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Date: 2019 ()

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mark Cousins

Synopsis: Women Make Film: A Road Movie Through Cinema follows in the footsteps of Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: An Odyssey, to give us a guided tour of the art and craft of the movies. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest directors — all of them women. This epic, five years in the making, is made up of forty “chapters” narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger.

Genre:
Documentary

Subjects:
Film directors, Women filmmakers, Female gaze
Credits (7)
Executive Producer: Clara Glynn, Executive Producer: Tilda Swinton, Producer: John Archer, Written by: Mark Cousins, Script Consultant: Timo Langer, Editor: Timo Langer
Cast (7)
Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton, Debra Winger