The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Direction
Pamela Green's obsessive archival hunt
Editing
Fragments stitched into living proof
Production
Decades of detective work onscreen
Director
Pamela B. Green
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jodie Foster narrated for free because she was furious she'd never heard of Guy-Blaché in film school.
Green's team found rare color-tinted prints thought destroyed, literally reshooting film history.
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Cannot wait to see this film. Bravo to the team who brought Alice back into history.
@Jezebelfilms1 13
I just watched at The Art Theater on 4th in Long Beach. They will be back for 1 more showing tomorrow, along with the director to answer questions. It is a beautiful documentary.... and tells of a life of the 1st woman director film and her influence to many others and how the men appeared to take credit for her work, and techniques that she developed. This is a story of history that needed to be told and to set the record straight. I am hoping to be able to see some of her earlier works come to the surface and be showed to the public. Those early short films look amazing with great story telling as well. Thank you to the director of this documentary film for spending 10+ years on this project to bring awareness of such a great woman pioneer in film history.
@mf-qi8gn 2
Great that the narrator of the documentary about the first female director is herself a director.
@myname7056
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