This tweet & a conversation with director @WomenCallAction has inspired a new project: 151 Days of Female Filmmakers. I’ll be showcasing a female director every day to show the many women behind the camera. Follow along: #151FemaleFilmmakers. Look for my first post later today!
Day 1: Ida Lupino
Directed The Hitch-Hiker (1953), The Bigamist (1953), The Trouble with Angels (1966)
TV episodes of Mr. Adams and Eve, The Twlight Zone, The Donna Reed Show, Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island
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Day 2: Ry Russo-Young ( @ryrussoyoung)
Directed Nobody Walks (2012), Before I Fall (2017), The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
Directed episodes of Cloak & Dagger, Sorry For Your Loss, Everything Sucks!
2 upcoming projects include Panic, Bad Girls.
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Day 3: DeMane Davis ( @DeManeDavis)
Directed Black & White & Red All Over (1997), Lift (2001)
Directed episodes of How to Get Away with Murder, Station 19, Queen Sugar, For the People, and the TV mini-series Self Made (2020)
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Day 4: Lulu Wang ( @thumbelulu)
Directed Posthumous (2014), The Farewell (2019)
[Both films are on Amazon Prime btw]
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Day 5: Ava DuVernay ( @ava)
Directed I Will Follow (2010), Selma (2014), 13th (2016), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), and the mini-series When They See Us (2019)
Directed episodes of Queen Sugar, Scandal
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Day 6: Rachel Feldman ( @WomenCallAction)
Directed She’s No Angel (2002), Her Mind in Pieces (2019)
Directed episodes of The Rookie, Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, Sisters
Currently in development is her film Lilly about Fair Pay activist Lilly Ledbetter.
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Day 7: Lynn Shelton
Directed We Go Way Back (2006), Your Sister’s Sister (2011), Laggies (2014), Sword of Trust (2019)
Directed episodes of Mad Men, Little Fires Everywhere, Love, GLOW
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Day 8: Amy Adrion ( @amyadrion)
Directed the feature film Half the Picture (2018).
Directed the short films Surviving 7th Grade (2005), The Home of Split Pea Soup (2007), Shoegazer (2010)
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Day 9: Kitty Green
Directed Ukraine is Not a Brothel (2013), Casting JonBenet (2017), The Assistant (2020)
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Day 10: Jennifer Phang ( @Phangvantageous)
Directed Half-Life (2008), Advantageous (2015)
Directed episodes of The Boys, Cloak & Dagger, Riverdale, Stargirl
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Day 11: Lea Thompson ( @LeaKThompson)
Directed The Year of Spectacular Men (2017)
Directed episodes of The Goldbergs, Stargirl, Switched at Birth, Mom, Schooled
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Day 12: Miranda July ( @Miranda_July)
Directed Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Future (2011), Kajillionaire (2020)
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Day 13: Mary Harron
Directed I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Charlie Says (2018)
Directed episodes of Six Feet Under, Big Love, Alias Grace
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Day 14: Patty Jenkins ( @PattyJenks)
Directed Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017)
Directed episodes of Arrested Development, Entourage, The Killing, Betrayal, I Am the Night
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Day 15: Dee Rees
Directed Pariah (2011), Bessie (2015), Mudbound (2017), The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Directed episodes of Empire, Space Force, When We Rise, Electric Dreams
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Day 16: Gina Prince-Bythewood ( @GPBmadeit)
Directed Love & Basketball (2000), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Beyond the Lights (2014), The Old Guard (2020)
Directed episodes of The Bernie Mac Show, Everybody Hayes Chris, Cloak & Dagger
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Day 17: Karen Maine ( @KL_Maine)
Directed Yes, God, Yes (2020)
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Day 18: Lynne Ramsay
Directed Ratcatcher (1999), Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), You Were Never Really Here (2017)
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Day 19: Melina Matsoukas ( @melinamatsoukas)
Directed Queen & Slim (2019)
Directed episodes of Insecure, Master of None
Directed music videos for Beyoncé, Rihanna, Leona Lewis
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Day 20: Chloé Zhao
Directed Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015), The Rider (2017), Nomadland (2020)
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Day 21: Amma Asante ( @AmmaAsante)
Directed A Way of Life (2004), Belle (2013), A United Kingdom (2016), Where Hands Touch (2018)
Directed episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, Mrs. America
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Day 22: Penny Marshall
Directed Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986), Big (1988), A League of Their Own (1992), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Directed episodes of United States of Tara, Laverne & Shirley, The Tracey Ullman Show
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 23: Patricia Cardoso ( @PatCardosoFilm)
Directed El reino de los cielos (1994), The Water Carrier (1996), Real Women Have Curves (2002), El Paseo De Teresa (2017)
Directed episodes of Ro, Queen Sugar, In the Dark, The Society
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Day 24: Lorene Scafaria ( @LoreneScafaria)
Directed Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), The Meddler (2015), Hustlers (2019)
Directed episodes of New Girl
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Day 25: Zoe Lister-Jones ( @ZoeListerJones)
Directed Band Aid (2017)
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Day 26: Gillian Robespierre ( @GillianHardG)
Directed Obvious Child (2014), Landline (2017), Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (2019)
Directed episodes of Crashing, Silicon Valley, Casual, Shrill, Mrs. Fletcher
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Day 27: Alice Wu ( @thatalicewu)
Directed Saving Grace (2004), The Half of It (2020)
*Saving Grace is available on Prime. The Half of It is available on Netflix. Happy viewing!*
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Day 28: Natalia Almada
Directed Al orto lado (2005), The General (2009), The 8 (2009), The Night Watchman (2011), Everything Else (2016)
Directed episodes of P.O.V.
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Day 29: Natalie Portman
Directed New York, I Love You (2009), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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Day 30: Nia DaCosta ( @NiaDaCosta)
Directed Little Woods (2019)
DaCosta’s Candyman (2020) is expected to be released this October. She is also slated to direct the next Captain Marvel movie đŸ˜ŽđŸ€˜
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Day 31: Nisha Ganatra ( @NishaGanatra)
Directed Chutney Popcorn (1999), Fast Food High (2003), Late Night (2019), The High Note (2020)
Directed episodes of Girls, The Mindy Project, Fresh Off the Boat, Love, Shameless, Transparent
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Day 32: Tahmineh Milani
Directed Children of Divorce (1990), What’s Up (1992), Two Women (1999) The Hidden Half (2001), The Unwanted Woman (2005), Principles (2011), Untaken Paths (2017)
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Day 33: Marjane Satrapi
Directed Persepolis (2007), Chicken with Plums (2011), Gangs of Jotas (2012), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2020)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 34: Cathy Yan ( @CathyYan)
Directed Dead Pigs (2018), Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020)
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Day 35: Shannon Murphy ( @shannymurphy)
Directed Babyteeth (2020)
Directed episodes of Killing Eve, Love Child, Offspring, Sisters, Rake, On the Ropes
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Day 36: Jane Campion
Directed Mishaps of Seduction and Conquests (1984), An Angel at My Table (1990), The Piano (1993), In the Cut (2003), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), 8 (2008), Bright Star (2009)
Directed episodes of Top of the Lake
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Day 37: Jennifer Morrison ( @jenmorrisonlive)
Directed Sun Dogs (2017)
Directed episodes of Fabled, Euphoria
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Also, here’s me meeting @jenmorrisonlive when I was 14. Truly the most giving and kindest person I’d ever met. I’m excited to see her new project “One of Us is Lying.” I know she’ll be bringing a human and thoughtful story to life.
Day 38: Emerald Fennell ( @emeraldfennell)
Directed Promising Young Woman (2020)
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This also means if anyone knows anyone who can get me a screener for Promising Young Woman, I will have a child just so I can name them after you.
Day 39: Lori Petty ( @loripetty)
Directed Horrible Accident (2001), The Poker House (2008)
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Day 40: Catherine Hardwicke ( @C_Hardwicke)
Directed Thirteen (2003), Lord of Dogtown (2005), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019)
Directed episodes of This Is Us, Eyewitness, Reckless
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 41: Lake Bell ( @lakebell)
Directed In a World... (2013), I Do... Until I Don’t (2017)
Directed episodes of Children’s Hospital, Casual, Bless This Mess
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Day 42: Martha Coolidge ( @Martha_Coolidge)
Directed Valley Girl (1983), Real Genius (1985), Plain Clothes (1987), Rambling Rose (1991), Angie (1994), Out to Sea (1997), The Prince and Me (2004), Material Girls (2006), I’ll Find You (2019)
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Day 43: Adrienne Shelly
Directed Sudden Manhattan (1996), Four Tales of Two Cities (1996), I’ll Take You There (1999), Waitress (2007)
@AdrienShellyFDN
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Day 44: Kelly Fremon Craig ( @KFremonCraig)
Directed The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
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Day 45: Kelly Reichardt
Directed River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), First Cow (2020)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 46: Eliza Hittman
Directed It Felt Like Love (2013), Beach Rats (2017), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Directed episodes of High Maintenance, 13 Reasons Why
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 47: Marti Noxon ( @martinoxon)
Directed To the Bone (2017)
Directed episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Dietland
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Day 48: Aoife McArdle
Directed Kissing Candice (2017)
Directed episodes of Brave New World
Directed music videos for Jon Hopkins, James Vincent McMorrow, U2, Coldplay
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 49: Channing Godfrey Peoples ( @cgpeoples)
Directed Miss Juneteenth (2020)
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Day 50: Olivia Wilde ( @oliviawilde)
Directed Booksmart (2019)
Directed music videos for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
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Day 51: Andrea Arnold
Directed Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), Wuthering Heights (2011), American Honey (2016)
Directed episodes of I Love Dick, Transparent, Big Little Lies
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Day 52: Lucy Walker ( @lucywalkerfilm)
Directed Devil’s Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), The Crash Reel (2013), The Lion’s Mouth Opens (2014), A History of Cuban Dance (2015), Bueno Vista Social Club: Adios (2017)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 53: Marianna Palka ( @mariannapalka)
Directed Good Dick (2008), I’m the Same (2014), Always Worthy (2015), Heirloom (2016), Bitch (2017), Egg (2018)
Directed episodes of Happy!
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Day 54: Sara Sugarman
Directed Mad Cow (1999), Very Annie May (2001), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Vinyl (2012), House of Versace (2013), Down the Caravan (2018)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 55: MĂ©lanie Laurent
Directed The Adopted (2011), SurpĂȘche (2012), Breathe (2014), Tomorrow (2015), Diving (2017), Galveston (2018)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 56: Brie Larson ( @brielarson)
Directed The Arm (2012), Weighting (2013), Unicorn Store (2017)
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Day 57: Patricia Riggen ( @riggenpatricia)
Directed Under the Same Moon (2007), RevoluciĂłn (2010), Lemonade Mouth (2011), Girl in Progress (2012), The 33 (2015), Miracles from Heaven (2016)
Directed episodes of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Proven Innocent
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Day 58: AgnĂšs Varda
Directed Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le Bonheur (1965), Far From Vietnam (1967), Daguerreotypes (1971), One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977), Vagabond (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (1991), CinĂ©vardaphoto (2005), Faces Places (2017)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 59: Leslye Headland ( @LeslyeHeadland)
Directed Bachelorette (2012), Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Directed episodes of Russian Doll, Almost Family, SMILF, Heathers, Black Monday, Blunt Talk
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 60: Tina Mabry ( @TinaMabry)
Directed Brooklyn’s Bridge to Jordan (2005), Mississippi Damned (2009)
Directed episodes of Queen Sugar, The Politician, 9-1-1, Black Jesus, Pose, The Mayor, Insecure, Power, Dear White People, Queen of the South
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 61: Natalie Krinsky ( @nataliekrinsky)
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
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Day 62: CĂ©line Sciamma
Directed Water Lillies (2007), Pauline (2010), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Les 18 du 57, Boulevard de Strasbourg (2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 63: Robin Swicord ( @WriterobinRS)
Directed The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Wakefield (2016)
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Day 64: Gail Mancuso
Directed episodes of The Nanny, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Friends, Reba, Becker, Gilmore Girls, Two and a Half Me, Joey, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Community, Chuck, Cougar Town, Happy Endings, Suburgatory, Black-ish, Modern Family
#151FemaleFilmmakers
Day 65: Bryce Dallas Howard ( @BryceDHoward)
Directed Dads (2019)
Directed an episode of The Mandalorian
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