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Further readingedit
"The 100 greatest films directed by women". BBC. 25 November 2019. Archived from the original on May 14, 2020.
Erbland, Kate; Kohn, Eric; Blauvelt, Christian; Thompson, Anne; Ehrlich, David; O'Falt, Chris; Sharf, Zack; Brueggemann, Tom; Desowitz, Bill; Obenson, Tambay; Nordine, Michael (October 3, 2020). "The All-Time Greatest Films Directed by Women". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023.
Follows, Stephen; Kreager, Alexis; Gomes, Eleanor (May 2016). "Cut Out of the Picture: A study of gender inequality amongst film directors in the UK film industry" (PDF). Directors UK. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 5, 2021.
Follows, Stephen (July 2014). "Film Data Reports: Gender within film crews" (PDF). Stephen Follows Film Data and Education. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 22, 2017.
Follows, Stephen (August 2014). "Film Data Reports: Gender within UK film crews" (PDF). Stephen Follows Film Data and Education. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2017.
Kilday, Gregg (January 3, 2019). "Study: Women Film Directors Saw Their Numbers Shrink in 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023.
Randall, Melissa (March 13, 2023). "The Best Female Directors: Celebrating Trailblazing Films & TV Shows". New York Film Academy.
Smith, Anna (27 November 2019). "Top 100 films directed by women: What is the 'female gaze'?". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022.
Smith, Stacy L.; Pieper, Katherine; Choueiti, Marc (February 2017). "Inclusion in the Director's Chair? Gender, Race, & Age of Film Directors Across 1,000 Films from 2007-2016" (PDF). USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 3, 2018.
Wu, Kathie (2012). "Women Behind the Lens: Female Filmmakers from Around the World". Subtitledonline.com. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012.
Yapp, Virginia. "The Celluloid Void Project: A Compendium of Female Film Directors". The Celluloid Void.
Books
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary (1st ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-28972-7.
Hawley, John C., ed. (2008). "Film directors and producers: women, by Ann M. Savage". LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. pp. 386–391. ISBN 978-0313339905. (via Butler University Digital Commons.)
Hurd, Mary G. (2006). Women Directors and Their Films. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0275985783.
Malone, Alicia (2018). The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women. Coral Gables, Florida: Mango Publishing. ISBN 978-1633538375.
Redding, Judith M.; Brownworth, Victoria A. (1997). Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors (1st ed.). Seattle, Washington: Seal Press. ISBN 1-878067-97-4.
Slide, Anthony (1996). The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1st ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810830531. LCCN 96001178.
Video
Flicker Alley (2017). "Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology". Kanopy.
"Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers". Kino Lorber. 2018.
External linksedit
Canadian Women Film Directors Database
Cut-Throat Women
Free the Bid: Women Directors
Women In Film & Television International
Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC)
Women Make Movies
The Alice Initiative
Film Fatales
FemaleDirectors.com (films on Netflix and Amazon)
The Director List: Women Directors at Work at Cinefemme
Filmmakers at South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) (archive)