Fort Lee Film Commission sponsors with the
9th Annual Garden State Film Festival (March 31-April 3)
“Alice Guy Blache developed the narrative and from 1902 to 1906 made 150
synchronized sound films. She changed the world.”
In Memory of Adrienne Noelle Channing
January 22, 1949 – February 26, 2011
Adrienne Noelle Channing, Alice Guy Blaché’s granddaughter, died on February 26, 2011. With her goes one of the last people who knew Alice Guy Blaché personally. In addition to many other accomplishments Adrienne took on her mother, Roberta Blaché’s task of preserving Alice Guy Blaché legacy, after Roberta died in September of 2000.
September 4-5, 2010
Rehovot, Israel
Some of the attendees at the July 1st, 2010 Graveside Birthday Celebration for Alice Guy.
Alice Directs MY MADONNAThe first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, was remembered Thursday during a brief graveside ceremony at Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah on what would have been her 137th birthday.
July 1st is Alice Guy Blaché 's birthday. Madame Blaché , was the first woman director in cinema history and she built Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912. There she produced, directed and wrote hundreds of films through World War 1. After the war she went to Hollywood and the director's door was closed to her as it was when she thereafter returned to her native France. She returned to NJ in the 1960s and died a few short miles from her Fort Lee Studio.
Madame Blaché is buried at Maryrest Cemetery which is located at 25 Seminary Road, Mahwah NJ.
Alice Guy is getting popular on the blogosphere out in New Zealand:
Ophelia Thinks Hard by an actress. And from New York, and
Women in World by a screenwriter.
'Las estaciones perdidas del cine mudo en Málaga' book on early cinema by Francisco Griñán, wins ASECAN’s “Best Book Written About Film” Prize 2009.
The catalogue edited by Joan Simon for the Whitney Retrospective of the work of Alice Guy Blaché last winter has won the Silver Medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Winners will be honored in a ceremony on May 25th in New York City. For more information look here.