Shooting range

November 28, 2007 After 24 years as an actress, the Emmy- and Oscar-winning Helen Hunt just added "director" to her resume, helming ThinkFilm's "Then She Found Me," a melodrama about a middle-aged schoolteacher reluctantly reconnecting with her birth mother. [...] while 44 might seem like a late age to be making a directorial debut, Hunt says that she's had the itch to direct for years, and has been encouraged by other directors she's worked with. Not so long ago, female directors were a relative rarity, but 2007 has seen a good number of female first-timers -- many of them migrating from other careers in the business.

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