50-628: Golden Door may refer to: America's Golden Door , a nickname for Jersey City Ellis Island , the "golden door" through which many immigrants to the USA have passed Golden Door Film Festival The New Colossus , a poem which ends with the phrase Nuovomondo , a 2006 film known in English as "Golden Door" The Golden Door , the first book in The Three Doors book series Topics referred to by
100-419: A Feature, Best Male Lead in a Feature ( Ernest Borgnine ), Best Female Lead in a Feature ( Natasha Lyonne ), and Best Acting by a Supporting Actor/Actress ( Sally Kellerman ). Life! Camera Action... and Another Day Another Life also picked up several nominations. Fiftythree films were screened during the 2012 festival held on October 11 through 14, 2012. Two new categories for competition were added:
150-649: A Jersey City native, performed with Daughter of Force at Brightside Tavern after a showing of a documentary about his life and work. Many events took place at New Jersey City University . The organisation screened JR 's Ellis in November. The festival ran from September 22 to 25. It hosted the world premiere of Chris Robert's Another You , and screenings of Miles Doleac 's The Hollow , Mara Lesemann's Detours , John Asher 's Po , and Thomas Baldinger's Who's Jenna..? , starring festival founder Bill Sorvino . More than 175 films were screened over four days at
200-582: A co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York . In 1912, Solax invested $ 100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey , the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood. That year, she made the film A Fool and His Money , probably the first to have an all- African-American cast. The film is now preserved at the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at
250-550: A devastating smallpox epidemic in Chile in 1872 and 1873. Émile and Marie Guy brought all four of their children to Paris, where Alice was born. In her autobiography, Alice refers to this as her mother's attempt to make sure "her fifth child should be truly French". Her father returned to Chile soon after her birth, and her mother followed a few months later. Alice was left in the care of her grandmother in Carouge, Switzerland . At
300-483: A documentary on Alice Guy-Blaché titled Alice Guy, the unknown lady of the 7th art , directed by Valérie Urréa and Nathalie Masduraud, voiced by Agnès Jaoui and Maud Wyler . In 2022, Rowman & Littlefield published a new edition of The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché , edited by Anthony Slide and translated by Simone Blaché and Roberta Blaché. This memoir contains a new introduction by Slide. The Golden Door Film Festival gives an award named in her honor. On
350-440: A job with Mutualité maternelle which was founded on 20 May 1891. Her mother was unable to keep that job and thereafter Guy trained as a typist and stenographer , a new field at the time, to support herself and her mother. She landed her first stenography-typist job at a varnish factory. In March 1894, she began working at the 'Comptoir général de la photographie' owned by Félix-Max Richard. Léon Gaumont later took over and headed
400-422: A short. The 12th season ran June 22-24, 2023. Seventy-two films were screened at two venues: Art House Productions and Nimbus Arts Center. The nearby Canopy Hotel was the filmmakers hub. The 13th annual GDIFF will take place June 22-24, 2024. Alice Guy-Blach%C3%A9 Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché ( née Guy ; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968)
450-728: A six-disc box, Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers , in cooperation with the Library of Congress , the British Film Institute , and others. The first disc of the set is devoted to the films of Alice Guy-Blaché. It includes Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913), which was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003. The 2018 documentary film Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché , directed by Pamela B. Green and narrated by Jodie Foster , which opened at
500-518: Is developing a feature biopic about Alice Guy-Blaché. Guy-Blaché was an early influence on both Alfred Hitchcock and Sergei Eisenstein . Hitchcock remarked, "I'd be over the moon with the Frenchman George Méliès. I was thrilled by the movies of D.W. Griffith and the early French director Alice Guy." In his Memoirs, Eisenstein described an unnamed film he had seen as a child that continued to be very important to him. This film
550-599: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages America%27s Golden Door The Golden Door Film Festival is a film festival in Jersey City, New Jersey , United States, which was inaugurated in 2011. The four-day festival shows features, documentaries, and shorts . The opening and closing night awards ceremony are located at the 1929 movie palace Loew's Jersey Theatre at Journal Square with many screenings and other events at various Downtown venues. The festival
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#1732772428356600-530: Is interred at Maryrest Cemetery. On December 12, 1958, Guy-Blaché was awarded the Légion d'honneur , the highest non-military award France offers. On 16 March 1957, she was honored in a Cinémathèque française ceremony that went almost unnoticed by the press. In 2002, Circle X Theatre in Los Angeles produced Laura Comstock's Bag-punching Dog , a musical about the invention of cinema, and Alice Guy-Blaché
650-594: The 14th arrondissement of Paris is named the Place Alice-Guy [ fr ] in her honor. In 2019, The re-edited and expanded version of Eisenstein's memoirs, Yo. Memoirs by Sergei Eisenstein mention Alice's The Consequences of Feminism and its influence on Eisenstein . In 2021, Yale University opened its new state-of-the-art screening room, named the Alice Cinema, after Alice Guy-Blaché. In 2021, French-German TV channel Arte produced
700-638: The American Film Institute for its historical and aesthetic significance. In 1865, Guy's father, Émile Guy, an owner of a bookstore and publishing company in Santiago , Chile and Valparaíso , Chile, married Marie Clotilde Franceline Aubert. The couple returned to Santiago after the wedding in Paris. In early 1873, Marie and Émile lived in Santiago, with Alice's four siblings. There was
750-611: The Directors Guild of America to accept Alice Guy-Blaché as a member. She was subsequently awarded a posthumous "Special Directorial Award for Lifetime Achievement" at the 2011 DGA Honors. In 2013, Guy-Blaché was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame . Since 2018, film journalist Véronique Le Bris founded the Alice Guy Prize, granted yearly to highlight the woman film-maker of the year. A square in
800-482: The artistic director and directed many of its releases. Within two years, they had become so successful that they invested more than $ 100,000 into new and technologically advanced production facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey . Many early film studios were based in Fort Lee at the beginning of the 20th century. This made her the first woman to own her own studio and studio plant. It was mentioned in publications of
850-730: The Best International Short Film award. The festival took place from September 20 to 23, 2018. 265 films were screened at different venues: Pope Lecture Hall and the Roy Irving Theater at Saint Peter's University , Communipaw Terminal in Liberty State Park, the Beacon Paramount Theater , Jersey City Theater Center's Merseles Studio, and White Eagle Hall . The festival ran from September 17 to 22, 2019. It included
900-495: The Cabbages) or The Birth of Children , or it may have had no title at first. The scene Alice described as her debut effort does not match either the 1900 version of La Fée aux choux or the 1902 version, retitled Sage-femme de première classe which has been found in film archives. By comparing Alice's descriptions of her debut effort with the two films that are available for us to view, we discover differences that indicate there
950-659: The Cannes Film Festival (Cannes Classics), deals with Guy-Blaché's life, career, and legacy. Because of Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché , many of Guy-Blaché's films were restored and preserved, and a pillar in her name will be featured at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures . In September 2019, Guy-Blaché was included in The New York Times series " Overlooked No More ". As reported by Deadline in 2021, Pamela B. Green
1000-464: The Cinema . Guy-Blaché is considered by some to have been the first female filmmaker, and from 1896 to 1920, she directed over 1,000 films, some 150 of which survive, and 22 of which are feature-length. She was one of the first women, along with Lois Weber , to manage and own her own studio: The Solax Company. Few of her films survive in an easily viewable format. In December 2018, Kino Lorber released
1050-702: The Lumière Factory , which consisted of a simple scene of workmen leaving the Lumière plant in Lyon. Bored with the idea of captured film only being used for the scientific and/or promotional purpose of selling cameras in the form of "demonstration films," Guy was confident that she could incorporate fictional story-telling elements into film. She asked Gaumont for permission to make her own film, and he granted it. Alice Guy made her first film in 1896. Its original title may have been La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of
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#17327724283561100-462: The Lumières and Méliès . She explored dance and travel films, often combining the two, such as Le Boléro performed by Saharet (1905) and Tango (1905). Many of Guy's early dance films were popular in music-hall attractions such as the serpentine dance films – also a staple of the Lumières and Thomas Edison film catalogs. In 1906, Guy made The Life of Christ , a big-budget production for
1150-886: The New Jersey premiere of Cupid’s First Day and the world premiere of Last Rehearsal of the Dangerous Kitten , by Bayonne-based Narrow Bridge. Best Local Film was Like Us . The Best Music Video Winner was Jahan Nostra for his video Embrace The Rain . The festival was scheduled to take place from September 19 to 26, 2020, but was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Tango Shalom won best feature film, while Max Hechtman and Christonikos Tsalikis' Abigail held its New Jersey premiere. The festival took place in May 11-14. Scrap , by Vivian Kerr won best feature and best director. Anthony Rapp won bet actor in
1200-756: The Student Filmmaker Award and the Women in Film-Alice Guy Blache Award, named for Alice Guy-Blaché , the narrative film director whose studio was located in Fort Lee , the birthplace of America's first motion picture industry at the beginning of the 20th century. Guy-Blaché is also considered a pioneer in the business. Michael Wolfe 's Maybe Tomorrow won several awards including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Best Supporting Actor went to Dominik Tiefenthaler . The 2013 festival opened on October 10 with
1250-581: The United States. After working with her husband for Gaumont in the U.S., the two established their own business in 1910, partnering with George A. Magie in the formation of The Solax Company , the largest pre-Hollywood studio in America. With production facilities for their new company in Flushing, New York, her husband served as production manager and cinematographer . Alice Guy-Blaché worked as
1300-646: The age of three or four, Alice's mother returned from Chile and took Alice back to South America. At the age of six, Guy was taken back to France by her father to attend the Faithful Companions of Jesus school in Veyrier-sous-Salève . Guy and her sister Louise were moved to a convent in Ferney a few years later and then brought back to Paris. Guy's father died on 5 January 1891 of unknown causes. Following his death, Guy's mother got
1350-851: The centennial of the founding and building of the studio, the Commission raised funds to replace her grave marker in Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah, New Jersey. The new marker includes the Solax logo and notes Guy-Blaché's role as a cinema pioneer. In 2010, the Academy Film Archive preserved Alice Guy-Blaché's short film The Girl in the Arm-Chair. In 2011, the Fort Lee Film Commission successfully lobbied
1400-413: The company's stock of cameras. She also met a handful of pioneering film engineers such as Georges Demenÿ and Auguste and Louis Lumière . Alice Guy and Gaumont attended the "surprise" Lumière event on March 22, 1895. It was the first demonstration of film projection, an obstacle that Gaumont, the Lumières, and Edison were all racing to solve. They screened one of their early films Workers Leaving
1450-432: The company. In 1894, Alice Guy was hired by Félix-Max Richard to work as a secretary for a camera manufacturing and photography supply company. The company changed hands in 1895 due to a court decision against Félix-Max Richard, who sold the company to four men: Gustave Eiffel , Joseph Vallot , Alfred Besnier, and Léon Gaumont . Gustave Eiffel was president of the company, and Léon Gaumont, thirty years Eiffel's junior,
1500-412: The country was turning out stories instead of spectacles and plots instead of panoramas." From 1896 to 1906, Alice Guy was Gaumont's head of production and is generally considered the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filmmaking. She was probably the only female director from 1896 to 1906. Her earlier films share many characteristics and themes with her contemporary competitors, such as
1550-492: The documentary Fall to Grace about former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey . Armand Assante was given a lifetime achievement award. Sorvino announced that he would be working with Saint Peter's University to develop a film institute. The 2014 festival was held on September 16 through 21 throughout Jersey City, with its opening night and awards ceremony at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre. Autism awareness
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1600-477: The era that Guy-Blaché placed a large sign in her studio that read: 'Be Natural'. In 1913, Guy-Blaché directed The Thief , the first script sold by future Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston . Guy-Blaché and her husband divorced several years later, and with the rise of the more hospitable and cost-effective climate in Hollywood, their film partnership also ended. "There is nothing connected with
1650-445: The film. She employed some of the first special effects, including using double exposure , masking techniques , and running a film backward. During her tenure at Gaumont, Guy hired and trained Louis Feuillade and Étienne Arnaud as writers and directors and hired set designer Henri Ménessier and art director Ben Carré. In 1907, Alice Guy married Herbert Blaché , who was soon appointed the production manager for Gaumont's operations in
1700-498: The first woman to run her own studio when she created Solax in Gaumont's Flushing studio. In 1912, when she was pregnant with her second child, she built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and continued to complete one to three films a week. On 27 June 1912, Reginald, her son, was born. To focus on writing and directing, Guy-Blaché took her husband into Solax in 1913 "for feature production and executive direction". Shortly after taking
1750-597: The golden door!" is the last line of " The New Colossus ," the poem by Emma Lazarus . Many immigrants passed through the city's Communipaw Terminal and it is sometimes referred to as "America's Golden Door". The festival's name is inspired by the immigrant experience. The first festival took place on October 14 to 17, 2011. 43 films were shown and there were 18 categories for competition. Lifetime achievement awards were given to Academy Award winner Leon Gast and Paul Sorvino . Night Club (2011) by director Sam Borowski won awards for Best Feature, Best Director of
1800-660: The historical record of the film industry. She regularly communicated with colleagues and film historians, correcting previously made and supposedly factual statements about her life. She crafted lengthy lists of her films as she remembered them, with the hope of being able to assume creative ownership and receive legitimate credit for them. Guy-Blaché was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché by director Marquise Lepage , which received Quebec's Gémeaux Award for Best Documentary. In 2002, film scholar Alison McMahan published Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of
1850-560: The most successful creators of photodrama offerings."—Alice Guy-Blaché in The Moving Picture World , July 11, 1914. In the late 1940s, Alice Guy-Blaché wrote an autobiography. It was published, in French, in 1976 and was translated into English a decade later with the help of her daughter Simone, daughter-in-law Roberta Blaché, and the film writer Anthony Slide . Guy-Blaché was concerned with her unexplained absence from
1900-764: The position, Herbert Blaché started a film company named Blaché Features, Inc. The couple maintained a personal and business partnership for the next few years, working together on many projects. In 1918, Herbert Blaché left his wife and children to pursue a career in Hollywood. Alice Guy-Blaché almost died from the Spanish flu pandemic in October 1918 while filming her final film Tarnished Reputations . Following her illness, she joined Herbert in Hollywood in 1919 but they lived separately. She worked as Herbert's directing assistant on his two films starring Alla Nazimova . Alice Guy-Blaché directed her last film in 1919. In 1921, she
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2000-468: The seventh annual festival, which took place on October 5–8. The Girl Who Invented Kissing won four awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director (Tom Sierchio), Best Actor ( Dash Mihok ), and Best Supporting Actor ( Vincent Piazza ). Brooklyn in July received three awards in the short film category: Best Feature, Best Director (Bob Celli), and Best Actor (Thaddeus Daniels). Lonely Souls of Microbes received
2050-429: The staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason she cannot master every technicality of the art...In the arts of acting, painting, music, and literature women have long held their place among the most successful workers, and when it is considered how vitally these arts enter into the production of motion pictures one wonders why the names of scores of women are not found among
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2100-409: The time, which included 300 extras. She used the illustrated James Tissot New Testament as reference material for the film, which featured 25 episodes and was her largest production at Gaumont to date. In addition to this, she was one of the pioneers in the use of audio recordings in conjunction with the images on screen in Gaumont's " Chronophone " system, which used a vertical-cut disc synchronized to
2150-399: Was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film , as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont 's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. She was artistic director and
2200-462: Was a third film that came first. The 1896 film seems to be lost. However, multiple points of confirmation indicate that there were three different La Fée aux choux . A 30 July 1896 newspaper describes a "chaste fiction of children born under the cabbages in a wonderfully framed chromo landscape," and provides other details that confirm Alice Guy's description of her first film. "Before very long," Alice Guy reported in 1912, "every moving picture house in
2250-483: Was forced to auction her film studio and other possessions in bankruptcy . Alice and Herbert were officially divorced in 1922. She returned to France in 1922 and never made another film. Alice Guy-Blaché never remarried, and in 1964 she returned to the United States to live in Wayne, New Jersey , with her older child, her daughter, Simone. On 24 March 1968, at 94, Alice Guy-Blaché died in a nursing home in New Jersey. She
2300-644: Was founded by actor, producer, and musician Bill Sorvino . There are competitive awards for features, shorts, documentaries, student works, LBGT-themed films and the Women in Cinema- Alice Guy-Blaché Award for female directors. The Statue of Liberty National Monument , comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island , is located in the Upper New York Bay opposite Liberty State Park in Jersey City. "I lift my lamp beside
2350-584: Was identified as Alice Guy-Blaché's The Consequences of Feminism (1906) during the making of the documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. Alice Guy-Blaché's marriage meant that she had to resign from her position working with Gaumont. The couple was sent by the Gaumont company to Cleveland to facilitate the franchise of Gaumont equipment. Early in 1908, the couple went to New York City where Guy-Blaché gave birth to her daughter, Simone, in September 1908. Two years later, Guy-Blaché became
2400-654: Was now one of the philanthropic missions of the festival. Tommy Hilfiger , on the board of Autism Speaks , became a sponsor of the festival in 2014, and kicked off the event. The two opening films were Six Letter Word , a short about autism, and The Odd Way Home . 92 films were shown during the festival. Best fFlm this year was African Gothic , which also won Best Screenplay (Damon Shalit), Best Director (Gabriel Bologna), Best Actress (Chella Ferrow), Best Cinematography (Massimo Zeri), and Best Editor (Pavel Savchuk). Garry Pastore 's Destressed best documentary. The festival took place from September 24 to 27. Brute Force ,
2450-485: Was the lead character. The musical was written by Jillian Armenante , Alice Dodd, and Chris Jeffries . In 2011, an off-Broadway production of Flight premiered at the Connelly Theatre, featuring a fictionalized portrayal of Guy-Blaché as a 1913 documentary filmmaker. In 2004, the Fort Lee Film Commission unveiled a historical marker dedicated to Alice Guy-Blaché at the location of Solax Studio. In 2012, for
2500-707: Was the manager. The company was named after Gaumont because Eiffel was the subject of a national scandal regarding the Panama Canal . L. Gaumont et C became a major force in the fledgling motion-picture industry in France . Alice continued to work at Gaumont et C , a decision that led to a pioneering career in filmmaking that spanned more than 25 years and involved her directing, producing, writing and/or overseeing more than 700 films. Although she initially began working for Léon Gaumont as his secretary, Guy became familiar with his clients, relevant marketing strategies, and
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