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Showing 1 - 10 of 68 titles with a criteria of Subject is Filmmakers
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
A reflection of filmmaker Chantal Akerman on filmmaking, both through her words and excerpts from her films.
Icarus Films | 1996 | 64 minutes
Crutch
Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 96 minutes
Daughter of the Crater
A vibrant portrait of filmmaker Pierre Perrault’s partner, Yolande Simard Perrault, who recently passed away.
National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 75 minutes
Far from Vietnam
An epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam, initiated and edited by Chris Marker.
Icarus Films | 1967 | 115 minutes
Filming Desire
In this bold documentary, filmmaker Marie Mandy asks the question: how do women directors film love, desire, and, especially, sexuality?
Women Make Movies | 2000 | 60 minutes
The Filmmaker's House
When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life. Two English builders replace the garden fence between the house and a Pakistani neighbour. A homeless Slovakian man charms the Filmmaker’s Colombian cleaner to let him in the house. What follows tests everyone’s ideas of boundaries and hospitality.
Andana Films | 2020 | 75 minutes
Fool's Mate (Le Coup du Berger)
An early short from French New Wave director, Jacques Rivette.
Icarus Films | 1957 | 27 minutes
Girl From God's Country
GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY is the untold story of the first female independent filmmaker and action-adventure heroine, Nell Shipman, who left Hollywood to make her films in Idaho.
Women Make Movies | 2016 | 66 minutes
Golden Gate Girls
In GOLDEN GATE GIRLS author and professor S. Louisa Wei tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930’s.
Women Make Movies | 2014 | 90 minutes
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, HORROR NOIRE traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre.
Icarus Films | 2019 | 83 minutes
