"Women Pioneers of the camera and the off-screen" is an *imperfect* video-essay, a sort of a mock documentary in which I perform with some of my graduate students and colleagues. It was produced in 2016 for my key-note presentation at the First International Conference "Women of the Mediterranean", Santa Anna Institute/College of the Holy Cross, Sorrento, Italy in 2016. I presented it again at the Academia de las Artes y de las Ciencias Cinematográficas, in Madrid, Spain (2016), for the Lansdowne Lecture Series Visitor, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2017 and at University of Ca’Foscari Venezia, Italy (2017).