) * Madeline Anderson (USA) *

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.

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Sini Anderson Sini Anderson (born November 6, 19??) 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 ...

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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 unintereste ...

(Indonesia) * Momoko Ando (Japan) *

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 po ...

(USA) * Scilla Andreen (USA) *

Preeti Aneja Preeti Aneja is an Indian movie director. She is the director of short movie Kala Paani. Early life Born in Hisar, Haryana on 26 July, Preeti completed her school education from Campus School, Hisar. Preeti did her post-graduation in psych ...

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Joanna Angel Joanna Mostov (born 1980), known professionally as Joanna Angel, is an American pornographic and mainstream actress, director, and writer of adult films. She founded the website ''BurningAngel.com'' in April 2002 with her roommate Mitch Fontain ...

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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 S ...

(Canada) *

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 as ...

(USA) *

Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Since her career ...

(USA) *

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) *

Martha Ansara Martha Ansara (born 9 September 1942) is a documentary filmmaker whose films on social issues have won international prizes and been screened in Australia, the UK, Europe and North America. Ansara was one of the first women in Australia to work a ...

(Australia) *

Jessie Anthony ''Brother, I Cry'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jessie Anthony and released in 2020. The film stars Justin Rain as Jon, a young First Nations man struggling with drug addiction. The film's cast also includes Lauren Hill, Violet Cameron, ...

(Canada) *

Lisa Rose Apramian Lisa Rose Apramian ( hy, Լիզա րոզ Աբրամիյան), also known as Dr. Lisa, is an Armenian-American psychologist and filmmaker most notable as the director, writer, and producer of the documentary film ''Not Bad for a Girl''. Career A ...

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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 actresse ...

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Danielle Arbid Danielle Arbid (born 26 April 1970) is a French filmmaker of Lebanese origin. She 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 Francisc ...

(Lebanon) *

Louise Archambault Louise Archambault is a Canadian film 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, and '' Gabriell ...

(Canada) *

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 ...

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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 Lumières Award. Early life Ardant was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Fr ...

(France) * Jane Arden (UK) *

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 a ...

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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 ...

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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) *

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) *

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'', ...

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Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists. Many of her movies are historical dramas. Ea ...

(Australia) *

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 ...

(Canada) *

Gwen Arner Gwen may refer to: * Gwen (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Gwen, or the Book of Sand'', a 1985 animated film * Gwen (film), a 2018 horror film * Tropical Storm Gwen, several storms with the name Acronyms * AN/URC-117 Grou ...

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Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include ''Red Road'' (2006), ''Fish Tank'' (2009), and ''American Honey'' (2016), ...

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Patricia Arquette Patricia Tiffany 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). Her other notable films include ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Ed Wo ...

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Rosanna Arquette Rosanna Lisa Arquette (; born August 10, 1959) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film ''The Executioner's Song ( ...

(USA) *

Karen Arthur Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American film director, producer, and actress. Arthur has directed three feature films, including ''Lady Beware'' (1987) and ''The Mafu Cage'' (1978), but the majority of her work has been in television ...

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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 ...

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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 th ...

(Ukraine) *

Ritva Arvelo Ritva Helinä Arvelo (11 March 1921 – 26 October 2013) was a Finnish actress, director, screenwriter and a pioneer in modern dance. She was one of the first four Finnish women film directors. Life and career Arvelo was born in Helsinki. Arvel ...

(Finland) *

Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Feature films, Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. With the exception of longtime silent film director Lo ...

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Dinara Asanova Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) was born in Bishkek (formally Frunze) Kyrgyzstan on 24 October 1942. She was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed fem ...

(Soviet Union) *

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 received ...

(UK) *

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), ...

(Japan) *

Katie Aselton Kathryn Aselton (born October 1, 1978) is an American actress, film director and producer. She directed and co-starred in ''The Freebie (film), The Freebie'', which was shown in the non-competition "Next" category at the Sundance Film Festival i ...

(USA) *

Asinnajaq Asinnajaq (born 1991), Isabella Rose Rowan-Weetaluktuk, is a Canadian Inuk visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator, from Inukjuak, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 film '' Three Thousand'', which received a Canadian Screen Award nom ...

(Canada) *

Ratna Asmara Ratna Asmara (1913 – August 1968) was an Indonesian actress and film director. Originally active in theatre, in 1940 she starred in the romance film ''Kartinah'', which her first husband Andjar directed. After appearing in several further ...

(Indonesia) * Dorothy A. Atabong (Canada) *

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) *

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 th ...

(UK) * Latesha Auger (Canada) *

Susan Avingaq Susan Avingaq is an Inuk Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress. A founding partner in Arnait Video Productions, a women's filmmaking collective based in Igloolik, Nunavut, she is most noted for her work on the film ''Before To ...

(Canada) *

Ashley Avis Ashley Avis (born January 27, 1987) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Her credits include the feature films '' Deserted'' (2016), ''Adolescence'' (2018), and ''Black Beauty'' (2020) starring Kate Winslet and Mackenzie Foy. Ea ...

(USA) *

Nurith Aviv Nurtih 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 to he ...

(France) * Ronit Avni (Canada) * Tali Avrahami (Israel) *

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 ...

(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 p ...

(USA) *

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'', ''The Quiet'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee''. She has also directed episodes of television prog ...

(USA) *

Iskra Babich Iskra Leonidovna Babich (russian: И́скра Леони́довна Ба́бич; 10 January 1932 – 5 August 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Her 1981 film ''Muzhiki!'' was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Fil ...

(Soviet Union) *

Julia Bacha Julia Bacha (born 1980) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker. She has filmed under-documented stories from the Middle East including issues related to Palestine. Her 2021 film, ''Boycott'', explores anti-boycott legislation and related freedom of ...

* Yamina Bachir-Chouikh (Algeria) * Marina Rice Bader (Canada) * Cindy Baer (USA) *

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) *

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) *

Paule Baillargeon Paule Baillargeon (born July 19, 1945 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 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 Bes ...

(Canada) *

Robin Bain Robin Bain (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress, writer and director. 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 ...

* Catherine Bainbridge (Canada) *

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) *

Lucille Ball Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedienne and producer. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five times, and was the recipient of several other accolades, such as the Golden ...

(USA) *

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) *

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 ...

(USA) * Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (Iran) *

Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing Effie Trinket in ''The Hunger Games'' film series (2012–2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the ''Pitch Perfe ...

(USA) *

Sofia Banzhaf Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadians, 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 a ...

(Canada) *

Manon Barbeau Manon Barbeau (born 1949) is a Québécois filmmaker, director, writer, and co-founder of Wapikoni Mobile, an organisation that helps First Nations youth learn the art of filmmaking. She has been Wapikoni Mobile’s general director since 200 ...

(Canada) *

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 cinematogra ...

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Laurence Ferreira Barbosa Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (born 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays ...

(France) * Laura Bari *

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'' was ...

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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. Since then, she accumulated a numbe ...

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Roseanne Barr Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and former presidential candidate. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy before gaining acclaim in the television sitcom '' Roseanne'' (1988– ...

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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 fan ...

(Canada) * Cecilia Barriga (Chile) *

Drew Barrymore Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, director, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a ...

(USA) * Maria Basaglia (Italy) *

Svetlana Baskova Svetlana Yurievna Baskova (russian: Светлана Юрьевна Баскова; born 25 May 1965, Moscow) is a Russian movie director, screenwriter and painter. Biography Svetlana Baskova was born 25 May 1965 in Moscow. She graduated fro ...

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Angela Bassett Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. She had her breakthrough with her portrayal of singer Tina Turner in the biopic ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' (1993), which garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award ...

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Michal Bat-Adam Michal Bat-Adam ( he, מיכל בת-אדם; born March 2, 1945) is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She als ...

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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 actor and director. Known for her roles in comedic and dramatic films and television programs, she has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, includ ...

(USA) * Signe Baumane (Latvia/USA) * Janet Baus (USA) * Jordan Bayne (USA) *

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 ...

Marjorie Beaucage Marjorie Beaucage (born 1947) is a Canadian Métis activist filmmaker and teacher from Manitoba. Early life and education Beaucage was born in Vassar, Manitoba in 1947. She obtained a degree in education from the University of Brandon and stud ...

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Renée Beaulieu Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film ''Adrien (Le Garagiste)'' was released in 2015.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) *

Fatma Begum Fatma Begum (1892–1983) was an Indian actress, director, and screenwriter. She is often considered the first female film director of Indian cinema. Within four years, she went on to write, produce and direct many films. She launched her own p ...

* Feryal Behzad (Iran) *

Nancy Beiman Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She attended the Character Animation program at CalArts. Career Animation In 1986, Beiman cofounded Caged Beagle Productions with business partner Dean Yeagle. She then move ...

(Canada) * Esther Bell (USA) *

Jennifer Lyon Bell Jennifer Lyon Bell (born August 6, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an erotic film director/producer, curator, teacher, and writer. She is one of the early members of the feminist pornography movement and ethical porn movement, alongside Erika Lu ...

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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 caree ...

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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, Columbi ...

María Luisa Bemberg María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine film writer, 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 A ...

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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 fo ...

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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 and Arabs) immigrant community in ...

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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 Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, singer, 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 also directed, produced ...

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Emmanuelle Bercot Emmanuelle Bercot (born 6 November 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Clément'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2013 film '' On My Way'' premiered in competi ...

(France) *

Amy J. Berg Amy J. Berg is an American filmmaker. Her 2006 documentary '' Deliver Us from Evil'' (2006), about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berg the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documenta ...

(USA) *

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. Her ...

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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, New York. Springer Berman graduated from Wesleyan Un ...

(USA) *

Joyce Bernal Joyce E. Bernal (born May 6, 1968) is a Filipina film and television director in the Philippines who started as a film editor for Viva Films in 1994. Career On July 23, 2018, she directed the third State of the Nation Address of President Rodri ...

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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 and coming in sixth in the Mis ...

(USA) *

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 ...

(France) *

Diane Bertrand Diane Bertrand (born 20 November 1951) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Un samedi sur la terre'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Charcuterie fine: C ...

(France) *

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 ...

(France) *

Maïwenn Le Besco Maïwenn 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 Catherine Belkhodja. S ...

(France) *

Jane Marsh Beveridge Jane Marsh Beveridge (born Jane Smart; December 2, 1915 – September 16, 1998) was a Canadians, Canadian Film director, director, Film producer, producer, Film editing, editor, composer, screenwriter, teacher and Sculpture, sculptor. She was bes ...

Troy Beyer Troy Byer (born November 7, 1964) is an American psychologist, author, director, screenwriter, and actress. Early life and education Born in New York City to an African Americans, African-American mother and white father, Byer spent the firs ...

(USA) *

Pooja Bhatt Pooja Bhatt (born 24 February 1972) is an Indian film director, actress, voice over artist and film maker. Born into the Bhatt family, she is the daughter of Indian filmmaker, Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt played her first leading role in Mahesh Bhatt's ...

Natalie Bible' Natalie Bible' (born November 9, 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter, Film editing, editor, and film producer. Life and career Bible' was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her first feature film ''Windsor Drive (film), Wind ...

(USA) *

Ric Esther Bienstock Ric Esther Bienstock is a Canadian documentary filmmaker best known for her investigative documentaries. She was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at Vanier College and McGill University. She has produced and directed an eclectic array of fi ...

(Canada) *

Susanne Bier Susanne Bier (; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films ''Brothers'' (2004), '' After the Wedding'' (2006), ''In a Better World'' (2010), and '' Bird Box'' (2018), and the TV miniseries ''The Night Mana ...

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Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include ''Near Dark'' (1987), ''Point Break'' (1991), '' Strange Days'' (1995), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), ''The Hurt Locke ...

(USA) *

Anna Biller Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She i ...

(USA) *

Patricia Birch Patricia 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 (musical), ...

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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 ...

(UK) *

Roshell Bissett Roshell Bissett is a Canadian independent filmmaker who wrote and directed several short films, including the award-winning ''Cotton Candy'', and one feature-length film entitled ''Winter Lily''. Career She began making films in the early 1990 ...

(Canada) *

Sophie Bissonnette Sophie Bissonnette is a Canadian director, editor, writer, and producer in the Quebec film industry. After graduating from Queen's University, she began creating films in Montreal. She released most of her documentary films in the 1980s. In the ...

(Canada) * Justine Bitagoye (Burundi) *

Simone Bitton Simone Bitton (born 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 (for ''Mur'' ...

(Morocco) * Marthe Blackburn (Canada) *

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. Pos ...

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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 Outst ...

(USA) *

Lidia Bobrova Lidia Bobrova (born 13 June 1952) is a Russian film director born in Zabaikalsk, Soviet Union (now Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the ...

(Russia) * Marusya Bociurkiw (Canada) *

Emily Kai Bock Emily Kai Bock (born 1983 or 1984) is a Canadian writer and film director. In 2017, her short film '' A Funeral for Lightning'' was included in TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the top 10 Canadian short films of the year, selected by a pane ...

(Canada) *

Anna Boden Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. They are best known for their collaborations on the films ''Half Nelson'', '' Sugar'', '' It's Kind of a Funny Story'', ''Mississippi Grind'' and '' Captain Marvel''. Early life ...

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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 ...

(Canada) * Sonia Bonspille Boileau (Canada) * Sophie Farkas Bolla (Canada) *

Icíar Bollaín Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born 12 June 1967) is a Spanish filmmaker and actress. Early life and education Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez was born in Madrid on 12 June 1967. She was one of twin girls to a father who was an aeronautical ...

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Natalya Bondarchuk Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук) (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 ...

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Lisa Bonet Lilakoi Moon (born Lisa Michelle Bonet; November 16, 1967), known professionally as Lisa Bonet (), is an American actress. She is known for playing Denise Huxtable on the sitcom ''The Cosby Show'' (1984–1992), for which she earned widespread a ...

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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 ...

(France) *

Manju Borah Manju Borah ( as, মঞ্জু বৰা) 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 ...

Lizzie Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ost ...

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Joyce Borenstein Joyce Borenstein is a Canadian film director, animator and writer. Borenstein worked in the independent animation field in the 1970s before joining the National Film Board of Canada in the 1980s, culminating in the short animated documentary ''Th ...

(Canada) *

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 Nashville Film Festival, Bridgestone Narrative Award, ...

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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. Af ...

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 acting in '' Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' (2019). Early life Bowlin ...

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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 Seventh ...

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Maureen Bradley Maureen Bradley is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, media artist, professor, and curator. She has produced over fifty short films and her work has been recognized internationally. Through her work, she challenges traditional gende ...

(Canada) * Madeline Brandeis (USA) *

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 by ...

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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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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. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in ...

(France) *

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 Céline Léger. At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Za ...

(France) *

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 ...

(New Zealand) *

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 fro ...

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Manon Briand Manon Briand (born January 1, 1964, in Baie-Comeau, Quebec)Manon Briand
at Toronto Inte ...

(Canada) *

Zana Briski Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British people, British photographer and filmmaker, best known for ''Born into Brothels'', the 2004 Academy Awards, Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She f ...

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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 band Superchick. In 2 ...

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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).

(USA) *

Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2019 short film '' Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the ...

(Canada) *

Katrina Holden Bronson Katrina Holden Bronson is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She is the adopted daughter of actors Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Bronson's work as director includes '' Daltry Calhoun'' (2005). Filmography * '' The Uncann ...

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Katherine Brooks Katherine Brooks (born March 15, 1976) is an American film writer and Film director, director. Brooks is a member of the Directors Guild of America, a Jury Member for Samsung Fresh-Films 2007 (the largest teen filmmaking program in the USA) and ...

(USA) *

Julie Brown Julie Ann Brown (born August 31, 1958) is an American actress, comedian, screen/television writer, singer-songwriter, and television director. Brown is known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl charac ...

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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 ...

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 Cit ...

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Valerie Buhagiar Valerie Buhagiar (born May 12, 1964) 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, comedian, writer, producer, and director. She achieved fame with her appearances on sketch shows such as ''French and Saunders'' (1988–1999) and her recurring role as Mag ...

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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 R ...

(USA) * Mira Burt-Wintonick (Canada) *

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), ...

(USA) *

Sophia Bush Sophia Anna Bush Hughes (born July 8, 1982) is an American actress. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB/ CW drama series ''One Tree Hill'' (2003–2012), and as Erin Lindsay in the NBC police procedural drama series ''Chicago P.D.'' (2014– ...

(USA) *

Akosua Busia Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the United Kingdom. She played Nettie Harris in the 1985 film ''The Color Purple'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Family and early l ...

(USA) * Andrea Bussmann (Canada) *

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 genera ...

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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 ...

(France) *

Sophia Cacciola Sophia Cacciola is a Los-Angeles-based, American filmmaker, artist, and musician. Career overview Film Cacciola is known for her sociopolitical genre feature films that showcase women: '' TEN'', Magnetic, Blood of the Tribades, Clickbait, a ...

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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 Aw ...

(Canada) * Diane Cailhier (Canada) *

Terril Calder Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator.Pat Mullen"Terril Calder Crafts a Duel of Sacred Teachings in Meneath" ''Point of View'', September 11, 2021. She is most noted for her short film '' Snip'', which was named to the Toronto Internation ...

(Canada) *

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, pigeon fancier, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her ...

(USA) * Jessica Cameron (Canada) *

Leah Cameron ''The Communist's Daughter'' is a Canadian comedy digital series, which premiered on CBC Gem in 2021 and is loosely based on creator, head writer and director Leah Cameron's own life.“WIDC Featured Voices: Leah Cameron, The Communist’s Daughter� ...

(Canada) *

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 ...

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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 short-lived NBC musical comedy dra ...

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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'' (2021), for which she has received a tot ...

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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 ...

(USA) *

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,'' ' ...

(Canada) *

Dyan Cannon Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Ho ...

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Kay Cannon Kay Cannon (born August 22, 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 an ...

(Canada) * Fernanda Cardoso (Brazil) *

Patricia Cardoso Patricia Cardoso is an award-winning filmmaker and anthropologist who was the first Latinx woman director to have a film included in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry and to receive a Sundance Audience Award. Her directing credit ...

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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 Bois ...

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Edith Carlmar Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen) (15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as ''Aldri annet enn bråk'' (1954), ''Fjols til fjells'' (1957), an ...

Niki Caro Nikola Jean Caro (born 20 September 1966) is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film ''Whale Rider'' was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She directed the 2020 live action versi ...

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Ana Carolina Ana Carolina Sousa (, born September 9, 1974) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and musician. Career Carolina has a contralto vocal range. Her musical influence comes from the crib, her grandmother used to sing on the radio, and her great aunt a ...

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Joan Carr-Wiggin Joan Carr-Wiggin is a Canadian independent filmmaker who has worked as a writer, director, and producer. She began working as a filmmaker in her 40s in the early 1990s after a career as an economist and a novelist. She is married to producer Dav ...

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Albertina Carri Albertina Carri (born 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film producer, screenwriter and director, as well as an audiovisual artist. Biography Albertina Carri was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, where she currently lives and works. She is the ...

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Mélanie Carrier Mélanie Carrier (born 1979) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec.Éric Moreault"Mélanie Carrier et Olivier Higgins : Au cœur du plus vaste camp de réfugiés au monde" ''Le Soleil'', February 19, 2021. The cofounder with her husband O ...

(Canada) *

Shelagh Carter Shelagh Jane Carter (best known as Shelagh Carter, and occasionally referred to as Shelagh Carter-Loewen) is a Canadian director, producer, screenwriter, actress and retired theatre and film professor at the University of Winnipeg, known initia ...

(Canada) * Kirsten Carthew (Canada) *

Alexandra Cassavetes Alexandra "Xan" Cassavetes is an American actress and director. She is the daughter of Greek-American actor-director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is the granddaughter of actress Katherine Cassavetes. She is the sister of actor- ...

Zoe Cassavetes Zoe Rowlands Cassavetes (born June 29, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is the daughter of filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is best known for her 2007 film ''Broken English''. Career Ca ...

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Jacqueline Castel Jacqueline Castel is an American-born French-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and curator based in New York City. Castel's work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, the Sitges Film Festival, and the International Fil ...

(Canada) *

Cecil Castellucci Cecil C. Castellucci (born October 25, 1969 in New York City), also known as Cecil Seaskull, is an American-born Canadian young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Biography Castellucci gre ...

Liliana Cavani Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Pa ...

(Italy) *

Geneviève Dulude-De Celles Geneviève Dulude-De Celles is a Canadian film director, who received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her debut feature film '' A Colony (Une colonie)''.Jennifer Celotta Jennifer Ann Celotta (born November 11, 1971) is an American television producer, writer, and director. Among her credits are ''The Office,'' Cobra Kai, Abbott Elementary, ''Malcolm in the Middle'', '' The Newsroom'', ''Greg the Bunny'', ''Andy R ...

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Thea Červenková Terezie Císařová, known as Thea Červenková (or Tea Červenková) was the second Czechoslovak woman film director (the first one is considered to be Olga Rautenkranzová),Lopour, Jarda "krib"Thea Červenková: Biografie ČSFD.cz. Retrieved 20 ...

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Gurinder Chadha Gurinder Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. The common theme among her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in the UK and ho ...

(UK) *

Lydia Chagoll Lydia Chagoll (16 June 1931 – 23 June 2020) was a Dutch born dancer, choreographer, film director, screenwriter, writer and actress. Lydia was born in Voorburg as Lydia Aldewereld from Jewish parents. When she was young she moved to Brussels, B ...

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Ilene Chaiken Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American television producer, director, writer, and founder of Little Chicken Productions. Chaiken is best known as being a co-creator, writer and executive producer on the television series ''The L Word' ...

(USA) *

Tanuja Chandra Tanuja Chandra (born 1969) is an Indian film director and writer. Chandra is the daughter of writer Kamna Chandra and sister of author Vikram Chandra and film critic Anupama Chopra. She co-wrote the screenplay of Yash Chopra's ''Dil To Pagal Ha ...

(India) *

Sylvia Chang Sylvia Chang (born 21 July 1953) is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018, she was one of the jury members of the main competition ...

(Taiwan) *

Lyne Charlebois Lyne Charlebois is a Canadian film and television director, most noted as the director and cowriter of the 2008 film ''Borderline (2008 film), Borderline''."Borderline director aims for provocative, not perverse; Charlebois's debut is dark portra ...

(Canada) *

Martine Chartrand Martine Chartrand (born 1962) is a Haitian Canadian filmmaker, visual artist and teacher. She practices a paint-on-glass animation technique to create her films. Throughout Chartrand's career, she has been involved with numerous films and has made ...

(Canada) *

Lilyan Chauvin Lilyan Chauvin (; ; 6 August 192526 June 2008) was a French-American actress, television host, director, writer, and acting teacher. A native of Paris, Chauvin began her career performing on French radio and onstage in England. She relocated to t ...

(USA) *

Shu Lea Cheang Shu Lea Cheang () (born April 13, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City in the 1980s and 90s, until relocating to the EuroZone in 2000. Cheang received a BA in history from the National Taiwan Un ...

(Taiwan) *

Shirley Cheechoo Shirley Cheechoo ( cr, ᔒᓕᒋᒍ born 1952) is a Canadian Cree actress, writer, producer, director, and visual artist, best known for her solo-voice or monodrama play '' Path With No Moccasins'', as well as her work with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig th ...

(Canada) *

Joan Chen Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American actress and film director. In China, she performed in the 1979 film and came to the attention of American audiences for her performance in the 1987 film ''The Last Emperor''. She is also ...

(China) * Evelyn Spice Cherry (Canada) *

Mabel Cheung Mabel Cheung (, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema and is considered one of the three women (along with Ann Hui and Clara Law) to achieve acclaim in the New Wave/Se ...

(China) * Sagari Chhabra (India) * Patricia Chica (Canada/El Salvador) *

Abigail Child Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the in ...

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Aisling Chin-Yee Aisling Chin-Yee (born 1982) is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, who works primarily in Montreal and Los Angeles. In addition to her work as a producer, Chin-Yee directed the films '' The Rest of Us'' (2019) and ''No Ordinary Man'' ...

(Canada) * SJ Chiro (USA) *

Karen Cho Karen Cho is a Chinese-Canadian documentary filmmaker in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her credits include the 2004 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary ''In The Shadow Of Gold Mountain'', documenting the effects of the Chinese Exclusion Ac ...

(Canada) *

Monia Chokri Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982) is a Canadian actress and film director. Life and career Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is ...

(Canada) *

Lisa Cholodenko Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director. Cholodenko wrote and directed the films ''High Art'' (1998), ''Laurel Canyon (film), Laurel Canyon'' (2002), and ''The Kids Are All Right (film), The Kids Are All Right ...

(USA) *

Joyce Chopra Joyce Chopra (; born October 27, 1936) is an American director. She was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until his death on February 23, 2009. Life and career Chopra was one of three siblings born in New York City to Abraha ...

(USA) *

Zero Chou Zero Chou (; born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. Life and career Chou was born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1969. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy from National Chengchi University in 1992. She worked as a journalist before beco ...

Deborah Chow Deborah Chow (born June 16, 1972) is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter known for her independent films and her work on ''Star Wars'' television. Two of her first short films, ''Daypass'' (2002) and ''The Hill'' (2004) have ...

(Canada) *

Věra Chytilová Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, ''Sedmikrásky'' ('' Dais ...

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Katerina Cizek Katerina Cizek is a Canadian documentary director and a pioneer in digital documentaries. She is the Artistic Director, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technolog ...

Julie St. Claire Julie St. Claire (born Juliette Marie Capone; June 10, 1970), is an American actress, director and producer. Early life St. Claire was born in Geneva, New York, but moved to California with her family in 1979. She competed in the U.S. Gymnast ...

(USA) *

Shirley Clarke Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker. Life Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother w ...

(USA) * Millefiore Clarkes (Canada) *

Maja Classen Maja Classen (born 28 December 1974 in Heidelberg) is a German film director and screenwriter, primarily known for her 2006 documentary on the Berlin techno scene, '' Feiern''. Biography She studied film production at the ''Hochschule für Film ...

Marie Clements Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) See p. 147. is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva pr ...

(Canada) * Jub Clerc (Australia) * Susan Cohen * Yulie Cohen (Israel) *

Isabel Coixet Isabel Coixet Castillo (; born 9 April 1960 ) is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in additio ...

(Spain) *

Giada Colagrande Giada Colagrande (born 16 October 1975) is an Italian film director and actress. Life and career In 2005 Colagrande directed her second feature, ''Before it Had a Name'', which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The two had met on ...

(Italy) *

Fabienne Colas Fabienne Colas Joseph, (born March 18, 1979), is a Haitian-Canadian actress, director and producer. She is head of the Fabienne Colas Foundation, which is dedicated to the promotion of film, art and culture as it organizes many festivals. Fabie ...

(Canada) *

Laurie Colbert Laurie Colbert is a Canadians, Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. She works primarily but not exclusively in collaboration with Dominique Cardona.Seana Stevenson"Catch and Release Interview: Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert" '' ...

(Canada) *

Janis Cole Janis Cole (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, writer, editor and professor. She has directed several films over the span of her career. Most of these films were done in cooperation with her friend and professional partner, Holly Dale. ...

(Canada) *

Cristina Comencini Cristina Comencini (; born 8 May 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist. Biography She is one of four daughters of Italian film director Luigi Comencini. She attended with her sisters the Lycée français Chateaubriand (Rome) ...

(Italy) *

Nicole Conn Nicole Conn (born October 29, 1959) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter most famous for her debut feature, the lesbian love story '' Claire of the Moon'' (1992). Her screenplay for ''Claire of the Moon'' was also released a ...

(USA) * Heather Connell (USA) *

Lisa Connor Lisa Connor is an American soap opera writer, producer, and director. She is a writer on the ABC Daytime and The Online Network serial drama ''All My Children''. In 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m of ...

(USA) * Janice Cooke-Leonard (USA) *

Martha Coolidge Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946) is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. She has directed such films as ''Valley Girl'', ''Real Genius'' and '' Rambling Rose''. Early life Coolidge was born in N ...

(USA) * Nancy Cooperstein (USA) *

Eleanor Coppola Eleanor Jessie Coppola (''née'' Neil; born May 4, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film '' Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmake ...

(USA) *

Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed ...

(USA) * Cristina Kotz Cornejo (USA/Argentina) *

Larissa Corriveau Larissa Corriveau is a Canadian actress from Quebec.

(Canada) *

Catherine Corsini Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film ''Replay (2001 film), Replay'' was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2012 film ''Three Worlds (film), Three Worlds'' competed in the ...

(France) *

Ghyslaine Côté Ghyslaine Côté (born September 6, 1955) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor. She is best known for directing ''The Five of Us'' (), which won the Prize for most popular Canadian film and the prize for best artistic contribution at t ...

(Canada) *

Michèle Cournoyer Michèle Cournoyer (born November 14, 1943) is a Canadian animator who on 1 March 2017 received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her body of work. Early life Born in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Quebec, Cournoyer began dra ...

(Canada) *

Marie-Hélène Cousineau Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a Canadian film director and producer.Courteney Cox Courteney Bass Cox (previously Courteney Cox Arquette; born June 15, 1964) is an American actress and filmmaker. She gained international recognition for her starring role as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom '' Friends'', which aired from 1994 ...

(USA) *

Barbara Cranmer Barbara Cranmer (1959 or 1960 – May 17, 2019) was a 'Namgis documentary filmmaker. Her works focus on First Nations in Canada, First Nations subjects. Telling real stories experienced by Indigenous people of Alert Bay, British Columbia Her 2016 ...

(Canada) * Judith Crawley (Canada) *

Leanna Creel Leanna Creel (born August 27, 1970) is an American actress, film producer, film director, screenwriter and photographer. Biography Creel is an identical Multiple birth, triplet who, along with her sisters, Joy Creel and Monica Lacy, started ac ...

(USA) *

Jeanne Crépeau Jeanne Crépeau (born 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec,Thomas Waugh, ''The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas''. McGill-Queen's University Press, ...

(Canada) *

Nancy Criss Nancy Criss is an American producer, awards director and actress. She host and produces the entertainment news magazine show ''On the Road Weekly'' on ION television. By the age of 13, Criss began her career in show business, with a role in the ...

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Suzanne Crocker Suzanne Crocker is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Dawson City, Yukon. She is most noted for her films '' All the Time in the World'' (2014), which won the award for Most Popular Canadian Documentary at the 2014 Vancouver International Film F ...

(Canada) *

Emma-Kate Croghan Emma-Kate Croghan is an Australian director and writer born in Adelaide, South Australia on Australia Day (26 January) 1972. She is the daughter of Kate Croghan. She has been nominated for two AFI awards - Best Original Screenplay for '' Love ...

(Australia) *

Catherine Crouch Catherine Crouch is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, producer, cinematographer, and actor. She has been active in independent film-making for over two decades. Most of her work explores gender, race (human categorization) ...

Fiona Cumming Fiona Cumming (9 October 1937 – 1 January 2015) was a Scottish television director, noted for her work on the BBC television series, '' Doctor Who'', during the show's Fifth Doctor era. Her credits included the 1982 episode, '' Castrovalva'' ...

(UK) *

Carolynne Cunningham Carolynne Cunningham is an Australian film producer and assistant director most known for her collaborations with director Peter Jackson, producing such films as ''King Kong'' (2005), ''District 9'', ''The Lovely Bones'' (both 2009), and ''Th ...

Shelley Curtis Shelley Curtis is an American television soap opera director and producer. She has been working in daytime since 1979. She's sometimes credited as ''Shelly Curtis''. Positions held '' All My Children'' * Occasional Director (2003–2007, 2010– ...

(USA) * Thirza Cuthand (Canada)

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Cherien Dabis Cherien Dabis (born 1976) ( ar, شيرين دعيبس) is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She was named one of ''Variety'' magazine's ''10 Directors to Watch'' in 2009, and in 2022 was nominated for the Outstanding Dir ...

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Nia DaCosta Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American film director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed the crime thriller film ''Little Woods'' (2018), winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also directed the horror ...

(USA) * Eva Dahr (Norway) *

Holly Dale Holly Dale (born December 23, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and television director. Over the course of her career, Dale has worked in the Canadian film and television industry as a director, producer, writer, and editor. Although she has comple ...

(Canada) *

Marie-Julie Dallaire Marie-Julie Dallaire is a Canadian film director from Quebec. She is most noted as one of the directors of the 1996 anthology film ''Cosmos'', which was Canada's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 70th Academy Awards and a ...

(Canada) * Tamela D'Amico *

Aimée Danis Aimée Danis (September 19, 1929 - May 8, 2012) was a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec.Guy Fournier"Aimée Danis, une femme si effacée" ''Le Journal de Montréal'', May 16, 2012. She produced the films ''Léolo'' and ''My Friend Ma ...

(Canada) *

Mireille Dansereau Mireille Dansereau (born December 19, 1943) is a Canadian director and screenwriter who is known for "emulating the style and approach of her aesthetic role model, John Cassavetes". Biography Mireille Dansereau was a dancer for 15 years before t ...

(Canada) *

Gia Darling The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995.Joan Darling Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American actress, film and television director and a dramatic arts instructor. Biography Born Joan Kugell in Boston, Darling began her career with the ...

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Rima Das Rima Das (born 1982) is an Indian filmmaker best known for her 2017 film '' Village Rockstars'', which won several national and international awards and became India's official entry for the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Fi ...

(India) *

Julie Dash Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion. The L.A. Rebellion refers ...

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Charlotte Dauphin Charlotte Dauphin (born 1987) is a French filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, and designer. Biography Dauphin was born in Paris, France in 1987. She trained in France as a ballet dancer before graduating from University of London (Courtauld Inst ...

(France) *

Byambasuren Davaa Byambasuren Davaa, also known as Davaagiin Byambasüren ( mn, Даваагийн Бямбасүрэн; born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar), is a Mongolian filmmaker currently residing in Germany. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ula ...

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Dorothy Davenport Fannie Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Born into a family of film performers, Davenport had her own independent career before her marriage to the film a ...

(USA) (also as Mrs. Wallace Reid) * Marie Davignon (Canada) *

Tamra Davis Tamra Davis (born January 22, 1962) is an American film, television and music video director. Early life Davis was born the second out of four children in Studio City, California. She was exposed to the media industry at an early age by her gran ...

(USA) *

Roxann Dawson Roxann Dawson (née Caballero, born September 11, 1958), also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series '' Star Trek: Voyager' ...

(USA) *

Deborah Day Deborah Day is a Canadian film director and writer. She directed and co-wrote the film ''Expecting'' ( 2002), starring Valerie Buhagiar, Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath which won Most Popular Canadian Film at the 2002 Vancouver International Fi ...

(Canada) *

Linda Day Linda Day (August 12, 1938 – October 23, 2009)Camille de Casabianca (France) *

Laura de Jonge Laura Anne "Lolly" de Jonge (''née'' Goulet; born September 2, 1960) is a Métis family advocate, corporate social responsibility practitioner, Film maker, filmmaker and magazine founder from Canada. Early life Laura is a 13th-generation descend ...

(Canada) *

Maria de Medeiros Maria Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida, DamSE (born 19 August 1965), known professionally as Maria de Medeiros (), is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions. Ear ...

(Portugal) *

Miranda de Pencier Miranda de Pencier (born August 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress. She is most noted for her 2011 film '' Throat Song'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Shor ...

(Canada) *

Charlotte de Turckheim Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim (born 5 April 1955) is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble ...

(France) *

Marina de Van Marina de Van (; born 8 February 1971) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, '' Don't Look Back'', was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Her brother is , he appeared with her in the 1998 f ...

(France) *

Autumn de Wilde Autumn de Wilde (born October 21, 1970) is an American photographer and film director best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of musicians, as well as her music video works. In 2020 she directed her first feature film, '' E ...

(USA) *

Rowan Deacon Rowan Deacon (born 1976 or 1977) is an English director and filmmaker. Career Deacon is from Leeds, England. She became involved in the industry in 2000. She produced '' Namesakes A Very British Odyssey'' in 2004 and '' When the Moors Ruled in ...

(UK) *

Tracey Deer Tracey Penelope ''Tekahentakwa'' Deer (born February 28, 1978, Mohawk nation, Mohawk) is a screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec. Deer has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rezol ...

(Canada) *

Regine Deforges Regine () or Régine is a feminine given name. Regine is a German-French form of Regina, and Régine is a French form of Regina. People with the first name include: Regine * Regine Heitzer (born 1944), Austrian figure skater * Regine Hildebrandt ...

(France) *

Donna Deitch Donna Deitch (born June 8, 1945, San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director, producer, and writer best known for her 1985 film ''Desert Hearts''. The movie was the first feature film to depict a lesbian love story in ...

(USA) *

Katrina del Mar Katrina del Mar is a New York–based American photographer, video artist, writer and award-winning filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Video, and ...

(USA) *

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 ...

(France/USA) * Paula Delsol (France) *

Claire Denis Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Ev ...

(France) *

Pouran Derakhshandeh Pourān Derakh'shandeh ( fa, پوران درخشنده) (born 27 March 1951 in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher. Career Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School ...

(Iran) *

Sophie Deraspe Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf a ...

(Canada) *

Maya Deren Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkowska, uk, Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська, links=no;

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Dhvani Desai Dhvani Desai is an Indian animation filmmaker, curator and poet. She is best known for her artistic animated films (the Perfect Match) and (The Vicious Circle). Early life Desai was born in an illustrious family of writers, poets & filmmake ...

(India) *

Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory of ...

(France) *

Arundhati Devi Arundhati Devi (; also known as Arundhati Mukherjee or Mukhopadhyay) (1924 – 1990) was an Indian actress, director, writer and singer who is predominantly known for her work in Bengali cinema. Arundhati Devi was a student of Visva-Bharati Un ...

(India) *

Aminder Dhaliwal Aminder Dhaliwal (born December 5, 1988) is a Canadian animator, storyboard artist, cartoonist, writer, and director. She is best known for her 2018 graphic novel ''Woman World''. Dhaliwal was born to Punjabi parents in Wembley, England where she ...

(Canada) *

Aishwarya R. Dhanush Aishwarya Rajinikanth (born 1 January 1982) is an Indian film director and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema. She is the elder daughter of actor Rajinikanth and wife of actor Dhanush. She made her feature film directorial debut with '' ...

(India) *

Katherine Dieckmann Katherine Dieckmann is an American film and music video director known for her work with R.E.M. and the feature films ''Good Baby'' and ''Diggers''. Music video filmography *"Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M. *"Stand" by R.E.M. *"Your Ghost" by Kris ...

(USA) *

Susie Dietter Susan E. Dietter, usually credited as Susie Dietter, is an American director, known primarily for her work on television cartoons. She has directed episodes of the popular series '' Futurama'', ''Baby Blues'', ''The Simpsons'', '' Recess'' and '' ...

(USA) *

Nia Dinata Nurkurniati Aisyah Dewi (born 4 March 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia), better known as Nia Dinata, is an Indonesian film director. Her movies are known for tackling subjects controversial or "risky" in Indonesia such as homosexuality, migrant workers ...

(Indonesia) *

Mati Diop Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress who starred in the 2008 film '' 35 Shots of Rum''. She also directed the 2019 film ''Atlantics'', for which she became the first black female director to be in contention ...

(France) *

Zoe Dirse Zoe Dirse is a Canadian cinematographer, film director, writer and professor. She is best known for her cinematography work for Studio D under the National Film Board of Canada, the first government-funded film studio in the world dedicated to ...

(Canada) *

Abigail Disney Abigail Edna Disney (born January 24, 1960) is an American documentary film producer, philanthropist, and social activist. She produced the 2008 documentary ''Pray the Devil Back to Hell''. Disney and Kathleen Hughes are producers and directors ...

(USA) *

Leila Djansi Leila Afua Djansi (born 1981) is an American and Ghanaian filmmaker who started her film career in the Ghana film industry. Early life Leila Djansi was born Leila Afua Djansi in 1981.Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule''Women Screenwriters: An Internati ...

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Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...

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Nana Djordjadze Nana Jorjadze ( ka, ნანა ჯორჯაძე; born 24 August 1948) is an Academy Award nominated film director, scriptwriter and actress. Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from ...

(Georgia) *

Shannen Doherty Shannen Doherty (, born April 12, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Jenny Wilder in ''Little House on the Prairie'' (1982–1983); Maggie Malene in ''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'' (1985); Kris Witherspoon in '' Our Hous ...

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Gail Dolgin Gail Dolgin (; April 4, 1945 – October 7, 2010) was an American filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for ''Daughter from Danang'', and ''The Barber of Birmingham''.Obituary ''Los Angeles Times'', October 19, 2010, page AA6. ''Dau ...

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Trish Dolman Trish Dolman is a Canadian film and television director and producer. She is most noted for her 2017 documentary film ''Canada in a Day'',Mary Agnes Donoghue Mary Agnes Donoghue (26 March 1943 in Queens) is an American screenwriter and director. Following early jobs as a secretary and short story writer, Donoghue's first writing credit was the 1984 film ''The Buddy System''. She went on to pen the scre ...

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Mia Donovan Mia Donovan is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is best known for her documentary '' Inside Lara Roxx'' released through EyeSteelFilm about 21-year-old Canadian Lara Roxx who in the spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading to ...

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Andrea Dorfman Andrea Dorfman (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She directed the Emmy Award films ''Flawed (film), Flawed'' (2010) and ''Big Mouth'' (2012).Dorfman, Andrea. "Andreadorfman.com , ...

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Anita Doron Anita Doron (born June 3, 1974) is a Hungarian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, author, and a 2010 TED Fellow. Doron is best known for her 2012 film adaptation of the 1996 novel '' The Lesser Blessed'', written b ...

(Canada) *

Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author. Biography Born in Hanover, Dörrie completed her secondary education there in 1973. The same year, she began a two-year attendance in film studies in the drama de ...

(Germany) *

Nicole Dorsey Nicole Dorsey is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter,Julie Slack"Burlington native's feature film selected for TIFF" ''Metroland Media Group, Inside Halton'', August 7, 2019. whose debut feature film, ''Black Conflux'', premiered ...

(Canada) *

Illeana Douglas Illeana Hesselberg (born July 25, 1961 or 1965), known professionally as Illeana Douglas, is an American actress and filmmaker. She appeared in three episodes of '' Six Feet Under'', for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as O ...

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Elissa Down Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker, who in 1999 and 2000, was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards. Her major works are a number of award-winning short films, ''Summer Angst'', ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Her Ou ...

(Australia) *

Rosvita Dransfeld Rosvita Dransfeld, sometimes credited as Rosie Dransfeld, is a Canadians, Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2009 film ''Broke (2009 film), Broke'', which won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary ...

(Canada) *

Polly Draper Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. Draper has received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA), and is noted for speaking in a "trademark throaty voice." She ...

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Fran Drescher Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader. She is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom ''The Nanny'' (1993–1999), which she created and produ ...

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Marie Dressler Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber, November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedian, and early silent film and Depression-era film star. In 1914, she was in the first full-length film comedy. She ...

(Canada) *

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew were an American comedy team on stage and screen. The team initially consisted of Sidney Drew (August 28, 1863 – April 9, 1919) and his first wife Gladys Rankin (October 8, 1870 – January 9, 1914). After Gladys died in 19 ...

Kate Drummond Kate Drummond (born October 21, 1975) is a Canadian film, television, theatre and voice actress; film producer, director and screenwriter. Kate starred as Nikki Bender alongside Brooke Shields in Hallmark Channel's '' Flower Shop Mystery'' TV m ...

(Canada) *

Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early child ...

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Alma Duncan Alma Mary Duncan (October 2, 1917 – December 15, 2004) was a Canadian painter, graphic artist, and filmmaker from Paris, Ontario. A prolific artist working in a variety of mediums including charcoal, chalk pastel, ink, watercolour, oil paint, p ...

(Canada) *

Lena Dunham Lena Dunham (, born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series ''Girls'' (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations a ...

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Cheryl Dunye Cheryl Dunye (; born May 13, 1966) is a Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress. Dunye's work often concerns themes of race, sexuality, and gender, particularly issues relating to black lesbians. She is known ...

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Sophie Dupuis Sophie Dupuis is a Quebec film director and screenwriter, from Val-d'Or who studied at Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal whose feature film debut ''Family First (film), Family First (Chien de garde)'' premiered in 20 ...

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Marguerite Duras Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...

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Clea DuVall Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is known for her appearances in the films ''The Faculty'' (1998), ''She's All That''; '' But I'm a Cheerleader''; '' Girl, Interrup ...

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Ava DuVernay Ava Marie DuVernay (; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, television producer and former film publicist. She is a recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee ...

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Gaëlle d'Ynglemare Gaëlle d'Ynglemare, sometimes credited as Gaël d'Ynglemare, is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2004 short film ''Capacité 11 personnes'', which won the Genie Award for Canadian Screen Award for Be ...

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Christine Edzard Christine Edzard (born 15 February 1945)Christine Edzard
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Michelle Ehlen Michelle Ehlen is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress best known for her comedic feature '' Butch Jamie''. Career Michelle is a graduate of The Los Angeles Film School where she studied writing and directing. She wrot ...

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Debra Eisenstadt Debra Eisenstadt is an American writer, director, producer and editor. Career Eisenstadt began her career as an actress, most notably starring in the theater and film versions of David Mamet’s '' Oleanna'' opposite William H. Macy. Eisenstadt w ...

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Jan Eliasberg Jan Pringle Eliasberg (born January 6, 1954) is an American film, theatre, and television director and writer. Her debut novel, ''Hannah's War'', was published by Little, Brown in 2020 and has sold 50,000 copies to date. ''Hannah's War'' has been ...

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Phyllis Ellis Phyllis Ellis (born 11 November 1959) is a Canadian figure celebrated for her contributions to sports, entertainment, and documentary filmmaking. Born in Oakville, Ontario, she held dreams of Olympic glory from her childhood. As a child, she also a ...

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Bille Eltringham Bille Eltringham (sometimes mis-spelt 'Billie') is a British film and television director. She is a graduate of Bournemouth Film School. Her most recent film is ''Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution'' (2007). She co-directed ''The Darkest Light'' (1999) w ...

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Sheri Elwood Sheri Elwood is a Canadian screenwriter/director working in film and television, best known as creator of the series ''Call Me Fitz'' starring Jason Priestley Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian actor and television ...

(Canada) *

Erma Elzy-Jones Erma Elzy, formerly Erma Elzy-Jones is an American television and theatre director. Career Elzy (formerly Elzy-Jones) was born in Los Angeles, California. She began her career in television, working as Production Associate/Script Supervisor on t ...

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Anne Émond Anne Émond (born 1982) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Early life and education Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate pr ...

(Canada) *

Esther Eng Esther Eng ( – January 25, 1970), born Ng Kam-ha, was a Cantonese–American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America, and five in Hong Kong.Wei, 20 ...

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Diane English Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show ''Murphy Brown'' and writing and directing the 2008 feature film '' The Women''. Early life English was born in Buf ...

(USA) * Jackie English (Canada) *

Ildikó Enyedi Ildikó Enyedi (; born 15 November 1955) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Her 2017 film ''On Body and Soul'' won the top prize at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for a Foreign Language 90th ...

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Nora Ephron Nora Ephron ( ; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award f ...

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Marie Epstein Marie Epstein (born Marie-Antonine Epstein; 14 August 1899, Warsaw - 24 April 1995, Paris) was an actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist. Her career is distinguished by three important collaborations. Throughout the 1920s, sh ...

Abby Epstein Abby Epstein is a film director and producer most known for working in the field of the documentary. Her film ''The Business of Being Born'', which deals with the birth process in American hospitals, is one of her most widely known and acclaimed ...

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Anna Eriksson Anna Sofia Eriksson (born 22 April 1977) is a Finnish artist, filmmaker, composer, and singer. In September 2018, avantgarde film '' M'' directed and produced by Eriksson was having the world premiere at the Venice International Film Critics Wee ...

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Deniz Gamze Ergüven Deniz Gamze Ergüven (born 4 June 1978), is a Turkish-French film director best known for her debut feature film ''Mustang''. Early life and education Ergüven was born in Ankara, Turkey but moved to France in the 1980s. She grew up and went to ...

* Claudia Morgado Escanilla (Canada) *

Danishka Esterhazy Danishka Esterhazy (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She is best known for her thriller and horror movies, such as '' Black Field'' (2009), '' Level 16'' (2018), ''The Banana Splits Movie'' (2019), and the ...

(Canada) *

Bang Eun-jin Bang Eun-jin (born August 5, 1965) is a South Korean actress and film director. She is best known for starring in Park Chul-soo's ''301, 302'' and Kim Ki-duk's '' Address Unknown''. Bang made her feature directorial debut with '' Princess Aurora ...

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Yasmin Evering-Kerr ''Being Black in Toronto'' is a Canadian documentary series, which was broadcast by CBC Gem in 2020. The series consisted of six short documentary films by emerging Black Canadian filmmakers from Toronto, who had been mentored through Fabienne Col ...

(Canada) * Ewa Ewart (Poland) *

Valie Export Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer an ...

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Tali Shalom Ezer Tali Shalom-Ezer ( he, טלי שלום עזר; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, screenwriter, and director. She is best known for her debut feature, ''Princess'' (2014) which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Dra ...

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Trey Fanjoy Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV. She is the first woman to win the Country Music Asso ...

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Mitra Farahani Mitra Farahani (in fa, میترا فراهانی; born 1975) is an Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris. Biography Mitra Farahani was born on January 27, 1975 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Farahani has a degree in graphic ar ...

* Danielle Faraldo (USA) * Coralie Fargeat (France) *

Valerie Faris Valerie may refer to: People *Saint Valerie (disambiguation), a number of saints went by the name Valerie *Valerie (given name), a feminine given name Songs *"Valerie", a 1981 song by Quarterflash, from ''Quarterflash'' *"Valerie", a 1982 son ...

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Marianne Farley Marianne Farley (born Marianne Therien in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress and director, best known for her roles as Gem Whitman in ''Imaginaerum (film), Imaginaerum'', Nicole Breen in ''This Life (2015 TV series), This Life'', Dillan Vand ...

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Vera Farmiga Vera Ann Farmiga ( ; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films '' The Conjuring'' (2013), '' The Conjuring 2'' (2016), '' Annabelle Co ...

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...

* Sepideh Farsi *

Safi Faye Safi Faye (born November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist.Petrolle, p. 177. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, ''Kaddu Beykat'', which was released in 1975. She ha ...

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Daniela Fejerman Daniela Fejerman (born 1964) is an Argentine director and film writer and a licensed psychologist. Her brother is Argentine musician Andy Chango. Her sister is Laura Fejerman. She has worked together with Inés París for 13 years. Filmography ...

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Rachel Feldman Rachel Feldman is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films. Life and career Born in New York City, New York, Feldman began her career as a child actor performing extensively in commercials and television s ...

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Emerald Fennell Emerald Lilly Fennell (; born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nomination ...

(UK) *

Lynne Fernie Lynne Fernie (born 1946) is a Canadian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. She spent fourteen years as the Canadian Spectrum programmer for the Hot Docs Festival from 2002 to 2016, and was described as having a passion as "deep as her knowled ...

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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 ...

(France) * Pepita Ferrari (Canada) *

Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film F ...

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Chip Fields Chip Fields, sometimes credited as Chip Hurd or Chip Fields-Hurd, is an American singer, actress, television director, and producer who has appeared in popular films, television shows, and Broadway theatre. She is best known for portraying Lyne ...

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Kim Fields Kim Victoria Fields-Morgan ( Fields, formerly Freeman; born May 12, 1969) is an American actress and director. Fields is best known for her roles as Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey on the NBC sitcom '' The Facts of Life'' (1979–1988), and as Regine Hu ...

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Martha Fiennes Martha Maria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes () is an English film director, writer and producer. Fiennes is best known for her film '' Onegin'' (1999), which starred her elder brother, Ralph, and her subsequent film ''Chromophobia'' (2005). Career ...

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Sophie Fiennes Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 12 February 1967), better known as Sophie Fiennes, is an English film director and producer. She is the sister of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, director Martha Fiennes and composer M ...

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Denise Filiatrault Denise Filiatrault, (born May 16, 1931) is a Canadian actress and director. Biography Filiatrault attained star status on TV in the 1960s, co-starring with Dominique Michel in the Radio-Canada television series '' Moi et l'autre'' (1967–71) a ...

Lee Filipovski Lee Filipovski is a Serbian-Canadian film director and screenwriter. Filipovski is most noted for her 2016 short film '' Fluffy (Flafi)'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. and ...

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Roberta Findlay Roberta Findlay (née Hershkowitz; born 1948) is an American film director, cinematographer, producer and actress. She is best known for her work in the exploitation field. Her work has received increasing critical appreciation in recent years. ...

(USA) *

Frauke Finsterwalder Frauke Finsterwalder (born 15 December 1975) is a German film director and screenwriter. Finsterwalder has directed several shorts and documentaries and is the director of the 2013 feature film ''Finsterworld''. Her second feature film, ''Sisi & ...

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Jenna Fischer Regina Marie "Jenna" Fischer (born March 7, 1974) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'' (2005–2013), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Suppor ...

(USA) *

Jennifer Flackett Jennifer Flackett is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television writer. In television, she has written for series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''L.A. Law'' and '' Earth 2''. As a screenwriter, she wrote on the films ''Mad ...

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Tracy Flannigan Tracy Flannigan is an independent filmmaker residing in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles who began making movies when she was seventeen years old. She has created numerous short films and music videos. Her work has been screened at many film fes ...

Luise Fleck Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after A ...

Ann Marie Fleming Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film ''Window Horses'' was released in 2016. He ...

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Anne Fletcher Anne Fletcher (born May 1, 1966) is an American choreographer, film director, dancer and actress. She directed the films '' Step Up'' (2006), ''27 Dresses'' (2008) and ''The Proposal (2009 film), The Proposal'' (2009). Early life Born Anne Marie ...

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Shannon Flynn Shannon Flynn (born 22 August 1996) is an English actress and presenter from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who is best known for appearing in ''Friday Download as well as Emily James in the BBC school-based drama, ''Waterloo Road''., and had ...

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Anna Foerster Anna J. Foerster (born 1971) is a German-born American film and television cinematographer and director. She is best known for collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, working under different capacities on every film directed by him dating ...

Susanna Fogel Susanna Fogel is an American director, screenwriter and author, best known for co-writing the 2019 film ''Booksmart'' and for co-writing and directing the 2018 action/comedy ''The Spy Who Dumped Me''. Her many accolades include a DGA Award and nom ...

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Cheryl Foggo Cheryl Dawn Foggo is a Canadian author, documentary film director, screenwriter and playwright. Biography Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1956, she is descended from Black Oklahomans who settled in Maidstone, Saskatchewan in 1910. She also had ance ...

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Deanne Foley Deanne Catherine Foley is a Canadian director, writer and producer. She has directed both narrative and documentary films of feature and short length. Her films often centre around flawed female leads and are usually filmed in Atlantic Canada. S ...

(Canada) *

Sheree Folkson Sheree Folkson is a British film and television director. Some of her television credits are ''American Horror Story'', ''The Bill'', '' Band of Gold'', '' Doctor Who'', '' The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star'', ''Casanova'', '' H ...

Megan Follows Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian-American actress and director. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries ''Anne of Green Gables'' and its two sequels. From 2013 t ...

(Canada) *

Anne Fontaine Anne Fontaine (born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc; 15 July 1959) is a Luxembourger film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She lives and works in France. Life and career Born Anne-Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc in Luxembourg, sister of actor Je ...

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Maya Forbes Maya Forbes (born July 23, 1968) is an American screenwriter and television producer. She made her debut as a film director with '' Infinitely Polar Bear'' (2014). Her other writing credits include the screenplay of '' The Rocker'' (2008) and many ...

(USA) * Amanda Forbis (Canada) * Victoria Forester (Canada) *

Sadaf Foroughi Sadaf Foroughi ( fa, صدف فروغی; born July 27, 1976) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer and editor. She has a bachelor's degree in French literature. After receiving her master's degree in film studies from University of Provenc ...

(Iran) * Kyllikki Forssell (Finland) * Sarah Fortin (Canada) *

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies. Her work has focused on gender, race, ecofeminism, queer sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies. York College of ...

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Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and the ho ...

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Kathryn Foster Kathryn Foster is an American soap opera producer and director. She resigned in October 2006 after being on ''The Young and the Restless'' for about 15 years. Positions held The Young and the Restless * Producer (2002–2006) * Director (1989– ...

(USA) * Lilibet Foster (USA) *

Tori Foster Tori Foster (born 1982) is a Canadian artist and filmmaker, known for her new media works. She is most noted for her documentary film '' 533 Statements'', which was cowinner with Denis Langlois' film '' Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma'' of t ...

(Canada) * Beryl Fox (Canada) * Jennifer Fox *

Sarain Fox Sarain Fox is a Canadian Anishinaabe activist, broadcaster and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2020 documentary film '' Inendi'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host or Interviewer in a News or Information ...

(Canada) * Rana Abu Fraihah (Palestine/Israel) *

Bonnie Franklin Bonnie Gail Franklin (January 6, 1944 – March 1, 2013) was an American actress, known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series '' One Day at a Time'' (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. ...

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Raquel Freire Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in Porto) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and novelist. In 2014 she released the film ''Transiberic Love'' which is a love story set in modern times showing how one can be an activist within globalise ...

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Camelia Frieberg Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a Canadians, Canadian film producer and director."Champion of Canadian film gets her salute: Sweet Hereafter producer Camelia Frieberg is Vancouver Women in Film and Video's woman of the year". ''Vancouver Sun'', Feb ...

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Liz Friedlander Liz Friedlander is an American music video, television director and television producer. Originally from New York City, Friedlander moved to Pennsylvania to attend the Drama Conservatory school at Carnegie Mellon University. She then moved to Lo ...

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Kim Friedman Kim Friedman (born November 14, 1949) is an American television director and producer. Friedman's TV career began by directing 70 episodes of the sitcom, ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' for Norman Lear. She then moved on to directing the pilot ...

Vivi Friedman Vivi Friedman (May 20, 1967 – January 2, 2012) was a Finnish film director. She produced the majority of her work in the United States. During her career she worked on advertisements and short films and directed a feature-length film, ''The F ...

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Su Friedrich Su Friedrich (born December 12, 1954) is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. Early life Su Friedrich was born in 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. Her mother was German and came to the US with Friedric ...

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Shirley Frimpong-Manso Shirley Frimpong-Manso (born 16 March 1977) is a Ghanaian film director, writer, and producer. She is the founder and CEO of Sparrow Productions, a film, television and advertising production company. She won Best Director at the 6th Africa Mo ...

Grete Frische Grete Frische (15 June 1911 – 17 August 1962) was a Danish actress, screenwriter and director. The daughter of a playwright, Frische is best known for her screenplays, especially the war drama '' Støt står den danske sømand'' (English: ...

Sarah Frost Sarah Frost is an English television director, animation director, composer, and storyboard artist in America. Frost is most known for directing ''The Fairly OddParents'' and episodes of the animated series ''Family Guy''. She has also worked ...

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Soleil Moon Frye Soleil Moon Frye (; born August 6, 1976) is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitco ...

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Pamela Fryman Pamela Gail Fryman (born 1959) is an American sitcom director and producer. She directed all but twelve episodes of the television series ''How I Met Your Mother''. Early life Fryman was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career F ...

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Kei Fujiwara is a Japanese actress, cinematographer, director and writer. Her first role was in the American film '' The Neptune Factor'', but she is perhaps best known for starring in the Japanese cyberpunk cult film '' Tetsuo: The Iron Man''. More recently ...

Mellissa Fung Mellissa Fung is a Canadian journalist with CBC News, appearing regularly as a field correspondent on '' The National''. Education and career Fung and her younger sister are the daughters of Kellog and Joyce Fung. She was born in Hong Kong, and ...

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Kelly Fyffe-Marshall Kelly Fyffe-Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker best known for her 2020 two-part short film '' Black Bodies'', which won the Changemaker Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action S ...

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Bethany Joy Galeotti Bethany Joy Lenz (born April 2, 1981) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and filmmaker. She is known for her portrayal of Haley James Scott on The WB / The CW television drama ''One Tree Hill'' (2003–2012). She also starred as Michell ...

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Maya Gallus Maya Gallus is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions with Justine Pimlott. Her films have screened at international film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, ...

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Nisha Ganatra Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama ''Chutney Popcorn'' (1999) and later directed the indepe ...

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Liz Garbus Elizabeth Freya Garbus (born April 11, 1970) is an American documentary film director and producer. Notable documentaries Garbus has made are ''The Farm: Angola, USA,'' ''Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,'' ''Bobby Fischer Against the World,'' ''Love, Marily ...

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Emmanuelle Schick Garcia Emmanuelle Schick Garcia was born in the south of France to a Spanish mother and a Canadian father. At the age of three her family moved to Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where she grew up. Her father, Doug Schick, was a pro ...

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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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Jennifer Garner Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Compan ...

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Jem Garrard Jem Garrard is a British-Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. Garrard is the creator and showrunner on the space opera series ''Vagrant Queen'' released in 2020'','' and the award winning mockumentary webseries ''Android Employed'', whic ...

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Katy Garretson Kathleen Garretson (born May 15, 1963) is an American television director, producer and podcaster. Garretson has directed episodes of the sitcoms ''Frasier'', '' 2 Broke Girls'', '' Fuller House'' and the season one finale of the ''Punky Brewste ...

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Jennie Garth Jennifer Eve Garth (born April 3, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for starring as Kelly Taylor throughout the ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' franchise and Val Tyler on the sitcom '' What I Like About You'' (2002–06). In 2012, she starred ...

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Karen Gaviola Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She is the winner of the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing " The Whole Truth" episode of the ABC hit series ''Lost''. She was also nominated for the 2013 WIN (Women's Image Networ ...

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Julie Gavras Julie Gavras is a French film director and screenwriter. She is known for her film '' Blame It on Fidel'' (2006). Life and career After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. Gavras started as an assistant directo ...

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Sarah Gavron Sarah Gavron (born 20 April 1970) is a British film director. She has directed four short films, and three feature films.Garcia, Maria. "Demanding To Be Heard". ''Film Journal International''. 118. Her first film was ''This Little Life'' (2003) ...

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Katrin Gebbe Katrin Gebbe (born 1983) is a German film director and screenwriter. Biography Katrin Gebbe studied liberal arts and visual communication at the ''Academy of Visual Arts'' in Enschede, where she made her first short experimental film.

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Ngardy Conteh George Ngardy Conteh George is a Sierra Leonean-Canadians, Canadian film director, editor and producer. Early life Ngardy Conteh George was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and is the youngest of four children. Early in her childhood, her family moved ...

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Geretta Geretta Geretta Geretta (born Geretta Marie Giancarlo; is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Her film roles include several Italian horror films, inc ...

Valeriya Gai Germanika Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika (russian: Валерия Гай Александровна Германика, born Valeriya Igorevna Dudinskaya (russian: Вале́рия И́горевна Дуди́нская); born 1 March 1984, Moscow) ...

(Russia) *

Greta Gerwig Greta Celeste Gerwig (; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films b ...

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Jennifer Getzinger Jennifer Getzinger (born September 26, 1967) is an American director and script supervisor of film and television. For much of her career she worked as a script supervisor on a number of notable films including ''The Prophecy'' (1995), ''Phanto ...

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Tina Gharavi Tina Gharavi ( fa, تینا غروی) is an Iranian-born British-American BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter. Gharavi is known for her innovative cross-platform stories about outsiders, misfits and rebels as well as ...

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Coky Giedroyc Mary Rose Helen "Coky" Giedroyc (; born 6 February 1963) is an English director known for her work on ''Women Talking Dirty'', '' The Virgin Queen'', ''The Nativity'', and ''Penny Dreadful''. Early life Giedroyc was born in Kowloon on 6 Februar ...

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Maria Giese Maria Giese is an American feature film director and screenwriter. A member of the Directors Guild of America, and an activist for parity for women directors in Hollywood, she writes and lectures about the under-representation of women filmmak ...

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Melody Gilbert Melody Gilbert is an independent documentary filmmaker, and educator from Washington, D.C. now living in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She has directed, filmed, produced, and sometimes edited, seven independent feature-length documentaries since 2002 ...

Melissa Gilbert Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1963) is an American actress, television director, producer, politician, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous co ...

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Leah Gilliam L. Franklin Gilliam is an American filmmaker and media artist. Her work explores issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Gilliam was the director of projects and community catalyst at gamelab's Institute of Play and a visiting faculty mem ...

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Abby Ginzberg Abby Ginzberg is an independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession. Career She graduated from ...

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Tess Girard Tess Girard is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. ''A Simple Rhythm'' She is best known for her documentary ''A Simple Rhythm'' a documentary exploring rhythm from the perspective of mathematics, music, biology, philosophy, and psychology ...

(Canada) *

Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893February 27, 1993) was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", ...

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Ellen Gittelsohn Ellen Gittelsohn (born April 12, 1945, in New York City, New York) is an American television director. She has also been credited under the name Ellen Falcon, despite the popular belief that she and Ellen Falcon are two different people. Since ...

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Lesli Linka Glatter Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series ''Mad Men'' and the Showtime series ''Homeland'', for which she's received eight Primetime Emmy Award nomi ...

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Delphine Gleize Delphine Gleize (born 5 May 1973) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1998. Her film '' Carnages'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival The 55th Cannes Film Festi ...

(France) * Alesia Glidewell (USA) *

Lana Gogoberidze Lana Gogoberidze ( ka, ლანა ღოღობერიძე) (born October 13, 1928, Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director and politician. Educated at Tbilisi State University and Moscow State University of Cinematography, Gogoberidze heade ...

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Dana Goldberg Dana Goldberg (; born March 1, 1979) is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright. Biography Goldberg was born in Herzliya. Her father was a pilot and her mother worked at a bank. As a child, she studied many different creative fields: photogr ...

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Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ' ...

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Valeria Golino Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1965) is an Italian actress and film director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in ''Rain Man'', ''Big Top Pee-wee'' and the two ''Hot Shots!'' films, particularly the olive-in-the-bell ...

(Italy) * Rosser Goodman (USA) *

Dennie Gordon Dennie Gordon is an American film and television director. Her directorial television credits include ''Party of Five'', '' Sports Night'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''The Practice'', ''Grounded for Life'', '' The Loop'', '' White Collar'', '' Burn Notice ...

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Marleen Gorris Marleen Gorris (born 9 December 1948) is a Dutch writer and director. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminism, feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work. Her film, ''Antonia's Line,'' won an Academy ...

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Rachel Goslins Rachel Eva Goslins (born July 23, 1969) is an American arts administrator and documentary film director and producer. In August 2016, she was appointed director of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building. She was previously head of the Pre ...

Lisa Gottlieb Lisa Gottlieb is an American film, television director and college professor. She is best known for directing the 1985 film ''Just One of the Guys''. She went on to direct the films ''Across the Moon'' (1995) starring Christina Applegate and E ...

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Danis Goulet Danis Goulet (born 1977) is a Cree-Métis film director and screenwriter from Canada,Chris Knight"Danis Goulet's film a first for New Zealand-Canada Indigenous co-operation" ''National Post'', June 26, 2020. whose debut feature film '' Night Raide ...

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Sophie Goyette Sophie Goyette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2012 short film '' The Near Future (Le futur proche)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Aw ...

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Marita Grabiak Marita Jane Grabiak (born in Ambridge, Pennsylvania) is an American television director. She began her career as a production assistant on the film ''The Men's Club'' (1986) along with fellow Joss Whedon collaborator Tim Minear. She has directed ...

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Briar Grace-Smith Briar Grace-Smith is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays ''Don't Ca ...

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Debra Granik Debra Granik (born February 6, 1963) is an American filmmaker. She is most known for 2004's '' Down to the Bone,'' which starred Vera Farmiga, 2010's ''Winter's Bone,'' which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout performance and for which Gr ...

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Anais Granofsky Anais Granofsky (born May 14, 1973) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Lucy Fernandez in the ''Degrassi Junior High'' and ''Degrassi High'' series. Early life Granofsky was born in Spring ...

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Lee Grant Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's ''Detective Story'', co-starring Kirk Dougl ...

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Susannah Grant Susannah Grant (born January 4, 1963) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Life and career Grant was born in New York City. She studied at Amherst College and attended the AFI Conservatory. From 1994 to 1997 she worked on televi ...

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Janet Greek Janet Greek (born 1949 in Timmins, Ohio) is an American director and writer of film and television. She is best known for her directorial work on the science fiction series ''Babylon 5''. Career As a television director, Greek's credits include ...

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Lynnie Greene Laura Lyn "Lynnie" Greene, also known as Lyn Greene (born May 21, 1954) is an actress, writer, director and producer in the television industry. In addition to her work as a producer, she is possibly best known as an actress for appearing as You ...

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Lauren Greenfield Lauren Greenfield (born 1966) is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published four photographic monographs, directed four documentary features, produced four traveling exhibitions, and published in ma ...

Maggie Greenwald Maggie Greenwald is an American filmmaker. Most recognized as an independent writer and director, Greenwald’s most notable films include Sophie and the Rising Sun (film), ''Sophie and the Rising Sun'' (2016), starring an ensemble cast that incl ...

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Annie Griffin Annie Griffin (born 1960) is an American writer and director. Born in New York City, Griffin relocated to the United Kingdom in 1981. She started out as an experimental theatre writer and director in the 1980s, with her first notable work being B ...

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Allison Grodner Allison Grodner is an American director, producer and writer, who has worked in documentary and reality-based programming. She is best known for her work on the American version of the reality TV show '' Big Brother''. She is an executive produ ...

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Esther Gronenborn Esther Gronenborn (born 1968 in Oldenburg) is a German film director and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screen ...

Patricia Gruben Patricia Gruben is an American born filmmaker who taught film studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada until 2018.Ed. Kuhn, Annette; Radstone, Susannah. (1990). "Patricia Gruben." In ''The'' Women's Companion to Internationa ...

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Aurora Guerrero Aurora Guerrero is a writer-director from California. Early life Guerrero was born in the Mission District of San Francisco, California to Mexican immigrant parents, later growing up on the border of the cities of Richmond and El Cerrito whi ...

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Gigi Saul Guerrero Gigi Saul Guerrero (born February 27, 1990) is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker and actress. She gained recognition for creating and directing the 2017 horror web series, ''La Quinceañera''. In 2019, she directed episodes of ''The Purge'' and the a ...

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Luce Guilbeault Luce Guilbeault (5 March 1935 – 12 July 1991) was a Canadian actress and director from Quebec. She was one of the leading figures of Quebec repertory theatre of the 1960s and one of the most-sought actresses of Quebec cinema in the 1970s. She ...

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Sonali Gulati Sonali Gulati is an Indian Americans, Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator. Gulati grew up in New Delhi, India. Her mother, a teacher and textile designer, raised her independently, getting singl ...

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Xiaolu Guo Xiaolu Guo FRSL () born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, who explores migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities. Guo has directed a doz ...

Jasmine Guy Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is known for her role as Dina in the 1988 film ''School Daze'' and as Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC ''The Cosby Show'' spin-off ''A Different World'', ...

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Alice Guy-Blaché Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer filmmaker. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, s ...

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Alli Haapasalo Alli Haapasalo (born 3 October 1977) is a Finnish director and writer. Early life and education Haapasalo was born in Kerava, a town near Helsinki, where she attended the Nikkari School. The daughter of lawyers, she was initially interested in ...

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Joana Hadjithomas Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists. Their work includes feature and documentary films, video and photographic installations, sculpture, performance lectures and texts. Personal life Joana Hadjithomas (b ...

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Lucile Hadžihalilović Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović (born 7 May 1961) is a French writer and director of Bosnian descent. She is best known for the 1996 short film '' La Bouche de Jean-Pierre'' and the 2004 feature-length film '' Innocence'', for which she became t ...

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Mona Zandi Haghighi Mona Zandi (born October 1972 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director. She is a director and editor of short films, documentaries and feature films. Her film work belongs to the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran, which focuses on contemporary soc ...

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Helen Haig-Brown Helen Haig-Brown is a Tsilhqot'in filmmaker working primarily with indigenous and First Nations themes. Many of these derive from her maternal roots in the Tsilhqot'in First Nation. Early life and education Helen Haig-Brown is from the Yunesit'in ...

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Randa Haines Randa Jo Haines (born February 20, 1945, in Los Angeles) is a film and television director and producer. Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including ''Let's Scare Jessica to Death'' an ...

(USA) * Maha Haj (Palestine) * Pam Hall (Canada) *

Sachi Hamano a.k.a. ''and'' (born March 19, 1948), is a Japanese film director. She is the most prolific and written-about female '' pink film'' director. Life and career Sachi Hamano was born as Sachiko Suzuki in Tokushima Prefecture on March 19, 1948. W ...

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Lisa Gay Hamilton LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964) is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is best known for her role as secretary/lawyer Rebecca Washington on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC legal drama ...

(USA) * Sylvia Hamilton (Canada) *

Tanya Hamilton Tanya Hamilton (born in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is an American film director and producer. She came to the United States at the age of eight, and settled in Maryland with her mother. She attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Cooper Union for ...

(USA) * Barbara Hammer (USA) * Sanaa Hamri (Morocco/USA) * Michelle Handelman (USA) * Kristin Hanggi (USA) * Teresa Hannigan (Canada) * Marion Hänsel (Belgium) * Mia Hansen-Løve (France) * Banchi Hanuse (Canada) * Neasa Hardiman (Ireland) * Catherine Hardwicke (USA) * Alicia K. Harris (Canada) * Danielle Harris (USA) * Emily Harris (United Kingdom) * Mary Harron (Canada) * Jackée Harry (USA) * Bobbi Jo Hart (Canada) * Melissa Joan Hart (USA) * Phoebe Hart (Australia) * Jessica Hausner (Austria) * Goldie Hawn (USA) * Gwen Haworth (Canada) * Salma Hayek (Mexico/USA) * Helaine Head (USA) * Leslye Headland (USA) * Julie Hébert (USA) * Anne Heche (USA) * Jen Heck (USA) * Amy Heckerling (USA) * Sian Heder (USA) * Birgit Hein (Germany) * Manijeh Hekmat (Iran) * Marielle Heller (USA) * Katherine Helmond (USA) * Heather Hemmens (USA) * Felicia D. Henderson (USA) * Maryam Henein (Canada) * Jill Hennessy (Canada) * Astrid Henning-Jensen (Denmark) * Kathleen Hepburn (Canada) * Jennifer Love Hewitt (USA) * Sachiko Hidari (Japan) * Heather Hill (director), Heather Hill (USA) * Cheryl Hines (USA) * Ivy Ho (Hong Kong) * Lyndall Hobbs (Australia/USA) * Victoria Hochberg (USA) * Tamar Simon Hoffs (USA) * Joanna Hogg (UK) * Agnieszka Holland (Poland) * Helen Holmes (actress), Helen Holmes (USA) * Peggy Holmes (USA) * Nicole Holofcener (USA) * Mahboubeh Honarian (Iran/Canada) * Solveig Hoogesteijn (Sweden/Venezuela) * Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Canada) * Gwyneth Horder-Payton (USA) * Rebecca Horn (Germany) * Anna Maria Horsford (USA) * Joan Horvath (filmmaker), Joan Horvath * Sally El Hosaini (UK/Egypt) * Dianne Houston (USA) * Bryce Dallas Howard (USA) * Tiffany Hsiung (Canada) * Tasha Hubbard (Canada) * Bronwen Hughes (Canada) * Ann Hui (Hong Kong) * Danielle Huillet (France) * Bonnie Hunt (USA) * Courtney Hunt (USA) * Helen Hunt (USA) * Nicki Hunter (USA) * Tonya Hurley (USA) * Anjelica Huston (USA) * Sophie Hyde (Australia)

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* Ansa Ikonen (Finland) * Indrani (USA/India) * Dana Inkster (Canada) * Laura Innes (USA) * Nyla Innuksuk (Canada) * Diana Lee Inosanto (USA) * Bodil Ipsen (Denmark) * Elisapie Isaac (Canada) * Debbie Isitt (UK) * Lula Ali Ismaïl (Canada) * Madeline Ivalu (Canada) * Julia Crawford Ivers (USA) * Sangita Iyer (Canada)

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* Mehreen Jabbar * Annemarie Jacir * Lisa Jackson (filmmaker), Lisa Jackson (Canada) * Katie Jacobs (USA) * Sarah Jacobson (USA) * Jeong Jae-eun (South Korea) * Wanda Jakubowska (Poland) * Anna Elizabeth James (USA) * Annabel Jankel (UK/USA) * Agnès Jaoui (France) * Sophie Jarvis (Canada) * Marianne Jean-Baptiste (USA) * Christine Jeffs (New Zealand) * Patty Jenkins (USA) * Tamara Jenkins (USA) * Caytha Jentis (USA) * Katherine Jerkovic (Canada) * Slater Jewell-Kemker (Canada) * Renuka Jeyapalan (Canada) * Xiao Jiang (China) * Liu Jiayin (China) * Xu Jinglei (China) * Stephanie Johnes (USA) * Amy Jo Johnson (Canada) * Karen Johnson (producer), Karen Johnson (USA) * Angelina Jolie (USA) * Stephanie Joline (Canada) * G. B. Jones (Canada) * Rachel Leah Jones (USA-Israel) * Meryam Joobeur (Canada) * Hella Joof (Denmark) * Yashira Jordán * Mary Jordan (filmmaker), Mary Jordan (Canada/USA) * Elena Jordi (Spain) * Nana Jorjadze (Soviet Union/Georgia) * Suma Josson (India) * Petra Joy * Maureen Judge (Canada) * Miranda July (USA) * July Jung (South Korea) * Ingrid Jungermann (USA) * Marie-Ève Juste (Canada)

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* Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya) * Shahnewaz Kakoli (Bangladesh) * Alex Kalymnios (USA) * Deborah Kampmeier * Ellie Kanner (USA) * Nelly Kaplan * Betty Kaplan (Argentina) * Deborah Kaplan (USA) * Prema Karanth (India) * Niki Karimi (Iran) * Anna Karina * Alexa Karolinski (Germany) * Matia Karrell (USA) * Nicole Kassell (USA) * Daphna Kastner (Canada) * Nancy Kates (USA) * Ish Amitoj Kaur * Mariko Kawana * Naomi Kawase (Japan) * Diane Keaton (USA) * Elodie Keene (USA) * Alan Rowe Kelly (USA) * Jennifer Kent (Australia) * Elza Kephart (Canada) * Amanda Kernell (Sweden) * Sarah Kernochan (USA) * Joanna Kerns (USA) * T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (USA) * Dorota Kędzierzawska (Poland) * Farah Khan (India) * Callie Khouri (USA) * Beeban Kidron (UK) * Kaleena Kiff (USA) * Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran * Clare Kilner (USA) * Gloria Ui Young Kim (Canada) * Jacqueline Kim * So Yong Kim (South Korea-USA) * Regina King (USA) * Eilis Kirwan (Ireland) * Eriko Kitagawa (Japan) * Bonnie Sherr Klein (Canada) * Karen Knox (Canada) * Ana Kokkinos (Australia) * Kathy Kolla (USA) * Frances Koncan (Canada) * Larysa Kondracki (Canada) * Barbara Kopple (USA) * Torill Kove (Canada) * Leonie Krippendorff (Germany) * Ellen Kuras (USA) * Diane Kurys (France) * Karyn Kusama (USA) * Julia Kwan (Canada) * Sandra Kybartas (Canada)

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* Nadine Labaki (Lebanon) * Vlasta Lah (Argentina) * Christine Lahti (USA) * Kalpana Lajmi (India) * Karen Lam (Canada) * Evelyn Lambart (Canada) * Alix Lambert (USA) * Mary Lambert (director), Mary Lambert (USA) * Micheline Lanctôt (Canada) * Jessica Landaw (USA) * Valerie Landsburg (USA) * Samantha Lang (Australia) * Yelena Lanskaya (USA/Russia) * Tanya Lapointe (Canada) * Brie Larson (USA) * Michelle Latimer (Canada) * Clara Law (China) * Teza Lawrence (Canada) * Tracie Laymon (USA) * Alexandra Lazarowich (Canada) * Margaret Lazarus (USA) * Elizabeth Lazebnik (Canada) * Lauren Lazin (USA) * Caroline Leaf (USA/Canada) * Jeanne Leblanc (Canada) * Alexandra Leclère (France) * Mimi Leder (USA) * Carinne Leduc (Canada) * Georgia Lee (director), Georgia Lee (USA) * Helen Lee (director), Helen Lee (Canada) * Iara Lee (Brazil) * Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee (USA) * Karin Lee (Canada) * Min Sook Lee (Canada) * Sook-Yin Lee (Canada) * Wendee Lee (USA) * Kat Lehmer (USA) * Jennifer Jason Leigh (USA) * Julia Leigh (Australia) * Rita Leistner (Canada) * Valérie Lemercier (France) * Kasi Lemmons (USA) * Marquise Lepage (Canada) * Glory Leppänen (Finland) * Chloé Leriche (Canada) * Mira Lesmana (Indonesia) * Chandler Levack (Canada) * Naomi Levine (USA) * Anne Lévy-Morelle (Belgium) * Mary Lewis (Canadian actress), Mary Lewis (Canada) * Sharon Lewis (Canada) * Li Yu (director), Li Yu (China) * Leslie Libman (USA) * Yin Lichuan (China) * Allison Liddi-Brown (USA) * Rakel Liekki (Finland) * Sharon Liese (USA) * Georgina Lightning (Canada) * Nnegest Likké (USA) * Desiree Lim (Malaysia) * Caroline Link (Germany) * Tatyana Lioznova (Soviet Union) * Christine Lipinska (France) * Marion Lipschutz (USA) * Lynne Littman (USA) * Renata Litvinova (Russia) * Jennie Livingston (USA) * Ma Liwen (China) * Claudia Llosa (Peru) * Phyllida Lloyd (UK) * Jayne Loader (USA) * Sondra Locke (USA) * Barbara Loden (USA) * Julia Loktev (USA) * Brenda Longfellow (Canada) * Kim Longinotto (UK) * Kamala Lopez (USA) * Sophie Lorain (Canada) * Ariane Louis-Seize (Canada) * Juliana Luecking (USA) * Agnieszka Lukasiak (Sweden) * Kátia Lund (Brazil) * Luo Luo (China) * Ida Lupino (USA) * Joy Lusco (USA) * Noémie Lvovsky (France) * Lottie Lyell (Australia) * Dorothy Lyman (USA) * Tucia Lyman (USA) * Jennifer Lynch (USA) * Lisbeth Lynghøft (Denmark) * Gillian Lynne (UK)

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* Kate Maberly (UK) * Tina Mabry (USA) * Hettie MacDonald (UK) * Shauna MacDonald (Canadian actress), Shauna MacDonald (Canada) * Michelle MacLaren (Canada/USA) * Angelina Maccarone (Germany) * Allison Mack (USA) * Barbie MacLaurin (UK) * Alison Maclean (Canada) * Aoife Madden * Mary Madeiras (USA) * Madhumitha (director), Madhumitha * Madonna (entertainer), Madonna (USA) * Maria Maggenti (USA) * Adriana Maggs (USA) * Sharon Maguire (UK) * Donatella Maiorca (Italy) * Maïwenn (France) * Taru Mäkelä (Finland) * Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran) * Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran) * Sarah Maldoror (France) * Yassamin Maleknasr * Anna Malle * Nancy Malone (USA) * Laura Mañá (Spain) * Gail Mancuso (USA) * Babette Mangolte * Suhasini Maniratnam (India) * Ami Canaan Mann (USA) * Andrea Mann * Émilie Mannering (Canada) * Michelle Manning (USA) * Dinah Manoff (USA) * Auli Mantila (Finland) * Sophie Marceau (France) * Frances Marion (USA) * Eisha Marjara (Canada) * Giulia Marletta * Alina Marazzi (Italy) * Joanne Marcotte (Canada) * Guylaine Maroist (Canada) * Liz Marshall (Canada) * Penny Marshall (USA) * Tonie Marshall (France) * Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) * Catherine Martin (director), Catherine Martin (Canada) * Darnell Martin (USA) * Aurora Martinez * Marsha Mason (USA) * Laetitia Masson (France) * Mary Stuart Masterson (USA) * Anna Mastro * Jean Mathieson (Canada) * Yasmine Mathurin (Canada) * Tomoko Matsunashi * Gail Maurice (Canada) * Elaine May (USA) * Juliet May (UK) * Melanie Mayron (USA) * Patricia Mazuy (France) * Trish McAdam (Ireland) * Aoife McArdle (Ireland) * Elske McCain * Beth McCarthy-Miller (USA) * Claire McCarthy (Australia) * Naomi McCormack (Canada) * Jennette McCurdy (USA) * Paulette McDonagh (Australia) * Sally McDonald (USA) * Francine McDougall (Australia/USA) * Christine McGlade (Canada) * Molly McGlynn (Canada) * Mary McGuckian (Ireland/UK) * Danica McKellar (USA) * Ashley McKenzie (director), Ashley McKenzie (Canada) * Nancy McKeon (USA) * Gillian McKercher (Canada) * Tawnia McKiernan (USA) * Sheila McLaughlin (USA) * Carolyn McMaster (Canada) * Chelsea McMullan (Canada) * Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, Lucile McVey (2nd Mrs. Sidney Drew) (USA) * Nancy Meckler (UK) * Ann Medina (Canada) * Stella Meghie (Canada) * Anisa Mehdi (Canada) * Deepa Mehta (Canada/India) * Vijaya Mehta (India) * Hu Mei (China) * Ursula Meier (France) * Anna Melikian (Russia) * Kay Mellor (UK) * Linda Mendoza (USA) * Weyni Mengesha (Canada) * Nina Menkes * Anjali Menon (India) * Melanie Merkosky (Canada) * Natalya Merkulova (Russia) * Agnès Merlet (France) * Marziyeh Meshkini (Iran) * Márta Mészáros (Hungary) * Leah Meyerhoff (USA) * Nancy Meyers (USA) * Liu Miaomiao (director), Liu Miaomiao (China) * Maude Michaud (Canada) * Vanessa Middleton (USA) * Anne-Marie Miéville (Switzerland) * Ina Mihalache (Canada) * Gia Milani (Canada) * Tamineh Milani (Iran) * Amy Miller (Canada) * Elisa Miller * Rebecca Miller (USA) * Sharron Miller (USA) * Jacquelyn Mills (Canada) * Pilar Miró (Spain) * Fawzia Mirza (Canada) * Efrat Mishori (Israel) * Adrienne Mitchell (Canada) * Dorothea Mitchell (Canada) * Martha Mitchell (director), Martha Mitchell (USA) * Monika Mitchell (USA/Canada) * Jill Mitwell (USA) * Ariane Mnouchkine (France) * Siue Moffat (Canada) * Tracey Moffat (Australia) * Hengameh Mofid * Michelle Mohabeer (Canada) * Hillie Molenaar * Karen Moncrieff (USA) * Nadine Monfils (Belgium) * Caroline Monnet (Canada) * Adriana Monti (Italy) * Christine Moore (director), Christine Moore (USA) * Jocelyn Moorhouse * Soudabeh Moradian * Jeanne Moreau (France) * Yolande Moreau (Belgium) * Wendy Morgan (director), Wendy Morgan (Canada) * Stephanie Morgenstern (Canada) * Makoto Moriwaki (Japan) * Carol Morley (UK) * Judy Morris * Dee Mosbacher * Kim Moses (USA) * Emilia Mosquito * Granaz Moussavi (Iran) * Jasmin Mozaffari (Canada) * Nimisha Mukerji (Canada) * April Mullen (Canada) * Kira Muratova (Soviet Union) * Beth Murphy * Colleen Murphy (filmmaker), Colleen Murphy (Canada) * Alison Murray (Canada/UK) * Tosca Musk (Canada) * Jinna Mutune (Kenya) * Anna Muylaert (Brazil) * Gloria Muzio (USA) * Toni Myers (Canada)

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* Dana Nachman (USA) * Fanta Régina Nacro * Ruba Nadda (Arabia/Canada) * Janice Nadeau (Canada) * Phyllis Nagy (USA) * Mira Nair (India) * Najwa Najjar (Palestine) * Laurel Nakadate (USA) * Shasha Nakhai (Canada) * Isabelle Nanty (France) * Darlene Naponse (Canada) * Terre Nash (Canada) * Sandra Nashaat * Afia Nathaniel (Pakistan) * Zarqa Nawaz (Canada) * Anjali Nayar (Canada) * Lynne Naylor (Canada) * Mariam Ndagire (Uganda) * Jennifer Yuh Nelson * Laura Neri (Belgium) * Shirin Neshat * Jennifer Siebel Newsom (USA) * Carol Nguyen (Canada) * Lisa Niemi (USA) * Jessica Nilsson * Mika Ninagawa (Japan) * Vijaya Nirmala (India) * Miwa Nishikawa (Japan) * Michelle Nolden (Canada) * Peg Norman (Canada) * Mabel Normand (USA) * Isabel Noronha (Mozambique) * Elvira Notari (Italy) * Lily Nottage (Canada) * Maria Novaro (Mexico) * Lynn Novick (USA) * Radda Novikova (Russia) * Cherie Nowlan (Australia/UK) * Marti Noxon (USA)

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* Mipo O (Japan) * Claire Oakley (UK) * Kim O'Bomsawin (Canada) * Katharine O'Brien (USA) * Shelagh O'Brien (Canada) * Renee O'Connor (USA) * Alice O'Fredericks (Denmark) * Eileen O'Meara (USA) * Alanis Obomsawin (Canada) * Diane Obomsawin (Canada) * Paula van der Oest (Netherlands) * Naoko Ogigami (Japan) * Mipo Oh (Japan) * Linda Ohama (Canada) * Annette K. Olesen (Denmark) * Susan Oliver (USA) * Madeleine Olnek (USA) * Jenni Olson (USA) * Gulshat Omarova (Kazakhstan) * Yoko Ono (USA/Japan) * Midi Onodera (Canada) * Ngozi Onwurah (Nigeria-UK) * Suemay Oram (UK-Brazil) * Ruth Orkin (USA) * Katrin Ottarsdóttir (Faroe Islands) * Ulrike Ottinger (Germany) * Halima Ouardiri (Switzerland/Canada) * Jackie Oudney (UK) * Akosua Adoma Owusu (USA) * Jan Oxenberg (USA)

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* Nisha Pahuja (Canada) * Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri (USA, India, Canada, UK) * Euzhan Palcy (Martinique) * Gail Palmer * Sai Paranjpye (India) * Megan Park (Canada) * Claire Parker (USA/France) * Francine Parker (USA) * Gudrun Parker (Canada) * Molly Parker (Canada) * Pratibha Parmar (Kenya/UK) * Laura Parnes * Christine Pascal (France) * Stacie Passon (USA) * Lesley Ann Patten (Canada) * Paula Patton (USA) * Nelofer Pazira * Barbara Peeters (USA) * Kimberly Peirce (USA) * Andrée Pelletier (Canada) * Francine Pelletier (journalist) (Canada) * Alexandra Pelosi (USA) * Nadine Pequeneza (Canada) * Sumitra Peries * Cristina Perincioli (Switzerland/Germany) * Janet Perlman * Ellen Perry (USA) * Donna Pescow (USA) * Kristine Peterson * Lori Petty (USA) * Jennifer Phang (USA) * Carmine Pierre-Dufour (Canada) * Ileana Pietrobruno (Canada) * Lydia Dean Pilcher (USA) * Justine Pimlott (Canada) * Carol Pineau * Agnieszka Piotrowska (UK) * Mary Kay Place (USA) * Jennifer Podemski (Canada) * Amy Poehler (USA) * Anne Claire Poirier (Canada) * Lindsey Pollard (Canada) * Sarah Polley (Canada) * Léa Pool (Switzerland/Canada) * Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) * Cynthia J. Popp (USA) * Lourdes Portillo (USA-Mexico) * Natalie Portman (Israel/USA) * Franka Potente (Germany) * Sally Potter (UK) * Brigitte Poupart (Canada) * Deborah Pratt (USA) * Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director), Olga Preobrazhenskaya (Russian Empire/USSR) * Ellen S. Pressman (USA) * Gaylene Preston (New Zealand) * Carrie Preston (USA) * Claire Prieto (Canada) * Gina Prince-Bythewood (USA) * Kardeisha Provo (Canada) * Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (Mongolia)

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* Vivian Qu (China) * Gracia Querejeta (Spain) * Joanna Quinn (UK)

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* Tahani Rached (Canada) * Deborah Raffin (USA) * Eliane Raheb (Lebanon) * Yvonne Rainer (USA) * Rajashree (novelist), Rajashree * Soundarya Rajinikanth * Peggy Rajski (USA) * Bhanumathi Ramakrishna * Lynne Ramsay (UK) * Suze Randall * Roopa Rao (India) * Jenny Raskin (USA) * Irma Raush (Soviet Union/Russia) * Olga Rautenkranzová (Czechoslovakia) * Trisha Ray * Amy Redford (USA) * Cleo Reece (Canada) * Jennifer Reeder (USA) * Dee Rees (USA) * Kelly Reichardt (USA) * Lotte Reiniger (Germany/UK) * Catherine Reitman (Canada, USA) * Revathi (India) * Shabnam Rezaei (USA) * Shonda Rhimes (USA) * Cloudy Rhodes (Australia) * Andrea Giles Rich (USA) * Chantal Richard (France) * Miranda Richardson (UK) * Patricia Richardson (USA) * Salli Richardson (USA) * Yoruba Richen (USA) * Lisa Rideout (Canada) * Leni Riefenstahl (Germany) * Patricia Riggen (Mexico/USA) * Diana Ringo (Finland) * Tristan Risk (Canada) * Marialy Rivas (Chile) * Joan Rivers * Chloé Robichaud (Canada) * Angela Robinson (director), Angela Robinson (USA) * Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (USA) * Julie Anne Robinson (UK) * Melanie Rodriga * Lina Rodriguez (Canada) * Rosemary Rodriguez (USA) * Gerry Rogers * Juliana Rojas * Sophy Romvari (Canada) * Bethany Rooney (USA) * Musidora, Jeanne Roques (France) * Alison E. Rose (Canada) * Lee Rose (director), Lee Rose (USA) * Sue Rose (USA) * Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (USA) * Rose Rosenblatt (USA) * Tatia Rosenthal * Theola Ross (Canada) * Tracee Ellis Ross (USA) * Vanessa Roth * Stephanie Rothman (USA) * Brigitte Roüan (France) * Candida Royalle * Patricia Rozema (Canada) * Catarina Ruivo (Portugal) * Marisa Ryan (USA) * Marja-Lewis Ryan (USA)

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* Jocelyne Saab (Lebanon) * Randa Chahal Sabag (Lebanon) * Lynne Sachs (USA) * Jean Sagal (USA) * Leontine Sagan (Austria-Hungary) * Michelle St. John (Canada) * Annie St-Pierre (Canada) * Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre (Canada) * Tazuko Sakane (Japan) * Gabriela Samper (Colombia) * Helke Sander (Germany) * Helma Sanders-Brahms (Germany) * Isabel Sandoval (Philippines) * Arlene Sanford (USA) * Sangeeta (Pakistani actress), Sangeeta (Pakistan) * Satarupa Sanyal (India) * Shamim Sarif (UK) * Valeria Sarmiento (Chile/France) * Inoka Sathyangani (Sri Lanka) * Shimako Satō (Japan) * Marjane Satrapi (Iran/France) * Brigitte Sauriol (Canada) * Savitri (actress), Savitri (India) * Nancy Savoca (USA) * Lorene Scafaria (USA) * Lone Scherfig (Denmark) * Suzanne Schiffman (France) * Greta Schiller (USA) * Jillian Schlesinger (USA) * Roslyn Schwartz (Canada) * Céline Sciamma (France) * Jordan Scott (filmmaker), Jordan Scott (UK) * Cynthia Scott (Canada) * Nell Scovell (USA) * Beverly Sebastion (USA) * Lorraine Segato (Canada) * Susan Seidelman (USA) * Amy Seimetz (USA) * Emma Seligman (Canada) * Arna Selznick (Canada) * Yoshiko Sembon (Japan) * Aparna Sen (India) * Lorraine Senna (USA) * Amy Serrano (Cuba-USA) * Coline Serreau (France) * Mary Sexton (Canada) * Beverly Shaffer (Canada/USA) * Lee Shallat-Chemel (USA) * Meher Afroz Shaon (Bangladesh) * Kathleen Shannon (Canada) * Jessica Sharzer (USA) * Helen Shaver (Canada/USA) * Tal Shefi (USA-Israel) * Adrienne Shelly (USA) * Angela Shelton (USA) * Lynn Shelton (USA) * Millicent Shelton (USA) * Tali Shemesh (Israel) * Larisa Shepitko (Soviet Union) * Kirsten Sheridan (Ireland) * Amy Sherman-Palladino (USA) * Cindy Sherman (USA) * Domee Shi (Canada) * Ann Shin (Canada) * Sofia Shinas (Canada) * Nell Shipman (Canada) * Tiffany Shlain (USA) *Tima Shomali (Jordan) * Cate Shortland (Australia) * Esfir Shub (Soviet Union) * Mina Shum (Canada) * Huang Shuqin (China) * Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew, Mrs. Sidney Drew (USA) * Trish Sie (USA) * Evann Siebens (Canada) * Lois Siegel (Canada) * Floria Sigismondi (Canada) * Joan Micklin Silver (USA) * Barbara Simmons (USA) * Lisa Simon (USA) * Ellen Simpson (Canada) * Madeleine Sims-Fewer (Canada) * Anne-Marie Sirois (Canada) * Thérèse Sita-Bella (Cameroon) * Kari Skogland (Canada) * Holly Goldberg Sloan (USA) * Jean Smith (Canada) * Alison Snowden (UK/Canada) * Helena Solberg (Brazil) * Yuliya Solntseva (Soviet Union) * Frances-Anne Solomon (Canada/Trinidad and Tobago) * Julia Solomonoff (Argentina) * Mingmongkol Sonakul (Thailand) * Safiya Songhai (USA) * Susan Sontag (USA) * Jen and Sylvia Soska (Canada) * Jane Spencer (director), Jane Spencer (USA) * Penelope Spheeris (USA) * Jill Sprecher (USA) * Avigail Sperber (Israel) * Sylvia Spring (Canada) * Emily Squires (USA) * Nicole Stamp (Canada) * Wendey Stanzler (USA) * Casandra Stark (USA) * J.A. Steel (USA) * Paprika Steen (Denmark) * Johanna Stein (Canada) * Susan Steinberg (producer), Susan Steinberg (USA) * Jennifer Steinman (USA) * Katherine Stenholm (USA) * Martha Stephens (USA) * Stella Stevens (USA) * Julie Stewart (Canada) * Ginny Stikeman (Canada) * Virginia L. Stone (USA) * Lynne Stopkewich (Canada) * Barbra Streisand (USA) * Susan Strickler (USA) * Susan Stroman (USA) * Amanda Strong (Canada) * Vera Stroyeva (Soviet Union) * Sara Sugarman (UK) * Sabiha Sumar (Pakistan) * Vaishnavi Sundar (India) * Elizabeth Sung (Hong Kong) * Alla Surikova (Russia) * Mouly Surya (Indonesia) * Lela Swift (USA) * Brigitte Sy (France) * Ramata-Toulaye Sy (France) * Małgorzata Szumowska (Poland)

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* Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Canada) * Rea Tajiri * Lisa Takeba (Japan) * Tanya Talaga (Canada) * Rachel Talalay (USA) * Shashwati Talukdar * Bhavna Talwar * Amber Tamblyn (USA) * Yuki Tanada (Japan) * Kinuyo Tanaka (Japan) * Loveleen Tandan * Cyndi Tang (USA) * Amanda Tapping (Canada/USA) * Nadia Tass (Macedonia) * Heather Taylor * Sharine Taylor (Canada) * Sam Taylor-Wood (UK) * Julie Taymor (USA) * Sakane Tazuko * Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Italy/France) * Nathalie Teirlinck (Belgium) * Suzie Templeton * Angela Tessinari (USA) * Joan Tewkesbury (USA) * Lucy Thane * Betty Thomas (USA) * Madison Thomas (Canada) * May Miles Thomas * Pam Thomas (USA) * Caroline Thompson (USA) * Danièle Thompson (France) * Jessica M. Thompson (USA/Australia) * Jody Thompson (Canada) * Lea Thompson (USA) * Ninja Thyberg (Sweden) * Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby (Canada) * Ondi Timoner (USA) * Victory Tischler-Blue * Stacy Title * Kamala Todd (Canada) * Loretta Todd (Canada) * Maria Sole Tognazzi (Italy) * Pamela Tola (Finland) * Farkhondeh Torabi * Gariné Torossian * Fina Torres (Venezuela) * Pimpaka Towira (Thailand) * Sarah Townsend (UK) * Wendy Toye * Mouna Traoré (Canada) * Lindalee Tracey (Canada) * Jackie Traverse (Canada) * Julie Tremble (Canada) * Monika Treut (Germany) * Nadine Trintignant (France) * Lexie Findarle Trivundza (USA) * Anne Troake (Canada) * Fien Troch (Belgium) * Rose Troche (USA) * Alice Troughton (UK) * Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece) * Susan Tully (UK) * Marie-Hélène Turcotte (Canada) * Guinevere Turner (USA) * Aisha Tyler (USA) * Hermína Týrlová (Czechoslovakia)

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* Liv Ullmann (Norway) * Sima Urale (New Zealand/Samoa) * Urszula Urbaniak (Poland)

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* Esther Valiquette (Canada) * Agnès Varda (France; born in Belgium) * Pam Veasey (USA) * Nicole Védrès (France) * Ajita Suchitra Veera (India) * Norma Safford Vela (USA) * Ingrid Veninger (Canada) * Katherena Vermette (Canada) * Rhayne Vermette (Canada) * Chris Vermorcken (Belgium) * Myriam Verreault (Canada) * Sandrine Veysset (France) * Manuela Viegas (Portugal) * Teresa Villaverde (Portugal) * Vidhu Vincent (India) * Michal Vinik (Israel) * Bárbara Virgínia (Portugal) * Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Canada) * Katja von Garnier (Germany) * Daisy von Scherler Mayer (USA) * Margarethe von Trotta (Germany) * Jürgen Vsych (USA) * Johanna Vuoksenmaa (Finland)

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* The Wachowskis, Lana & Lilly Wachowski (USA) * Louise Wadley (Australia) * Kristina Wagenbauer (Canada) * Maria Wagner (USA) * Sally Wainwright (UK) * Lucy Walker (director), Lucy Walker (UK) * Mary Walker-Sawka (Canada) * Nancy Walker (USA) * Dahvi Waller (Canada) * Aisling Walsh (Ireland) * Dearbhla Walsh * Shannon Walsh (Canada) * Laura Wandel (Belgium) * Aloha Wanderwell (Canada) * Lulu Wang (filmmaker), Lulu Wang * Rachel Ward (Australia) * Sarah Watt (Australia) * Kim Wayans (USA) * Dreya Weber (USA) * Lois Weber (USA) * Zhao Wei * Claudia Weill (USA) * Leilah Weinraub (USA) * Andrea Weiss (filmmaker), Andrea Weiss (USA) * Valerie Weiss (USA) * Aerlyn Weissman (Canada) * Yvonne Welbon (USA) * Audrey Wells (USA) * Christine Welsh * Jiang Wenli (China) * Lina Wertmüller (Italy) * Anne Wheeler (Canada) * Sherry White (Canada) * Susanna White (UK) * Roxann Whitebean (Canada) * Kanchi Wichmann (UK) * Joyce Wieland (Canada) * Nettie Wild (Canada) * Olivia Wilde (USA) * Dawn Wilkinson (Canada) * Dena Williams (Canada) * JoBeth Williams (USA) * Tucky Williams (USA) * Georgina Willis (Australia) * Chandra Wilson (USA) * Lois Wilson (actress), Lois Wilson (USA) * Margery Wilson (USA) * Sandy Wilson (director), Sandy Wilson (Canada) * Doris Wishman (USA) * Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (USA) * Christie Will Wolf (Canada) * Mariloup Wolfe (Canada) * Joyce Wong (director), Joyce Wong (Canada) * Victoria Wood (UK) * Kate Woods (Australia/USA) * Jacqueline Wright * Robin Wright (USA) * Alice Wu (USA)

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* Xue Xiaolu (China)

Y

* Naoko Yamada (Japan) * Tizuka Yamasaki (Brazil) * Chikako Yamashiro (Japan) * Yūki Yamato (Japan) * Cathy Yan * Ruby Yang (China) * Yong-hi Yang * Pamela Yates (USA) * Linda Yellen (USA) * Ning Ying (China) * Suzi Yoonessi * Yumi Yoshiyuki (Japan) * Aleysa Young (Canada) * Heather Young (filmmaker), Heather Young (Canada) * Byun Young-joo * Nathalie Younglai (Canada) * Jessica Yu (USA)

Z

* Samia Zaman (Bangladesh) * Sara Zandieh (Iran/USA) * Yolande Zauberman (France) * Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia/Herzegovina) * Ona Zee (USA) * Maryanne Zéhil (Canada) * Mai Zetterling (Sweden) * Chenyang Zhao (China) * Chloé Zhao (China/USA) * Zhang Nuanxin (China) * Monica Zanetti (Australia) * Binka Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria) * Lydia Zimmermann (Spain) * Magdalena Zyzak (USA)

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External links

Canadian Women Film Directors Database

Cut-Throat Women

The Director List: Women Directors at Work

Free the Bid: Women Directors

Women In Film & Television International

Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC)

Women Make Movies

The Alice Initiative

Film Fatales

FemaleDirectors.com
(films on Netflix and Amazon)
Filmmakers
at South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) (archive)
Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film
at San Diego State University
Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP)
at Columbia University Libraries {{DEFAULTSORT:Female film and television directors Women film directors, * Women television directors, * Lists of women by occupation, Film and television directors Women's mass media, Film and television directors Lists of television people, Female film and television directors Lists of film directors, Female

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