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Sundance Film Festival

ALICE GUY-BLACHE FLIPBOKU MISC COLLECTIBLE interviewsAlice Guy Blach Flipbook THE MOTHER OF CINEMA Alice Guy Blach (1873 1968) was a pioneer French filmmaker and the first motion picture director to make a narrative fiction film, active from the late 19th century. Neglected by film historians for years, she was the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1920, she directed over 1,000 films, some 150 of which survive, and 22 of which are feature length. She experimented with Gaumonts Chronophone sync