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Films Currently Playing
- When in Rome
- The Girl on the Train
- Fish Tank, written and directed by Andrea Arnold
- Leap Year
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, directed by Jodie Markell
- It's Complicated, directed by Nancy Meyers
- The Young Victoria
- The Lovely Bones
- The Princess and the Frog
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, directed by Rebecca Miller
- New Moon
- The Blind Side
- Precious
- An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig
- Good Hair (doc)
- The Maid
- Coco Before Chanel, directed by Anne Fontaine
- The Beaches of Agnes
2010 Women Centric Films
- Lourdes, directed by Jessica Hausner - February 17
- Happy Tears- February 19
- Toe to Toe, directed by Emily Abt- February 26
- Alice in Wonderland - March 5
- Exploding Girl- March 12
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- March 12
- The Backup Plan - March 16
- Last Night, directed by Massy Tadjedin - March 19
- The Runaways, directed by Floria Sigismondi- March 19
- Chloe - March 19
- The Mighty Macs - March
- Please Give, directed by Nicole Holofcener- April 23
- Mother and Child- May 7
- Letters to Juliet- May 14
- Sex and the City 2- May 28
- My Year Without Sex, directed by Sarah Watts- spring
- Eclipse, Twilight Part 3- June 30
- Salt - July 23
- Morning Glory- July 23
- Eat, Pray, Love- August 13
- You Again -September 24
- Secretariat- October 8
- How Do You Know- December 17
- Life as We Know It - December 17
Women Directed Films Currently Playing
- Off and Running, directed by Nicole Opper (doc)
- Garbage Dreams, directed by Mai Iskander (doc)
- Sweetgrass, directed by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (doc)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, directed by Betty Thomas
- 35 Shots of Rum, directed by Claire Denis
- The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Women Directed Coming Soon
- Barefoot to Timbuktu, directed by Martina Egi - February 12 (doc) NYC
- Prodigal Sons, directed by Kimberly Reed - February 26 (doc) NYC
- Dancing Across Borders, directed by Anne Bass- March 26 (doc)
- The Greatest, directed by Shana Festen - March
- Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, directed by Connie Field - April 14 (doc)
- Going the Distance - Drew Barrymore, directed by Nanette Burstein- October 8
- The Beaver- Jodie Foster
Completed Films (without release dates in US)
- Accidents Happen
- Agora
- Ashes to Ashes- Goldie Hawn
- Betty Anne Waters
- Cedar Rapids- Sigourney Weaver
- The Countess, directed by Julie Delpy
- Cracks, directed by Jordan Scott
- The Debt- Helen Mirren
- The Black Swan- Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis
- Fair Game
- Fireflies in the Garden
- The Girl of the Train
- I am Love- Tilda Swinton
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife- Sally Hawkins, directed by Gurinder Chadha
- Just Wright- Queen Latifah, directed by Sanaa Hamri
- The Kids Are All Right- Annette Bening, Julianne Moore directed by Lisa Cholodenko
- London River
- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits- Natalie Portman
- Love Ranch
- The Milk of Sorrow, directed by Claudia Llosa
- Miral- Hiam Abbas
- My Own Love Song- Renee Zellweger
- Niloofar, directed by Sabine El Gemayel
- The Rabbit Hole- Nicole Kidman
- The Rebound
- Somewhere, directed by Sophia Coppola
- The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor
- We Want Sex
- Within the Whirlwind- Emily Watson, directed by Marleen Gorris
Future Films
- A Woman of No Importance
- Alive & Kicking- produced by Mia Hamm
- The Beautiful and the Damned- starring Keira Knightley
- Beautiful Girl
- Bobbie Sue- starring Cameron Diaz
- Bridget Jones' Diary- The Edge of Reason- Renee Zellweger
- Callas
- Castro's Daughter
- Celeste and Jesse Forever- Rashida Jones
- Ceremony- Uma Thurman
- Class Act- starring Halle Berry
- Cloudburst- Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis
- Dark Tide- Halle Berry (written by Amy Sorlie)
- The Danish Girl- Nicole Kidman
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheeba-Amy Adams
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World- starring Meryl Streep
- Earthbound, directed by Nicole Kassell
- Face Value
- Five Men Who Broke My Heart- adapted by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
- Florence of Arabia- Charlize Theron
- Flying Lessons- Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace
- French Women Don't Get Fat
- Fright Night- written by Marti Noxon
- Girl Soldier- Uma Thurman
- Girltrash: All Night Long, directed by Alexandra Martinze Kondrake, written by Angela Robinson- filming
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- The Goree Girls - Jennifer Aniston
- Heaven & Earth, directed by Marleen Gorris- starring Natasha McElhone
- Honey Pot
- If I Stay, directed by Catherine Hardwicke
- If I Were You, written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin- starring Marcia Gay Harden
- Invasion of Privacy
- Jack and Diane (filming)
- Jane Eyre- written by Moira Buffini
- Life Coach- Isla Fisher
- Little Bee- Nicole Kidman
- Lost in Austen
- Luna-Rachel Weisz
- Lunch Lady- Amy Poehler
- Mame- Tilda Swinton
- Morning Glory
- Ms. Faux Pas
- Muktar Mai biopic
- My Fair Lady- Keira Knightley, written by Emma Thompson
- My Mother The Cheerleader- Julia Roberts
- My Name is Jody Williams
- My Ten Best Days- Amy Adams
- The No Game - Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden, directed by Sherry Horman
- Never Let Me Go (filming)
- Nomads- Lucy Liu (filming)
- Pharm Girl- Reese Witherspoon
- Pride and Prejudice and the Zombies- Natalie Portman
- Pumas- Jennifer Aniston
- Queen Kristina- Sarah Polley, directed by Mika Kaurismaki
- Satisfaction- Sharon Stone, Carice Van Houten, directed by Anya Camilleri
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World- Lorene Scaferia
- Scarpetta Franchise
- The Seagull- Kristin Scott Thomas, Carey Mulligan
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers- Isabella Rossellini
- Someday My Price Will Come- Isla Fisher, written by Audrey Wells
- The Space Between- Melissa Leo
- Sucker Punch- Carla Gugino
- Sweet Lorraine- Tatum O'Neal
- Tamara Drewe- Gemma Arterton
- Testament of Youth
- Three Days in Dublin, directed by Beth Lauren
- The Tourist- Angelina Jolie
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay
- The Whistleblower
- Untitled Female Road comedy- written by Annine Mumolo
- Untitled Louise Thaden Aviation Film
- Vamps written and directed by Amy Heckerling
- What Alice Forgot- written by Katherine Fugate
- Who is Doris Payne?- Halle Berry
- Winnie- Jennifer Hudson
- Words
- Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold- written by Olivia Hetreed
Future Women Directed Films (Not About Women)
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Take This Waltz- directed by Sarah Polly
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Pilots Picked Up for Series
- The Big C- Laura Linney - Showtime
- Covert Affairs- Piper Perabo- USA
- Rizzoli & Isles- starring Angie Harmon. Writer: Janet Tamaro- TNT
Scripts Going to Pilot
- Cutthroat (centers on a single mother who keeps up appearances in Beverly Hills by secretly running a drug cartel.) Written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters. ABC
- Hot in Cleveland - (Three fortysomething female friends from L.A. wind up stuck in Cleveland and decide to stay there when they realize the locals consider them.)
- Huge - (Two overweight teens find friendship at a wellness summer camp. Based on the book by Sasha Paley.) Written by Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley - ABC Family
- La Femme Nikita- CW
- Prime Suspect- US version of BBC drama. NBC
- Reagan's Law - Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green. (multigenerational show revolving around a family of cops in New York.) CBS
- Untitled Wyoming Project- Amy Sherman Palladino- CW
- Untitled medical drama - Roaming medical team that travels the U.S. helping those who are less fortunate get through life-or-death medical crises. Written by Hannah Shakespeare. CBS
2010 Pilot Watch (Shows by and/or about women) – with assistance from Stephanie Rosenfeld
- Body of Evidence- show revolves around female medical examiner- ABC
- Charlie's Angels (Three beautiful private detectives work for a mysterious playboy called "Charlie") - ABC
- Confessions of a Backup Dancer (a woman who scores a gig as a backup dancer for a major pop star) Ilene Chaiken writer/executive producer - CW
- Daylight Robbery (a group of four housewives, in need of money, turn to a life of crime) Written by Karyn Usher- FOX
- Enlightened- starring Laura Dern- HBO
- Facing Kate- starring Sarah Sahai- A&E
- Ghost World (A male ghost helps an ambitious female homicide detective in New York City crack her cases in the hopes of finding clues to his own life and death.) - ABC
- HMS (A group of bright students attend Harvard Medical School.) Writer: Amy Holden Jones - CW glamorous.) Writer: Suzanne Martin - TV Land
- Jane and Dick (Set in an all-female law firm, a woman is about to inherit her father's firm and get married when a boyfriend from her teenage years suddenly steps back into her life.) Writers: Michael Reisz, Jennifer Weiner - ABC
- The March Sisters (“Little Women” meets “Sex and the City,” about working-class siblings who try to make it on Park Avenue) Writer: Jill Gordon - CW
- Mouthpiece- Marlee Matlin. Creator: Carol Leifer- SHO
- Nashville (a drama that revolves around a young female singer destined for stardom — and a male songwriter whose career isn’t as certain) - CW
- Off the Map- medical show from Shonda Rhimes, written by Jenna Bans- ABC
- Police Surgeon Centers on a female cop who is also a surgeon - ABC
- The Quickening- starring Radha Mitchell- A&E
- You and Me and He. Creator: Carol Leifer - CBS
- Pretty Little Liars. Writer: Marlene King- ABC Family
- Spy School for Girls (revolves around female spy trainees at a CIA facility) - CW
- Sunshine Cleaning. Writer: Megan Holley- Showtime
- Three Sisters (Three very different men marry three sisters who are extremely close.) - CBS
- Untitled Amy Sherman Palladino- HBO
- Untitled drama from Richard Hatem- Drama focuses on a female detective who joins forces with a fugitive cop- ABC
- Untitled Kirstie Alley Reality Show- A&E
- Untitled Kushell Comedy (the wife of a U.S. Congressman inherits her husband's seat when he dies unexpectedly in the middle of his term.) Bob Kushell- CBS
- Untitled drama based on the life of socialite Sloan Barnett and set in Manhattan’s Early Case Assessment Bureau - Writer: Julie Martin - CW
- Untitled Walch Series (An unconventional female psychologist embeds herself within the Dallas Police Department.) Writer: Gay Walch - Lifetime
- Unitled Shana Goldberg-Meehan (centers on two sisters involved in very different romantic situations. One isn't married but has a healthy, long-term relationship; the other is forced to marry her new beau when she gets pregnant.) Writer: Shana Goldberg-Meehan- ABC
- Untitled Wechsler Series (Centers on a team of victim witness advocates.) Writer: Pam Wechsler
- Untitled Wilson Project (A woman leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies and desires) Writer: Erin Cressida Wilson - HBO
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