Five Female Directors:

Rebecca Miller:

Rebecca Miller (born September 15, 1962 in Roxbury, Connecticut) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. In 1995, she went behind the camera, writing and directing her first film, Angela. The film was critically well-received, but did not garner significant attention or audiences.

Films:

- Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Angela

Gillian Armstrong:

(born 18 December 1950) An award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries. Armstrong received six awards at the 1979 Australian film awards, including Best Director. Following the success of My Brilliant Career, which was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Costume Design, Armstrong directed the Australian musical Starstruck (1981)

Films:

- Death Defying Acts (2008)
- Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2005)
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
- Not Fourteen Again (1996)
- Little Women (1994)
- The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
- Fires Within (1991)
- Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces (1988)
- High Tide (1987)
- Hard to Handle (1986)
- Mrs. Soffel (1984)
- Having a Go (1983)

Mary Harron:

Is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Born in Ontario, Canada, Harron grew up with a family that was entrenched in the world of film and theater. Harron moved to England when she was thirteen and later attended Oxford University. Whilst in England she dated Tony Blair, who would later become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She then moved to New York City and was part of its 1970s punk scene. She helped start and write for Punk magazine as a music journalist — she was the first journalist to interview the Sex Pistols for an American publication

Films:

- I Shot Andy Warhol
-American Psycho
- The Notorious Bettie Page

Julie Taymor:

an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work. She is widely known as the first female to win the Tony Award for directing the musical The Lion King, for which she also received a Tony Award for her original costume designs.

Films:

- The Tempest (1986)
- Fool's Fire (1992) (TV)
- Oedipus Rex (1993) (TV)
- Titus (1999)
- Frida (2002)
- Across the Universe (2007)
- The Tempest (2009)

Jane Campion:

Is an Academy Award-nominated film maker and Academy Award-winning screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the U.S.

Films:

Sweetie (1989)
An Angel at My Table (1990) — based on the autobiography of Janet Frame
The Piano (1993)
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) — based on the novel by Henry James
Holy Smoke! (1999)
In the Cut (2003) — based on the novel by Susanna Moore
The Water Diary (2006)
8 (2008)
Bright Star (2009)