GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY

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By Karen DAY

GRETA JOANNE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World

Art - Culture - Completed 2014

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Historical, Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 66 mn
- Director(s)
- Karen DAY
- Writer(s)
- Karen DAY
- Cast
- Geena DAVIS, Nell SHIPMAN
- Synopsis
- Documentary about Nell Shipman, first female independent film maker to pioneer the nude scene and animal advocate. In 1921, Shipman refused a contract with Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and moved to the Idaho wilderness with a zoo of 70 wild animals to write, direct, produce and act in movies portraying women as self-reliant heroines who rescued their male leads. Shipman performed her own stunts and developed an uncanny rapport with her animal actors. The film reveals the forgotten legacy of Shipman and a generation of female silent film pioneers. The documentary includes rare footage of these artists, including minority filmmakers, Zora Neale Hurston and Miriam Wong. Geena Davis and women directors discuss gender-inequities Nell and her counterparts faced that perpetuate in today's film industry.