Monday 15 December 2008

5 Female Directors

Gurinder Chadha:












Gurinder chadha is born 10 January 1960 and is a British film director of an Indian origin.In the 1980s she began making documentaries for the BBC, and in 1989 released "I'm British but..." for Channel 4 which followed the lives of young British asian's. In 1990, Chadha set up a production company namely, Umbi Films.

Films directed by her:
Bend it like Beckham (2002)
Angus, thongs and perfect snogging (2008)
This mistress of spice (2005)
Bride and prejudice (2004)


Jodie Foster:












Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster was born November 19, 1962, is a two-time Academny award, BAFTA, and Golden globe-award winning American actress, director and producer.
Although Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitue in Taxi driver, for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress. Her films and roles have spanned a wide variety of genres, including thrillers, crime, romance, comedy, children's films and science fiction.


Films directed by her:
Tales from the dark side (1988)
Little man tate (1991)
Home for the holidays (1995)

Sarah Polley:












Sarah Polley was born January 8, 1979 is a Canadian actress, singer, Genie Award-winning film director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. She has starred in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, and Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Her first cinematic appearance was at the age of four, as Molly in the Disney film One Magic Christmas. At age eight, she was cast in the title role in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. The same year she also played one of the lead characters in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Films directed by her:
The best day of my life (1999)
Don't think twice (1999)
I shout love (2001)
All i want for christmas (2002)
Away from her (2006)

Julie Taymor:














Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work. She is widely known as the first female to win the Tony Award for directing the musical The Lion King, for which she also received a Tony Award for her original costume designs.

Films directed by her:
Titus (1999)
Frida (2002)
Across the universe (2007)
The tempest (coming out 2009)

Arlene Sanford:



Arlene Sanford is an American film and television director. Sanford has directed for several present-day network television series and several motion picture and television movies which include A Very Brady Sequel, I'll Be Home for Christmas and Welcome Home. More recently, Sanford has directed episodes of ABC's popular soap drama, Desperate Housewives and also two episodes of Boston Legal.

Programmes directed by her:
Desperate houswives (2004)
Eve (2003)
Gilmore girls (2000)
Malcom in the middle (2000)
Dawsons creek (1998)



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