Fascinating project on the first Female Director in motion pictures, Alice Guy-Blaché, Executive Produced by Robert Redford and narrated by Jodie Foster. The film is entitled Be Natural. This is just the Kickstarter video but it still tells a pretty amazing story. Cinematic history also serves as the main inspiration behind KEYE LUKE (2012) and always continues to reveal new discoveries. A next historical project that is a predecessor to KEYE LUKE is a film that examines the early roots of Asian American Cinema. The first known Asian American film was "The Curse of Quon Gwon" (See also One Film: The Curse of Quon Gwon) made in 1916-1917, and Directed by Marion Wong, also a pioneering female filmmaker and technically the very first Asian American Filmmaker/Director. Grandview Pictures, based right in SF, was also one of the very first companies to shoot, produce and make films right in the U.S. (primarily for HK audiences). They also made the first color Chinese film. SF born Esther Eng was also the first Female Director to helm Chinese language films in the U.S. One of her films, Golden Gate Girl (1941), was also the first film to feature an infant Bruce Lee on-screen. vimeo/72284578
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:16:07 +0000
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