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When Lisa France stumbled across the romance film Meet Joe Black (1998) shooting a few blocks from where she lived in her New York neighborhood, right there the former professional basketball player and scholar made up her mind that she was going to pursue filmmaking. She was 29 years old.

Golden Globe and Oscar Winner Marlee Matlin made her directorial debut with an episode on Fox’s Accused, which aired earlier this year. At the London Hotel in West Hollywood, the actress addressed some of the myths about directing hearing actors; what surprised her about being behind the camera despite her years in front of one as an actress; and why, although she is tired of talking about being deaf, she continues to do so.

“Slash/Back”: Sci-Fi on a Shoestring Budget  By Margaret Gardiner The Golden Globes are always searching for the best of the best. They also have a history of celebrating new talent and new shows.

Two-time Emmy award-winning Mary Lou Belli has been directing television for over 30 years. She was recently nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Comedy Directing as well as another Emmy in the Children’s Programming category.

Although Jorge Gurvich feels he’s an integral part of Israeli cinema, if something distinguishes him within that small but powerful industry, it is his Latin American soul. This can be seen in his most recent film, Back to Maracanã, a co-production with Brazil and Germany that just arrived in theaters in his adoptive country after touring numerous festivals around the world.

John Woo was born on May 1, 1946, in Guangzhou, Republic of China, during the Chinese Civil War into a Christian family. They faced persecution after the communist revolution and fled to Hong Kong when he was five years old.

Belgian Writer-Director Wouter Bouvijn is only 35 years old and already has three international laureated television series under his belt. Last April, his newest work 1985 premiered at the prestigious CanneSeries 2022.

Although never a contestant on The Price is Right, the Golden Globe Nominee Nancy Meyers, a Philadelphia transplant, got her professional start on the CBS game show as a production assistant. Needless to say, though she would not win living room furniture or even a new car, Meyers’s success at spinning the big wheel would eventually take her to write and direct such seminal Hollywood hits as What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday and It’s Complicated.

Italian documentary film director Cecilia Mangini, legendary and little known at the same time, is honored with a retrospective at the Academy Museum called “Rare Takes: The Works of Cecilia Mangini” from March 5 - 20, 2022. It will happen a year after her death in Rome on January 21, 2021 – she was 93.

The year is 1361, and a very young Margrete is witnessing the dead and wounded soldiers on the battlefield of Visby. Cut to 1402, Margrete (played by Danish actress Trine Dyrholm), has become Queen Margrete of Denmark and is negotiating with Norwegians and Swedes to create peace in the Nordic countries.