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Birthday Celebration For Pioneering Filmmaker in Photos

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan and Assemblywoman Joan Voss of Fort Lee were among those who honored Alice Guy Blache Friday.

Donna Brennan, Neighbor
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Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan issued a county proclamation Friday honoring filmmaker Alice Guy Blache on her 138th birthday, and Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-37) awarded Garden State Film Festival executive director Diane Raver the Fort Lee Film Commission 2011 Alice Guy Blache Award.

Assemblywoman Joan Voss (D-38) also presented the Fort Lee Film Commission with a State Assembly proclamation honoring the organization for its work in furthering the cause of Blache, who established Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912, as the world's first female film director.

Friday's birthday commemoration began at Blache’s grave site in Mahwah and ended up at Lafayette Theatre in Suffern, N.Y.

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Photographer Donna Brennan was on hand Friday to capture these images.

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