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“I expect to be told yes,” says Ane Crabtree, the woman who created costumes for shows like Justified, Masters of Sex and the seminal, Golden Globe-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, which has inspired women around the world to take on the red Handmaid’s uniform as a sign of resistance and overthrowing oppression. “I’ve spent a lifetime being told no, so I don’t take no for an answer.

“I’m a pusher,” says Pamela B. Green, director of the documentary: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first director-male or female - to introduce the concept of fictional storytelling to moving pictures, and who went on to become the first woman studio head.

The Bigamist (1953), a film noir restored with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, anchors a celebration of the 100 years anniversary of legendary actress and director Ida Lupino (1918-1995): Hard, Fast and Beautiful : The Films of Ida Lupino, which showcases six of her films, shown at the Billy Wilder Theater. They are all typical Lupino, tackling and exposing the dark underside of American society in the midpoint of the 20th century.

Of several European directors who parlayed their success in Europe after the Second World War into a Hollywood career, Forman was arguably the most prominent, successful and consistent. His signature early Czech movie, Loves of a Blonde (1967) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Motion Picture by both the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy of Motion Pictures.

The opening moments of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool catch Annette Bening as a woman on the edge. She plays a late career Gloria Grahame, in what is a beautiful film about Grahame's love affair with Liverpudlian Peter Turner (Jamie Bell).

“Hear our voice”, could be the apt motto of the past year. Thanks in part to the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in Hollywood, women have raised their voices in the face of predatory behavior and the rallying cry is now spreading into other women/minority-related issues like representation in the halls of power and equal pay in the workplace, to name just a few.

“I believe a (Director of Photography’s) job is to empathize and visualize human emotion. Things women are inherently very qualified for, so I've never understood why there aren’t more women in the camera and cinematography departments.

If you have worked with King Vidor and John Huston, shared the screen with Humphrey Bogart and Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power and Yul Brynner, Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand, Marcello Mastroianni and Erroll Flynn, well, it’s pretty safe to assume that you are part of cinema history. If you have been the honored guest of presidents and heads of state and pursued for a dozen years by Howard Hughes, and scores of other men, dazzled by one of the world’s great beauties … in other words if you are Gina Lollobrigida, then the only surprising thing about receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is that it took so long.

Dany Garcia’s philosophy is to change the way the game is played. As the CEO & founder of the Garcia Companies and co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions – producers of the box office hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the HBO series Ballers, to name just few - the middle child of Cuban immigrants demonstrates how and why she is successfully creating the world she wants.