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Sofia Coppola (director) Sofia Coppola is a film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

She directed The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, winning an Oscar for the latter.

Synopsis As the daughter of the famous director Francis Ford Coppola who made The Godfather films, Sofia Coppola is a screenwriter, producer, director and actor. She wrote and directed and actor. She wrote and directed the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides. Her directional work for Lost in Translation won an Oscar. In 2010, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Jane Austen (writer) Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Pride and Prejudice,' and 'Emma.'

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. While not widely known in her own time, Austen's comic novels of love among the landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. Her novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, are considered literary classics, bridging the gap between romance and realism.

Kathryn Bigelow (director) Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has directed films like Point Break and Zero Dark Thirty. In 2009, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for The Hurt Locker (2008).

Born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California, Kathryn Bigelow is a popular filmmaker known for her incredible visuals and heart-pounding action sequences. In 1979, Bigelow moved from short to feature-length films. In 1981, she created The Loveless. She attracted more notice for her next effort, Near Dark.

Her next project was 1991's Point Break. After that, she tried her hand at television, directing the miniseries Wild Palms. She co-created the movie The Hurt Locker (2008), for which won an Academy Award for best director—becoming the first woman to receive this honor—and directed Zero Dark Thirty in 2012.

J.K Rowling (writer) J.K. Rowling is the creator of the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history.

Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital just outside Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.

Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school.

The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. “I lived for books,’’ she has said. “I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.”

Patty Jenkins (director) That gesture says it all: you are before the director of 'Wonder Woman', one of the great successes of this 2017.

And not only of public and criticism: it has become the highest grossing film directed by a woman, a historical fact that It marks the change in the Hollywood blockbuster.

Although he already signed the Oscar-winning 'Monster' (2003), it is now that Jenkins has a promising (and visible) career ahead of him.

Isabel Coixet i Castillo (director and writer) ★

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He began his relationship with the world of cinema as a movie critic in the magazine Fotogramas. In 1986, he debuted the cameras in the movie Massa vieja para morir joven. But it was in 1996 that he achieved success with his movie Things I did not say to you, made in English and the United States of America.

In 2003 he again achieved success with My Life Without Me and in 2005 with The Secret Life of Words, whose protagonists are Tim Robbins and Sarah Polley. Coixet had Penélope Cruz for the leading role of her next Elegy movie.

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In 1996, he was awarded the Ondas Prize for the best direction for his film Cosas que no te dijiste nunca, premio que compartí con Alejandro Amenábar por Tesis.

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In 2014 he received the Jury Grand Prize of the Créteil Women's Film Festival, in France, with the film Yesterday he never finished.

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The year 2015 became the first Catalan filmmaker to inaugurate the Berlin Festival, one of the most important of the cinematographic circuit.

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In the Goya Awards edition of the year 2018, his movie The Bookshop won the Best Direction awards, Best Picture and Best adapted screenplay.

Agnès Varda (director) ★

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Varda is an independent and determined director, with careful choreographies and decorations, and often combines documentary material with a fictional story.

He is known as the grandmother of the new French vague and as one of the pioneers of feminist cinema.

Agnès Varda, one of the great figures of the French Nouvelle Vague, has remained true to his independent artist convictions, but this has not prevented him from adapting to the technological changes of seventh art and today he continues to work as a filmmaker digital with great public success.

Today, the grandmother of the nouvelle vague continues to inspire a new generation of filmmakers

Helena Cortesina (director) ★

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Born in Valencia in 1904, he produced and directed in 1922 (inaugurating, by the way, the exiguous payroll of women filmmakers in Spanish cinema) with a script by the cleric-playwright José María Granada, the film entitled Flor de España or La leyenda de un torero1 El Classical dancer and music-hall, she goes to the movies to play Elvira Montes in La inaccessible (J.Buchs, 1920) with which she succeeds as she encourages her to set up her own production company. The following year, in 1921, she directed herself Flor de España or the legend of a bullfighter who would not premiere until two years later; in spite of the success obtained with the film the precarious situation of the Spanish cinema and the difficulty that it supposed to produce and to direct to a woman, they make sell his producer and to dedicate itself once more to the theater.

Jean Rhys ★ ★

Jean Rhys (1890-1979) was born in in the Carriben island of Domicina but moved to England at the age of 16.

She is the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is the preqel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The main character is the madwoman in the attic, in Bronte’s novel. It focuses on the relationship between men and women as well as relationships between peple of different ethnic backgrounds.

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Agnieszka Holland ★

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Agnieszka Holland (1948) is a Polish director and started her career in communist Poland, but moved to France in 1981 just before the martial law was imposed in her country.

She is widely known for her film Europa, Europa, which describes the story of Jewish boy who survived the Holocaust passing off as nazi elite person.

She has talked about all the difficulties she faced because of her being a woman. She has mentioned how difficult it is for women to stand their ground, but she has also maintained that there are several strong women directors.”So, the future belongs to us!” (https://bit.ly/2KnlmH3)

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Conclusions There are more women than we know who use film and writing to promote gender equality and show the vision of the world and current society from a feminine point of view.

These claim that they deserve to be more recognized within these areas.

Its goal is to empower women and make them valued as society does with male artists.

Another objective is to get more funding and more confidence from producers and publishers to carry out their projects.

We believe that these women should enjoy recognition within the industry and be a role model for young artists.

Eurimages: Gender equality; aiming for 50/50 by 2020!