Female directors

5 reasons why women directors are such a rare sight:

*Because mostly jobs that women prefer are quiet stereotypical they would either want to be a teacher, secretary, nurse or remain a housewife.
*Another reason is that after women get pregnant it is seen less likely that they would carry on with their profession as they now have a family to look after.
*It harder for women to enter this industry as it is male dominated
*Women could be discouraged because of the lack of women in that profession
*Men are more likely to be preferred then women to do the job

5 female Directors:
Penny Marshall-

Penny Marshall (born October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance.
She progressed to directing films such as Big (1983), the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office, Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and A League of Their Own (1992). In more recent years, she has produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005).

Elaine May

Elaine May is a two-time Academy Award nominated film director, screenwriter and actress. She achieved her greatest fame, in the 1950s, from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols.

Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette is an American actress, film director, and film producer.
Filmography as director/producer:
Searching For Debra Winger (2002)
All We Are Saying (2005)

Jane Campion

Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an Academy Award-nominated film maker and Academy Award-winning screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the U.S. Campion attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School early in its history, where she learned the craft that has resulted in a career that spans fourteen films as director, three as producer and eight as writer.

Directed films:
Sweetie (1989)
An Angel at My Table (1990) — based on the autobiography of Janet Frame
The Piano (1993)
Holy Smoke! (1999)
In the Cut (2003) — based on the novel by Susanna Moore
The Water Diary (2006)
8 (2008)


Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion.

Lina Wertmuller

Lina Wertmüller is an Italian film director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with Seven Beauties.


THREE ways the number of female directors could be improved:
1. Female directors can try and do joint directing with males, to gain knowledge in the field.
2.When most women have become mature they stop acting in film therefore after they have stopped acting they should be encouraged to direct films.
3.Have more courses for women to do directing.