RECOMMENDED FILMS
NEVER LOOK AWAY
CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth fearlessly captures footage of war zones. A Sundance premiere featuring Christiane Amanpour, directed by Lucy Lawless.
LOVE + WAR
A feature film documentary by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ad Jimmy Chin which explores the life and career of Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer journalist Lynsey Addario.
CAMERAPERSON
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality with crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
THE WOMEN BEHIND THE WILD - IN HER NATURE
National Geographic Episode featuring the camera women who shot, “In Her Nature.”
Go behind the lens with the making of In Her Nature. From the grit of filming in remote locations to the bond forged between crew members, this episode shines a light on the women behind the camera-and the mission that brought them together.
HOW BEING A WAR REPORTER GOT ME KIDNAPPED…TWICE
VICE Interview 2020
Not many people are kidnapped twice in conflict zones, awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant and have Jennifer Lawrence playing them in their biopic...But, nobody else is Lynsey Addario. We sit down with the photographer and New York Times bestseller, well known for covering some of the toughest contemporary topics, to talk life, death and journalistic truth in a time of Trump.
LYNSEY ADDARIO: WHAT THIS WAR PHOTOGRAPHER SAW FROM THE FRONTLINES
Interview with George Stromboulopoulos on the The Strombo Show / House of Strombo Video Podcast
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who covers war, humanitarian crises, and women's issues. She is one of the greats-American Photo Magazine named her one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years. Lynsey connects us to the depths of human experience-through her flat-out courage and empathy.
THE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: ORDINARY WOMEN DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS
The Empowerment Project is the incredible journey of a crew of female filmmakers driving across America to encourage, empower, and inspire the next generation of strong women to go after their career ambitions.
Driving over 7,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York over the course of 30 days, the documentary spotlights 17 positive and powerful women leaders across a variety of lifestyles and industries.
In celebration of the all-female focus in front of and behind the camera, the filmmakers turned the cameras on themselves, capturing their transformational journey.
The film challenges the audience to ask themselves, "What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail?"
BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE
When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché follows her rise from Gaumont secretary to her appointment as head of production a year later, and her subsequent illustrious 20-year career in France and in the United States, as the founder of her own studio and as writer, director, and/or producer of 1,000 films—after which she was veritably erased from history. Until now.... Directed by Pamela B. Green, the film is narrated by Jodie Foster.
WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA
This made-by-women-for-women documentary, based upon Krasilovsky's book of the same name, connects globally, exploring the lives of camerawomen for all over the world in a way never seen before. Featuring interviews with Agnès Varda, Sandi Sissel, Ellen Kuras and many others.reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond, from war zones to children's laughter, in a way that had never been seen before.
SHOOTING WOMEN
Documentary Feature by Alexis Krasilovsky
Featuring more than 50 camerawomen from around the world, SHOOTING WOMEN, by pioneering filmmaker and cinema studies professor Alexis Krasilovsky, celebrates the amazing talent and unflinching spirit of image-making women from the sets of Hollywood and Bollywood to the war zones of Afghanistan.