Who knew that only 2% of cinematographers on the largest budget American films were women?

And what will the world of film be like when the vision of women informs it in a fuller way?

This made-by-women-for-women documentary, based upon Krasilovsky's book of the same name, connects globally, exploring the lives of camerawomen in Canada, China, France, Germany, India, India, Iran, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, and other countries in a way never seen before.

American camerawomen shown include top Directors of Photography like Ellen Kuras, ASC (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Amy Vincent, ASC (Black Snake Moan), and top pioneers like African-American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton - who had to sue the union and television networks to get jobs.

From the secret films by camerawomen of Taliban beating Afghani women, to historic footage by China's first camerawomen of Mao's travels through the Chinese countryside... From the playful narrative of a Russian filmmaker who learned the art from her father, her choice of career told as a love story, to rural India, where subsistence-level women are taught camerawork as a means of empowerment, to the glowing young Senegalese camerawoman willing to climb onto a man's shoulders - literally - to get her subject, Professor Krasilovsky shows us a world of beauty, courage and technical skill.

For more information about this film, visit: http://www.womenbehindthecamera.com/index.html

Awards: Best Documentary Film, Female Eye Film Festival; Best of Fest Award - Documentary Film, WIN (Women's Image Network); Best Women in Cinema Award, San Francisco Women's Film Festival; Best Long-Form Documentary, BEA Festival of Media Arts; Best Documentary Feature, Moondance