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Author: Maria Giese

Maria Giese (www.mariagiese.com) co-founded the activist/agitator web forum that helped initiate the EEOC joint government agency investigation for women directors. She directed two feature films: When Saturday Comes and Hunger, based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner, Knut Hamsun. She writes and lectures regularly about women directors, and is currently attached to direct several feature films. Educated at Wellesley College and UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television, she is a member of the Directors Guild
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How Chanel and Tribeca’s New Program for Women Filmmakers Falls Short

Maria Giese

Just a few years ago, not many people were aware that the employment numbers of women directors in America was “criminally low.” The discussion about the exclusion and censorship of […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Meryl Streep Boosts Over-40 Women Screenwriters

Maria Giese

Back in 1986 Newsweek made a point of suggesting that for all practical purposes, women are dead at age 40.  Women over 40, they wrote, are “more likely to be […]

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Jennifer Lawrence: Legal Tipping Point for Women in Hollywood?

Maria Giese

The recent “Guardians of Peace” Sony hacks are rocking Hollywood this holiday season with revelations of studio-wide sexism. News that Jennifer Lawrence, arguably the biggest movie star of the moment, received […]

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