Alice Guy Blache was the first woman film director, the first to make fiction films before women had the right to vote. She was a filmmaker for twenty-eight years. In 1912, she built, owned and operated the Solax Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and accomplished things that no one was doing at the time, special effects, super imposition, colorization and synchronized sound films.
A 1912 issue of Moving Picture World noted “Madame Blache is never ruffled, never agitated, never annoyed by the obtrusive effects of minor characters to thrust themselves into prominence. With a few simple directions, uttered without apparent emotion, she handles the interweaving movements like a military leader might the maneuvers of an army.”
Alice Guy Blache died on March 24, 1968 and is buried in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah, New Jersey. She was almost forgotten–until now.
MADAME DIRECTOR, an original story and screenplay by Christina Kotlar, is a dramatic portrayal of early cinema pioneer, first woman director, Alice Guy Blache and her search for her lost films during 1967’s “Summer of Love” with fictional characters and composites of dramatic elements based on real events that existed in her life, during her lifetime.
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