When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. In Be Natural, film maker Pamela B. Green acts as a detective, revealing the real story of Guy-Blaché and highlighting her pioneering contributions to the birth of cinema and her acclaim as a creative force and entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making.

Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film features commentary from Diablo Cody, Geena Davis, Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay, Michel Hazanavicius, Patty Jenkins, Ben Kingsley, Andy Samberg, Agnès Varda, Evan Rachel Wood and more.

Click here to rent the film and watch any time.

Then join us at 8.30pm on Wednesday 9 Dec for a FREE LIVE Q&A with Be Natural’s director, Pamela B. Green, via the Creative Folkestone Facebook page. The Q&A will start at 8.30pm so we suggest you start watching the film no later than 6.30pm.

The Q&A will be chaired by Deal Film Club’s Larushka Ivan-Zadeh who is also chief film critic of Metro newspaper