100 Women We Love 2016

Here’s to this year's class of the women who inspire us, give us hope, make us laugh and make us want to get up and dance. 

MARINA RICE BADER

Late bloomers, take heart: Success can happen at any time. Take Marina Rice Bader, for example. “I have always had a love affair with movies,” the director says, “but it wasn’t until my early 50s that I had enough faith in myself to make the leap to actually creating them.” In 2009, Bader founded Soul Kiss Films, a company devoted to producing movies “by women, for women and about women.” Soul Kiss productions include “Elena Undone” and “A Perfect Ending,” directed by Nicole Conn; “Anatomy of a Love Seen,” directed by Bader herself; and “Raven’s Touch,” co-directed by Bader and Dreya Weber. The company’s films can be found on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, Google Play and Vudu. Currently, Bader is in post-production on “Ava’s Impossible Things.” The first to get funding from Vimeo’s “Share the Screen” female filmmaking fund, her latest film will premiere in July at Outfest Los Angeles. “I’m excited to be a filmmaker at this time in history, when women are working to lift each other up and gender disparity is being discussed in a big way,” she says. “The first step in fixing a problem is by shouting it from the rooftops, and I’m extremely proud to be part of the solution.” –GH


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