100 Days of Women in Film

Film Directors

(in alphabetical order, by last name)

• • filmmaker Madeline Anderson (the first African American female documentarian)
  • producer / director DeMane Davis (Self Made, Queen Sugar)
  • experimental filmmaker Maya Deren
  • film director, writer & producer Leila Djansi
  • film director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, The Invitation, Destroyer)
  • trailblazing director Ida Lupino (the first American female filmmaker to direct a film noir)
  • filmmaker Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned, Queen Sugar)
  • director Jen McGowan (Kelly & Cal, Rust Creek)
  • filmmaker Mira Nair(Salaam Bombay! Monsoon Wedding, Amelia, Queen of Katwe)
  • film director Elvira Notari (Italy’s first female director)
  • documentary filmmaker Veena Rao
  • filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk about Kevin, You Were Never Really Here)
  • writer & director Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister)
  • commercial, TV, and music video director Aya Tanimura

Cinematographers

• Italian cinematographer Valentina Caniglia
• cinematographer & director Nadia Hallgren (Becoming, She’s the Ticket)
• American cinematographer Kira Kelly (13th, Queen Sugar, Self Made)
• cinematographer Cybel Martin
• Canadian cinematographer Sarah Thomas Moffat
• cinematographer Daphne Wu

Other Professions

(in alphabetical order, by profession)

• colorist Anastasia Shepherd
• composer Zinovia Arvanitidi
• film critic Iris Brey (author of the book The Female Gaze)
• film editor Margaret Booth (the first person in the history of cinema to be named “film editor”)
• film editor Rosella Tursi
• production designer Monique Dias
• production sound mixer Camila Franco Ribeiro Gomide
• re-recording mixer Sherry Klein
• sound designer Cindy Takehara