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Interview with Jennifer Westfeldt — Writer and Director of Friends With Kids
Jennifer Wesfeldt was kind enough to answer some questions (by email) about her new film, Friends with Kids which opened yesterday. Women and Hollywood: You were hesitant to step behind the camera...
Exclusive: Poster for Eden Directed by Megan Griffiths — Will Premiere at SXSW on Sunday
This looks like a really interesting film. It is based on a true story of human trafficking. Here’s the description: In 1994 Korean-American teenager, Hyun Jae, went to a bar in New Mexico where a...
Friends With Kids — Written and Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt
What’s interesting about Friends with Kids is that Jennifer Westfeldt has the skills to make a film feel subversive and mainstream at the same time. The story she tells (which she also produces...
Trailer Watch: Where Do We Go Now — Written and Directed by Nadine Labaki
The film will open the New Directors/New Films series on March 21 in NYC. Here is an interview I did with Labaki in Toronto back in September where it won the audience award. NYTLogo_gray#888888
Happy International Women’s Day: Watch Saving Face on HBO Tonight
I started today watching the harrowing Academy Award winning documentary Saving Face directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The film tells the story of women in Pakistan who have been...
Happy International Women’s Day: Women in Film and TV (UK) Releases 2012 Power List
Women in Film and Television (UK) partnered with Screen International and Broadcast have released the 2012 Women in Film and Television Power List. Here’s a quote from the head of Women in Film...
The 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction — The Longlist
The Orange Prize celebrates fiction written by women from authors across the world. It is now in it’s 17th year. The shortlist will be announced April 17th and the award will be held on May 30....
Trailer Watch: What to Expect When You Are Expecting — The Dude Version
This version is the studio trying to get some dudes to come and see this movie. Best line- it’s a dude club — like fight club but with babies. Honestly, I don’t know how anyone will see...
Poster for VEEP
Gotta love this.
Happy International Women’s Day: More on Women Not Getting Gigs Voicing Trailers
This is building on a piece from last month: Sexism Watch: Film Trailers. The piece includes a line from an agent that books people in trailers that men’s voices are stronger and that science has...
Guest Post: Elizabeth Olsen Speaks Volumes in Silent House
Silent House is centered entirely on one woman’s terror as she is systematically stalked by an unknown assailant in a creepy, spooky old house. At first glance, this plotline might seem like it...
Sigourney Weaver to Channel Hillary Clinton in USA Series Political Animals
Aside from the big news that Sigourney Weaver is coming to a TV near you, the fact that she will be playing a character quite close to Hillary Clinton makes this announcement so exciting. Point A-...
Want to Write a Guest Post for Women and Hollywood?
I’m looking to diversify the voices and experiences of people on the site. As you can tell there are already a variety of guest posts on the site, but I want to be a bit more proactive. If you...
Tribeca 2012 World Narrative and Documentary Competitions — The Women Directors
The films for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival started rolling out yesterday. Here are the women directed films in competition in both the narrative and documentary sections as well as the out of...
The Depressing Reality of Women Directed Films in 2012
I really wish I wasn’t writing this but over the last couple of days it has become clear to me that 2012 could be another depressing year for women directed films. I started feeling sad last week...
Women in the World Newsweek Package
Newsweek/The Daily Beast has released its annual Women in the World package with a great overview from Leslie Bennetts on where we are with the leadership gap. I’ve got a quote in the piece...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Gross
Something is a brewing in this country and we can thank Rush Limbaugh for it. I haven’t seen people this worked up in a long time. And the great thing is that young women are leading...
Trailer Watch: Now is Good
Dakota Fanning all grown up and falling in love Yahoo! Video Player Opens in the UK on May 25. US who knows? h/t Playlist
Julie Taymor Responds to Lawsuit Fighting for Her Reputation and Future Jobs
There is nothing like reading legal papers on a Monday morning to get your blood boiling. Late last week Julie Taymor’s lawyers responded to the part of the Spiderman lawsuit that has not been...
Hedy Lamarr: Way More Than Just a Pretty Face
Hedy Lamarr was a big Hollywood star in the 40s. But what most people don’t know is that she was also an inventor. An inventor who created a gudiance system for torpedos using frequency hoping...
Book Excerpt: In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
The forthright presentation of lustful middle-aged women is probably the starkest example of a change in media portrayals. This development has both boosted and distorted our view of female midlife....
New Hunger Games Trailer — Katniss Shows Her Skills
Over a million views since March 1st.
How Big Will The Hunger Games Open?
The news is that this week when The Hunger Games came onto the pre release tracking (which is what the studios use to gauge awareness and desire to see a film) it was huge — so huge that...
Branding The Oscar Body
If this year’s Oscars known as the “women’s superbowl” only attracted half (39.3 million to be exact) the viewing audience of that great male gladiator event, that’s still way more than...
Jennifer Haley Wins 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
US based playwright Jennifer Haley has been awarded the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious award for female playwrights for her play The Nether. She prevailed over 9 other...
Trailer Watch: Brave
Get Ready for Cannes 2012
Already missing the Oscar season — just kidding. The Cannes Film Festival played a big role this past year so who knows what the next Cannes Film Festival has in store for us. Hopefully...
Interview with Carice van Houten — Star of Black Butterflies
Here is a reposting of the interview I did a little less than a year ago with Carice before she took the Tribeca Film Festival by storm. She stars in Black Butterflies which opens Friday and is...