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and television directors. Their works may include live action and/or animated
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, shorts, documentaries, telemovies,
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, or
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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 ...
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Sarah Abbott Sarah Abbott (born in 1969) is a Canadian filmmaker and artist. Abbott graduated from Queen's University with a major in Film Studies and Drama, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree for Art Video at Syracuse University and is pursuing a doc ...
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Jennifer Abod Jennifer Abod (born 1946) is an American feminist activist, musician, journalist, and filmmaker. Education Jennifer Abod is the sister of feminist activist Susan Abod. She obtained her Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University, her ...
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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- ...
(USA) * Nan Achnas (Indonesia) *
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 ...
(USA) * Kasia Adamik (Poland) * Catlin Adams (USA) * Joey Lauren Adams (USA) *
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 ...
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Harmony Adesola ''Being Black in Halifax'' is a Canadian documentary film and television series, which premiered in 2020 on CBC Television and CBC Gem. Created in conjunction with Fabienne Colas's Being Black in Canada foundation, the series selects several emergi ...
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Elvire Adjamonsi Elvire Adjamonsi (born February 18, 1971) is a Beninese filmmaker, actor, journalist and cultural developer. She is known for her documentary films and for her work in creating and managing film festivals and cultural institutions across Africa. ...
(Benin) * Dianna Agron (USA) *
Yasmin Ahmad Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia fo ...
(Malaysia) * Peggy Ahwesh (USA) *
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 ...
(USA) * Kyōko Aizome (Japan) *
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 (India) * Nargis Akhter (Bangladesh) *
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 ...
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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 (Saudi Arabia) * Gina Alajar (Philippines) *
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 ...
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Victoria Aleksanyan Victoria Aleksanyan (born 1987 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian film director and a co-founder of IFCA Independent Filmmakers Community of Armenia. Aleksanyan has written, directed and produced a number of short films. Education Aleksanyan hol ...
(Armenia) * Lexi Alexander (USA) *
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 Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, writer and photographer who lives and works in Montreal. Biography The daughter of artist Edmund Alleyn, she was born in Switzerland. She studied film at Concordia University. Alleyn wo ...
(Canada) * Natalia Almada (Mexico-USA) * Mairzee Almas (Canada) *
Chihiro Amano is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career Amano was born on July 30, 1982. After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 ''Sayonara Muffler'' which was shown at the Cine ...
(Japan) * Suzana Amaral (Brazil) * Tata Amaral (Brazil) * Barbra Amesbury (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 ...
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Bonnie Ammaq Rosie Bonnie Ammaq is a director and actress from Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. Her film ''Nowhere Land'' won the award for Best Short Documentary at the ImagineNative Film Festival. Early life Ammaq began her life in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. ...
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Valerie Amponsah ''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 Cola ...
(Canada) * Allison Anders (USA) * Deborah Anderson (UK/USA) * Gillian Anderson (USA) * Jane Anderson (USA) * Laurie Anderson (USA) *
Madeline Anderson Madeline Anderson (born ca. 1923) is an American filmmaker, television and documentary producer, film director, editor and screenwriter. She is best known for her films ''Integration Report One'' (1960) and ''I Am Somebody'' (1970), the latter o ...
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Sarah Pia Anderson Sarah Pia Anderson (born 1952) is an English born television and theatre director, and Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at University of California, Davis.
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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 ...
(USA) * Kamila Andini (Indonesia) *
Momoko Ando is a Japanese film director. Biography Ando's father is actor Eiji Okuda and her mother the essayist Kazu Ando. She studied in the United Kingdom, and graduated from the University of London's Faculty of Arts. Later on, Ando went to New York Un ...
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Fern Andra Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs (born Vernal Edna Andrews, November 24, 1893 – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer, and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen, she was one of the most po ...
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Scilla Andreen Scilla Andreen (born November 16, 1961) is an American filmmaker, producer, director and costume designer. She is best known as the CEO and co-founder of Indieflix; a global entertainment screening and streaming service based in Seattle, Washin ...
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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 ...
(India) * Joanna Angel (USA) * Irene Angelico (Canada) * Lucia Aniello (USA) * Jennifer Aniston (USA) * Catherine Annau (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 ...
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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 (USA) * Shamim Ara (Pakistan) * Danielle Arbid (Lebanon) * Louise Archambault (Canada) * Francesca Archibugi (Italy) *
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 (Italy) *
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 (Canada) * Franny Armstrong (UK) *
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 (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), ...
(UK) * Patricia Arquette (USA) * Rosanna Arquette (USA) * Karen Arthur (USA) *
Natasha Arthy Natasha Arthy (born 23 May 1969 in Gentofte, Denmark) is a Denmark, Danish screenwriter, film film director, director and Film producer, producer, best known for her 2003 Dogme 95, Dogme film ''Se til venstre, der er en Svensker'' (USA Title: ''O ...
(Denmark) * Larysa Artiugina (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 (USA) *
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 (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 (USA) * Asinnajaq (Canada) * Ratna Asmara (Indonesia) *
Dorothy A. Atabong Dorothy A. Atabong is a Canadian actress, writer and producer. She is best known for ''Sound of Tears'' for which she’s won various awards including an Africa Movie Academy Award in 2015. Career Atabong received positive reviews for theatre ...
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Jacqueline Audry Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war ...
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Shona Auerbach Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer. Early career Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at 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 ...
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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 (France) *
Ronit Avni Ronit Avni is a Canadian entrepreneur, tech founder, human rights advocate, and Peabody Award-winning film director and producer. Early life and education Avni was born and raised in Canada. She graduated with honors with a B.A. in political ...
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Tali Avrahami Tali Avrahami (Hebrew: טלי אברהמי; born January 15, 1969) is an Israeli filmmaker, producer, entertainer, and educator; a Chabad hasidic woman, who creates films aimed at an audience of haredi women. Biography Avrahami was born in R ...
(Israel) * Lisa Azuelos (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 (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 ...
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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 ...
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Yamina Bachir-Chouikh Yamina Bachir (20 March 1954 – 3 April 2022) was an Algerian film director and screenwriter. Her film ''Rachida'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. According to Roy Armes, ''Rachida'' is 'the first ...
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Marina Rice Bader Marina Rice Bader is a writer, director, and film producer. She is known for the films '' Anatomy of a Love Seen'' (2014), ''Raven's Touch'' (2015), and '' Ava's Impossible Things'' (2016). She was executive producer for ''Elena Undone'' (2010) ...
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Cindy Baer Cindy Baer is an American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur. She helms the production company Free Dream Pictures, located in Burbank, California. She directed and produced the independent feature films '' Purgatory House'' and '' ...
(USA) * Jennifer Baichwal (Canada) * Norma Bailey (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 *
Catherine Bainbridge Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-found Rezolution Pictures Rezolution Pictures is a film and television production company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal ...
(Canada) * Josiane Balasko (France) * Lucille Ball (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 U ...
(Spain) * Anne Bancroft (USA) * Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (Iran) * Elizabeth Banks (USA) * Sofia Banzhaf (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 ...
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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 ...
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Laura Bari Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression. Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is an-award winning doc ...
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Céline Baril Céline Baril (born 1953) is a Canadian artist and film director. Early life Baril was born in Gentilly, Quebec. In 1982, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Career Her film ''24 Davids'' was ...
(Canada) * Neema Barnette (USA) * Roseanne Barr (USA) *
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 ...
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Cecilia Barriga Cecilia Barriga (born 1957) is a Chilean-Spanish film director. Her 1991 film ''Meeting Two Queens'' was shown at Montreal Women's Film and Video Festival and New York International Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film. She directed her first feature ...
(Chile) * Drew Barrymore (USA) *
Maria Basaglia Maria Basaglia (1912 – 5 May 1998) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Cremona, Basaglia started her career as dubbing director for the production company Scalera Film. Between 1939 and 1944 she wrote several ...
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Svetlana Baskova Svetlana Yurievna Baskova (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 ...
(USA) * Michal Bat-Adam (Israel) *
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 ...
(UK/USA) * Kathy Bates (USA) *
Signe Baumane Signe Baumane (born 7 August 1964) is a Latvian animator, fine artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of ...
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Janet Baus Janet Baus is an American documentary film and television director, producer and editor. In 1993, she co-directed '' Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too'' with Su Friedrich, about activist group the Lesbian Avengers. In 2003 she produced John Scagliotti ...
(USA) * Jordan Bayne (USA) * Amanda Bearse (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
(Canada) * Renée Beaulieu (Canada) *
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 '' ...
(UK/USA) * André-Line Beauparlant (Canada) * Aida Begić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Fatma Begum * 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 ...
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Esther Bell Esther Bell is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, social activist, and community entrepreneur. Her two feature films, ''Godass'' and ''Exist'', received critical acclaim in ''The New York Times'' and ''Variety'' for their tones of ...
(USA) * Jennifer Lyon Bell (Netherlands/USA) *
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 ...
(USA) * Edet Belzberg *
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 ...
(USA) * Yamina Benguigui (Algeria/France) * Sadie Benning (USA) *
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 ...
(Canada) * Amber Benson (USA) *
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 ...
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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 (Finland) *
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 (Philippines) *
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 (France) * Diane Bertrand (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 (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 (USA) * Pooja Bhatt *
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 ...
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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 (Denmark) * Kathryn Bigelow (USA) * Anna Biller (USA) * Patricia Birch (USA) * Antonia 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 ...
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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 ...
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Justine Bitagoye Justine Bitagoye is a Burundian journalist, film producer, screenwriter and film director. Biography Bitagoye is an independent filmmaker from Burundi, who works as a journalist for the National Television and Radio Broadcast Authority. She ...
(Burundi) * Simone Bitton (Morocco) *
Marthe Blackburn Marthe Blackburn, née Morisset (1916 - 1991) was a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. A television writer for Radio-Canada and later a film writer for the National Film Board of Canada, she was most noted for her collaborations with director Anne ...
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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 (Russia) *
Marusya Bociurkiw Marusya Bociurkiw (born May 25, 1958) is a Canadian born, Ukrainian film-maker, writer, scholar, and activist. She has published six books, including a novel, poetry collection, short story collection, and a memoir. Her narrative and critica ...
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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 (USA) * Sofia Bohdanowicz (Canada) *
Sonia Bonspille Boileau Sonia Boileau is a Canadian First Nations filmmaker belonging to the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Biography Sonia Bonspille-Boileau was raised between Oka, where her French-Canadian father hails from, and Kanesatake, the comm ...
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Sophie Farkas Bolla Sophie Farkas Bolla is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted for her work on the films '' P.S. Jerusalem'', for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and ''The Gig Is Up'' ...
(Canada) * Icíar Bollaín (Spain) * Natalya Bondarchuk (Soviet Union/Russia) *
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 ...
(USA) * Sandrine Bonnaire (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 (USA) *
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 (India) *
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 ...
(UK) * Leyla Bouzid *
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 ...
(USA) * Muriel Box (UK) *
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 ...
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Madeline Brandeis Madeline Frank Brandeis (December 18, 1897 – June 28, 1937) was an American writer of children's books, a film producer and director. Biography Brandeis was born as Madeline Frank in San Francisco. Brandeis was best known for her "Children ...
(USA) * Maryann Brandon (USA) *
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 ...
(Norway) * Catherine Breillat (France) * Zabou Breitman (France) * Pietra Brettkelly (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 ...
(Canada) *
Manon Briand Manon Briand (born January 1, 1964, in Baie-Comeau, Quebec)Manon Briand
at Toronto Inte ...
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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 ...
(UK) * Tricia Brock (USA) * Beth Broderick (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 ...
(USA) * Katherine Brooks (USA) * Julie Brown (USA) *
Christene Browne Christene Browne (born 1965 in Saint Kitts) is a Canadian director and writer. Browne is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada. Biography Born in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, Browne moved with her family to Ca ...
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Frances Buss Buch Frances Buss Buch (June 3, 1917 – January 19, 2010) was the first female television director in the United States. Career Buch grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri, and attended Washington University. In the early 1940s she relocated to New York 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 (UK) * Nanette Burstein (USA) *
Mira Burt-Wintonick Mira Burt-Wintonick (born July 8, 1984) is a Canadian radio and film producer best known for her audio pieces and work on the CBC radio program ''WireTap''. Trained as a classical musician, Burt-Wintonick pursued a Communications degree from Con ...
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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 (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 ...
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Andrea Bussmann Andrea Bussmann (born 1980) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, most noted for her 2018 film '' Fausto''. The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Cr ...
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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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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 ...
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Diane Cailhier Diane Cailhier (1947 – 5 February 2020) was a Canadian filmmaker and director. She was married to fellow film director Alain Chartrand. Biography Cailhier was born in 1947 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Her father, Antonin Cailhier, was a profess ...
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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 (USA) *
Jessica Cameron Jessica Cameron is a Canadian horror film actress, director, screenwriter, and producer. Early life Cameron was born in Owen Sound, Ontario where she graduated high school before moving to Toronto to study fashion at Ryerson University. Career C ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
(Canada) * Tisha Campbell-Martin (USA) * Jane Campion (New Zealand) *
Kat Candler Kat Candler (born November 11, 1974) is an American film writer, producer, and director. She wrote and directed the 2014 film '' Hellion,'' and has worked on television shows including ''13 Reasons Why'' and ''Queen Sugar''. Life Candler grew up ...
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Jordan Canning Jordan Canning is a Canadian director for film and television. She is known for her independent feature films ''We Were Wolves'' (2014) and '' Suck It Up'' (2017), as well as her work directing on television series ''Baroness Von Sketch Show,'' ' ...
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Dyan Cannon Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, 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 ...
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Fernanda Cardoso ''Bloomington'' is a 2010 coming-of-age drama film about a former child actress (Sarah Stouffer) attending college in search of independence and who ends up becoming romantically involved with a professor, played by Allison McAtee. Their relationsh ...
(Brazil) * Patricia Cardoso (Colombia/USA) * Maggie Carey (USA) *
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 (New Zealand) *
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 ...
(Brazil) * Joan Carr-Wiggin (Canada) *
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 Kirsten Carthew is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Carthew made a number of short films, most notably ''Fish Out of Water'' in 2015, before releasing her debut feature film, '' The Sun at ...
(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- ...
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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 * Liliana Cavani (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 (USA) * Thea Červenková (Czechoslovakia) * Gurinder Chadha (UK) * Lydia Chagoll (Belgium) * Ilene Chaiken (USA) * Tanuja Chandra (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 (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 (USA) * Shu Lea Cheang (Taiwan) * Shirley Cheechoo (Canada) * Joan Chen (China) *
Evelyn Spice Cherry Evelyn Spice Cherry (née Evelyn Spice) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker, director, and producer. She is best known for her work as the head of the Agricultural Films Unit at the National Film Board of Canada and as a member of the British D ...
(Canada) * Mabel Cheung (China) *
Sagari Chhabra Sagari Chhabra is an Indian writer and film director. She has written and directed fifteen documentary films and one fiction film, winning five national and international awards. Films, awards New Delhi-based Chhabra's work focusses on social ...
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Patricia Chica Patricia Chica also known as Chicatronica is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer. The American horror movie site Dread Central referenced her in their list of the "Rising Female Filmmakers" to watch along other notable ...
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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 ...
(USA) * Aisling Chin-Yee (Canada) *
SJ Chiro SJ Chiro is an American screenwriter and film director. She has made her feature film directing debut with ''Lane 1974'' in 2017 and later directed ''East of the Mountains'' in 2021. Career SJ Chiro was born and raised in Seattle, Washington ...
(USA) * Karen Cho (Canada) * Monia Chokri (Canada) * Lisa Cholodenko (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 ...
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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 (Canada) * Věra Chytilová (Czech Republic) *
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 ...
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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 (USA) *
Millefiore Clarkes Millefiore Clarkes (also called Mille Clarkes), is a Canadian filmmaker from Prince Edward Island. She has produced music videos, experimental shorts and documentary films, as well as commercials. She also owns and operates One Thousand Flowers P ...
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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 (Canada) *
Jub Clerc Jub Clerc is a Nyulnyul and Yawuru film director and screenwriter from Australia. She is most noted for her 2022 debut feature film '' Sweet As'', which won the Innovation Award at the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, and the NETPAC Awar ...
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Susan Cohen Susan Cohen is a Canadian independent film producer, screenwriter, and film director. In 2007, Cohen was one of eight women selected to attend the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women,Yulie Cohen Yulie Cohen (in Hebrew language, Hebrew: יולי כהן; born July 5, 1956) is an Israeli Documentary film, documentary Filmmaking, filmmaker. Biography Cohen was born in Tzahala, to Miki and Tami Cohen, the second of their three children. Sh ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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" '' ...
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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 (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 ...
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Heather Connell Heather E. Connell is an American film director. She is best known for directing the award-winning feature documentaries '' Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children'' (2008) and '' Forget Us Not'' (2013). Early life and education Heathe ...
(USA) * Lisa Connor (USA) *
Janice Cooke-Leonard Janice Cooke is an American television director and Television producer, producer. She began her professional career as an associate producer on the series ''Fantasy Island (1977 TV series), Fantasy Island'' in 1980. Followed by a number of oth ...
(USA) * Martha Coolidge (USA) *
Nancy Cooperstein Nancy Cooperstein Charney is an American theatrical producer and television director. Directing and producing She produced the original Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer-prize winning play - Talley's Folly - and the Emmy-nominated ...
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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 (USA) *
Cristina Kotz Cornejo Cristina Kotz Cornejo is an Argentine-American director and screenwriter who divides her time between Boston, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. She is a descendant of the Huarpe people of the Cuyo region of Argentina and was educated in the US and ...
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Larissa Corriveau Larissa Corriveau is a Canadian actress from Quebec.
(Canada) * Catherine Corsini (France) * Ghyslaine Côté (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 (Canada) * Courteney Cox (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 ...
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Judith Crawley Judith Rosemary (Sparks) Crawley (April 21, 1914 – September 16, 1986) was a Canadian film producer, cinematographer, director, and screenwriter. She and her husband Frank Radford "Budge" Crawley co-founded the production company Crawley Film ...
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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 ...
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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 (USA) *
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 ...
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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 *
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 ''The ...
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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– ...
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Thirza Cuthand TJ Cuthand is a filmmaker, video- and performance artist, writer and curator of Plains Cree as well as Scottish and Irish descent. He is credited with coining the term ''Indigiqueer'', for modern Indigenous LGBTQ people.
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Eva Dahr Eva Frederikke Dahr (30 October 1958 – 12 May 2019) was a Norwegian film director, playwright, and film producer. She studied at Volda University College and the Bela Balaz studio in Budapest, Hungary. Dahr was a prolific director of sho ...
(Norway) * Holly Dale (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 ...
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Tamela D'Amico Tamela D'Amico is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker who started the production company La Strega Entertainment in 2006 and BELLONA Entertainment in 2020. Career D'Amico was one of 24 finalists on the FOX television reality show ''On th ...
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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 (Canada) * Gia Darling * Joan Darling (USA) *
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 (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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Marie Davignon Background Marie Davignon is a Canadian cinematographer and film director.Céline Roustan"Amies (Girlfriends)" ''Short of the Week'', April 27, 2020. A Montréal native. From the University of Quebec in Montreal, she earned a degree in film. Mult ...
(Canada) * Tamra Davis (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' ...
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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 Film ...
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Linda Day Linda Day (August 12, 1938 – October 23, 2009)Camille de Casabianca Camille de Casabianca (born 31 October 1960) is a French filmmaker and writer. Biography Camille de Casabianca was born 31 October 1960, in Paris. She received a master of arts degree in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley. ...
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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 (Portugal) * Miranda de Pencier (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 ...
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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 (USA) * Rowan Deacon (UK) * Tracey Deer (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 (USA) * Katrina del Mar (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 ...
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Paula Delsol Paula Delsol, or Paule Delsol, was born on October 6, 1923, in Haiphong, Vietnam, died on June 12, 2015, at Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine) and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was a French feature film director, documentarian, screenwriter, nov ...
(France) * Claire Denis (France) * Pouran Derakhshandeh (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 (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 '' ...
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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 (USA) * Nia Dinata (Indonesia) * Mati Diop (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
(USA/Ghana) * Assia Djebar (Algeria) * Nana Djordjadze (Georgia) * Shannen Doherty (USA) * Gail Dolgin (USA) * Trish Dolman (Canada) *
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 ...
(Canada) * Andrea Dorfman (Canada) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (USA) * Elissa Down (Australia) * Rosvita Dransfeld (Canada) * Polly Draper (USA) * Fran Drescher (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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Blessing Effiom Egbe In religion, a blessing (also used to refer to bestowing of such) is the impartation of something with grace, holiness, spiritual redemption, or divine will. Etymology and Germanic paganism The modern English language term ''bless'' likely ...
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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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Jihan El-Tahri Jihan El-Tahri ( ar, ﺟﻬﺎﻥ ﺍلطاهري; born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She is a French and Egyptian national. In 1984, she received her BA in political science, and in 1986 her MA in ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
(USA) * Diane English (USA) *
Jackie English Jackie English is a Canadian television host, actress, dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker and performer. Early life English was born in Toronto, Ontario. English later moved to Montreal where she graduated from McGill University in the ...
(Canada) * Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary) * Nora Ephron (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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Claudia Morgado Escanilla Claudia Morgado Escanilla (Claudia Morgado, Claudia Morgado E.) (born 1962) is a Latin American Canadian, Latino-Canadian filmmaker, writer, script supervisor, producer and curator. She has worked on the festival circuit and commercially. Morga ...
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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 (South Korea) *
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 ...
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Ewa Ewart Ewa Ewart (born 13 March 1956 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist and an award-winning filmmaker who specializes in groundbreaking and influential documentaries. Early life She was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, but she has spent most of her c ...
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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 ...
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Danielle Faraldo Danielle Faraldo (born June 21, 1966) is an American independent filmmaker. External linksFilmmaker Reference
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(USA) * Coralie Fargeat (France) * Valerie Faris (USA) *
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 ...
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Sepideh Farsi Sepideh Farsi (Persian language, Persian: سپیده فارسی; born 1965) is an Iranian director. Early years Farsi left Iran in 1984 and went to Paris to study mathematics. However, eventually she was drawn to the visual arts and initially e ...
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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 ...
(Senegal) * Daniela Fejerman (Argentina) * Rachel Feldman (USA) *
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 ...
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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 ...
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Pepita Ferrari Pepita Ferrari (1952 - 2018) was a Canadian filmmaker. In 1994 she began her long-standing relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, who produced seven of her films, five of which are available to stream online in both English and Frenc ...
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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 ...
(USA) * Chip Fields (USA) * Kim Fields (USA) *
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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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 ...
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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. ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (Luxembourg) * Maya Forbes (USA) *
Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis are a Canadian animation duo. On January 24, 2012, they received their second Oscar nomination, for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short film, '' Wild Life'' (2011). With their latest film, '' Th ...
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Victoria Forester Victoria Forester is a Canadian author and a screenwriter. She is known for her novel, ''The Girl Who Could Fly''. Early life Forester was born and grew up in a remote farm in Ontario, Canada. When she was 7 years old, she was passionate to be ...
(Canada) * Sadaf Foroughi (Iran) *
Kyllikki Forssell Kyllikki Forssell (2 May 1925 — 7 October 2019) was a leading Finnish stage and film actress, with a career spanning over 60 years from the mid-20th to the early 21st century and film director. She was one of the first four Finnish women film ...
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Sarah Fortin Sarah Fortin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film '' Nouveau Québec'' was released in 2021. At the 2021 Whistler Film Festival, Fortin won both the Alliance of Women Film Journalists's EDA Award for b ...
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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 ...
(USA) * Jodie Foster (USA) *
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– ...
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Lilibet Foster Lilibet Foster is an American director, producer and writer. Her non-fiction films have won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award and been nominated for Best Film of the Year by the International Documentary Association. Biography Fo ...
(USA) * Tori Foster (Canada) *
Beryl Fox Beryl Fox (born December 10, 1931) is a Canadian documentary film director and film producer. Biography Fox was born in 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After graduating from the University of Toronto she was hired by the CBC and worked there from ...
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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 ...
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Rana Abu Fraihah Rana Abu Fraihah ( ar, رنا أبو فريحة, he, רנא אבו פריחה; born October 8, 1990) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and videographer. Her best-known work is the film '' In Her Footsteps'', which documents her family's story. ...
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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. ...
(USA) * Raquel Freire (Portugal) * Camelia Frieberg (Canada) * Liz Friedlander (USA) * Kim Friedman *
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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
(USA) * Soleil Moon Frye (USA) * Pamela Fryman (USA) *
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 ...
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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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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 ...
(Canada) * Liz Garbus (USA) * Emmanuelle Schick Garcia (Canada) *
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 ...
(French Algiers) * Jennifer Garner (USA) * Jem Garrard (Canada) * Katy Garretson (USA) * Jennie Garth (USA) * Karen Gaviola (USA) *
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 ...
(France) * Sarah Gavron (UK) * Katrin Gebbe (Germany) *
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 ...
(Canada) * Geretta Geretta *
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 (USA) *
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 ...
(USA) * Tina Gharavi (Iran/USA/UK/NZ) * Coky Giedroyc (UK) *
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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", ...
(USA) * Ellen Gittelsohn (USA) * Lesli Linka Glatter (USA) * Delphine Gleize (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 ...
(Israel) * Whoopi Goldberg (USA) * Valeria Golino (Italy) *
Rosser Goodman Rosser Goodman is an American film and television director, writer and producer. Goodman founded her own production company, KGB Films in the 90's upon moving to Hollywood. Goodman's company is now called Circle Content in partnership with fashi ...
(USA) * Dennie Gordon (USA) * Marleen Gorris (Netherlands) *
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 ...
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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 ...
(USA) * Danis Goulet (Canada) *
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 ...
(Canada) * Marita Grabiak (USA) * Briar Grace-Smith (New Zealand) *
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 ...
(USA) * Anais Granofsky (Canada) * Lee Grant (USA) * Susannah Grant (USA) *
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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Amy Greenfield Amy Greenfield (born July 8, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is a filmmaker and writer living in New York City. She is an originator of the cine-dance genre and a pioneer of Experimental film, experimental film and video. At their retrospecti ...
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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 screenp ...
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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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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 ...
(Finland) * Joana Hadjithomas (Lebanon) * Lucile Hadžihalilović (France) *
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 ...
(Canada) * Randa Haines (USA) *
Maha Haj Maha Haj (Arabic: مها حاج; born in 1970) is an Israeli-born Palestinian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Haj was born in Nazareth, Israel. She was educated in the Baptist Christian school in Nazareth, though both her pare ...
(Palestine) *
Pam Hall Pam Hall is a Jamaican reggae singer whose career began in the 1970s. Career Hall recorded as a solo artist from the mid-1970s as well as providing backing vocals for several other artists including Jimmy Cliff, Judy Mowatt, Beres Hammond, De ...
(Canada) * Sachi Hamano (Japan) *
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 ...
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Sylvia Hamilton Sylvia D. Hamilton is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, poet, and artist. Based in Nova Scotia, her work explores the lives and experiences of people of African descent. Her special focus is on African Nova Scotians, and especially women. In particu ...
(Canada) * Tanya Hamilton (USA) *
Barbara Hammer Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She is known for being one of the pioneers of the lesbian film genre, and her career spanned over 50 years. Hamm ...
(USA) * Sanaa Hamri (Morocco/USA) * Michelle Handelman (USA) * Kristin Hanggi (USA) *
Teresa Hannigan Teresa Hannigan is a Canadian film and television editor, most noted as a four-time Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series. She was nominated at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004 for h ...
(Canada) * Marion Hänsel (Belgium) *
Mia Hansen-Løve Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She has won several accolades for her work. Her first feature film, '' All Is Forgiven'', won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2007 ...
(France) * Banchi Hanuse (Canada) *
Neasa Hardiman Neasa Hardiman is an Irish director of both fiction and nonfiction, predominantly known for her television work. Hardiman began her career producing a number of shows for the RTÉ network in Ireland and has since worked on both British and Ame ...
(Ireland) *
Catherine Hardwicke Helen Catherine HardwickeAccording to the State of Texas. ''Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, p ...
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Alicia K. Harris Alicia K. Harris is a Scarborough, Ontario, Canada-based film director and screenwriter.Mike Adler"With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face" '' Toronto.com'', November 15, 2019. She attracted critical acclaim for her 2019 s ...
(Canada) * Danielle Harris (USA) * Emily Harris (United Kingdom) * Mary Harron (Canada) * Jackée Harry (USA) *
Bobbi Jo Hart Bobbi Jo Hart (née Krals) is an American-Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec. Hart was born in California and raised in Cottage Grove, Oregon. She is most noted for her films ''Rebels on Pointe'', which won the award for Best ...
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Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and director. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms ''Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991–1994), ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003), and ''M ...
(USA) * Phoebe Hart (Australia) *
Jessica Hausner Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She received international attention in 2001 when her film ''Lovely Rita'', a portrait of a young girl who feels confined by family constraints, was screened in ...
(Austria) * Goldie Hawn (USA) * Gwen Haworth (Canada) * Salma Hayek (Mexico/USA) *
Helaine Head Helaine Head (born January 17, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film, television, and theatre director. Career In television, some of her directing credits are '' St. Elsewhere'', ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Frank's Place'', ''L.A. Law'' ...
(USA) * Leslye Headland (USA) *
Julie Hébert Julie Hébert (sometimes credited as Julie Hebert) is an American writer/director of theater, film and television. Biography Julie Hébert grew up in a small town on the Louisiana coast and many of her plays are set there. After college she moved ...
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Anne Heche Anne Celeste Heche ( ; May 25, 1969August 11, 2022) was an American actress, known for her roles in a variety of genres in film, television, and theater, receiving numerous accolades, including a National Board of Review Award and multiple Emmy ...
(USA) * Jen Heck (USA) *
Amy Heckerling Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American filmmaker. An alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute, she directed the commercially successful films ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), ''National Lampoon's Europ ...
(USA) * Sian Heder (USA) * Birgit Hein (Germany) *
Manijeh Hekmat Manijeh Hekmat ( fa, منیژه حکمت) is an Iranian film director. Born on 23 March 1962 in Arak, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film ''Women's ...
(Iran) * Marielle Heller (USA) * Katherine Helmond (USA) *
Heather Hemmens Heather Hemmens is an American actress, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Alice Verdura in The CW series ''Hellcats'' (2010-2011). She starred as Stacy Collins in the Netflix comedy ''Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!'' ...
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Felicia D. Henderson Felicia D. Henderson (born April 18, 1961) is an American television producer, screenwriter, comic books writer and a director of music videos and television episodes. She has worked on '' Moesha'', '' Sister, Sister'', ''Soul Food'', and ''Fri ...
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Maryam Henein Maryam Henein is a Canadian-born investigative journalist, activist, alternative medicine practitioner, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. She directed the documentary ''Vanishing of the Bees'' narrated by Elliot Page. Henein has been accused of spr ...
(Canada) * Jill Hennessy (Canada) * Astrid Henning-Jensen (Denmark) * Kathleen Hepburn (Canada) *
Jennifer Love Hewitt Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress and singer. Hewitt began her career as a child actress and singer, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series ''Kids I ...
(USA) *
Sachiko Hidari was a Japanese actress and film director. Life Hidari was born in Asahi, Toyama, as the eldest of 8 children. She graduated from Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education and gave her film debut in 1952 in ''Wakaki hi no ayamachi''. Betwee ...
(Japan) * Heather Hill (USA) * Cheryl Hines (USA) * Ivy Ho (Hong Kong) *
Lyndall Hobbs Lyndall Hobbs (born 1952) is an Australian film director and producer. Life and career Hobbs was born in Australia in 1952. She spent many years in the United Kingdom, during which time she directed the documentary film ''Steppin' Out'' (1979) ...
(Australia/USA) * Victoria Hochberg (USA) *
Tamar Simon Hoffs Tamar Simon Hoffs (née Tamar Ruth Simon; October 23, 1934) is an American filmmaker, best known for directing the indie films ''Red Roses and Petrol'' (2003) and ''Pound of Flesh'' (2009), both starring Malcolm McDowell. Life and career Hoffs w ...
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Joanna Hogg Joanna Hogg (born 20 March 1960) is a British film director and screenwriter. She made her directorial and screenwriting feature film debut in 2007 with ''Unrelated'' followed by ''Archipelago'' (2010) and ''Exhibition'' (2013). Two of her film ...
(UK) * Agnieszka Holland (Poland) * Helen Holmes (USA) * Peggy Holmes (USA) * Nicole Holofcener (USA) * Mahboubeh Honarian (Iran/Canada) *
Solveig Hoogesteijn Solveig Hoogesteijn, born in Sweden, is a noted Venezuelan motion picture writer, producer and director. Film creations She wrote, produced and directed '' El Mar del tiempo perdido'' (''The Sea of Lost Time, 1981'') ''Manoa'' (1980), Manoa - F ...
(Sweden/Venezuela) * Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Canada) *
Gwyneth Horder-Payton Gwyneth Horder-Payton is an American television director. Beginning in the late 1980s she worked as an assistant director on a number of films such as ''Pacific Heights'', ''The Doors'', ''Raising Cain'', '' I Love Trouble'', '' Homeward Bound ...
(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)


S

* 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)


T

* 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)


U

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


V

* 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)


W

* 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)


X

* 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)


See also

*List of Female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories *List of film and television directors *List of lesbian filmmakers *List of women writers *Women's cinema


Notes


References


Further reading

* :* * * (via Butler University Digital Commons.) * * * * * * * * Stephen Follows Film Data and Education
Film Data Reports – ''Cut Out Of The Picture: Gender in UK Film''
* * Video * *


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