Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director,

In Her Voice is the first book that takes the words and experiences of a diverse group of celebrated women film directors and puts their voices front and center

Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmmaker from the

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking in