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Maple was the first African-American woman to join the International Group of Film and Television Photographers. Euzhan Palcy (born January 13, 1958) is a director, screenwriter and producer from Martinique. Her films explore themes of race, gender, and politics, focusing on the enduring effects of colonialism.
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The Athena Film Festival was co-founded by Kathryn Kolbert, Founding Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Melissa Silverstein, founder of the Women and Hollywood initiative and the festival's Artistic Director. The tenth annual Athena Film Festival was held from February 27-March 1, 2020. [2]
The first feature film directed by an African-American woman to receive a widespread theatrical release in the U.S., "Daughters of the Dust" details the story of three generation of Gullah women ...
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...
Film director Julie Dash made history in 1991 with the first theatrically released film which was created by an African-American woman. Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1991) was the first full-length film with general theatrical release written and directed by an African American woman. Since then there have been several African or African ...
Boston Women's Film Festival: 2018: Boston United States: International: bostonwomensfest.org: Breakthroughs Film Festival 2011 Toronto Canada: International Short films of all genres breakthroughsfilmfestival.com: Brooklyn Girl Film Festival 2012 Brooklyn United States: International Disbanded in 2015 Brooklyn Women's Film Festival: 2017 ...