01 Jan 1964
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to dawn the next day.
The Women Who Run Hollywood
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
Top Billed Cast
Ally Acker Self
Cari Beauchamp Self
Lillian Gish Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford Self (archive footage)
Ida Lupino Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand Self (archive footage)
Mae West Self (archive footage)
Sherry Lansing Self (archive footage)
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