13 Excellent Female Filmmakers To Keep In Mind

The recent departure of Lynne Ramsay from the upcoming film Jane Got a Gun, which coupled with the departure of Jude Law and put the movie in a kind of limbo, has once again reopened an unfortunately gendered discussion about directors and their relationship to the suits the run the moviemaking industry. The fact that she’s a female director in an industry that is still embarrassingly lacking in female filmmakers has played into the discussion more heavily than one would hope.

Darren Ruecker

Published: Apr 15, 2013 06:27 pm

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[h2]6) Susanne Bier[/h2]

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There are certain foreign films that do so well that naturally American filmmakers want to remake them in English. When this happens multiple times to the same director, they’re doing something right. This is the case with Susanne Bier, who hails from Denmark and is the talent behind the original movies Brothers, which was remade 5 years later with Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Open Hearts, which Zach Braff wanted to adapt and direct an English version of for years. She has since had moderate success in English language films herself, making the Halle Berry feature Things We Lost in the Fire in 2007, and is helming the upcoming reunion between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Serena. She also won an Oscar for her 2010 film In a Better World.

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