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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

December 7, 2018 (US) • Documentary, History • 103m

Overview

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

Director

Pamela B. Green

Top Billed

Jodie Foster

Keywords

based on novel or book movie business woman director 19th century 1910s cinema history hollywood history portrait of a filmmaker silent cinema hidden history
Where to watch

Top Billed Cast

Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster

Self - Narrator (voice)

Richard Abel
Richard Abel

Self

Marc Abraham
Marc Abraham

Self

Stephanie Allain
Stephanie Allain

Self

Gillian Armstrong
Gillian Armstrong

Self

John Bailey
John Bailey

Self

Cari Beauchamp
Cari Beauchamp

Self

Lake Bell
Lake Bell

Self

Peter Billingsley
Peter Billingsley

Self

James Bobin
James Bobin

Self

Serge Bromberg
Serge Bromberg

Self

Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow

Self

Jon M. Chu
Jon M. Chu

Self

Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody

Self

Bobby Cohen
Bobby Cohen

Self

Howard Cohen
Howard Cohen

Self

Susan Constantine
Susan Constantine

Self

Julie Corman
Julie Corman

Self

Robert Dassanowsky
Robert Dassanowsky

Self

Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy

Self

Geena Davis
Geena Davis

Self

Peter Decherney
Peter Decherney

Self

Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Self

Bryony Dixon
Bryony Dixon

Self

Frederik Du Chau
Frederik Du Chau

Self

Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay

Self

Dino Everett
Dino Everett

Self

Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly

Self

Elsie Fisher
Elsie Fisher

Self

Anne Fletcher
Anne Fletcher

Self

Anne Fontaine
Anne Fontaine

Self

Jean-Michel Frodon
Jean-Michel Frodon

Self

Jane Gaines
Jane Gaines

Self

Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo

Self

Pierre-William Glenn
Pierre-William Glenn

Self

Maxine Haleff
Maxine Haleff

Self

Catherine Hardwicke
Catherine Hardwicke

Self

Rob Haworth
Rob Haworth

Self

Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius

Self

Cheryl Hines
Cheryl Hines

Self

Jan-Christopher Horak
Jan-Christopher Horak

Self

Neil Hunt
Neil Hunt

Self

Gale Anne Hurd
Gale Anne Hurd

Self

Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins

Self

Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley

Self

Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer

Self

Roland-François Lack
Roland-François Lack

Self

Marquise Lepage
Marquise Lepage

Self

Kevin Macdonald
Kevin Macdonald

Self

Anastasia Masaro
Anastasia Masaro

Self

Alison McMahan
Alison McMahan

Self

Tom Meyers
Tom Meyers

Self

Walter Murch
Walter Murch

Self

Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Self

Chloe Page-Relo
Chloe Page-Relo

Self

Tatiana Page-Relo
Tatiana Page-Relo

Self

Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman

Self

Pierre Rissient
Pierre Rissient

Self

Julie Anne Robinson
Julie Anne Robinson

Self

Mark Romanek
Mark Romanek

Self

Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg

Self

Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi

Self

Cathy Schulman
Cathy Schulman

Self

Vanessa Schwartz
Vanessa Schwartz

Self

Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi

Self

Joan Simon
Joan Simon

Self

Anthony Slide
Anthony Slide

Self

Cecile Starr
Cecile Starr

Self

Valerie Steele
Valerie Steele

Self

Mark Stetson
Mark Stetson

Self

Kevin Stitt
Kevin Stitt

Self

Drake Stutesman
Drake Stutesman

Self

Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor

Self

Anand Tucker
Anand Tucker

Self

Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda

Self

Marc Wanamaker
Marc Wanamaker

Self

Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg

Self

Alan Williams
Alan Williams

Self

Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood

Self

Simone Guy
Simone Guy

Self (archive footage)

Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché

Self (archive footage)

Bessie Love
Bessie Love

Self (archive footage)

Howard Cohen
Howard Cohen

Self

Crew
Pamela B. Green
Pamela B. Green

Editor

Joan Simon
Joan Simon

Writer

Pamela B. Green
Pamela B. Green

Writer

Pamela B. Green
Pamela B. Green

Director

Marcello Dubaz
Marcello Dubaz

Sound Designer

Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney

Associate Producer

Michel Merkt
Michel Merkt

Associate Producer

Pamela B. Green
Pamela B. Green

Producer

Cosima Littlewood
Cosima Littlewood

Co-Producer

Gala Minasova
Gala Minasova

Co-Producer

Caroleen Feeney
Caroleen Feeney

Associate Producer

John Ptak
John Ptak

Executive Producer

Regina K. Scully
Regina K. Scully

Executive Producer

Jarik Van Sluijs
Jarik Van Sluijs

Associate Producer

Geralyn White Dreyfous
Geralyn White Dreyfous

Executive Producer

Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster

Executive Producer

Casey Langfelder
Casey Langfelder

Supervising Sound Editor

Daniela Roth
Daniela Roth

Associate Producer

Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner

Executive Producer

Robert Redford
Robert Redford

Executive Producer

Jamie Wolf
Jamie Wolf

Executive Producer

Peter G. Adams
Peter G. Adams

Original Music Composer

Nion McEvoy
Nion McEvoy

Associate Producer



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Status

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Original Language

EN

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