Nov 20, 2021
53 min
Full-HD

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker (2021)

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

Category

Documentary History TV Movie

Country

France

Companies

ARTE 10.7 Productions

Agnès Jaoui

Self - Narrator (voice)

Maud Wyler

Alice Guy-Blaché (voice)

Alice Guy-Blaché

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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