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In the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris last summer, ten golden statues honoring French women of accomplishment were displayed and highlighted, including one of Alice Guy. The statues emerged from the Seine, adding a message about gender equality to the Olympics.

Video clip of Alice's four-meter tall statue emerging from the Seine. Note that the gold rings acnkowledge that she made her first film, The Cabbage Fairy, in 1896.

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Be Natural (2018), the feature-length documentary by Pamela Green is now available on DVD and Digital Download from Kino Lorber.

Kino Lorber has other DVD sets where you can find films made by Alice Guy, such as:

 The Movies Begin,

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times has published an obituary of Alice Guy for the Overlooked Series. Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.Here's how it starts:

Starts Today!

BE NATURAL: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Directed/Produced by: Pamela B. Green

Narrated by Jodie Foster

An investigation of the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, screenwriter, producer, and studio owner Alice Guy-Blaché. She made her first film in 1896 at age 23, and went on to write, direct, or produce more than 1,000 more!

Yesterday Tom Meyers and other members and supporters of the Fort Lee Film Commission broke ground on the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee NJ.

Here's the description of the planned Center from the Film Commission's website:

Be Natural, Pamela Green's documentary on Alice Guy, will screen on October 7 at 6 pm as part of the New York Film Festival.

The image shows Bessie Love (left) and Alice Guy (under umbrella) on the set of The Great Adventure or the Spring of the Year, released March 10, 1918. Over a hundred years ago! The Great Adventure is the last surviving film we have directed by Alice Guy, though she worked on one more after that (Tarnished Reputations).

It's here at last!

A picture book about the first woman filmmaker, suitable for children from Kindergarden to third grade. Library School Journal has given it a starred review and said "Subtly STEM, fun, and beautiful to look at... encourages kids to engage with cutting-edge technology and to innovate in new fields."

Be Natural will have its North American Premiere at the

The film and video distribution company, KinoLorber, working with the Library of Congress, will release a DVD collection of films by the first women filmmakers in November of 2018. Just in time for Christmas gift giving!

Here is the BAM Cinematek's description of the program: