Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023)
Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies "avant-gardiste" about women's condition. She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman directors of Hollywood.
Directors: Julia Kuperberg, Clara Kuperberg.
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Tony Maietta as Self |
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Shelley Stamp as Self |
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Emily Carman as Self |
| Editing | Julia Kuperberg | Editor |
| Writing | Clara Kuperberg | Writer |
| Editing | Clara Kuperberg | Editor |
| Writing | Julia Kuperberg | Writer |
| Production | Julia Kuperberg | Producer |
| Production | Clara Kuperberg | Producer |
| Directing | Julia Kuperberg | Director |
| Directing | Clara Kuperberg | Director |
| Camera | Yoram Astrakhan | Director of Photography |
