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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

  • 2020
  • TMDB 7.0/10
  • 1 season

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark 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 filmmakers -- all of them women.

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As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark 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 filmmakers -- all of them women.

Cast

  • Tilda SwintonNarrator (voice)
  • Adjoa AndohNarrator (voice)
  • Jane FondaNarrator (voice)
  • Sharmila TagoreNarrator (voice)
  • Kerry FoxNarrator (voice)
  • Thandiwe NewtonNarrator (voice)
  • Debra WingerNarrator (voice)

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