The Next Wave: Where Does Women's Film Go from Here?

From the early 1980s to today, the work of a wave of independent women filmmakers has proven to be a case study in diversity. With stories being told about a more varied set of women's experiences, the success of the "movement" seems evident in the dissolution of a singular notion of "women's film." But why has this explosion been contained to indie film? Why are there still so few women filmmakers in mainstream cinema?

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Nicole Holofcener
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Maud Nadler
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Lydia Dean Pilcher
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Lesli Klainberg
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Gini Reticker
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