Maria Giese

Maria Giese
Born
United States
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter

Maria Giese is an American feature film director and screenwriter. A member of the Directors Guild of America, and an activist for parity for women directors in Hollywood, she writes and lectures about the under-representation of women filmmakers in the United States.

Early life

She has an associate degree from Bard College at Simon's Rock,[1] a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and a Masters of Fine Arts in film directing from the University of California, Los Angeles's Graduate School of Film and Technology.[2] While at UCLA, she wrote, directed, and produced the student film A Dry Heat,[3] for which she won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.[4]

Career

Giese wrote and directed the 1996 British film When Saturday Comes,[5] produced by Capitol Films, UK, starring Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite, and Emily Lloyd.[6] She also wrote, directed, and co-produced Hunger, based on Knut Hamsun's 1890 existentialist novel of the same title.[7] Hunger was the first digital film made based on a classic work of literature. It starred Joseph Culp and Robert Culp and received two Best Film Awards and a Best Underground Film award.[8]

Giese's other directing work includes the short doc A Lotta Lambada and the short film A Dry Heat, which won a UCLA Spotlight award, a Cine Golden Eagle, and was a finalist for the 1991 Student Academy Awards.[9] She also directed the short film Take Your Seat (aka Jewish Water) which also won a Cine Golden Eagle, and an episode of the TV sitcom Solo En America for Columbia TriStar. She did uncredited rewrites on the 1996 film North Star.[citation needed]

She has taught film & TV production at UCLA Extension,[10] lectures regularly, and writes extensively.

Giese is an active member of the Directors Guild of America since 1999 and currently serves as the Women's DGA Director Category Rep.[11]

Giese and her successful activism for women directors in US entertainment media are the subject of three feature documentary films. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) directed by Nina Menkes, which had its World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and International Premiere at The Berlinale 2022, This Changes Everything (2019),[12] directed by Tom Donahue, starring Geena Davis and Maria Giese, and featuring Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Natalie Portman, and Reese Witherspoon was released worldwide in 2019 after premiering at Toronto International Film Festival in 2018 .   Half The Picture (2018),[13] directed by Amy Adrion and featuring Giese along with Miranda July and Ava DuVernay, premiered with Giese in attendance at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.[13]

Activism

Giese is an activist for women directors. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America where she is an active member of the Women's Steering Committee[14] and where she served as the inaugural Women Directors Category Representative and the inaugural co-chair of the DGA-WSC Proposals Subcommittee, the first ever conduit between the Women's Steering Committee and the DGA National Board. On this committee, she and co-chair, Melanie Wagor, were able to move proposals for women DGA members into the 2014 DGA-studio collective bargaining negotiations.

She is also a member of the Alliance of Women Directors.[15] She co-founded, and frequently writes for, the advocacy website Women Directors in Hollywood.[16] Her articles have appeared in Ms.,[17] Elle,[18] Film Inquiry,[19] and IndieWIRE.[20] Giese herself has recently been profiled in Bloomberg TV, ABC Live, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Fortune, and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Her writings have also appeared in Ms. magazine[21] and Indiewire.[22]

In 2011, Giese turned her attention to the underrepresentation of women directors in United States media. She began researching and writing about viable legal strategies to remediate illegal discrimination against women in Hollywood, citing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She "first took her statistics and legal brief to the EEOC but was turned away." In 2013, she took her findings to the ACLU of Southern California, who launched an investigation after months of convincing.[23] Finally, in 2015, after four years of activism in the Directors Guild of America, Giese instigated the biggest industry-wide Federal investigation for women directors in Hollywood history, going on now.[24]

#MeToo Movement

Shortly after the ACLU launched its investigation of Hollywood's job discrimination, the New York Times published its 2017 article "that triggered the Metoo movement", exposing Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault. "'It was explosive,' says Giese, 'and suddenly our industry was throwing millions of dollars into the creation of new inside-industry enforcement organizations like Time's Up, The Hollywood Commission, ReFrame, and many others.'"[25]

Awards

Giese is the recipient of numerous awards including 2016 Equity Award from Stanford University,[26] two Golden Cine Eagles, a Kovler Writing Award, a Spotlight Award, First Prize at the American International Film Festival, a Charles Speroni Scholarship, and an MPAA Award of Excellence.

Additional awards include Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry for making Brainwashed with Nina Menkes. [27]

Reception

In The New York Times, Manohla Dargis referred to her work as "a veritable crusade."[28] And in 2016, Philadelphia Inquirer writer, Carrie Rickey, wrote, "So allow me to introduce real-life female crusader Maria Giese, whose fact-finding led to the ACLU findings that prompted the current EEOC investigation."[29] According to The Los Angeles Times in October 2016, the EEOC "is now widening its circle of interview subjects to include studio executives, producers, agents, actors and male directors, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly."[30]

In POV Magazine, Maya Gallous described Giese's work as portrayed in This Changes Everything as "...a Herculean effort (scratch that, an Amazonian effort) [...] making the industry accountable for what are, essentially, illegal discriminatory hiring practices." [32] Film Inquiry [31] referred to Giese in This Changes Everything as "the most striking subject [...] Giese sacrificed her directing career for this cause. She essentially banded the women directors together – since there was no change coming from within Hollywood, she decided to take the problem to the federal level. Because of her plea, the ACLU took on the case and has convinced the EEOC (who initially didn't want anything to do with it) to investigate the systemic discrimination in Hollywood."[32]

Personal life

Giese lives in Venice, CA and Stonington, CT with her husband and two children.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Aurora Metro". 2016-05-16. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. ^ Giese, Maria. "Auteur Directors: Any American Women?". Indiewire. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Maria Giese". Mobile Film School. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ^ "CINE GOLDEN EAGLE FILM& VIDEO COMPETITION 1993 WINNER DIRECTORY" (PDF) (Press release). Cine. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
  5. ^ Loewenstein, Lael. "Interview with Director Maria Giese". (UCLA). Retrieved 2007-02-12.
  6. ^ Elley, Derek (1996-03-26). "When Saturday Comes". Variety. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
  7. ^ "Hunger" (Press release). IndieFest. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
  8. ^ "Hunger the Film". Hunger the Film. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Maria Giese". Celebrities Agent. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  10. ^ "The Teacher's Guide" (PDF). UCLA. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  11. ^ "About the Women's Steering Committee". DGA.org. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Film Review: 'This Changes Everything'". 9 September 2018.
  13. ^ a b "'Half the Picture': Film Review | Sundance 2018". The Hollywood Reporter. 23 January 2018.
  14. ^ "DGA Women's Steering Committee Rejects Proposal to Expand Diversity Options for Women". Indiewire. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  15. ^ "Alliance of Women Directors Members". Alliance of Women Directors. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  16. ^ "Women Directors in Hollywood". Women Directors in Hollywood. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  17. ^ "Jennifer Lawrence: Legal Tipping Point for Women in Hollywood?". Ms Magazine. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  18. ^ "Will Female Filmmakers Ever Get a Fair Shake at the Oscars?". Elle. 2015-02-24. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  19. ^ "The Charge For Equality – Women Directors". Film Inquiry. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  20. ^ "Maria Giese". Indiewire. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  21. ^ Giese, Maria. "Lights, Camera, Inaction!". MS Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  22. ^ Giese, Maria. "DGA Celebrates Women Directors, But What's the Next Move?". Indiewire. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  23. ^ Gross, Judie (17 December 2022). "Maria Giese: The Activist Who Changed Hollywood". Classic Chicago Magazine.
  24. ^ Keegan, Rebecca (2015-05-13). "Female film directors are on outside looking in, but will ACLU flip the script?". LA Times. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  25. ^ Gross, Judy (17 December 2022). "Maria Giese: The Activist Who Changed Hollywood". Classic Chicago Magazine.
  26. ^ "GETTING PLAYED: SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON EQUITY IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AND AWARDS". Stanford Arts. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  27. ^ Anderson, Erik (26 December 2022). "2022 Alliance of Women Film Journalists nominations: 'Everything Everywhere,' 'The Woman King' lead". Awards Watch.
  28. ^ Dargis, Manohla (2015-01-21). "Lights, Camera, Taking Actions". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  29. ^ Rickey, Carrie. "Missing in action: Female directors. Will the EEOC nail Hollywood?". Philly.com. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  30. ^ Keegan, Rebecca (2016-05-11). "Gender bias in Hollywood? U.S. digs deeper to investigate the industry's hiring practices". LA Times. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  31. ^ "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: Educational, Inspirational, And...Puzzling?". 7 August 2019.
  32. ^ "Has Everything Changed? – Point of View Magazine". 15 September 2018.

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