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The overlooked legacy of Hollywood's first women directors

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The perspectives movies are told from filter into our life choices, personal philosophies and very identities. Film journalist Alicia Malone tells the forgotten stories of Hollywood's very first female directors to illustrate how a diversity in cinema could benefit us all.

The perspectives movies are told from filter into our life choices, personal philosophies and very identities. Film journalist Alicia Malone tells the forgotten stories of Hollywood's very first female directors to illustrate how a diversity in cinema could benefit us all.

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Alicia Malone

Alicia Malone has appeared as a film expert on CNN, Access Hollywood, E!, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, MTV, Hollywood Today Live, MSNBC, HLN, KCBS, KTLA, AMC Theaters and she is a host on FilmStruck, a cinephile subscription service run by Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection. She is also the creator and host of Fandango’s Indie Movie Guide. Her first book on the history of women in Hollywood is due out in August 2017.

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