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Index List of lesbian filmmakers

This is a list of lesbian filmmakers.[1]

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  1. 114 relations: Aerlyn Weissman, AfterEllen, Alice Wu, Ana Kokkinos, Andrea Weiss (filmmaker), Angela Robinson (filmmaker), Angelina Maccarone, Arsenal Pulp Press, Aurora Guerrero, Avigail Sperber, Barbara Hammer, Brittani Nichols, Butler University, Catherine Corsini, Catherine Crouch, Céline Sciamma, Chantal Akerman, Cheryl Dunye, Chloé Robichaud, Christin Baker, Clea DuVall, Cristina Perincioli, Dana Goldberg, Dee Mosbacher, Dee Rees, Desiree Lim, Documentary film, Dominique Cardona, Donna Deitch, Dorothy Arzner, Ellen Spiro, Esther Eng, Feature film, FilmDoo, First Run Features, G. B. Jones, Greta Schiller, Guinevere Turner, Holly Dale, Ilene Chaiken, IndieWire, Ingrid Jungermann, Jamie Babbit, Jan Oxenberg, Jane Anderson, Janet Baus, Janis Cole, Jeanne Crépeau, Jenni Olson, Jennie Livingston, ... Expand index (64 more) »

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  5. Women film directors
  6. Women's mass media

Aerlyn Weissman

Aerlyn Weissman (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a two-time Genie Award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker and political activist on behalf of the lesbian community.

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AfterEllen

AfterEllen is an American culture website founded in 2002, with a focus on entertainment, interviews, reviews, and news of interest to the lesbian and bisexual women's community.

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Alice Wu

Alice Wu (born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films Saving Face (2004) and The Half of It (2020).

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Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter of Greek descent.

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Andrea Weiss (filmmaker)

Andrea Weiss is an American independent documentary filmmaker, author, and professor of film/video at the City College of New York where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.

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Angela Robinson (filmmaker)

Angela Robinson (born February 14, 1971) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer.

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Angelina Maccarone

Angelina Maccarone is a German film director and writer.

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Arsenal Pulp Press

Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Aurora Guerrero

Aurora Guerrero is a writer-director from California.

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Avigail Sperber

Avigail Sperber (Hebrew: אביגיל שפרבר; born August 24, 1973) is an Israeli cinematographer and film and television director.

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Barbara Hammer

Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.

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Brittani Nichols

Brittani Nichols (born June 20, 1988) is an American producer, actress, comedian, and writer.

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Butler University

Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Catherine Corsini

Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Catherine Crouch

Catherine Crouch is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and actor.

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Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma (born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director.

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Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. List of lesbian filmmakers and Chantal Akerman are lesbian artists.

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Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress.

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Chloé Robichaud

Chloé Robichaud (born January 31, 1988) is a Canadian director best known for her debut film Sarah Prefers to Run.

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Christin Baker

Christin Marie Baker is an American producer, director, and screenwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.

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Clea DuVall

Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Cristina Perincioli

Cristina Perincioli (born November 11, 1946, in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor. List of lesbian filmmakers and Cristina Perincioli are LGBT film directors.

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Dana Goldberg

Dana Goldberg (born March 1, 1979) is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright.

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Dee Mosbacher

Diane "Dee" Mosbacher (born 1949) is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing psychiatrist.

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Dee Rees

Diandrea Rees (born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director.

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Desiree Lim

Desiree Lim (born 1971) is a Malaysian-born Canadian independent film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Dominique Cardona

Dominique Cardona (born 1955) is an Argentinian-born Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Donna Deitch

Donna Deitch (born June 8, 1945, San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor best known for her 1985 film Desert Hearts.

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Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s.

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Ellen Spiro

Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker.

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Esther Eng

Esther Eng (born Ng Kam-ha; – January 25, 1970) was an American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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FilmDoo

FilmDoo.com is a UK-based video-on-demand (VOD) platform that specialises in independent and world cinema.

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First Run Features

First Run Features is an independent film distribution company based in New York City.

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G. B. Jones

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Greta Schiller

Greta Schiller is an American film director and producer, best known for the 1984 documentary Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community and the 1995 documentary Paris Was a Woman.

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Guinevere Turner

Guinevere Jane Turner (born May 23, 1968) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.

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Holly Dale

Holly Dale (born December 23, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and television director.

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Ilene Chaiken

Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American television producer, director, writer, and founder of Little Chicken Productions.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Ingrid Jungermann

Ingrid Jungermann (born August 23, 1977) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Jamie Babbit

Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter.

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Jan Oxenberg

Jan Oxenberg (born 1950) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter.

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Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson (born 1954 in California) is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and director.

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Janet Baus

Janet Baus is an American documentary film and television director, producer and editor.

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Janis Cole

Janis Cole (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, writer, editor and professor.

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Jeanne Crépeau

Jeanne Crépeau (born 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec,Thomas Waugh, The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.

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Jenni Olson

Jenni Olson (born October 6, 1962) is a writer, archivist, historian, consultant, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California.

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Jennie Livingston

Jennie Livingston (born February 24, 1962) is an American director best known for the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Justine Pimlott

Justine Pimlott is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions with Maya Gallus.

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Kanopy

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows, educational videos and documentaries.

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Kasia Adamik

Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik (born 28 December 1972) is a Polish director and storyboard artist. List of lesbian filmmakers and Kasia Adamik are LGBT film directors.

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Katherine Brooks

Katherine Brooks (born March 15, 1976) is an American film writer and director.

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Katja Blichfeld

Katja Blichfeld (born 1979) is an American writer, director, producer and casting director.

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Katrina del Mar

Katrina del Mar is a New York–based American photographer, video artist, writer and award-winning filmmaker.

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Kimberly Peirce

Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Laurie Colbert

Laurie Colbert is a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Léa Pool

Léa Pool C.M. (born 8 September 1950) is a Canadian and Swiss filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

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Leslye Headland

Leslye Headland (born 1980) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and playwright.

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Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director.

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List of female film and television directors

This is a list of female film and television directors. List of lesbian filmmakers and list of female film and television directors are lists of film directors, lists of women by occupation, women film directors and Women's mass media.

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List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people

This is a list of notable gay men, lesbian or bisexual people who have been open about their sexuality. List of lesbian filmmakers and list of gay, lesbian or bisexual people are lists of LGBT-related people.

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This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women.

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Little White Lies (magazine)

Little White Lies is a British internationally-distributed movie magazine and website.

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Louise Wadley

Louise Wadley is an Australian film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.

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Lourdes Portillo

Lourdes Portillo (11 November 1943 – 20 April 2024) was a Mexican film director, producer, and writer.

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Lucrecia Martel

Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. List of lesbian filmmakers and Lucrecia Martel are LGBT film directors.

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Lynne Fernie

Lynne Fernie (born 1946) is a Canadian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist.

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Madeleine Olnek

Madeleine Olnek is an American independent film director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright.

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Marialy Rivas

Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, known for her 2012 film Young and Wild, winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting Award in Sundance Film Festival. List of lesbian filmmakers and Marialy Rivas are LGBT film directors and lesbian artists.

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Marina Rice Bader

Marina Rice Bader is a writer, director, and film producer.

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Marja-Lewis Ryan

Marja-Lewis Ryan (born March 19, 1985) is an American writer, director, producer, and actress.

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Marleen Gorris

Marleen Gorris (born 9 December 1948) is a Dutch former writer and director. List of lesbian filmmakers and Marleen Gorris are LGBT film directors.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Maureen Bradley

Mo Bradley (formerly Maureen Bradley; born 1967) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, media artist, professor, and curator.

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Maya Gallus

Maya Gallus is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions with Justine Pimlott.

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Michal Vinik

Michal Vinik (in Hebrew: מיכל ויניק; born March 12, 1976) is an Israeli filmmaker, director and screenwriter.

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Michelle Ehlen

Michelle Ehlen is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress best known for her comedic feature Butch Jamie.

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Monika Treut

Monika Treut (born April 6, 1954, in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German filmmaker.

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Netalie Braun

Netalie Braun (Hebrew: נטעלי בראון; born June 12, 1978) is an Israeli poet, writer and filmmaker.

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New queer cinema

"New queer cinema" is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking in the early 1990s.

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Nicole Conn

Nicole Conn (born October 29, 1959) is an American film director, novelist, producer, and screenwriter most famous for her debut feature, the lesbian love story Claire of the Moon (1992).

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Nisha Ganatra

Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Outfest

Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming platform, and runs educational services for filmmakers in Los Angeles.

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Patricia Rozema

Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer.

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Phyllida Lloyd

Phyllida Christian Lloyd, (born 17 June 1957) is an English film and theatre director and producer.

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Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar is a British writer and filmmaker.

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Rose Troche

Rose Troche (born 1964) is an American film and television director, television producer, and screenwriter.

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Rosser Goodman

Rosser Goodman is an American film and television director, writer and producer.

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Sadie Benning

Sadie T. Benning (born April 11, 1973) is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound.

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Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures

Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures are subcultures and communities composed of people who have shared experiences, backgrounds, or interests due to common sexual or gender identities.

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Shamim Sarif

Shamim Sarif (born 24 September 1969) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and film director of South Asian and South African heritage.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Sini Anderson

Sini Anderson (born November 6, 1969) is an American film director, producer, performance artist, choreographer, dancer and poet, from Chicago, Illinois.

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Sonali Gulati

Sonali Gulati is an Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator.

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Stacie Passon

Stacie Passon (born October 1, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer whose first film, Concussion, was premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently won a Teddy Award Jury Prize at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Su Friedrich

Su Friedrich (born December 12, 1954) is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.

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Television film

A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.

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The Advocate (magazine)

The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

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The Charlatan (student newspaper)

The Charlatan is the independent weekly student newspaper at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

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The Film Collaborative

The Film Collaborative (TFC) is the first non-profit, full-service provider dedicated to the distribution of independent film, including narrative features and documentaries.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Week

The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Them (website)

Them is an American online LGBT magazine launched in October 2017 by Phillip Picardi and owned by Condé Nast.

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Tucky Williams

Tucky Williams is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actress.

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Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger (born 6 June 1942) is a German filmmaker and photographer.

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Washington Blade

The Washington Blade is an LGBT newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen (born 1972, in New York City, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

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Yvonne Welbon

Yvonne Welbon is an American independent film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Chicago.

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Zero Chou

Zero Chou (born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. List of lesbian filmmakers and Zero Chou are LGBT film directors and lesbian artists.

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See also

Lesbian artists

Lists of film directors

Women film directors

Women's mass media

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lesbian_filmmakers

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