This year is TCFF XII’s 100 Years of the CineMAN – a celebration of incredible women in Hollywood. It’s a sad fact that it’s not uncommon to see a list of the one hundred highest-grossing movies of most recent years and have only TWO directed by women. TWO!
We want to shine the spotlight on these remarkable female filmmakers, showing off their cinematic accomplishments and raw talent, and teach Hollywood a thing or two about how it should be done.
The Directors of the Official US Selection at TCFF XII, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Nancy Buirski – By Sidney Lumet
- Claire Carre – Embers
- Bonni Cohen – Audrie & Daisy
- Darcy Dennett – The Champions
- Deborah Riley Draper – Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
- Heidi Ewing – Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
- Maya Forbes – Infinitely Polar Bear
- Jenny Gage – All This Panic
- Vanessa Gould – Obit
- Rachel Grady – Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
- Chris Hegedus – Unlocking the Truth
- Mariel Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Cheryl Miller Houser – Generation Startup
- Kristi Jacobson – Solitary
- Vicky Jenson – Shrek
- Kirsten Johnson – Cameraperson
- Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
- Logan Kibens – Operator
- Jennifer Lee – Frozen
- Kamala Lopez – Equal Means Equal
- Maris Curran – Five Nights in Maine
- Amanda Marsails – Echo Park
- Meera Menon – Equity
- Rebecca Miller – Maggie’s Plan
- Meghan O’Hara – The C Word
- Ferne Pearlstein – The Last Laugh
- Dawn Porter – Trapped
- Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women
- Patricia Riggen – The 33
- Andrea Scott – Florence, Arizona
- Sophie Goodhart – My Blind Brother
- Penelope Spheeris – Wayne’s World
- Elyse Steinberg – Weiner
- Lydia Tengalia – Jerimiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
- Nanfu Wang – Hooligan Sparrow
- Sue Williams – Death by Design