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Can We Talk About Haifaa Al-Mansour?

Haifaa Al-Mansour is a woman director from Saudi Arabia. She has the distinction of being the first woman in that country to direct a film. That was in 2012. Since then she’s gone on to direct several more films. By […]

5 Female Directors Who Should be Better Known

Leave a Comment / Movies, News, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 7, 2015 / Angela Robinson, Cheryl Dunye, D.E.B.S., Daughters of the Dust, Empire, Haifaa al-Mansour, Julie Dash, Just Wright, Mommy is Coming, Sanaa Hamri, Shameless, SUBWAY Stories: Tales from the Underground, The L Word, The Rosa Parks Story, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The Watermelon Woman, True Blood, Wadjda, Women Directors

These five women directors have amassed 64 directing credits between them. Some are foreign and/or women of color. All are talented and should have names as easily recognized as those of male directors. I picked these 5 women almost randomly

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