Alice Guy Blache: Cinema Pioneer January 8, 2010

This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the films of Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968), a key but unsung figure of the early years of cinema, the first woman director, and the first woman to establish and preside over her own film studio. Between 1896 and 1920, first in France and then in the United States, she wrote, directed, supervised, and/or produced more than 1,000 films.