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Guest Post: Highlighting New Directing Talent
Tonight, AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women will have its 2012 showcase at the DGA. Each year this highly selective program offers eight talented women a tuition-free training program and the...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Call for Entries
For all female filmmakers- Chicken & Egg Pictures is looking for talented and amazing women filmmakers. They have only ONE open call in 2012. The deadline is June 29th 2012! Chicken & Egg...
Lady Filmmakers at the LA Fest
The LA Film Festival runs from June 14–24. Here are the female directed films. Galas Middle of Nowhere, Ava DuVernay Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Lorene Scafaria Summer Showcase ...
Funny or Die: Don’t You Want Your Dad in Your Vagina?
These people at Funny or Die are really doing a great job of keeping this issue in focus and making sure we see how absurd it is. This one stars Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer,...
The Marginalization of Women’s Stories During The Summer Movie Season
The summer movie season kicked off this weekend with gusto with the record breaking $200 million opening of The Avengers. I joined the throngs on Friday afternoon for a showing and there was much...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Julia Bluhm
Maybe it will take an awesome girl to get people to think differently about how absurd and damaging it is that we live in a world dominated by photoshopped pictures. We never get to see anyone real,...
Women Director Watch: Debra Granik and Nicole Holofcener
Some news on two of the top tier female directors- Nicole Holofcener will be directing Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in a film for Fox Searchlight according to the Playlist. Here’s the...
Another Missed Opportunity — Francis Lawrence Hired to Direct Catching Fire
There are not many times where people have enough juice to make change in a lumbering system that is so resistant to it. But the gig of directing Catching Fire, the second film in The Hunger Games...
Women’s Films Opening — May 4, 2012
The Perfect Family — directed by Anne Renton, written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Reily The Perfect Family written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Reily and directed by Anne Renton and...
Interview with Anne Renton — Director of The Perfect Family
The Perfect Family written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Reily and directed by Anne Renton and produced by Cora Olson and Jen Dubin hits theatres and VOD today. It tells the story of Eileen Cleary...
Trailer Watch: Beast of the Southern Wild
This is the film that won the top narrative prize at Sundance. It stars newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trailer quite like this. I am looking forward to this one. It...
Guest Post: The Women Who Propel Last Call at the Oasis
When we were first looking around for stories to feature in the film, we noticed that many of the best-known scientists were male. We wondered: “Where are the women in this picture?” During our...
Happy 100th Birthday Universal Pictures
I get a ton of press releases. Most of them I don’t even read. This week I got a release about the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures that was made up of 100 fun facts. Not too many of the...
The World Before Her Takes Top Doc Prize at Tribeca
The World Before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja is an eye-opening and disturbing documentary about the limited options for girls and young women in India. The film juxtaposes two opposing...
Nancy Meyers to Direct Her Daughter Haille’s Screenplay
Sorry for being a little late on this but I love this story so I wanted to make sure I shared it. Nancy Meyers whose last film was It’s Complicated will direct her daughter Hailee Meyers...
Indiewire Wins Webby for Best Movie and Film Site
Just want to take a moment and congratulate all my colleagues at Indiewire particularly editor in chief Dana Harris for the big webby win. While I am not on staff of Indiewire, Women and Hollywood...
Video Watch: Shit Girls Say About the Show Girls
Produced by Rex (Rachael Mason, Kerry McGuire, Stephanie Bencin). Girls just got renewed for a second season. h/t Laura Shields
Tony Nominations: Good for Female Directors, Horrible for Female Writers
Last June after a season where not a single female playwright was produced on Broadway it was announced that there would be at least five women with plays in the just ended 2011–2012 season. Four...
Guest Post: Collaboration, Not Competition
I’ve always been a woman who liked to think herself in control of her own destiny. What I found, though, was that in order to collaborate with destiny, I had to collaborate with other women. I am...
Trailer Watch: Peace Love and Misunderstanding
Jane Fonda as a hippie in Woodstock. Film is on opens and is available on VOD on June 8. Yahoo! Video Player