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A
- Jenny Abel (USA)
- Abiola Abrams (USA/Guyana)
- Gilda de Abreu (Brazil)
- Perry Miller Adato (USA)
- Anita W. Addison (USA)
- Maren Ade (Germany)
- Marilyn Agrelo (USA)
- Yasmin Ahmad (Malaysia)
- Peggy Ahwesh (USA)
- Chantal Akerman (Belgium/France)
- Barbara Albert (Austria)
- Karin Albou (Algeria/France)
- Lexi Alexander (UK)
- Elizabeth Allen (USA)
- Natalia Almada (USA)
- Jeanne-Marie Almonor (USA)
- Susana Amaral (Brazil)
- Tata Amaral (Brazil)
- Raja Amari (Tunisia)
- Allison Anders (USA)
- Jane Anderson (USA)
- Sara Pia Anderson (UK/USA)
- Hélène Angel (France)
- Maya Angelou (USA)
- Sólveig Anspach (Iceland/France)
- Penny Arcade (USA)
- Francesca Archibugi (Italy)
- Asia Argento (Italy)
- Gillian Armstrong (Australia)
- Gwen Arner (USA)
- Heidi Arnesen (USA)
- Karen Arthur (USA)
- Dorothy Arzner (USA)
- Kerry Asmussen (USA)
- Jacqueline Audry (France)
- Shona Auerbach (UK)
B
- Beth B. (USA)
- Jamie Babbit (USA)
- Alison Bagnall (USA)
- Paule Baillargeon (Canada)
- Pascale Bailly (France)
- Josiane Balasko (France)
- Melissa Balin (USA)
- Marta Balletbo-Coll (Spain)
- Anne Bancroft (USA)
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (Iran)
- Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (France)
- Elizabeth Barret
- Shirley Barrett (Australia)
- Michal Bat-Adam (Israel)
- Joy Batchelor (UK/USA)
- Marta Noemi Bautis (Argentina)
- Liria Bégéja (France/Albania)
- Yannick Bellon (France)
- Vera Belmont (France)
- María Luisa Bemberg (Argentina)
- Yamina Benguigui (Algeria/France)
- Sadie Benning (USA)
- Susanne Benze (Germany)
- Emmanuelle Bercot (France)
- Karen Bernstein
- Juliet Berto (France)
- Julie Bertucelli (France)
- Nicole Bettauer (USA)
- Danielle Beverly (USA)
- Sumitra Bhave (India)
- Susanne Bier (Denmark)
- Kathryn Bigelow (USA)
- Hilary Birmingham] (USA)
- Antonia Bird (UK)
- Simone Bitton (Morocco)
- Alice Guy Blache (France/USA)
- Maria Blom (Sweden)
- Lidiya Bobrova (Russia)
- Laís Bodanzky (Brazil)
- Anna Boden (USA)
- Icíar Bollaín (Spain)
- Lizzie Borden (USA)
- Muriel Box (UK)
- Rachel Boynton (USA)
- Mystelle Brabbee (India)
- Nouchka van Brakel (Netherlands)
- Catherine Breillat France
- Anja Breien (Norway)
- Zabou Breitman (France)
- Zana Briski (UK)
- Audrey Brohy (USA)
- Katrina Holden Bronson (USA)
- Katherine Brooks (USA)
- Sue Brooks (Australia)
- Hilary Brougher (USA)
- Margaret Brown (USA)
- Jutta Brückner (Germany)
- Joyce Buñuel (France)
C
- Dominique Cabrera (France/Algeria)
- Eliane Caffé (Brazil)
- Jane Campion (New Zealand)
- Carla Camurati (Brazil)
- Niki Caro (New Zealand)
- Ana Carolina (Brazil)
- Christine Carrière (France)
- Camille de Casabianca (France)
- Cecil Castellucci (USA)
- Liliana Cavani (Italy)
- Gurinder Chadha (UK)
- Joy Chamberlain (UK)
- Pauline Chan (Australia)
- Tanuja Chandra (India)
- Sylvia Chang (Taiwan)
- Betsy Chasse (USA)
- Joan Chen (China)
- Mabel Cheung (China)
- Lisa Cholodenko (USA)
- Joyce Chopra (USA)
- Yamina Bachir Chouikh (Algeria)
- Vĕra Chytilová (Czech Republic)
- Shirley Clarke (USA)
- Isabel Coixet (Spain)
- Laetitia Colombani (France)
- Laurie Collyer (USA)
- Cristina Comencini (Italy)
- Francesca Comencini (Italy)
- Nina Companéez (France)
- Nicole Conn (USA)
- Martha Coolidge (USA)
- Eleanor Coppola (USA)
- Sofia Coppola (USA)
- Margarida Cordeiro (Portugal)
- Catherine Corsini (France)
- Michèle Cournoyer (Canada)
- Emma-Kate Croghan (Australia)
- Fiona Cunningham-Rei (UK)
D
- Mireille Dansereau (Canada)
- Joan Darling (USA)
- Julie Dash (USA)
- Tamra Davis (USA)
- Josée Dayan (France)
- Donna Deitch (USA)
- Emilie Deleuze (France)
- Dominique Delouche (France)
- Claire Denis (France)
- Maya Deren (USA)
- Virginie Despentes (France)
- Claire Devers (France)
- Guylaine Dionne (Canada)
- Assia Djebar (Algeria)
- Nana Djordjadze (Georgia)
- Gabrielle Savage Dockterman (USA)
- Trish Doolan (USA)
- Andrea Dorfman (Canada)
- Doris Dörrie (Germany)
- Rebecca Dreyfus (USA)
- Sara Driver (USA)
- Danièle Dubroux (France)
- Martine Dugowson (France)
- Germaine Dulac (France)
- Cheryl Dunye (Liberia/USA)
- Marguerite Duras (France)
E
- Christine Edzard (France)
- Jan Eliasberg (USA)
- Linda Ellman (USA)
- Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary)
- Nora Ephron (USA)
- Philomène Esposito (France)
- Heidi Ewing (USA)
- Valie Export (Austria)
- Marianne Eyde (Peru)
F
- Forugh Farrokhzad (Iran)
- Éléonore Faucher (France)
- Safi Faye (Senegal)
- Pascale Ferran (France)
- Sally Field (USA)
- Roberta Findlay (USA)
- Paula Heil Fisher (Austria/USA)
- Anne Fletcher (USA)
- Joe Ann Fogel (USA)
- Anne Laure Folly (Togo)
- Eliana Fonseca (Brazil)
- Anne Fontaine (France)
- Jodie Foster (USA)
- Paula Fouce
- Su Friedrich (USA)
- Kei Fujiwara (Japan)
G
- Laura Gabbert
- Shainee Gabel (USA)
- Nisha Ganatra (Canada)
- Deborah Koons Garcia
- Nicole Garcia (French Algiers)
- Monique Gardenberg (Brazil)
- Katja von Garnier (Germany)
- Karen Gaviola (USA)
- Gwyneth Gibby (USA)
- Elizabeth Gill
- Lillian Gish (USA)
- Leslie Linka Glatter (USA)
- Delphine Gleize (France)
- Lana Gogoberidze (Georgia)
- Sandra Goldbacher
- Dayna Goldfine
- Sara Gómez (Cuba)
- Amanda Goodwin
- Maureen Gosling
- Bette Gordon
- Marleen Gorris (Netherlands)
- Lisa Gottlieb (USA)
- Anne Goursaud (USA)
- Rachel Grady
- Debra Granik
- Lee Grant (USA)
- Janet Greek (USA)
- Maggie Greenwald (USA)
- Roberta Grossman
- Sonali Gulati (India/USA)
- Catherine Gund
- Chus Gutiérrez (Spain)
- Alice Guy (France/USA)
H
- Joana Hadjithomas (Lebanon/France)
- Lucile Hadzihalilovic (France)
- Petra Haffter (Germany)
- Randa Haines (USA)
- Barbara Hammer (USA)
- Sanaa Hamri
- Marion Hänsel (Belgium/France)
- Catherine Hardwicke (USA)
- Mary Harron (Canada)
- Gail Harvey
- Linda Hassani (USA)
- Jessica Hausner (Austria)
- Goldie Hawn (USA)
- Helaine Head (USA)
- Anne Heche (USA)
- Amy Heckerling (USA)
- Astrid Henning-Jensen (Denmark)
- Kelli Herd (USA)
- Paula Hernández (Argentina)
- Sachiko Hidari (Japan)
- Dagmar Hirtz (Germany)
- Victoria Hochberg (USA)
- Agnieska Holland (Poland)
- Nicole Holofcener (USA)
- Heddy Honigmann (Netherlands/Peru)
- Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland)
- Solveig Hoogesteijn (Sweden/Venezuela)
- Sherry Horman (Germany)
- Ann Hui (Hong Kong)
- Daniele Huillet (France)
- Kristina Humle
- Hermine Huntgeburth (Germany)
- Anjelica Huston (USA)
I
- Fiorella Infascelli (Italy)
- Laura Innes (USA)
- Aline Issermann (France)
J
- Jeong Jae-eun (South Korea)
- Wanda Jakubowska (Poland)
- Agnès Jaoui (France)
- Christine Jeffs (New Zealand)
- Patty Jenkins (USA)
- Lee Jeong-hyang (South Korea)
- Xiao Jiang
- Sara Johnsen
- Amy Holden Jones (USA)
- G.B. Jones (Canada)
- Hella Joof (Denmark)
- Vanessa Jopp (Germany)
- Suma Josson (India)
- Soja Jovanovic (Yugoslavia)
- Miranda July (USA)
K
- Betty Kaplan (Argentina)
- Nelly Kaplan (Argentina/France)
- Susan Kaplan
- Prema Karanth (India)
- Nicole Kassell (USA)
- Maryte Kavaliauskas
- Naomi Kawase (Japan)
- Diane Keaton (USA)
- Dorota Kedzierzawska (Poland)
- Elodie Keene (USA)
- Liliane de Kermadec (France)
- Sarah Kernochan (USA)
- Farah Khan (India)
- Buthina Canaan Khoury
- Callie Khouri (USA)
- Beeban Kidron (UK)
- Claire Kilner
- Gina Kim (Korea/USA)
- Debra Kirschner
- Helene Klodawsky
- Ana Kokkinos (Australia)
- Barbara Kopple (USA)
- Karen Kramer
- Rachida Krim (Algeria/France)
- Lisa Krueger (USA)
- Julia Kwan
- Diane Kurys (France)
- Karyn Kusama (USA)
L
- Jeanne Labrune (France)
- Christine Lahti (USA)
- Kalpana Lajmi (India)
- Evelyn Lambart (Canada)
- Mary Lambert (USA)
- Micheline Lanctôt (Canada)
- Samantha Lang (UK)
- Anastasia Lapsui
- Maricarmen de Lara (Mexico)
- Linda Larson
- Eliane de Latour (France/Ivory Coast)
- Clara Law (China)
- Lisa Lax
- Caroline Leaf (USA/Canada)
- Mimi Leder (USA)
- Genevieve Lefebvre (France)
- Valérie Lemercier (France)
- Kasi Lemmons (USA)
- Lisa Leone
- Anne Lescot
- Helen Lesnick
- Antonietta de Lillo (Italy)
- Katherine Lindberg (USA)
- Caroline Link (Germany)
- Christine Lipinska (France)
- Marion Lipschutz
- Lynn Littman (USA)
- Sondra Locke (USA)
- Barbara Loden (USA)
- Margaret Loescher
- Kim Longinotto (UK), documentarist
- Julie Lopes-Curval (France)
- Angela Ricci Lucchi (Italy)
- Ida Lupino (USA)
- Noémie Lvovsky (France)
M
- Angelina Maccarone
- Hettie MacDonald (UK)
- Alison Maclean (New Zealand)
- Maria Maggenti (USA)
- Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran)
- Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran)
- Sarah Maldoror
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Nancy Malone (USA)
- Laura Mañá (Spain)
- Auli Mantila
- Sophie Marceau (France)
- Frances Marion (USA)
- Tonia Marketaki (Greece)
- Penny Marshall (USA)
- Tonie Marshall (France)
- Caroline Martel
- Lucrecia Martel (Argentina)
- Margarita Martinez
- Elisabeth Marton
- Laetitia Masson (France)
- Elaine May (USA)
- Juliet May (UK)
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer (USA)
- Melanie Mayron (USA)
- Patricia Mazuy (France)
- Erica McCarthy
- Mary McGuckian (Ireland)
- Nancy Meckler (UK)
- Maria de Medeiros (Portugal)
- Jeanine Meerapfel (Germany/Argentina)
- Deepa Mehta (Canada/India)
- Vijaya Mehta (India)
- Kay Mellor (UK)
- María Victoria Menis (Argentina)
- Agnès Merlet (France)
- Marzieh Meshkini (Iran)
- Márta Mészáros (Hungary)
- Nancy Meyers (USA)
- Amanda Micheli
- Anne-Marie Miéville (Switzerland)
- Tamineh Milani (Iran)
- Rebecca Miller (USA)
- Sharron Miller (USA)
- Pilar Mirò (Spain)
- Martha Mitchell (USA)
- Ariane Mnouchkine (France)
- Tracey Moffat (Australia)
- Josefina Molina (Spain)
- Karen Moncrieff (USA)
- Kate Montgomery
- Jocelyn Moorhouse (Australia)
- Patricia Moraz (Switzerland)
- Jeanne Moreau (France)
- Yolande Moreau (Belgium)
- Lúcia Murat (Brazil)
- Stephanie Murat
- Kira Muratova (Soviet Union)
- Celina Murga (Argentina)
- Pat Murphy (Ireland)
N
- Ruba Nadda (Canada)
- Mira Nair (India)
- Phyllis Nagy
- Leslie Napoles
- Laura Neri (Belgium)
- Sandra Nettelbeck (Germany)
- Amy Nicholson
- Solveig Nordlund (Sweden/Portugal)
- Elvira Notari (Italy)
- María Novaro (Mexico)
- Zhang Nuanxin (China)
O
- Kerri O'Kane
- Alanis Obomsawin (Canada)
- Paula van der Oest (Netherlands)
- Annette K. Olesen (Denmark)
- Jenni Olson
- Guka Omarova
- Yoko Ono (Japan)
- Ellen Osborne
- Suzanne Osten (Sweden)
- Ulrike Ottinger (Germany)
- Phoebe Owens
P
- Melissa Painter
- Laila Pakalnina (Latvia)
- Euzhan Palcy (Martinique)
- Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
- Penny Panayotopoulou
- Sai Paranjpye (India)
- Claire Parker (USA/France)
- Christine Pascal (France)
- Mary Patierno
- Michaela Pavlátová (Czech Republic)
- Barbara Peeters (USA)
- Monica Pellizzari (Australia)
- Alexandra Pelosi (USA)
- Clare Peploe (UK)
- Marie Pérennou (France)
- Janet Perlman (Canada)
- Ellen Perry
- Regina Pessoa (Portugal)
- Kristine Peterson (USA)
- Kimberly Pierce (USA)
- Patricia Plattner (Switzerland)
- Ana Poliak
- Sarah Polley (Canada)
- Lea Pool (Switzerland)
- Leanne Pooley
- Angela Pope (UK)
- Sally Potter (UK)
- Elizabeth Press
- Ellen Pressman (USA)
- Carrie Preston (USA)
- Gaylene Preston (New Zealand)
- Elaine Proctor (South Africa)
- Maria Pusateri
Q
- Joanna Quinn (UK)
R
- Tahani Rached
- Lili Rademakers (Netherlands)
- Yvonne Rainer (USA)
- Aruna Raje (India)
- Maria Ramos
- Lynne Ramsay (UK)
- Dana Ranga (Romania/Germany)
- Pola Rapaport
- Kaisa Rastimo (Finland)
- Anna Reeves
- Jennifer Reeves
- Lotte Reiniger (Germany/UK)
- Georgina Garcia Riedel
- Leni Riefenstahl (Germany)
- Angela Robinson (USA)
- Julie Anne Robinson (UK)
- Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez (Spain/Mexico)
- Pamela Rooks (India)
- Bethany Rooney (USA)
- Drew Ann Rosenberg
- Rose Rosenblatt
- Michèle Rosier (France)
- Dana Rotberg (Mexico)
- Stephanie Rothman (USA)
- Brigitte Roüan (France)
- Patricia Rozema (Canada)
S
- Jocelyn Saab (Lebanon)
- Randa Chahal Sabag (Lebanon)
- Larisa Sadilova (Russia)
- Leontine Sagan (France)
- Helke Sander (Germany)
- Helma Sanders-Brahms (Germany)
- Jessica Sanders
- Valeria Sarmiento(Chile/France)
- Shimako Sato (Japan/UK)
- Nancy Savoca (USA)
- Cilia Sawadogo (Germany/Canada)
- Lone Scherfig (Denmark)
- Claudia Schilinski (Germany)
- Claudia Schillinger (Germany)
- Edith Schmidt (Germany)
- Elia Schneider (Venezuela)
- Valeska Schöttle (Germany)
- Guita Schyfter (Mexico)
- Cynthia Scott (Canada)
- Beverly Sebastion (USA)
- Susan Seidelman (USA)
- Aparna Sen (India)
- Lorraine Senna (USA)
- Yolanda García Serrano (Spain)
- Coline Serreau (France)
- Katrin Seybold (Germany ~ Born Poland)
- Karen Shakhnazarov
- Li Shaohong (China)
- Helen Shaver (Canada/USA)
- Therese Shecter
- Larisa Shepitko (Soviet Union)
- Amy Sherman (USA)
- Cindy Sherman (USA)
- Shosh Shlam
- Cate Shortland (Australia)
- Esfir Shub (Soviet Union)
- Joan Micklin Silver (USA)
- Charlotte Silvera (France)
- Lori Silverbush
- Claire Simon (France)
- Maryse Sistach (Mexico)
- Kari Skogland (Germany)
- Alison Snowden (UK)
- Helena Solberg (Brazil)
- Yuliya Solntseva (Russia)
- Julia Solomonoff
- Susan Sontag (USA)
- Penelope Spheeris (USA)
- May Spils (Germany)
- Ellen Spiro
- Jill Sprecher (USA)
- J.A. Steel
- Jenny Stein
- Mora Stephens
- Nancy Stern
- Stella Stevens (USA)
- Ula Stökl (Germany)
- Lynne Stopkewich (Canada)
- Barbra Streisand (USA)
- Susan Streitfeld (USA)
- Susan Stroman (USA)
- Sara Sugarman (UK)
- Liliana Sulzbach
- Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland)
T
- Helena Taberna (Spain)
- Rachel Talalay (USA)
- Kinuyo Tanaka (Japan)
- Nadia Tass (Macedonia)
- Giovanna Taviani
- Julie Taymor USA
- Monica Teuber (Germany)
- Joan Tewkesbury (USA)
- Betty Thomas USA
- Caroline Thompson (USA)
- Wendy Tilby (Canada)
- Victory Tischler-Blue (USA)
- Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia)
- Cláudia Tomaz (Portugal)
- Roberta Torre (Italy)
- Fina Torres (Venezuela)
- Wendy Toye (UK)
- Tereza Trautman (Brazil)
- Marie-Claude Treilhou (France)
- Monica Treut (Germany)
- Nadine Trintignant (France)
- Rose Troche (USA)
- Margarethe von Trotta (Germany)
U
- Liv Ullman (Norway)
V
- Agnès Varda (France ~ Born Belgium)
- Rosa Vergés (Spain)
- Sylvie Verheyde (France)
- Marion Vernoux (France)
- Jacqueline Veuve (Switzerland)
- Sandrine Veysset (France)
- Caroline Vignal (France)
- Anne Villacèque (France)
- Teresa Villaverde (Portugal)
- Simone de Vries
- Jürgen Vsych
W
- Aisling Walsh (Ireland)
- Sarah Watt (Australia)
- Lois Weber (USA)
- Claudia Weill (USA)
- Adrienne J. Weiss
- Sandra Werneck (Brazil)
- Lina Wertmuller (Italy)
- Anne Wheeler (Canada)
- Joyce Wieland (Canada)
- Doris Wishman (USA)
- Marijana Wotton
X
- Lu Xiaoya China
- Xiao Jiang (China)
- XU Jinglei (China)
Y
- Tizuka Yamasaki (Brazil)
- Pamela Yates
- Keren Yedaya
- Irina Yevteyeva (Russia)
- Alice Yu
- Jessica Yu (USA)
Z
- Yolande Zauberman (France)
- Lili Fini Zanuck (USA)
- Mai Zetterling (Sweden)
- Binka Zheliazkova (Bulgaria)
- Sharon Zurek