Alice Guy Blache was the first woman film director of the first narrative film in 1896. She built and wholly owned Solax Studio, Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1912 and accomplished things no one was doing at the time– special effects, super imposition, synchronized sound, colorization, cut mattes on film, developing fiction films as a […]
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Alice Guy Blache Birthday Bash
06/11/2012
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On Sunday, July 1, the Fort Lee Film Commission sponsored events honoring first woman filmmaker Alice Guy Blache. This early cinema pioneer made magic at her Solax Studio built in Fort Lee, New Jersey. From 1912 through 1918, she made hundreds of short and feature-length films– writing, directing, producing and distributing. Madame Blache is just […]
Festival du Cannes + Cinema History
05/25/2012
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Since my first visit, the Festival de Cannes welcomes the World Cinema Foundation created in Cannes in 2007 by Martin Scorsese along with other filmmakers, for a selection of restoration films as part of our collective cinema history. CNC hosts an annual lunch for Cinematheques and Archives at the Plage des Palmes located on the […]
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
06/12/2012
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