Washington • More films directed or co-directed by women than ever before have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Among the 25 selected are Patricia Cardoso's 2002 "Real Women Have Curves," Gunvor Nelson's 1969 "My Name is Oona" and the 1971 "A New Leaf," which Elaine May wrote, directed and starred in. Also included are the 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall," co-directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg, and Madeline Anderson's 1970 "I Am Somebody," considered the first documentary on civil rights directed by a woman.
The annual list of influential films that span both genres and decades was announced Wednesday by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.