Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.

A documentary about the first female filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché.

 

When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. In Be Natural, Pamela B. Green acts as a detective, revealing the real story of Guy-Blaché and highlighting her pioneering contributions to the birth of cinema and her acclaim as a creative force and entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making.

Join Birds’ Eye View’s Director-at-large, Mia Bays for a post-screening A&Q with guest:

Helen Hanson – Associate Professor in Film History at the University of Exeter and currently Director of the MA English Literary Studies, and Academic Director of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. She is also the convener for the Female Screens: Representation, Agency and Authorship module.

Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film features commentary from Diablo Cody, Geena Davis, Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay, Michel Hazanavicius, Patty Jenkins, Ben Kingsley, Andy Samberg, Agnès Varda, Evan Rachel Wood and more.

“A love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one”   Eye For Film

“A scrupulously well-researched documentary” The Hollywood Reporter