CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS

SHE SAID, SHE SAID

HELEN O’HARA

AUTHOR MARYA E. GATES IT’S NO MEAN feat to gather a significant number of women directors to talk about their craft, because almost all are impossibly weary about being asked to opine endlessly about directing as women. How else are they going to direct? Immense credit, then, to Marya E. Gates, a film writer and interviewer, for getting so many to talk so openly about their work. The result is 19 lengthy interviews with women working today and pioneers who led the way through the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges strikingly is the vast diversity of their experiences. The directors who have stuck exclusively to the independent sphere have generally made films that received barely any distribution and often remain hard to find, but they’ve done so on their own…

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Empire (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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