Interview with the diretor of Women behind the camera

resarch methods

There are many different research methods but are devided in to two, primary data and secondary data.the two categories for research are quantitative and qualitative.

Quantitatvie research: a type of research usually based on tables, numbers, and statistics.that attmpt to meausre some kind of phenomenon and produce hard data.

Qualitative research: a type of resrach that attempts to explain or understand something and may necessitate much discussion and analysis of peoples attitudes and behaviour. it usually involves working with small gropus of people.

primary reseaRch: is original research acrried out by the individual posssibly ocndcuting interviews or doing their own content analysis.

secondary research: this is reserach which has already been caried out previously by someone else.

Alexis Krasilovsky

Writer/Director/Producer

Alexis Krasilovsky is writer/director/producer of the global feature documentary, Women Behind the Camera, which recently won the Accolade Competition’s Award for Excellence for Contemporary Issues/Awareness-Raising and the Insight Award for Excellence for Documentary Editing. The film is based on her book, also entitled Women Behind the Camera (Praeger 1997). Other films and videos written and directed by Alexis Krasilovsky include What Memphis Needs, Exile, Blood, and End of the Art World, which Artforum praised for its “quality of humor possible only with depth of understanding.” Her films have aired nationally on PBS and The Learning Channel and screened in museums and festivals here and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Viennale. At Yale University, Krasilovsky studied with film historian and compilation expert Jay Leyda. She received her MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. In addition to the 2000 Roy W. Dean Video Award and the 2006 Women in Film Finishing Fund Award for Women Behind the Camera, Alexis Krasilovsky has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Brody Arts Fund, the Barbra Streisand Center, the Western Regional Media Arts Fellowship Program, California State University, Northridge’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, and the California N.O.W. Foundation. She is a Professor of Screenwriting and Film Studies in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts, California State University, Northridge.

Women in film major organisation in promoting women

History Of Women In Film Women in Film was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by Tichi Wilkerson Kassel (former publisher and editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter) and a group of women who represented variuos facets of the film and television industry. It was created to recognize, develop, and actively promote the unique visions of women in the field of communications.

The Central Florida Chapter of Women in Film (WIF/CF) was established in 1989 by a dynamic group of independent producers looking for camaraderie and support. In 1999, the chapter's name was changed to Women in Film & Television - Florida (WIFT-FL) to better reflect the chapter's membership and sponsor base. WIFT-FL's menbers are qualified women and men in a variety of categories - performers, producers, directors, writers, agents, publicists, photographers, and administrative and managerial personnel. WIFT-FL is part of an international network (Women in Film & Television International or WIFTI) of 40 chapters around the world. WIFTI's membership base exceeds 10,000 working professionals.

Lois Weber 1882-1939

The first American woman director was Lois Weber (1882-1939). Starting in 1908 she directed at least 40 feature films, often writing and starring in them. An ardent supporter of Margaret Sanger and a fierce opponent of censorship, she used her films to promote her ideals and philosophies. Weber opened her own studio and headed a group of women directors by 1920. Weber became the highest-paid woman director in the world.

Alice Guy (1873-1968) first women director

Hollywood in the early 1900's was a magnet for creative and entrepreneurial misfits and with few taking filmmaking seriously as a business, the doors were wide open to women. Movies were an idea one week, before the cameras the next and in the theaters within a month. There were no paths to follow and no rules to break. Women wouldn't be "given" the right to vote until 1920, yet before then they were thriving at every level of movie making, as directors, producers, editors, and writers. While writers' names often did not appear in the credits of the early films, from the copyright records in the Library of Congress we know that almost half of all films written between 1912 and 1925 were written by women.

Alice Guy was not only the first woman director, she was one of the very first film directors period and is often credited with directing the first narrative film. She was a secretary to the Gaumonts in Paris in 1896 when they agreed to let her "play" with their cameras as long as her clerical duties didn't suffer. Her after hours creations were so successful she was made the head of their quickly formed film production company. She had literally given birth to the French film industry by the time she moved to America with her husband, the cameraman Herbert Blache.when Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), directed La Fee aux Choux. She directed some 400 films in France and 354 films in the U.S. Most of the films were one-reel comedies. In 1912, she became the first woman to build her own studi.