WOMEN WHO RUN HOLLYWOOD (2016-2023)

Et la femme créa Hollywood

 For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and who have come to inspire generations of aspiring artists. In this four-film collection, the sibling filmmakers focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves as influential filmmakers within the male-dominated film industry. The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016) pays homage to the first generation of women screenwriters and directors, who were integral to the evolution of cinema, both as a language and as an industry. Mary Pickford, a Blessing and a Curse (2023) profiles the silent-era superstar who leveraged her popularity as an actress to become her own producer, and eventually was one of the founders of United Artists. Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023) examines the uncompromising life and work of essentially the only woman working as a director in the 1930s studio system. Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino (2021) observes the actress with a penchant for film noir, who fearlessly confronted such taboo topics as unwed motherhood, sexual assault, and bigamy.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

-INTRODUCTION BY FILMMAKERS CLARA KUPERBERG AND JULIA KUPERBERG

-THEATRICAL TRAILERS