A
Anne Aghion– My Neighbour My Kikker, Ice People
Ana Lily Amirpour- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch
Annette Apitz- Fighting Fish
Asia Argento- Misunderstood, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Andrea Arnold– Fish Tank, American Honey, Wuthering Heights (2011), Red Road
Amma Asante- Belle, A Way of Life, A United Kingdom
Alison Bagnall- The Dish & the Spoon, Funny Bunny, Piggy
Amy Berg- Deliver us from Evil (2006), Janis: Little Girl Blue, West of Memphis, Every Secret Thing, An Open Secret, Prophet’s Prey
Alexandra Berger– Danland
Anna Biller- The Love Witch, Viva
Antonia Bird- Ravenous, Priest, Face, Mad Love
Alix (Alexandra) Blair– Farmer/Veteran
Anna Boden- It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Sugar, Mississippi Grind
Alexandria Bombach– On Her Shoulders
Annie Bradley– Close Encounters
Axelle Carolyn– Soulmate
Amy C. Elliott- Wicker Kitten, World’s Largest
Aisling Chin-Yee– The Rest of Us, No Ordinary Man
Aislinn Clarke– The Devil’s Doorway
Alice Cox Neff- Poisonberry
Ava Duvernay- Selma, Middle of Nowhere, A Wrinkle In Time, 13th
Arantxa Echevarría– Carmen y Lola
Amber Fares– Speed Sisters
Anna Fitch- The Genius of Marian
Anne Fletcher– The Guilt Trip, Step Up, 27 Dresses, The Proposal, Hot Pursuit, Dumplin’
Abby Ginzberg- Agents of Change
Aurora Guerrero- Mosquita Y Mari
Anne Hamilton– American Fable
Amy Heckerling- Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking
Amy Holden Jones- The Slumber Party Massacre, Love Letters, The Rich Man’s Wife
Agnieszka Holland- The Secret Garden, Europa Europa, Olivier Olivier, In Darkness
Annie Howell– Little Boxes, Claire in Motion
Amy Jo Johnson– The Space Between
Angelina Jolie- Unbroken, By the Sea, In The Land of Blood and Honey
Alexandra Juhasz- SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age, Video Remains, Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film & Video
Alix Lambert- The Mark of Cain, Bayou Blue, Mentor, Deadwood
Alice Lowe– Prevenge
Annetta Marion- Oprah’s Masterclass, Oprah Goes to Broadway: The Colour Purple
Anja Marquardt– She’s Lost Control
Amanda Marsalis- Echo Park
Amanda Micheli– La Corona
Afia Nathaniel– Dukhtar
Augusta Palmer- The Hand of Fatima
Alexi Pappas- Tracktown
Annette Porter- The Aviatrix
Angela Robinson– Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman
Anna Rose Holmer- The Fits
Ashley Sabin– Girl Model
Ani Simon-Kennedy– Days of Gray
Anna-Rose King- Good Enough
Alicia (Lee) Slimmer- My First Car
Agnieszka Smoczynska– The Lure
Athina Rachel Tsangari– Attenberg, Chevalier
Agnes Varda- The Beaches of Agnes, Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, The Gleaners and I, Faces Places
Aisling Walsh- The Daisy Chain, Maudie, Song for a Raggy Boy
Adrienne Weiss– Love, Ludlow
Anouk Whissell– Turbo Kid, Summer of ’84
Alice Winocour– Proxima, Disorder, Augustine
B
Beth B- Exposed, Two Small Bodies
Barbara Brancaccio- Cropsey
Barri Cohen– Crimes of Passion, Girls’ Night Out
Bonnie Cohen- Audre & Daisy, The Rape of Europa
Brenda Davis– Sister
Bette Gordon– Handsome Harry, Variety
Beyoncé – Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
Barbara Peeters– Humanoids from the Deep, Summer School Teachers, Bury Me An Angel, The Dark Side of Tomorrow
Barbara Streisand- Yentl, The Mirror has Two Faces, The Prince of Tides
Betty Thomas- John Tucker Must Die, Doctor Doolittle, Private Parts, The Brady Bunch Movie, I Spy, 28 Days
C
Chantal Akerman- The Captive, No Home Movie, Jeanne Dielman 23 Commerce Quay 1080 Brussels
Clio Barnard- The Selfish Giant, Dark River
Carol Brandt- Pet Names, Things We Found on the Ground, Dear Coward on the Moon
Catherine Breillat- Anatomy of Hell, Romance, A Real Young Girl
Chanya Button– Burn, Burn, Burn, Vita & Virginia
Chanda Chevannes– Living Downstream, That of God
Christina Choe– Nancy
Carol Dalrymple- National Park Symphony- The Mighty Five, We Shall Remain: The Goshute
Claire Denis-Trouble Every Day, 35 Shots of Rum, Beau Travail, White Material
Cheryl Dunye- The Watermelon
Catherine Eaton- The Sounding
Coralie Fargeat– Revenge
Connie Field– Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine
Cheryl Furjanic- Back on Board: Greg Louganis
Catherine Hardwicke- Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, Thirteen, Red Riding Hood, Miss You Already
Cassandra Herrman- Tulia, Texas
Courtney Hunt– Frozen River, The Whole Truth
Christine Jeffs– Sunshine Cleaning, Sylvia, Rain
Christina Kallas- 42 Seconds of Happpiness
Claire Kilner- How To Deal, American Virgin
Caitlin Koller– 30 Miles From Nowhere
Christina Lind– Kali’s Vibe
Cambria Matlow- Burning in the Sun
Carol Morley- The Falling, Edge, Dreams of a Life
Crystal Moselle- The Wolfpack, Skate Kitchen
Cheyenne Picardo- Remedy
Cate Shortland– Berlin Syndrome, Somersault
Chloe Sosa-Sims– Dan and Margot
Chantelle Squires– Reserved to Fight
Celia Rowlson-Hall- MA
Celine Sciamma- Tomboy, Water Lilies, Girlhood
Chloë Sevigny- Kitty
Cindy Sherman– Office Killer
Chris Simon- This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
Corinne Sullivan- Mutso, The Hinterland
Christine Turner– Homegoings
Corrine Van der Borch– Girl with Black Balloons
Christina Voros- Kink
Caryn Waechter- The Sisterhood of Night
Cathy Yan– Dead Pigs, Birds of Prey
Chloe Zhao– The Rider
D
Desiree Akhavan- Appropriate Behavior, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Dami Akinnusi- A Tea Room in the Hood
Danielle Arbid– Parisienne
Diane Bell- Bleeding Heart
Deja Brandeis– Hell or High Water: The Story of the Nashville Rollergirls
Dara Bratt– The Singing Abortionist
Deborah Brock- The Slumber Party Massacre II, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever
Dawn D. Valadez– Going on 13
Danishka Esterhazy– Black Field, H&G, Level 16
Dina Fiasconaro– Mom’s and Meds
Deirdre Fishel– Still Doing It
Diane Fraher- The Reawakening
Deniz Gamze Ergüven– Mustang, Kings
Dayna Goldfine- The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Deborah Goodwin– The Pastor
Debra Granik- Winter’s Bone, Stray Dog, Down to the Bone, Leave No Trace
Deborah Kampmeier– Split, Hounddog, Virgin
Deborah Kaplan- Can’t Hardly Wait, Josie and the Pussycats
Dara Kell– Dear Mandela
Debra Kirschner- The Tollbooth
Dawn Logsdon– Free for All: Inside the Public Library
Deepa Mehta– Water, Earth, Fire
Dana Nachman- Batkid Begins, The Human Experiment, Love Hate Love, Witch Hunt
Darlene Naponse– Falls Around Her
Dawn Porter– Trapped, Gideon’s Army, Spies of Mississippi
Dee Rees- Pariah, Bessie, Mudbound
Deidre Schoo- Flex is Kings
Dawn Scibilia– HOME
Deb Shoval- AWOL
Diana Whitten- Vessel
Darya Zhuk- Filfak
Denise Zmekhol- Children of the Amazon
E
Emily Abt- Daddy Don’t Go
Eva Aridjis- Entre Nos
Estelle Artus– The Favor, The Blue Eyes, Children Of The Street, Saint Death, Chuy, The Wolf Man
Em Baker– Spoke
Elizabeth Banks- Pitch Perfect 2
Erika Cohn- In Football We Trust
Erica Fae- Ring Road
Emilia Ferreira– Muck
Emma Franz– Bill Frisell: A Portrait, Intangible Asset Number 82
Emily Hagins- Pathogen, The Retelling, Coin Heist, Grow Up Tony Phillips
Emily Lobsenz– Song of the Basques
Ellen Martinez– After Spring
Emilie McDonald– Evergreen, Bottled Up
Erica Milsom– Snow Day: Life, Death and Skiing
Emily Mkrtichian– India’s Youngest Police Officer
Elisa Paloschi- Embracing Voices
Emmy Scharlatt- In The Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation
Elisabeth Subrin– A Woman, A Part
Elizabeth Thompson- Blink
Emilie Upczak– Moving Parts
Elizabeth Wood- White Girl
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Farah Khalid– Dropped
Florencia Manovil- Dyke Central
Francine McDougall- Sugar & Spice
Floria Sigismondi- The Runaways
Frances-Anne Solomon– A Winter Tale, Peggy Su!
Francine Zuckerman– We Are Here
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Gabriela Amaral Almeida- A Sombra do Pai, O Animal Cordial
Genevieve Bailey- I Am Eleven, See CV
Gurinder Chadha- Bend it Like Beckham, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Bhaji on The Beach, Bride and Prejudice, Viceroy’s House
Gia Coppola- Palo Alto
Gabriela Cowperthwaite- Blackfish
Geeta Gandbhir– A Journey of a Thousand Miles
Greta Gerwig– Lady Bird, Little Women
Gigi Saul Guerrero– Culture Shock
Gayle Kirschenbaum– A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary
Gina (Georgine) Leibrecht– How To Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy
Gina Prince-Bythewood– Beyond the Lights, Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees
Gabrielle Provaas- Meet the Fokkens, Plastic Harem
Gillian Robespierre- Obvious Child, Landline
Genevieve Roudane– The Chunta
Gren Wells- The Road Within
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Haiffa Al-Mansour- Wadjda, Mary Shelley
Houda Benyamina- Divines
Hilary Brougher- Stephanie Daley, Sticky Fingers of Time, South Mountain
Hélène Cattet- Amer, The Strange Colour of your Body’s Tears
Holly Dale– Blood & Donuts
Heidi Ewing- Jesus Camp, Freakonomics, Detropia, The Boys of Baraka
Hannah Fidell- 6 Years, A Teacher
Heidi Hartwig– Wonder Valley
Helen Hunt- Ride (2014), Then She Found Me
Helen De Michiel- Lunch Love Community
Helen Walsh- The Violators
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Isabella Eklöf- Holiday
Issa Lopez- Tigers are not Afraid
Isabel Sandoval– Apparition
Ingrid Veninger– Porcupine Lake, I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person, Only
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Jane Arden– The Other Side of the Underneath, Anti-Clock
Joanna Arnow– I HATE MYSELF 🙂 : A Documentary
Jessie Auritt- The Birdman
Jamie Babbit-But I’m a Cheerleader, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Addicted to Fresno
Jill Bauer- Hot Girls Wanted, Sexy Baby
Jackie van Beek– The Breaker Upperers
Julie Bridgham- The Sari Soliders
Jennifer Callahan- Everything is Different Now
Jessica Cameron- Truth or Dare (2013), Mania
Jill Campbell- Mr. Chibbs
Jane Campion- The Piano, Bright Star, Sweetie, In The Cut
Jordan Canning– We Were Wolves
Joan Chen- Autumn In New York, Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Jessie Deeter- Who Killed the Electric Car?
Julia Ducournau- Raw
Judith Ehrlich– The Most Dangerous Man in America
Jan Eliasberg– Past Midnight
Jodie Foster- Money Monster, The Beaver, Home for the Holidays, Little Man Tate
Jennifer Fox– My Reincarnation
Jen Gilomen- Life on the Line
Janet Grillo- Fly Away
Jyllian Gunther– The New Public
Julia Hart- Miss Stevens, Fast Color
Jessica Hausner– Little Joe, Lourdes, Lovely Rita
Jen Heck- The Promised Band
Judith Helfand– A Healthy Baby Girl, Blue Vinyl, Everything’s Cool
Jupiter J. Makins– Bigfoot and the Burton’s
Jennifer Kent- The Babdadook, The Nightingale
Jackie Kong- Blood Diner, The Being, Night Patrol, The Under Achievers
Jenée LaMarque- The Pretty One, The Feels
Jennifer Lee– Frozen
Julia Leigh- Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Jennifer Liao- End of Days, Inc. What You Eat
Jennie Livingston- Paris is Burning
Julia Loktev- Day Night Day Night, The Loneliest Planet
Jennifer Lynch– Boxing Helena, Chained
Jenny Mackenzie- Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation
Jess Manafort- Remember the Daze
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor– New Muslim Cool, Paulina
Jen McGowan– Rust Creek, Kelly & Cal
Joan Micklin Silver– Big Girls Don’t Cry…They get Even, Loverboy, Head Over Heels, Between the Lines
Jessica M. Thompson– The Light of the Moon
Jehane Noujaim- The Square, Control Room
Jackie Ochs– Vietnam: The Secret Agent
Jennifer Phang- Advantageous, Still Life, Half-Life
Jane Pollard- 20,000 Days on Earth
Jenna Ricker- Ben’s Plan
Jessica Scalise- Zilla and Zoe
Jennifer Schwerin– Talking Trash
Jordan Scott- Cracks
Justine Shapiro- Promises, Our Summer in Tehran
Jessica Sharzer- Speak
Jessica Sherry- Waiting for John
Jennifer Siebel Newsom– Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In
Jennifer Steinman– Desert Runners, Motherland
Julia Solomonoff- The Last Summer of La Boyita
Julie Taymor- Frida, Across the Universe, Titus, The Tempest (2010), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
Jennifer Townsend- Catching Sight of Thelma & Louise
Justine Triet– Sibyl, In Bed with Victoria, Age of Panic
Jessica Vale- Small Small Thing: The Olivia Zinnah Story
Jürgen Vsych- Ophelia Learns to Swim
Jovanka Vuckovic– The Captured Bird, XX
Jane Weinstock- Easy, The Moment
Jamila Wignot– Layover, A STRAY
Jessica Wolfson– Radio Unnameable
Joyce Wong– Wexford Plaza
Jenn Wrexler– The Ranger
Julie Wyman– Strong!
Jennifer Yuh Nelson– The Darkest Minds, Kung Fu Panda 2
K
Kimberlee Acquaro– Miss Representation
Katie Aselton– Black Rock, The Freebie
Kathryn Bigelow- Point Break (1991), Near Dark, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Strange Days
Kay Cannon– Blockers
Kiara C. Jones– Christmas Wedding Baby
Kat Coiro- A Case of You, And While We Were Here, L!fe Happens
Kim Cummings- In Montauk
KT Curran– The First Time Club
Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander– Us, Naked: Trixie and Monkey
Katie Dellamaggiore- Brooklyn Castle
Kim Dempster- Marmalade
Katherine Dieckmann– Strange Weather
Kirsten Dunst– The Bell Jar
Karin Fahlén– Stockholm Stories
Kelly Fremon Craig– The Edge of Seventeen
Karen Gillan– The Party’s Just Beginning
Kayti Grant– The One Who Loves You
Kristen Hanggi– Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, Grantham & Rose
Karin Hayes- We’re Not Broke, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
Katherine Jerkovic– Roads in February
Kavery Kaul– Long Way From Home
Katarzyna Kochany– MAC Couch
Karyn Kusama– The Invitation, Jennifer’s Body, Aeon Flux, XX, Girlfight
Kris Lefcoe- Public Domain
Kasi Lemmons- Eve’s Bayou, Talk To Me, Black Nativity
Kate Logan- Kidnapped for Christ
Kate Melville- Picture Day
Kyoko Miyake– Brakeless
Kristina Nikolova- Faith, Love & Whiskey
Kristen Nutile– Sally Gross: The Pleasure of Stillness
Kimberly Pierce- Boys Don’t Cry, Carrie (2013), Stop-Loss
Kelly Reichardt- Meek’s Cutoff, Certain Women, Night Moves, Wendy and Lucy
Kate Schermerhorn– Seeking 1906
Katt Shea- The Rage: Carrie 2, Dance of the Damned, Poison Ivy
Kirsten Sheridan- August Rush, Disco Pigs, Dollhouse
Kimi Takesue– Where Are You Taking Me? 95 and 6 To Go
Kate Thompson-Gorry- Chaos in the Kalahari
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Louise Alston- Jucy, All My Friends are Leaving Brisbane
Lisa Azuelos- LOL, Dalida, Quantum Love
Lisa Barros D’Sa- Good Vibrations, Cherrybomb
Lake Bell- In A World
Laura Belsey– Criminal Minds
Laura Checkoway– Lucky
Lexi Alexander– Punisher: War Zone
Lisa Cholodenko- The Kids are Alright, High Art, Cavedweller, Laurel Canyon
Liv Corfixen- My Life Directed by Nicholas Winding Refn
Laurie Coyle- Orozco: Man of Fire
Lisa D’Apolito- Love Gilda
Lena Dunham- Tiny Furniture, Creative Nonfiction
Lina Esco– Free the Nipple
Liz Garbus- Girlhood (2003), What Happened Miss Simone?
Liz Garcia- The Lifeguard, One Percent More Humid
Lisa Gottlieb– Just One of the Guys, Across the Moon, Cadillac Ranch
Lauren Greenfield- The Queen of Versailles, Thin
Lucia Grillo– Earth Dream Earth, Testardi
Lucile Hadzihalilovic– Evolution (2015), Innocence, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre
Linda Hassani- Dark Angel: The Ascent
Leslye Headland- Bachelorette, Sleeping with Other People
Laura Israel- Windfall
Lisa Jackson- The Embargo Project
Laetitia Jacquart– L’aire
Leigh Janiak– Honeymoon
Liza Johnson– Elvis & Nixon, Hateship Loveship
Logan Kibens- Operator
Louisiana ‘Lucy’ Kreutz– ’61 Bullets’
Lisa Krueger– Manny & Lo, Committed
Lillian LaSalle– MY NAME IS PEDRO
Laura Lau- Silent House
Lesli Linka Glatter- Now and Then, The Proposition
Leah Mahan– Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
Liz Marshall– The Ghosts in Our Machine
Lucrecia Martel- The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl, La Ciénaga
Leslie McCleave- Road
Lauren Miller– Like Father
Laura Naylor– Duck Beach to Eternity, The Fix
Laura Neri– Kill the Habit
Liz Nord- Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land
Livia De Paolis– Emoticon
Lina Plioplyte- Advanced Style
Laura Plotkin– Gulabi Gang, Red Rain, 21
Laura Poitras- Citizen Four, Risk, The Oath
Lynne Ramsay- We Need To Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar
Lise Raven- Kinderwald, Stride, Snipe, Low
Lisa Robinson– Small Beautifully Moving Parts
Lorene Scafaria- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Meddler
Lone Scherfig- The Riot Club, An Education, One Day, Their Finest
Lacey Schwartz- Little White Lie
Lara Shapiro- Marathon ’67
Leslie Shearing– Unscrewed
Lynn Shelton- Laggies, Your Sisters Sister, Say When, Touchy Feely, Humpday
Linsey Stewart- Bickford Park
Lara Stolman- Swim Team, Prior to Swim Team
Lynn True– Lumo, Summer Pasture
Lana & Lilly Wachowski- The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Jupiter Ascending, Bound, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas
Louise Wadley– All About E, To Russia With Love
Lulu Wang– The Farewell
Laurie Weltz- About Scout
Lina Wertmüller– Love & Anarchy, The Seduction of Mimi, Swept Away, Seven Beauties
Lana Wilson- After Tiller
Lauren Wolkstein– The Strange Ones
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Maya Angelou- Down in the Delta
Minhal Baig– Hala
Marie-Helene Carleton– Once Upon a Time in Sarajevo, Identity and Exile, Off The Rails, Who Owns Yoga
Monia Chokri– A Brother’s Love
Marya Cohn– The Girl in the Book
Martha Coolidge– Valley Girl, The Prince and Me, Material Girls
Mati Diop– Atlantique
Mia Donovan- Deprogrammed, Inside Lara Roxx
Mary Dore- She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
Maya Forbes– Infinitely Polar Bear,
Mary Harron- American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Moth Diaries, The Notorious Bettie Page
Marielle Heller– The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Madeleine Hetherton– The Surgery Ship
Marianne Hettinger- Mango Tango
Mars Horodyski– Ben’s At Home
Mandie Fletcher– Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Deadly Advice
Mirrah Foulkes– Judy and Punch
Maya Gallus- Derby Crazy Love
Maria Giese– When Saturday Comes
Maureen Gosling- Final Editor: A Dangerous Idea
Marcia Jarmel– Havana Curveball
Maureen Judge– My Millennial Life, Living Dolls, Mom’s House
Miranda July- Me, You and Everyone We Know, The Future
Mischa Kamp- Jongens, Winky’s Horse
Maryam Keshavarz– Circumstance
Mary Lambert- Pet Semetary, Grand Isle, Siesta, The In Crowd, Clubland
Mimi Leder– On the Basis of Sex, Deep Impact, The Peacemakers
Micah Magee– Petting Zoo
Maria Maggenti- The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Maria Matteoli- The Wine of Summer
Melanie Mayron- Mean Girls 2, Little Women Big Cars, Slap Her She’s French! The Babysitters Club
Molly McGlynn- Mary Goes Round, Workin’ Mom’s
Morag McKinnon– I Am Breathing, Donkeys
Mariette Monpierre- Elza
Merete Mueller– TINY: A Story About Living Small
Marilyn Mulford– Freedom on My Mind
Mira Nair– The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Monsoon Wedding, Queen of Katwe, Mississippi Masala!
Madeleine Olnek– Lesbian Space Aliens
Myra Paci– Searching for Paradise
Madellaine Paxson– Blood Punch
Miranda de Pencier– The Grizzlies
Michelle “Shelly” Prevost– Trained in the Ways of Men
Maria Pulera– Between Worlds
Mara Ravins– Matin Dans Une Foret de Pins
Michele Remsen– Toss It
Megan Riakos– Crushed
Marialy Rivas- Young and Wild
Mariana Rondón– Bad Hair, At Midnight and a Half, Postcards from Leningrad
Madeleine Sami– The Breaker Upperers
Marina Sargenti– Mirror Mirror (1990)
Marjane Satrapi- Persepolis, Chicken with Plums, The Voices, The Gang of the Jotas
Martha Shane- After Tiller
Maria Solrun– Adam, Jargo
Marah Strauch- Sunshine Superman
Maxine Trump- Musicwood
Marina de Van– In My Skin, Don’t Look Back, Dark Touch
Miao Wang– Maineland, Beijing Taxi
Malika Zouhali Worrall– Call Me Kuchu
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Niki Caro- North Country, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Whale Rider
Nia DaCosta– Little Woods
Nosipho Dumisa– Number 37
Natalie van den Dungen– Bunny New Girl, Persecution Blues: The Battle for the Tote
Nora Ephron- Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Bewitched, Julie & Julia, Lucky Numbers
Naomi Foner- Very Good Girls
Nicole Franklin- Little Brother: Things Fall Apart, I Was Made to Love Her: The Double Dutch Documentary
Nisha Ganatra- Chutney Popcorn, Cake
Nicole Holofcener– The Land of Steady Habits, Enough Said, Please Give, Friends with Money
Naomi Jaye- The Pin
Nancy Kates- Regarding Susan Sontag
Nancy Kelly– Rebels with a Cause
Nadine Labaki- Caramel, Where Do We Go Now?
Nicolina Lanni- Lost and Found
Natalia Leite- Bare, M.F.A
Nina Ljeti– Memoria, Blood Surf
Nancy Meyers- What Women Want, Its Complicated, The Intern, The Holiday, The Parent Trap, Something’s Gotta Give
Natalie Moore DeGennaro– Powerplegic
Nimisha Mukerji- Tempest Storm
Nijla Mu’min– Jinn
Nicole Opper- Off and Running, Visitor’s Day
Nora Poggi- She Started It
Natalie Portman– A Tale of Love and Darkness
Nicole Quinn- Racing Daylight
Nancy Savoca– Dogfight, True Love, The 24 Hour Woman, Household Saints, If These Walls Could Talk
Nicole Teeny- Bible Quiz
Nadine Valcin– A School Without Borders
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P
Priscilla Anany- Hospitals
Patricia Cardoso- Real Women Have Curves
Petra Costa- Olmo and the Seagull, Elena
Pamela French- Becoming More Visible
Pearl Gluck– Divan
Patty Jenkins- Monster, Wonder Woman (2017)
Philly de Lacey- The Monster of Mangatiti
Penny Lane– Hail Satan?
Phyllida Lloyd- Mamma Mia! The Iron Lady
Penny Marshall- Riding in Cars with Boys, Big, A League of their Own, The Preacher’s Wife, Awakenings
Pam Minty- Direct Route
Pratibha Parmar- Nina’s Heavenly Delights, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Pamela Romanowsky- The Adderall Diaries/True Deception, The Institute
Patricia Rozema- Into the Forest, Mansfield Park, White Room
Penelope Spheeris- Wayne’s World, The Decline of Western Civilisation, Suburbia, the Boys Next Door, The Little Rascals
Petra Volpe– Dreamland
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R
Raja Amari– Foreign Body, Satin Rouge
Rebecca Barry– I Am A Girl, Footy Chicks
Rahma Benhamou El Madani– Tagnawittude
Rémy Bennett- Buttercup Bill
Risa Bramon Garcia- 200 Cigarettes, The Con Artist
Regan Brashear- Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Roxann Dawson– Breakthrough
Rose Glass– Saint Maud
Ronna Gradus- Hot Girls Wanted, Sexy Baby
Rachel Grady- Jesus Camp, Freakonomics, Detropia, The Boys of Baraka
Rebecca Haimowitz- Made in India
Rachel Lears– The Hand That Feeds
Rose McGowan- Dawn
Rebecca Miller- The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Maggie’s Plan, Angela, Personal Velocity
Reed Morano– I Think We’re Alone Now, The Rhythm Section
Ramaa Mosely- The Brass Teapot
Rosemary Myers– Girl Asleep
Ruba Nada- October Gale, Cairo Time, Inescapable, Sabah
Roz (Rosamund) Owen- Portrait of Resistance
Rebecca Snow- Viking Women
Rachel Talalay– Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Tank Girl
Rebecca Thomas- Electrick Children
Romi Trower– What If It Works?
Rachel Wortell– A Sibling Mystery
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Sarvnaz Alambeigi- Tomorrowland
Sini Anderson- The Punk Singer
Sophie Barthes- Madame Bovary (2014), Cold Souls
Shari Berman– My Life as Abraham Lincoln
Susanne Bier– Brothers, In a Better World, After the Wedding, Love is all You Need, Bird Box
Sophia Cacciola– Clickbait
Steph Ching– After Spring
Sara Colangelo– The Kindergarten Teacher, Little Accidents
Sophie Constantinou– Divided Loyalties
Suzanne Coote– The Open House
Sophia Coppola- Lick The Star, The Virgin Suicides, The Bling Ring, Somewhere, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled
Sara Dosa- The Last Season
Sonia Escolano– House of Sweat and Tears
Shaina Feinberg– The Babymooners
Sophie Fiennes- The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
Susanna Fogel- Life Partners
Sadaf Foroughi– Ava
Sydney Freeland- Drunktown’s Finest, Deidra and Laney Rob a Train
Samantha Futerman- Twinsters
Sarah Gavron- Suffragette, Brick Lane
Sarah Goodman- When We Were Boys
Samantha Grant- A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
Suki Hawley– Raditation
Sian Heder- Tallulah
Sania Jhankar– Butterflies of Bill Baker
Susan Johnson- Carrie Pilby, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
Saila Kariat– The Valley, Neighbors, Intertwined
Sarah Kernochan– Strike!
Simona Kostova- Thirty
Sharon Lewis- Karma’s a B*tch!
Shari Lynette Carpenter– Kali’s Vibe
Samira Makhmalbaf- The Apple, Blackboards, At Five in the Afternoon
Sophie Mathisen– Drama
Stella Meghie- Everything Everything, Jean of the Joneses
Sharpen Obaid-Chinoy– Song of Lahore, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Sophie Peyrard- Retro Revolution, Pin-Up: The Revenge of a Sex Symbol
Sarah Pirozek- Free Tibet, #LIKE
Shira Piven- Welcome to Me, Fully Loaded
Sarah Polley- Take This Waltz, Away From Her
Sally Potter- Ginger & Rosa, Orlando, The Man Who Cried, The Tango Lesson
Saskia Rifkin– Can Hitler Happen Here?
Susan Rynard- The Messenger (2015)
Susan Seidelman- Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil, Making Mr Right, Cookie
Sarah Sifers– Fate of the Lhapa
Susan Skoog- Whatever
Shari Springer Berman– 10,000 Saints, Girl Most Likely, American Splendour
The Soska Sisters- American Mary, See No Evil 2, Vendetta
Susanna Styron- Shadrach
Sara Sugarman- Vinyl, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mad Cows, Very Annie Mary
Sara Summa– The Last to See Them
Sophia Takal- Always Shine, Green
Sandi Tan– Shirkers
Sam Taylor-Johnson– Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey
Stewart Thorndike– Lyle
Stacy Title– The Bye Bye Man, The Last Supper, Let The Devil Wear Black
Stavroula Toska– Beneath the Olive Tree
Sharon Wilharm– Summer of ’67, Providence, The Good Book
So Yong Kim- For Ellen, Treeless Mountain, In Between Days, Lovesong
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Tiffany Bartok- Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Trish Dalton– Election Year
Tamra Davis- Half Baked, Crossroads, Billy Madison, The Wonder of Sex, Guncrazy
Tina Gharavi- I Am Nasrine
Tiffany Hsiung- The Apology
Tamara Jenkins- Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages
Tara Johns– The Year Dolly Parton was my Mom
Toni Kalem- A Slipping-Down
Theresa Loong- Every Day is a Holiday
Talia Lugacy- Descent
Tonia Mishiali– Pause
Teona Strugar Mitevska- God Exists Her Name is Pertunya, The Woman Who Brushed off Her Tears, How I Killed a Saint
Tatia Rosenthal- $9.99
Thea Sharrock– Me Before You
Therese Shechter– How To Lose Your Virginity
Tiffany Shlain- The Adaptable Mind
Tara Subkoff- #Horror,
Tanya Wexler– Hysteria, Ball in the House, Finding North
Tsivia Barkai Yacov– Red Cow
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Ursula Laing– 9-Man
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Vicki Abeles- The Race to Nowhere
Valentina Canavesio– Footprint
Vera Chytilova- Daises, Traps, Fruit of Paradise, The Inheritance or FuckOffGuysGoodDay, Calamity, Something Different
Veronique Doumbe– Imbabazi
Valerie Faris- Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine
Vanessa Gould– OBIT, Between the Folds
Viktoria I.V. King– Gray’s Disconnect
Victoria Lean– After the Last River
Victoria Mahoney– Yelling to the Sky
Victoria Negri– Gold Star
Vaishali Sinha– Made In India
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Whitney Hamilton- My Brother’s War
Wanuri Kahiu– Rafiki
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Xan Cassavetes- Kiss of the Damned (2012)
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Yuriko Gamo Romer– Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful
Yolanda Ramke– Cargo
Yoruba Richen– The New Black
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Contributions to this list from Chloe Leeson, Film Fatales and Ferdosa Abdi.
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