celebrating women’s history / debuts

In honor of Women’s History Month, a/perture is highlighting four important debut films from women filmmakers. Spanning decades, countries and subjects, each film served as a launching pad for a unique and vital voice in the history of cinema.

Claudia Weill paved the way for honest and human stories of women finding their way in the cities with Girlfriends (1978). Kasi Lemmons emerged with a fully-formed vision of family history and southern gothic storytelling that embraces history and mysticism with Eve’s Bayou (1997).

Amy Heckerling re-defined the teenage sex comedy by bringing a nonjudgmental and understanding look at coming-of-age in Southern California, and the sometimes painful, and sometimes funny experiences of high school with Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).  Lucrecia Martel burst onto the global scene with her visually masterful tale of an Argentine bourgeois family hoping to escape their malaise in La ciénaga (2001).

Join us in celebrating these filmmakers from the beginning of their careers all throughout March.