Jeni Thornley
Australian documentary filmmaker
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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.
Mary Raferty
Irish campaigning journalist and documentary maker
Kathleen O’Brien
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.
Catherine Duncan
Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.
Ramai Rongomaitara Hayward
Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāi Tahu; photographer, actor, director
Alka Sadat
Alka Sadat is an Afghan documentarian and feature film producer, director and camerawoman.
Mina Shum
Mina Shum is the writer and director of award-winning feature films and several short films. I