List of female film and television directors

This is a list of female film and television directors. Their works may include live action and/or animated features, shorts, documentaries, telemovies, TV programs, or videos.

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See also[edit]

• List of Female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories
• List of lesbian filmmakers
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women
• Women's cinema
• List of film and television directors

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Further reading[edit]

• "The 100 greatest films directed by women". BBC. 25 November 2019. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020.
• Erbland, Kate; Kohn, Eric; Blauvelt, Christian; Thompson, Anne; Ehrlich, David; O'Falt, Chris; Sharf, Zack; Brueggemann, Tom; Desowitz, Bill; Obenson, Tambay; Nordine, Michael (October 3, 2020). "The All-Time Greatest Films Directed by Women". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023.
• Follows, Stephen; Kreager, Alexis; Gomes, Eleanor (May 2016). "Cut Out of the Picture: A study of gender inequality amongst film directors in the UK film industry" (PDF). Directors UK. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 5, 2021.
• Follows, Stephen (July 2014). "Film Data Reports: Gender within film crews" (PDF). Stephen Follows Film Data and Education. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 22, 2017.
• Follows, Stephen (August 2014). "Film Data Reports: Gender within UK film crews" (PDF). Stephen Follows Film Data and Education. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2017.
• Kilday, Gregg (January 3, 2019). "Study: Women Film Directors Saw Their Numbers Shrink in 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023.
• Randall, Melissa (March 13, 2023). "The Best Female Directors: Celebrating Trailblazing Films & TV Shows". New York Film Academy.
• Smith, Anna (27 November 2019). "Top 100 films directed by women: What is the 'female gaze'?". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022.
• Smith, Stacy L.; Pieper, Katherine; Choueiti, Marc (February 2017). "Inclusion in the Director's Chair? Gender, Race, & Age of Film Directors Across 1,000 Films from 2007-2016" (PDF). USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 3, 2018.
• Wu, Kathie (2012). "Women Behind the Lens: Female Filmmakers from Around the World". Subtitledonline.com. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012.
• Yapp, Virginia. "The Celluloid Void Project: A Compendium of Female Film Directors". The Celluloid Void.

Books

• Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary (1st ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-28972-7.
• Hawley, John C., ed. (2008). "Film directors and producers: women, by Ann M. Savage". LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. pp. 386–391. ISBN 978-0313339905. (via Butler University Digital Commons.)
• Hurd, Mary G. (2006). Women Directors and Their Films. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0275985783.
• Mahar, Karen Ward (2006). Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (1st ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801884365.
• Malone, Alicia (2018). The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women. Coral Gables, Florida: Mango Publishing. ISBN 978-1633538375.
• Redding, Judith M.; Brownworth, Victoria A. (1997). Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors (1st ed.). Seattle, Washington: Seal Press. ISBN 1-878067-97-4.
• Slide, Anthony (1996). The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1st ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810830531. LCCN 96001178.

Video

• Flicker Alley (2017). "Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology". Kanopy.
• "Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers". Kino Lorber. 2018.

External links[edit]

• Canadian Women Film Directors Database
• Cut-Throat Women
• Free the Bid: Women Directors
• Women In Film & Television International
• Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC)
• Women Make Movies
• The Alice Initiative
• Film Fatales
• FemaleDirectors.com (films on Netflix and Amazon)
• The Director List: Women Directors at Work at Cinefemme
• Filmmakers at South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) (archive)
• Center for the Study of Women in Television and FilmatSan Diego State University
• Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP)atColumbia University Libraries