2022 Women's History Month

Florida native actress Denée Benton turned 30 on December 31, 2021, and her personal New Year kicked off with a role that will most surely change the entire trajectory of her acting career. Playing Ms.

Born in 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Madeline Anderson loved her weekly visits to the movie theater but was upset that she never saw Black people she could relate to on the screen. When she graduated from high school in 1945, she entered Millersville State Teacher’s College, where she was the only Black student, but dropped out after one year having suffered constant harassment.

Betty White was a pioneer of early television with a career spanning more than seven decades.   Betty White was one of the first women to work both in front of and behind the camera.

In Holy Emy, a small Filipino community has made the Greek port of Piraeus its home. Sisters Emy (Abigael Loma) and Teresa (Hasmine Killip) do everything together.

Nearly three decades ago, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Director for The Piano. This year, she returned to win the Golden Globe for Best Director for her 1920s frontier story The Power of the Dog, which won The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

The history of cinema is marked by the rocky path that women had to hurdle to work in a profession beset, from its origins, by the infamous gender gap. The inclusion of women in opportunities beyond their appearances on the big screen has been late and slow in every aspect of the movie industry.

Having been an actress all her life, Icelandic Anita Briem was becoming desperate. There were no stories out there about her situation.

Alice Guy, the very first woman filmmaker in the history of cinema, was born in Paris on July 1, 1873, to a Chilean father and a French mother. After the death of her father in 1891, she trained as a typist and stenographer to help support her widowed mother and four siblings.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.