Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she caused an international furore when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated. Until her death in 2011, she was Stalin's last surviving child.
Annie Violette Fratellini was a French circus artist, singer, film actress and clown.
You and I is a 2008 drama film directed by Roland Joffé depicting a fictionalised version of real events adapted from the novel t.A.T.u. Come Back. The film features Mischa Barton, Anton Yelchin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Helena Mattsson, Alexander Kaluzhsky, Bronson Pinchot and Shantel VanSanten. The film is about a teenage girl, Lana, who moves from a rural town in Russia to Moscow, completely unaware that meeting an internet girlfriend, Janie, will result in a string of adventures.
Esther Bell is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, social activist, and community entrepreneur. Her two feature films, Godass and Exist, received critical acclaim in The New York Times and Variety for their tones of social and political relevance.
Svetlana about Svetlana is a 2008 film that explores the life and literary works of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. It is the story of Lana Parshina and her attempt to find Svetlana Alliluyeva and, ultimately, to find some answers to the questions about Alliluyeva's autobiographical book Twenty Letters to a Friend that Lana read when she was ten.
Binka Zhelyazkova, was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.
Anthony Sherwood is a Canadian actor, producer, director and writer.
Jhummandi Naadam is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language musical drama film produced by Lakshmi Manchu and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Manoj Manchu and debutant Taapsee Pannu in the lead roles and Mohan Babu in a supporting role. The film has music scored by M.M. Keeravani. The film was released on 1 July 2010. This film is debut of the actress Taapsee Pannu in Indian film industry.
Vishvanath Buddhika Keerthisena, also known as Boodee Keerthisena, is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. He began his career drawing comics before moving into painting, dress design, and visual arts. He moved into music in the late 1980s, and performed in a band called "Boo-Dee and the Woo-Zees" (1986–1992) as the lead singer.
Annalisa Piras is a London-based Italian-British film director, impact producer and journalist. She is currently the director of Springshot Productions, an independent production company which specialises in hard hitting, current affairs documentaries. She also directs The Wake Up Foundation, an educational charity she co-founded with Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist. In 2019 The Wake Up Foundation founded and run the first Wake Up Europe Impact Films Festival, the first ever transnational impact documentary festival entirely devoted to showcase the best films produced worldwide to highlights the shared challenges our western societies face, with a special focus on the meaning of a European civic conscience. The Wake Up Europe Festival offered a "selection for reflection" of 10 films, which were screened and debated in Turin, Italy and across other nine European locations.
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Jackie Rivet-River is an American TV writer, director, producer, and founder of Peace Productions, a non-profit organization. She has created more than 15 television programs including documentaries such as Too Flawed to Fix: Inside the Illinois Capital Punishment System, In a Time of Siege; a film about the antiwar activities of activist Kathy Kelly and narrated by Studs Terkel, War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Children They Leave Behind and Who is Thy Neighbor?. She began her film career in Chicago at the Fred A. Niles Communications Center and was the first female in the Midwest Chapter of the Directors Guild of America.
Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran is a Turkish female screenwriter and film director.
Marina Tetarić Prusec is a Croatian film director.
Anna Rezan was born and raised in Greece.She is an actress, model, musician, and filmmaker. Rezan began her career in her early teens by appearing in Greek films and television series, most notably co-starring in the 2008 TV drama Farewell Anatolia and starring in the 2010 comedy film ShowBitch that premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Svetlana Cvetko is an American cinematographer and film director. She is most notable for being the cinematographer of several critically acclaimed documentaries including: Oscar winning Inside Job (2010), Oscar nominated Facing Fear (2010), and Sundance US Documentary Special Jury Prize-winning Inequality For All (2013). In addition, she was the first cinematographer on films such as Oscar winning OJ: Made In America and Sundance documentary Miss Representation.
Miss America is a documentary film directed by Lisa Ades that takes its viewer on a journey from the very beginnings of the Miss America pageant in 1921 to the present-day pageant while exploring how the pageant has reflected the country’s views and where the country was moving towards by whom it chose as its winners each year. As the categories became more substantial and the requirements to participate more rigorous, the Miss America Pageant became much more than just a national contest to be America’s female representative to the world. The pageant, hosted in Atlantic City every year since it started, transformed into a place where sexual politics as well as the position of women were subtly fought and battles against anti-semitism and racism were won. This documentary was released as an episode of American Experience season 14 in January 2002.
Olga Yuryevna Dykhovichnaya, born Golyak is a Belarusian and Russian actress, producer and director.
María Ripoll is a Spanish film director from Barcelona, with an international background and eight feature films to her credit. The success of her film It's Now or Never has placed her as the highest-grossing female film director in Spanish history.
Lana Wilson is an American filmmaker. She directed the feature documentaries After Tiller, The Departure, and Miss Americana. The first two films were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary.
