This is a list of lesbian filmmakers. The names listed include directors, producers, and screenwriters of feature films, television movies, documentaries and short films; and have received coverage or been recognized in reliable, authoritative media and academic sources. (book chapter from LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia (2008), )

A–E

Kasia Adamik (Poland) Jane Anderson (United States) Sini Anderson (United States) Chantal Akerman (Belgium) Dorothy Arzner (United States) Jamie Babbit (United States) Marina Rice Bader (United States) Christin Baker (United States) Janet Baus (United States) Sadie Benning (United States) Caroline Berler (United States) Katja Blichfeld (United States) Maureen Bradley (Canada) Netalie Braun (Israel) Katherine Brooks (United States) Nancy Cárdenas (Mexico) Dominique Cardona (Canada) Ruth Caudeli (Spain) Ilene Chaiken (United States) Lisa Cholodenko (United States) Zero Chou (Taiwan) Laurie Colbert (Canada) Janis Cole (Canada) Nicole Conn (United States) Catherine Corsini (France) Jeanne Crépeau (Canada) Catherine Crouch (United States) Holly Dale (Canada) Donna Deitch (United States) Katrina del Mar (United States) Virginie Despentes (France) Vicky Du (United States-Taiwan) Cheryl Dunye (Liberia) Clea DuVall (United States) Michelle Ehlen (United States) Esther Eng (United States)

F–J

Lynne Fernie (Canada) Jodie Foster (United States) Su Friedrich (United States) Maya Gallus (Canada) Nisha Ganatra (Canada) Dana Goldberg (Israel) Rosser Goodman (United States) Lisa Gornick (United Kingdom) Marleen Gorris (Netherlands) Catherine Gund (United States) Aurora Guerrero (United States) Sonali Gulati (United States) Jill Gutowitz (United States) Barbara Hammer (United States) Leslye Headland (United States) Alexandra Hedison (United States) Kate Herron (United States) Dianne Houston (United States) G. B. Jones (Canada) Ingrid Jungermann (United States)

K–O

Hayley Kiyoko (United States) Ana Kokkinos (Australia) Desiree Lim (Malaysia-China-Canada) Madeleine Lim (United States) Jennie Livingston (United States) Phyllida Lloyd (United Kingdom) Tucia Lyman (United States) Angelina Maccarone (Germany) Liz Marshall (Canada) Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) Sheila McLaughlin (United States) Fawzia Mirza (Canada) Cynthia Mort (United States) Dee Mosbacher (United States) Phyllis Nagy (United States) Brittani Nichols (United States) Tig Notaro (United States) Madeleine Olnek (United States) Jenni Olson (United States) Nneka Onuorah (United States) Ulrike Ottinger (Germany) Jan Oxenberg (United States)

P–T

Pratibha Parmar (United Kingdom) Stacie Passon (United States) Kimberly Peirce (United States) Cristina Perincioli (Switzerland) Justine Pimlott (Canada) Norma Bahia Pontes (Brazil) Léa Pool (Canada) Lourdes Portillo (United States-Mexico) Yvonne Rainer (United States) Dee Rees (United States) Yoruba Richen (United States) Marialy Rivas (Chile) Chloé Robichaud (Canada) Angela Robinson (United States) Patricia Rozema (Canada) Marja-Lewis Ryan (United States) Shamim Sarif (United Kingdom) Greta Schiller (United States) Céline Sciamma (France) Avigail Sperber (Israel) Ellen Spiro (United States) Monika Treut (Germany) Rose Troche (United States) Guinevere Turner (United States)

U–Z

Michal Vinik (Israel) Louise Wadley (Australia) Jane Wagner (United States) Lena Waithe (United States) Andrea Weiss (United States) Aerlyn Weissman (United States-Canada) Yvonne Welbon (United States) Tucky Williams (United States) Alice Wu (United States) Monica Zanetti (Australia)

See also

List of female film and television directors List of LGBT-related films directed by women List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people New Queer Cinema Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures

References

Further reading

External links Cinema Systers Film Festival (United States) Lethal Lesbian Film Festival (Israel) London Lesbian Film Festival (Canada) Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film, 1998 documentary at First Run Features Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film, at Kanopy Dykes, Camera, Action!, 2018 documentary by Caroline Berler at The Film Collaborative