Pamela B. Green’s “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché,” narrated by Jodie Foster, is a feature documentary that rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, screenwriter, producer, and studio owner Alice Guy-Blaché.
Featuring interviews with Patty Jenkins, Diablo Cody, Ben Kingsley, Geena Davis, Ava DuVernay, Michel Hazanavicius, Evan Rachel Wood, and Julie Delpy among many others.
Co-Written, Directed and Produced by Pamela B. Green. Executive produced by Geralyn Dreyfous, Jodie Foster, Hugh M. Hefner, John Ptak, Robert Redford, Regina K. Scully, Joan Simon, and Jamie Wolf. Narrated by Jodie Foster.
“Be Natural” is a documentary about the first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, which explores the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create. Over the span of her career, she wrote, produced or directed 1,000 films, including 150 with synchronized sound during the ‘silent’ era. Her work includes comedies, westerns, and dramas, as well as films with groundbreaking subject matter such as child abuse, immigration, Planned Parenthood, and female empowerment. She also etched a place in history by making the earliest known surviving narrative film with an all-African American cast.
Pamela B. Green has dedicated more than eight years of research in order to discover the real story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968) – not only highlighting her pioneering contributions to the birth of cinema but also her acclaim as a creative force and entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making. Green discovered rare footage of televised interviews and long archived audio interviews which can be heard for the first time in Be Natural, which affords Alice Guy-Blaché to tell her own story.
“Be Natural” premiered at the Cannes, Telluride, New York, Deauville and London Film Festivals in 2018. It will open in Los Angeles on April 19th and in New York April 26th with a nationwide release to follow.
A Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber.
