The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter, film director, and playwright best known for literary adaptations. Her notable screenplays include Little Women (1994), Matilda (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. She wrote and directed the 2007 film The Jane Austen Book Club. Swicord is the wife of screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and the mother of actresses Zoe Kazan and Maya Kazan. She is an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Directors member. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robin Swicord, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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