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First Time Female Director is a 2023 American film directed, written, produced by and starring Chelsea Peretti. It co-stars Blake Anderson, Kate Berlant, Megan Mullally, Benito Skinner, Megan Stalter, Jak Knight, Max Greenfield, and Amy Poehler.
Mar 8, 2024 · First Time Female Director: Directed by Chelsea Peretti. With Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, Andy Richter, Mike Rose. Follows a newly minted female director in a local theater in Glendale, California, struggling to fill the shoes of her male predecessor, putting her Southern rural drama in jeopardy.
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- Comedy
- Chelsea Peretti
- 2024-03-08
- Alice Guy. Widely considered the first female film director, Guy is also credited with helming one of the first narrative films, an 1896 short called “The Cabbage Fairy.”
- Lois Weber. A woman of many interests, Weber was a street evangelist and musician before she turned to acting and filmmaking. In 1908, she began her directing career at American Gaumont Chronophone, where fellow filmmaking pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché and her husband were then ensconced.
- Lotte Reiniger. Born and raised in Germany, Reiniger pioneered the use of silhouette animation, directing one of the first feature-length animated films, the 1926 release “The Adventures of Prince Achmed,” with this technique.
- Dorothy Arzner. Arzner grew up in Hollywood and began typing scripts before working her way up to helming “Women’s Fashions” for Paramount in 1927. While directing the studio’s first talkie, “The Wild Party,” she improvised a boom microphone for silent star Clara Bow, who was nervous about speaking on camera.
Aspiring writer Sam (Chelsea Peretti) is thrust into the role of director when the Regis Theatre's director is fired. Hand-picked by the theatre's artistic director, Sheldon (Andy Richter), Sam...
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- Chelsea Peretti
- Chelsea Peretti
- Comedy
Jun 15, 2023 · The comedian and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' star directs a mockumentary-style film about an anxious playwright who becomes a community theater's first woman director.
- Lovia Gyarkye
Mar 7, 2024 · Peretti stars as a first-time female director of a play in this Roku Channel film, which features a cast of comedians. The film struggles to find its footing and humor, and suffers from technical and narrative flaws.
Chelsea Peretti makes her directorial debut with this hilarious ensemble comedy set in a Glendale theater where a new female director struggles to fill the shoes of her male predecessor, putting her Southern rural drama in jeopardy.
