Podcast appearances and mentions of alice guy blache

What brought us together – going to Sundance, hosting panels and programming, and speaking engagements, was a connection to a very special mentor, guru, and guiding star – Alice Guy Blache.

Creadoras, pioneras, exploradoras, inventoras, ¡así son las protagonistas de la historia! “La Historia es Femenina” nos comparte algunas reseñas biográficas de algunas figuras femeninas dentro de la historia. Hoy escucharemos la cápsula dedicada a Alice Guy-Blache.

Audience Trivia Woman in Film Edition: Woman Ruled Hollywood First? Yes! Alice Guy-Blache's, " A Fool and His Money" (1912) *Correction actress Cassie Davis IS alive, these youutbe and paper stories appear to be a horrible hoax, apologies we do not like to spread untruth and sorry for the error. We are thankful that it is NOT true, thank you to our viewer Jessee. On The Town with Tanya supports women and minorities, in film, (We also support men, who support us). Host Tanya Cooper zoom chats With Actress/Writer/Producer/Artist, Cece Tyshay on her film short, "FRIEND ZONE". We hope you share, subscribe to CeCe Tyshay youtube and instagram pages, (and ours). Please SHARE the video, we hope someone will be inspired after listening to this beautiful talent. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tanya-cooper/support

Just like June 2022, September was a month dedicated almost solely to short films. After a hurricane and a week-long blackout, short films provided an easy way for me to achieve my monthly goal, so here it is. Shorts about everything from creepy masked men or cross-dressing bunnies to dangerous tramps or animated stick figures. But writing this description leads me to wonder, how often do people read the podcast episode descriptions? I dunno, but check the episode out!Music: Tino Mendes & Yellow Paper - The HeistRejected clip (c) Don Hertzfeldt

Links to some of the sources I used to write this:Alice Guy Blaché - Women Film Pioneers ProjectSan Francisco Silent Film Project - The Solax Films of Alice Guy BlachéThe memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché by Alice GuyBe Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

Alice Guy Blache is considered one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film and the first woman to direct a film. It is said that from 1896 to 1906, she was the only female filmmaker in the world.  Her first movie was La Fee aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) which has a 60 second run time and  was released in 1896. She really wanted to incorporate fictional story-telling elements into movies.  There is a documentary, Be Natural, that is narrated by Jodie Foster that is out about her life. Pamela B. Green is developing a biopic about Alice and I would like to see this movie reach a wide audience so people can know about Alice's incredible life and her contributions to movies!

We end the year by focusing on a woman who we embarrassingly never heard of; Alice Guy-Blaché. This woman was the first female filmmaker. The first filmmaker to create narrative stories, not just stock footage. She was a pioneer. She was inventive. She is the mother of filmmaking as we know it. And, with all of that and so much more, she was deliberately written out of history. Please join us and close out 2021 learning about this celestial light of filmmaking, and being all the better for learning her name. You can find some of Alice's films on YouTube.

Emerson film student Kat Poole's passion is to rediscover and celebrate female film pioneers. Here, she educates us about three of them: filmmaker Alice-Guy Blache screenwriter Jeanie MacPherson and editor Margaret Booth.

Au sommaire de cette spéciale femmes et cinéma : -Retour sur le documentaire réalisé par Pamela B. Green intitulé BE NATURAL, L'HISTOIRE CACHEE D'ALICE GUY-BLACHE, ainsi que sur HONOR AMONG LOVERS & MERRILY WE GO TO HELL, deux films de Dorothy Arzner (Elephant Films) ;-Une évocation d'un cinéaste qui a énormément mis en scène des personnages féminins, à savoir Claude Chabrol, à l'occasion de la sortie, chez Carlotta films de UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMMES, MADAME BOVARY & BETTY ;-Focus sur THE NIGHTINGALE (2018) de Jennifer Kent, disponible chez Condor Entertainment. Bonne écoute à toutes et à tous !

Alice Guy-Blache was the first female filmmaker and one of the first to tell stories with the moving image, creating more than 750 films during her career. Learn about her awe-inspiring life with featured guest host Cassie Kulish.

Jill shares that there were women who did everything from the beginning from producers, editors, screenwriters, stuntwomen, camera operators, set designers, directors, and more. The only thing is they were never acknowledged as their male counterparts were. One example is June Foray, a voice actress with over 300 voiceovers. Mel Blanc was the June Foray for animation and received so much recognition. Barbara highlights Alice Guy-Blache, who in 1896 began her directorial career directing over 1000 movies and managed her own studio. Her films were not recognized for many years until recently when her legacy is being told.Is there a docu-series in the works or a course coming to a college campus? We think there should be.Hollywood Her Story:Jill S. Tietjen & Barbara BridgesCo-Authorshttps://HollywoodHerStory.comhttps://facebook.com/HollywoodHerStoryhttps://instagram.com/HollywoodHerStoryhttps://twitter.com/HollywoodHerStory

It's Women’s History Month and awards season so let’s talk about women in Hollywood. In this episode, author, film critic, and journalist Helen O’Hara tells us about her new book Women vs. Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film. We talk about women in leadership roles when filmmaking was first invented but were later written out of Hollywood history. We talk about Alice Guy-Blache who was the first female film director, Lois Weber who was one of the first female American filmmakers, Mary Pickford who became a Hollywood studio owner with United Artists, Pearl White who was an early female action star, Nell Shipman who made adventure films in the 1910s, and more. Helen’s book is available now digitally. The printed edition will be out in the US in November.

This episode is dedicated to female film & TV directors worldwide bringing storytelling greatness and unprecedented representation onscreen and off. Love to Chantal Ackerman, Dee Rees, Kathryn Bigelow, Kasi Lemmons, Ida Lupino, Joanna Hogg, Nicole Holofcener, Sofia Coppola, Isabel Coixet, Kelly Reichardt, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Dorothy Arzner, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lulu Wang, Kimberly Reed, Patti Jenkins, Marielle Heller, Regina King, Alice Guy-Blache, Debra Granik, Agnieszka Holland, the Wachowskis, Barbara Kopple, Julie Dash, Yoko Ono, Greta Gerwig, Cheryl Dunye, Jane Campion, Melina Matsoukas, Catherine Hardwicke, Donna Deitch, Ana Lily Amirpour, Lina Wertmuller, Barbara Loden, Lucrecia Martel, Claire Denis, Sarah Polley, Maren Ade, Lisa Cholodenko, Miranda July, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Mary Harron, Barbara Streisand, Julie Taymor, Karyn Kusama, Kimberly Pierce, Alla Nazimova, Leslie Linka Glatter, Sara Driver, Kitty Green, Catherine Breillat, Josephine Decker, Lynne Ramsay, Ava DuVernay, Chloe Zhao, Mira Nair, Andrea Arnold and many more that will grow to many many many more. Brava!

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Hollywood didn’t start out as a boy’s club, nor did it start in Hollywood. Alice Guy Blache was the industry’s first woman director and the co-owner of Solax, a film studio built in Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1910. Writer/Director Christina Kotlar has been celebrating Alice and working to bring her forgotten story to the world. We’ll talk about Alice’s groundbreaking life and career before there were barriers to inclusion, including directing the first film with an all African American cast. More on Christina and her work. More on Alice. We talk about filmmaker Pamela Green and the Alice documentary Be Natural. Filmmaker Marquise Lepage and her film The Lost Garden. More on Fort Lee where it all happened. Alice's memoir. Her 1896 film The Cabbage Fairy. Alison's McMann's book The Lost Visionary. Alice's legacy in female filmmakers like Maya Deren and her 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon. Suffragist Alice Paul. Trainee and later rival, Edison. And Alice's final resting place. We also mention the very first episode of Hearthside Salons featuring Emmy winning puppeteer, Liz Hara. And as always, more information on PageCraft's upcoming screenwriting classes and workshops.

All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 132, I join author, co-host of the Empire podcast and editor at large of Empire Magazine, Helen O'Hara. Helen and I discuss the revisionist view of those "Easy Riders & Raging Bulls," how they don't make journalists like Ben Bradlee/Jason Robards anymore, and the gravitational disturbance caused by the line, "everyone is involved." *About Helen O'Hara* *Helen O'Hara* has been working as a film journalist for over fifteen years, after qualifying as a barrister and immediately getting bored. She started her film writing career on the staff of Empire , the world's biggest film magazine, and remains their editor-at-large and co-host of the Empire podcast, where she can be found weekly singing the praises of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and complaining about La La Land. She is also an author and freelance writer. Northern Irish born, O'Hara now lives in London, splitting her time between cinemas, libraries and coffee shops. *Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film* is out in February 2021 *Synopsis:* A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara that explores women's roles - *both in front of and behind the camera* - *since the birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider society and what we can do to level the playing field.* The dawn of cinema was a free-for-all, and there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner (who invented the boom mic, among other innovations) and Alice Guy-Blache shaped the way films are made. But it wasn't long before these talented women were pushed aside and their contributions written out of film history. How and why did this happen? Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights, yet it came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that feeds on their talent, creativity and beauty but refuses to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now... The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. There is plenty of work still needed before we can even come close to gender equality in film - but we're finally headed in the right direction. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film , Empire's 'geek queen' Helen O'Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. Equal representation in film matters because it both reflects and influences wider societal gender norms. In understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood's own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal - and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told. *Twitter:* @HelenLOHara ( https://twitter.com/HelenLOHara ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This snacky episode is on the father of Indian Cinema- Dada Saheb Phalke who made 95 films from 1913- 1937- And an uncanny connection between Alice Guy Blache and Dada Saheb Phalke. You can watch the full film Raja HarishChandra on You tube. Disclaimer: All the information has been gathered from Internet sites- Wikipedia/ Britanniaca.com/ livehistoryindia.com Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/ whats app - 9324431451   Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media.   DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Be natural- the untold story of Alice Guy Blache opened at Cannes, NYFF, BFI (2018) to acclaim. It felt like discovering a female director after 125 years. We talk to the director of this feature documentary - PAMELA B GREEN. She takes us through the journey of making the film- that took almost 10 years; including the funding, getting executive producers like Robert Redford and Jodie Foster; gettting bytes from Julie Taymor, Julie Delphy, Agnes Varda, Walter Murch and many more. And, the toughest part- distribution of the film. Pointers: 1) Finding Alice! 2) Not geting credentials as a female director- the world lost her! 3) Being a women director now! 4) 10 years in making the film 5) Treatment/ tone/ style of making the film 6) If Alice was not there what would have Cinema missed. 7) Was she the first to innovate / discover the language, the design, or everything was happening simulatenously - we know of Lumiere and Edison's though ! 8) The up hill task of finding distributors. Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/ whats app - 9324431451   Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media.   DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EP 58 introduces us to the first female filmmaker Alice Guy Blache who we have just found; Alice Guy Blache made over 100 films from 1896 to 1920; You can find a few of them on youtube. Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/ whats app - 9324431451   Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media.   DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any individual/organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once upon a time, there was a girl whose love for stories would make her the first female filmmaker in the world. Her name was Alice Guy Blache. Alice was a pioneer in filmmaking, starting her storied career as an assistant in a French camera factory and eventually owning her own successful movie studio in the United States. Guy-Blache made hundreds of films over her lifetime and pushed the art form forward in many ways. This is her story. About the Narrator Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on several animated films including The Little Mermaid, and the Oscar nominated Beauty and the Beast. Chapman helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios and later joined Pixar Animation Studios where she created, wrote and directed Brave – inspired by her relationship with her daughter - for which she was the first woman to win an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. Currently, Chapman is working on a novel, a memoir and a children’s book.   Credits This podcast is a production of Rebel Girls and Boom Integrated, a division of John Marshall Media. It’s based on the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Our Executive Producers are Jes Wolfe and Katie Sprenger. This season was produced by John Marshall Cheary, Sarah Storm, and Robin Lai. Corinne Peterson is our Production Manager. This episode was written by Saundra Mitchell and edited by Katie Sprenger. Proofread by Ariana Rosas. Original theme music was composed and performed by Elettra Bargiacchi who also sound designed this episode. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer.

Dear Rowan, Very soon I will be telling you all about a remarkably accomplished lady named Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché who was the very first female film maker. Not only that… she was the first film maker to create a fictional narrative movie. The men were busy making films of themselves gardening and racing cars while Alice was letting her imagination soar! She experimented with amazing elements of film making that few others were at the time. She took a crack at syncing sound with her films, color tinting and she even cast her films interracially which was incredibly progressive for the late 19thcentury. We can learn a great deal from such a strong and worthy role model. A visionary. Leader. Artist. … and Force of Nature. All before women even had the right to vote. One could say she was quite the rebel as well. More to follow on Alice Guy-Blache, my dear Rowan. I just know that you’re going to love her. With All My Love and Admiration, Papa --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dearrowan/support

Alice Guy-Blache is considered by most to be the first female director in the history of cinema and Dorothy Arzner was the only female director for the entire 1930s decade. We discuss their stories in the first episode of this podcast.

Alice Guy-Blache, Ida Lupino, Gale Anne Hurd are some of the most important figures in the history of film. In honour of International Women's Day, we bring you the story of how these women introduced innovative film techniques when cinema was in its infancy and how later helped in establishing gender equality within the industry. Lyndsay Duthie, Head of School for Film at UCA 02:04 #Women #Cinema #GenderEquality

BBC One drama series The Trial of Christine Keeler is an imaginative reappraisal of the 1960s scandal known as the Profumo Affair. It's told from her perspective and the impact a series of powerful men had on the teenage girl. We hear archive of Christine Keeler talking to Woman’s Hour in 2001. And, Baroness Joan Bakewell and Professor Kate Williams discuss attitudes to Keeler at the time and changes in sexual politics since 1963. New research out today reveals that women in the UK have much poorer sexual health than men. But many of the groups identified in the study – including those with sexual dysfunction and low desire - are often being missed by existing sexual health services. We look at what's happening and why. Fifteen per cent of UK farmers are women. When it comes to Black or ethnic minority farmers, numbers are hard to pin down - and it seems there’s a similar lack of diversity in farming and food production in America. Leah Penniman is a Black woman who describes herself as an activist farmer. She opened a community farm called Soul Fire Farm in New York State, aiming to provide better quality food for people on low incomes. She talks about her new book, Farming While Black. Alice Guy-Blache was a pioneering French filmmaker. In 1896 she wrote, produced and directed one of the first narrative films ever made. She created more than 1,000 films during her 20-year career and ran her own studio, yet her contribution to the birth of cinema has largely been largely forgotten. Pamela B Green spent 8 years researching her story, resulting in the documentary film ‘Be Natural’, and joins us to discuss her work. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts

Dette afsnit af Dronning handler om Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968). Verdens første kvindelige filminstruktør! Hun er en pioner, der er med til forme filmmediet i dets spæde start i Frankrig. Før kvinder får stemmeret, starter hun eget firma i USA og laver et hav af film. Trods sin uomgængelige bidrag til filmens verden, bliver hun glemt i historien. Det gør vi op med i dette afsnit, hvor hun bliver sat på filmhistoriens landkort, som en vigtig og visionær Dronning af film.

Dette afsnit af Dronning handler om Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968). Verdens første kvindelige filminstruktør! Hun er en pioner, der er med til forme filmmediet i dets spæde start i Frankrig. Før kvinder får stemmeret, starter hun eget firma i USA og laver et hav af film. Trods sin uomgængelige bidrag til filmens verden, bliver hun glemt i historien. Det gør vi op med i dette afsnit, hvor hun bliver sat på filmhistoriens landkort, som en vigtig og visionær Dronning af film.

Our resident harlot of horror, Sarah Hartshorne, celebrates the first filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache Sarah Hartshorne is best known as the plus-size contestant on Cycle 9 of America’s Next Top Model and was voted Least Annoying Contestant of her cycle by the now defunct annoying or not.com. After the show, she modeled all over the world for clients like Glamour, Vogue, Skechers and more. Since “retiring” from modeling she’s performed standup all over NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was part of the Vagical Mystery Tour with Abortion Access Front, where she is currently a writer. You can see her on Netflix’s ‘Explained’ and HBO’s ‘Vice’ on consent. You can follow her @sarahhartshorne

Filmmaker Pamela B. Green joins Matthew Pejkovic of Matt's Movie Reviews to talk about her debut documentary 'Be Natural. The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache', when she first came across the name Alice Guy-Blache, the stunning revelations that arose from investigating Alice's story, the impact of Alice's legacy on today's female filmmakers, and much more! Website: http://mattsmoviereviews.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matts-Movie-Reviewsnet/151059409963 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mattsmovierev iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/matts-movie-reviews-podcast/id667941667?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattsmoviereviews/ Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/matthew-pejkovic/

Start your week off right with some hype.  This week, the Babes chat about Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and Alice Guy-Blache, the director you've never heard of.  Grab your drink (alcoholic or not) and join in.

One of the many life's surprises that comes from attending film festivals is connecting with people who contribute to the continuing advancement of the arts and in this case great storytelling. A visit from Jesus Pimentel-Melo, executive director of the Cine Qua Non Screenwriting Lab, situated in the heart of Mexico turned into an exceptional conversation about the two-week residential workshop as well as a gift of beautiful writing journal with a dedication to my hero, Alice Guy Blache. I was touched. Our conversation began with her work as the first woman film director, the way to be natural and how the screenwriting lab curates the group, matching writers to their benefit. In addition to script guidance provided by the facilitator through workshop sessions and one-on-one meetings, there is additional professional advice by guest speakers. Participants have ample time for writing imbued with inspiration from their surroundings. The lab offers the participants the opportunity to workshop their projects with other international filmmakers, be part of a community of other like-minded artists, and access the Cine Qua Non Lab film professional network, all in an absolutely beautiful, protected setting, free of stress and distractions. It's fascinating to make such a connection within Narrowsburg, a place my family has called "our second home" for almost fifty years. Likely the reason why it keeps calling me back to the Delaware River, is its natural beauty, its serenity, and the arts that surround it. Time to take in the golden hour and wait for the hummingbirds to arrive.

Filmmaker Pamela B. Green joins Matthew Pejkovic of Matt's Movie Reviews to talk about her debut documentary 'Be Natural. The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache', when she first came across the name Alice Guy-Blache, the stunning revelations that arose from investigating Alice's story, the impact of Alice's legacy on today's female filmmakers, and much more!

Lots to discuss this week, as Booksmart opens around Australia, The Last Man On Earth launches on SBS Viceland and SBS On Demand, and Robbie Hood launches to great acclaim. Also, Fiona's been watching a documentary about Alice Guy-Blache, a female filmmaker who needs to be a household name.

Tieing into Bonnie's 1 Cool LGBT Thing about the Hollywood actress Alla Nazimova is this older episode of our sister show, Your Gal Friday. Staying in early Hollywood, this episode covers four amazing film gals who set the stage for what film is today. Dorothy Arzner, is a big part of LGBT history as she was a director, writer, invented the boom mic, and also had a 40-year relationship with Marion Morgan. Learn about all these amazing film gals on this special YGF Flashback episode.  Original air date: Aug 2017 Ep #10 of Your Gal Friday Show Notes & Extras: https://galsguide.org/2017/08/11/film-pioneers-your-gal-friday/ Patreon: patreon.com/galsguide Facebook: facebook.com/galsguidetothegalaxy Twitter: twitter.com/GalsGuideGalaxy

We're back! Season 2 of the TDL podcast has officially begun…Pamela B. Green has made her first documentary feature, https://benaturalthemovie.com/ (Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache). And it is about one of the true pioneers of cinema, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Guy-Blach%C3%A9 (Alice Guy Blache). You've probably not heard of her. You're not alone. Even film scholars and most of Hollywood's finest have no idea who she was. And Pamela is set on rectifying that situation.   Topics Discussedthe need for true resilience for a doc filmmaker to stay with their passion projects how Alice Guy Blache was one of the original filmmakers who embraced the idea of entrepreneurship how her successful $200k Kickstarter campaign helped her build an audience for her film her approach to using the detective work behind her search for Alice Guy Blache was used as a significant part of the story   TrailerBe Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache https://vimeo.com/70380930   Chris in Cambodia Story SeriesIt's great to be back, #Doclifer! And I'm eager to share some of my stories and lessons from my most recent trip filming in Cambodia on our current documentary, http://www.elvisofcambodia.com (Elvis of Cambodia). First lesson up? Pack. Lightly.   #Doclifer StoriesWhere we share our listeners #doclives and filmmaking stories. This week, https://thedocumentarylife.com/blog/doclifer-stories-thomas-bertram/ (Thomas Bertram), who started his production company RainWater Media six years ago and is currently over in the country of Thailand filming on his latest documentary.   The #Doclifer Elite MastermindOn Tuesday, May 7th, 2019, we will be bringing together the new members of the #Doclifer Elite Mastermind, a collective of documentary filmmakers moving their documentary films and their documentary lives forward with purpose. We would love for YOU to be one of those members. http://www.thedocumentarylife.com/mastermind (Complete the application today) and let's get to work on making your best doc film!   Sponsors & Thank YousThank you to music licensing platform, https://musicvine.com/ (Music Vine) for contributing the wonderful music that we've used in this week's episode. We've used many music licensing platforms over the years for commercials, corporate videos, and documentaries and these guys are different. Their music catalogue that is truly fresh, diverse, full of character, their search engine is as straight forward and user friendly and their licensing fees? Unlike anywhere else we have come across. If you need any music for your doc project, we can honestly recommend https://musicvine.com/ (Music Vine).   Subscribehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-documentary-life/id1112679868 (Apple) | https://open.spotify.com/show/0wYlYHJzyk3Y7fHzDDwvmp (Spotify) | https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/thedocumentarylife/the-documentary-life (Stitcher) |  Rate and ReviewIf you have found value in this podcast please leave a review so it can become more visible to others. Simply click the https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/documentary-life-filmmaking-documentary-films-documentary/id1112679868?mt=2 (link) and then click on the Ratings and Reviews tab to make your entry. Thank you for your support!    

One afternoon in Paris in 1895, a young secretary at the Gaumont Film Company attended a private screening put on by the Lumière brothers to demonstrate the Cinématographe, a camera and projector that paved the way for motion pictures.The audience was delighted by moving images of trains, oceans and people bustling about on busy Parisian streets.Related: Four women from history who changed the worldBut, that young secretary — Alice Guy-Blaché — thought more could be done with this new invention. She loved theater and knew her way around a camera, so she started experimenting.Pamela Green is the director of a new film about Guy-Blaché called “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache.” She says Guy-Blaché changed the course of cinema.“She came up with content just to show what you can do with the technology. But she weaved in storytelling, which was very fresh and new at the time and set up certain grammar points that we use today in cinema. That hasn't changed. It's just evolved.”Pamela Green, director of  “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache”“She came up with content just to show what you can do with the technology. But she weaved in storytelling, which was very fresh and new at the time and set up certain grammar points that we use today in cinema. That hasn't changed. It's just evolved,” said Green, who is based in Los Angeles. The film chronicles Guy-Blaché’s life as probably the first female filmmaker and one of the first to write, direct and produce a narrative film. Jodie Foster, a fluent French speaker, narrates "Be Natural," which also features numerous interviews with Hollywood notables like Ava DuVernay and Geena Davis.Guy-Blaché was born in Paris after her parents moved there from Chile in the mid-1800s. After her father died, Guy-Blaché applied for a job at the Gaumont film studio. She needed to work to support herself and her mother. She had no idea at the time how important that job would be or how her humble roots would connect with audiences.“And I think that's what's really special about her is being able to create relatability and have universal stories that still stand the test of time,” Green said.Guy-Blaché went on to direct thousands of films over a 20-year career. Her first was the popular movie “The Cabbage Fairy.”The short film (it's under a minute) features a young woman pulling babies from a fantasy cabbage patch. It “references a folk tale regarding the origin of babies, not unlike the delivery stork, and predating Cabbage Patch dolls by about 80 years,” a YouTube page featuring the movie says.Guy-Blaché pioneered film techniques like the close-up and hand-tinted color, and she used synchronized sound with a device called a Chronophone, which was invented by Léon Gaumont in 1902.But Green says it’s not just her technical achievements that made her career extraordinary. The profound subject matter she tackled in some of her later works still resonates today. Guy-Blaché made films about religion, feminism and anti-semitism and was one of the first directors to employ an all African American cast.“She really took social issues to the limit. And I think she got away with it because she did it through this medium that nobody took seriously, so she could express herself that way.” Pamela Green, director of  “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache”“And she really took social issues to the limit. And I think she got away with it because she did it through this medium that nobody took seriously, so she could express herself that way,” Green said. Portrait of filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché in 1912.  Credit: Courtesy of Be Natural Productions Guy-Blaché wrote and directed “The Making of an American Citizen,” which dates to 1912. It portrays an immigrant couple moving from Eastern Europe to the United States and a husband who had to “deal with his Old World patriarchal values,” Green said, quoting Guy-Blaché. Remember, this was a film shown before women even had the right to vote. Guy-Blaché also directed a film about Margaret Sanger, the founder of the organization that eventually evolved into Planned Parenthood.Pamela Smoluchowski is the director of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which recently featured Be Natural. She says Guy-Blaché’s films were radical.“They're so full of courage, but they're also so full of humor. And so, she can tackle these topics that nobody else is really talking about in any kind of depth at the time — and we hardly ever do at this point — with such, kind of, luminosity,” said Smoluchowski at a screening of the film. Film still of Doris Kenyon in "The Ocean Waif" (1916), directed by Alice Guy-Blaché. Credit: Courtesy of Kenyon Sills Before “Be Natural,” Guy-Blaché had been largely forgotten. Many of the Hollywood personalities interviewed in Green’s documentary admitted they had never heard of her. She made hundreds of films throughout her 20-year career, but a lot of them were lost and some were even wrongly credited to male filmmakers. So, when Green set out to make this documentary, she wanted to set the record straight and to advance Guy-Blaché’s story.“I wanted to find new material because I felt that that would validate some of the points that were missing about her — as a person, and her as an artist, and a filmmaker, as a whole as a creator,” said Green.To do so, Green says, she became a detective. For starters, she used Guy-Blaché’s address book, housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to track down the relatives of people listed. Green also talked with curators at several museums — one of whom had a recording of a conversation with Guy-Blaché’s daughter. The film shows Green breathlessly trying to get tapes of that conversation turned into digital files.She says that over the years, male film critics largely left Guy-Blaché out of the history books. She wanted to change that. It took her a decade to make the documentary, but she kept on going. Now, "Be Natural" continues to make the rounds at film festivals across the US and in Canada and Portugal. (See a schedule here.) 

Meet another creative woman with an impressive resume. Pamela Green's professional life includes directing and producing music videos, commercials, motion graphics, feature film titles. She's the founder of Legwork Collective, which locates and obtains the rights to unusual and rarely seen before footage, stills, audio and artifacts used in features, docs, tv series and commercials. 10 years in the making, Pamela also wrote, directed and edited the documentary "Be Natural," the untold story of Alice Guy-Blache, the first female filmmaker, who made her first movie in 1896 at the age of 23...and went on to write, direct and produce more than 1,000 films!

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