female filmmakers in film

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.

A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.

A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.

Roberta is a low-budget movie director dealing with numerous problems on the set of her current production. When she is accidently hit on the head, she is knocked unconscious and dreams of living in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest.

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.

A married man's death puts his widow and mistress in an unusual living arrangement.

At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.

Privilege is an intelligently-conceived, boldly-anarchic, and wickedly-insightful exposition on the culturally-ingrained and socially-divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the inter-cutting of archival footage, video, and film, as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.

A comedy in which God writes a screenplay and goes to earth to find someone to make the film.

Two guys take their bromance to another level when they participate in an art film project.

An underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé.

A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.

About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

A Silver Lake family's relaxed dynamic is tested after they take in a young artist so she can complete her art film.

Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual, and hip young Brooklynite, but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.

Ella, a college student, obsesses over her relationship with Chris, neglecting her screenplay. As her social life unravels, her writing reflects her true feelings about their ambiguous romance, revealing her inner turmoil.

Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.

In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.