Sande Zeig is an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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 and writer. She was the partner of late French

France

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 feminist writer Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964...

. She directed the 2000 romantic drama The Girl

The Girl (film)

The Girl is a 2000 American/French romantic drama film directed by Sande Zeig. It is a love story set in Paris between "the Artist" and "the Girl" , based on a story by Zeig's partner Monique Wittig. It was negatively received by critics.-Plot:The film is narrated by Agathe De La Boulaye as "The...

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Biography

Sande Zeig is from New York

New York

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. She studied theater in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 and Paris

Paris

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. In 1975, Zeig was living in Paris, studying mime

Mime

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 and teaching karate

Karate

is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

 when she met the writer Monique Wittig. Zeig's 2000 film, The Girl

The Girl (film)

The Girl is a 2000 American/French romantic drama film directed by Sande Zeig. It is a love story set in Paris between "the Artist" and "the Girl" , based on a story by Zeig's partner Monique Wittig. It was negatively received by critics.-Plot:The film is narrated by Agathe De La Boulaye as "The...

is based on a short story by Wittig. Her 2008 biographical film Soul Masters: Dr. Guo and Dr. Sha follows the work of two Chinese

People's Republic of China

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 healers

Traditional Chinese medicine

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, one of whom had previously treated Zeig's father. Zeig is the founder of New York

New York

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 film distribution

Film distribution

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 company Artistic License.

Filmography

• Central Park (1994)
• The Girl
  The Girl (film)
  The Girl is a 2000 American/French romantic drama film directed by Sande Zeig. It is a love story set in Paris between "the Artist" and "the Girl" , based on a story by Zeig's partner Monique Wittig. It was negatively received by critics.-Plot:The film is narrated by Agathe De La Boulaye as "The...
  
  (2000)
• Soul Masters: Dr. Guo and Dr. Sha (2008)
• Apache 8 (2009)

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