Description

This is a Special Edition Two-Disc Set, Director's Cut--including: 90-minute feature film, 37 additional interview chapters with camerawomen worldwide, "Interview with the Director," and "Teachers' Guide." Our feature documentary reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, based on my book of the same title. For the past six years, we’ve followed the lives of camerawomen in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Mexico, Senegal, Russia, the United States and other countries: camerawomen who film underwater, in helicopters, in war zones, and on major sets in Hollywood and Bollywood. Our fifty interviews include pioneer Directors of Photography, such as Akiko Ashizawa, JSC (Japan), Joan Hutton, CSC (Canada), Brianne Murphy, ASC (USA), Vijayalakshmi (India), and the men and women who have been supportive of their struggles. Women Behind the Camera celebrates not only the survival of pioneer camerawomen in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen’s visions.
-- Alexis Krasilovsky, Director/Writer, Women Behind the Camera

Cast

(As themselves:) Mary Ayubi (Afghanistan); Jan Kenny, ACS (Australia); Astrid Heubrandtner (Austria); Zoe DIrse, CSC (Canada); Shu Shi Jun (China); Sue Gibson, BSC (England); Agnes Varda and Agnes Godard, AFC (France); Sonja Rom (Germany); Sabeena Gadihoke, Priya Seth Rao and Vijayalakshmi (India); Rosette Ghaderi (Iran); Celiana Cardenas (Mexico); Lee Meily (Philippines), Byun-Young Joo (S. Korea); Aminata Wade (Senegal); Ellen Kuras, ASC, Haskell Wexler, ASC and Sandi Sissel, ASC (USA) and others

Festivals

Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Canada):
  Best Documentary Film Award
International Film Festival of India (Goa, India)
Plus CamerImage International Film Festival (Poland)
Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh)
Moondance International Film Festival (Hollywood):
  Spirit of Moondance Award: Best Documentary
San Francisco Women's Film Festival: Tribute Award "for your many achievements in independent filmmaking"
Flying Broom Int'l Film Festival (Ankara, Turkey)
Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival
LaFemme Film Festival (Beverly Hills)
Globians Film Festival (Potsdam, Germany)
and other festivals