In 1895 the Lumißere brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for LÔeon Gaumont, and would go on to direct more than 300 films before 1922. A free and independent woman who rubbed shoulders with masters such as Georges MÔelißes and the Lumißeres, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. She directed the first feminist satire, then the first sword-and-sandal epic, before crossing the Atlantic in 1907 to the United States and becoming the first woman to found her own production company.