Exclusive: Legwork Collective, the media company recently formed by Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché director Pamela B. Green, is ramping up its slate, attaching names like Rosario Dawson, Debra Messing, Ken Jeong and Norman Reedus to a new docuseries, as well as Kathy Bates to its Kate Warne detective drama, as it moves forward with projects aiming to explore overlooked figures in history.
The newest project in the works is Catching a Shadow, a docuseries highlighting diverse and exceptional people who broke boundaries in different domains, overcoming personal traumas and the prejudices of their time – much in the vein of Green’s 2018 docu on Guy-Blaché, the mostly unsung first female filmmaker. Zach Barack, Dawson, Jeong, Messing, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Reedus are attached so far to narrate the docuseries, which will feature deep dives into the likes of pioneers including chemist Alice Ball, author William Melvin Kelley, photojournalist Gerda Taro,...
The newest project in the works is Catching a Shadow, a docuseries highlighting diverse and exceptional people who broke boundaries in different domains, overcoming personal traumas and the prejudices of their time – much in the vein of Green’s 2018 docu on Guy-Blaché, the mostly unsung first female filmmaker. Zach Barack, Dawson, Jeong, Messing, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Reedus are attached so far to narrate the docuseries, which will feature deep dives into the likes of pioneers including chemist Alice Ball, author William Melvin Kelley, photojournalist Gerda Taro,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A narrative feature biopic is in the works about female directing pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché from the director of “Be Natural,” the 2018 documentary that profiled the silent cinema icon.
Guy-Blaché was the first woman to ever direct a film and between 1896 and 1906 was likely the only female director in the world. Across her 25-year career, she directed over 700 short silent films across all genres, and many of her films helped pioneer new sound and color-tinting techniques for other filmmakers. And by 1912 she had founded her own studio on the East Coast and directed the film “A Fool And His Money,” the first film with an all-African-American cast.
Pamela B. Green, who directed, edited, produced and co-wrote the documentary that premiered at Cannes in 2018, will direct the untitled new biopic and write the screenplay with Joan Simon and Cosima Littlewood, who also worked on “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.
Guy-Blaché was the first woman to ever direct a film and between 1896 and 1906 was likely the only female director in the world. Across her 25-year career, she directed over 700 short silent films across all genres, and many of her films helped pioneer new sound and color-tinting techniques for other filmmakers. And by 1912 she had founded her own studio on the East Coast and directed the film “A Fool And His Money,” the first film with an all-African-American cast.
Pamela B. Green, who directed, edited, produced and co-wrote the documentary that premiered at Cannes in 2018, will direct the untitled new biopic and write the screenplay with Joan Simon and Cosima Littlewood, who also worked on “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.
- 1/11/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The filmmakers behind acclaimed Cannes 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché are re-teaming on a narrative biopic about their subject, the little-known but remarkable cinema pioneer, who was the first ever female film director, screenwriter, producer, and studio owner.
Active from the late 19th century, Frenchwoman Guy-Blaché was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first ever cinema screening in Paris in 1895. Inspired by what she saw, the Gaumont secretary went on to become an in-house film-maker at the French studio.
Guy-Blaché would travel to the U.S. where she became artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York, and a prominent investor in a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which was the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood.
During her career, she made more than 1,000 short and silent films, including comedies, westerns and dramas,...
Active from the late 19th century, Frenchwoman Guy-Blaché was in the room when the Lumière brothers held the first ever cinema screening in Paris in 1895. Inspired by what she saw, the Gaumont secretary went on to become an in-house film-maker at the French studio.
Guy-Blaché would travel to the U.S. where she became artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York, and a prominent investor in a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which was the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood.
During her career, she made more than 1,000 short and silent films, including comedies, westerns and dramas,...
- 1/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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