Film fatales

independent women directors

Plot

"Without didacticism, Film Fatales addresses the complexity of... issues, problems and conflicts for women directors. We hope this book will make more people aware of both how accomplished women directors are... and how many obstacles women stil face. Film Fatales is not a semiotic text nor a collection of film theory or criticism. Although we have incorporated some criticism into the profiles of these filmmakers as well as some of our own wealth of information on cinema, our primary goal was to present and contextualize the work of these women by allowing them to speak in their own words about their work, what it means and why they do it, as directors who have had to battle in various ways to get their work made, exhibited and distributed." - Page 22.