Cecilia Agoitia
Mexican playwright
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Nanfu Wang
A 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner, Nanfu Wang uses film to explore the relationship between individuals and governments. Like a rigorous investigative journalist, Wang employs immersive, vivid storytelling and a first-person narrative structure in her documentary films to examine the ideas of responsibility and freedom, particularly in her native China.
Ava DuVernay
Although she did not pick up a camera until she was thirty-two, Ava DuVernay has made history as a writer, director, and producer. She was the first African American woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival, be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe, direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and direct a film with a budget over $100 million.
Alicia Zárate T
Mexican playwright, director and screenwriter
Zaria Abreu Flores
Mexican writer, playwright and stage director.
Alice Guy-Blaché
She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.
Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
Neta Neale
New Zealand theatre director, speech and drama teacher
Siobhán McKenna
Irish actor and theatre director
Mary Raferty
Irish campaigning journalist and documentary maker