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Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers

Shooting Women

54m

Directed by Alexis Krasilovsky • 2008 • United States

Featuring more than fifty camerawomen from around the world, Alexis Krasilovsky’s SHOOTING WOMEN celebrates the amazing talent and unflinching spirit of image-making women from the sets of Hollywood and Bollywood to the war zones of Afghanistan and beyond. Based on Krasilovsky’s book “Women Behind the Camera,” the film broaches the persistent obstacles—the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, childcare—faced by professional camerawomen around the globe while spotlighting trailblazing DPs like Ellen Kuras, Sandi Sissel, and Jessie Maple Patton who have used their cameras to change the world.

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