ABSTRACT
In this chapter, filmmaker, screenwriter, and television producer Maria Maggenti describes her career and work including her feature films The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (1995) and Puccini For Beginners (2006); her activism; and the work that still lies ahead for female filmmakers. What might appear initially as a discussion of path and purpose offers glimpses at practical and detrimental injustices for female and other underrepresented filmmakers, and to the male privilege-based structures and constructs still pervasive in the film industry. Throughout the conversation Maggenti moves often from micro to macro, as a means of context and organization. Following a narrative of Maggenti’s work is a 1996 interview with Maggenti from The Independent Film & Video Monthly, as well as a current manifesto by Maggenti herself and an interview with Maggenti from 2018.
