Female directors on set

Cinematographers are crucial to every film.

Backing women shunned by the big studios makes good business sense, says the director of BBC1’s The Night Manager

With A Dry White Season in 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. She has been fighting the system ever since, and leading the way for a new generation of black female directors.

“Katharine Hepburn on the set of ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ Released in NYC OTD 1967. She would win Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal. ✨✨#OTD #movies @TimeForAFilm @OfOldHollywood @classic_film @FilmTVLegends”

MAYA DEREN AND THE SKIN BETWEEN US. She was a filmmaker of extraordinary power. Her films mesmerize, draw the viewer into her spell, into the intimate space of her film vision. Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Choreography for Camera, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence, The Very Eye of Night, and even her unfinished epic on Haiti all share an aspect of trance, of the narrative of the unconscious, of movement in relation to transcendence.

The [[embed type=link nid=28870 title="October 2015 issue"]] of Sight & Sound resurrects and celebrates 100 overlooked films directed by women, and includes contributions by many filmmakers, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis and Jane Campion among them. It was born from the desire to show the diverse range of great films made by women through history, so many of which are unduly obscured and under-seen. But what about the makers of these films themselves? How visible are they?

Do you ever get that feeling, Damn, It’s Always Something? Tatiana Hernández's upcoming anthology series is centered around this phrase, along with the experiences that shape our realities and the choices we make in response.