List of female directors in SF

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This is a list of female directors in SF (TV/video, video games, film, and stage), along with the best-known work or series and an indicator of genre ("other films", "other TV episodes").

List

A-D

• Gillian Anderson (a single episode of the X-Files)
• Gwen Arner ("Alien Nation", "The Bionic Woman", other TV)
• Jamie Babbit (Alias, Wonderfalls, other TV series and films)
• Joy Batchelor (an early "Robin Hood" animated film)
• Gabrielle Beaumont, 1942- (Star Trek Voyager, other TV)
• Amber Benson
• Kathryn Bigelow ("Strange Days", other films)
• Patricia Birch (The Stepford Wives (2004); other stage and film)
• Lizzie Borden (films)
• Elisabeta Bostan (films)
• Niki Caro ("Whale Rider")
• Fiona Cumming (Doctor Who)
• Vondie Curtis-Hall (Firefly)
• Holly Dale (Blood Ties)
• Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust; sort of magical realist in feel)
• Roxann Dawson (Heroes)
• Donna Deitch (Heroes, "Desert Hearts", "Devil's Arithmetic", "The Women of Brewster Place")
• Claire Denis ("Chocolat", "Trouble Every Day", other films)
• Maya Deren (avant-garde filmmaker; lots of religious & mythological work)
• Shannen Doherty (some Charmed episodes)
• Germaine Dulac (surrealist film director; "The Seashell and the Clergyman" (first surrealist film))

E-K

• Katja von Garnier (films, TV movies)
• Marita Grabiak (Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, other TV episodes)
• Janet Greek (Xena)
• Alice Guy-Blaché, 1873-1968 (also known as "Alice Guy" and "Alice Guy Blaché"; one of the first female directors; "The Life of Christ"; "La Fée Printemps"; "La Esmeralda"; "The Pit and the Pendulum"; "Vampire"; many other films)
• Catherine Hardwicke (born 1955) ("The Nativity Story" and other films)
• Melanie Harris (Chocky)
• Sarah Hellings (Doctor Who)
• Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, other films)
• Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, other films)

L-Q

• Lynn Hershman Leeson ("Conceiving Ada", "Teknolust", other films)
• Allison Lidie (Xena)
• Penny Marshall ("Big")
• Deepa Mehta (Fire and other films)
• Turi Meyer (Angel, Buffy, Smallville, other TV episodes)
• Marti Noxon (Buffy, other TV series)
• Reneé O'Connor (Xena, films)
• Sally Potter ("Orlando", other films)
• Patricia Rozema (magical realist, When Night Is Falling, others)

R-Z

• Marina Sargenti (Xena)
• Susan Seidelman ("Making Mr. Right", various other non-SF films)
• Joan Micklin Silver ("Invisible Child", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", other films)
• Rachel Talalay ("Tank Girl", other films, TV episodes & movies)
• Julie Taymor (stage & TV; "The Lion King", "Grendel", "Frida" (2002 film), others)
• Caroline Thompson (producer, director, screenwriter for various fantasy and other films)
• Fina Torres (born 1957) ("Oriana", "Woman on Top", other films)

See also

• Browse directors category for alphabetical listing of all directors, female and non-female, SF and non-SF.

Further reading

• [Wikipedia Female film directors category] and [List of female directors]

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