This gifted award-winning Australian director first garnered attention with her debut feature, "My Brilliant Career" (1979), about a female writer who chooses her career over marriage. At the film's release, Gillian Armstrong held the distinction of being the first woman to helm a feature-length movie in her homeland in almost fifty years. Coupled with the themes of "My Brilliant Career", that fact threatened to pigeonhole her as a "feminist" director, something Armstrong vehemently fought.Born in Melbourne, Armstrong began her studies at Swinburne Technical College where she took part in
