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Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially The Student Nurses (1970) and Terminal Island (1974).
Writer/director Stephanie Rothman was one of the few female filmmakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare in the '60s and '70s. Her movies are distinguished by gutsy, strong-willed and sympathetic women main characters and a radical libertarian feminist point of view.
Jul 23, 2022 · The diverse output of filmmaker Stephanie Rothman’s career deserves to be celebrated as an essential piece in the puzzle of cult cinema.
ST. LOUIS — Stephanie Rothman got her start in journalism when she was a student at University of Texas at Austin to get her bachelor’s degree. Her education continued to...
Mar 7, 2016 · When Rothman unleashed the film in 1970, under the aegis of B-movie king Roger Corman ‘s New World Pictures, she was a lone woman in a club of male directors crafting low-budget, drive-in fare when what was produced outside the mainstream was designed for lurid titillation.
Now eighty-six, Stephanie Rothman, who studied filmmaking at USC in the early ’60s and was the first woman to receive the Directors Guild of America fellowship, began working in 1964 as an assistant to Corman, then a macher with American International Pictures.
Writer/director Stephanie Rothman was one of the few female filmmakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare in the '60s and '70s. Her movies are distinguished by gutsy, strong-willed and sympathetic women main characters and a radical libertarian feminist point of view.
