themselves in order to reach more communities.” Read the full essay on African-American Women in the Silent Film Industry. 2. There weren’t many women camera operators, but they existed ...

Another 20 years later, film historians realized women hadn’t just been the exception to the rule in the silent film era — they were a key part of it. Created by film scholar Jane Gaines in ...

A new study from AFI shows that women during Hollywood’s silent era represented a higher percentage of writers, directors and producers. The study comes at a time when recent data shows ...

The timing couldn’t be better for the upcoming release of “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers,” a box collection of silent films made by women. 80 ° AJC - Logo - Main ...

Columbia University Libraries’ newly launched Women Film Pioneers Project is a compendium of film resources and material seeking to reverse the historical fallacy that the film production ...

The AFI study, titled “Women They Talk About,” documents the unrecorded contributions of female filmmakers in the silent film era and uncovers the true story of women as pioneers in American ...

Dizzying though it was, the shot paid off. In the silent era, when the camera was a gigantic apparatus not easily given to ...

Vanguard Culture hosts the first of its three Not-So-Silent Short Film Festival on Saturday, June 22, and the focus is on women film pioneers. Search Query Show Search News ...

Women In Film and Foresee Films are hosting a screening of the black-and-white silent short film About Mannequin, featuring live accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.. Set for ...