Introducing Directora- Episode 1: Who Is the First Female Director?

Welcome to Directora. In order to begin highlighting the amazing contributions of women in film, we have to start at the very beginning with Alice Guy-Blache, a prolific silent film director who was the first of her kind. The young French woman worked at a camera company and saw the potential for film to tell stories. As one of the inventors of narrative film, Alice Guy-Blache wrote and directed nearly 1,000 films between 1896 and 1920. She was at the top of her game, but her move to America changed everything.

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