ALL POSTS
Athena Film Festival Needs Volunteers and Women Filmmakers
As we previously reported, The Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein) is gearing up for its third year. Here’s where you come in! If you are in the New York...
Zero Dark Thirty Wins Big with the National Board of Review
Kathryn Bigelow is on a roll. After receiving Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography (for Greig Fraser) for Zero Dark Thirty from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, the film...
Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions. (But we must also remember that women are still...
Sexist Quote of the Day by Bret Easton Ellis
In a ploy to make himself relevant again after being turned down to write the screeplay for 50 Shades of Grey, Bret Easton Ellis took to twitter and slammed director Kathryn Bigelow. Here's the...
Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta, Nisha Pahuja Named to the Top 10 Films of Canada
Canada’s 12th Annual Top 10 Film list was announced this week. Films by Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja were included on the list. TIFF will screen the films in Toronto from...
Guest Post: On Editing and Cooking
The first time I told some friends that I was working on a film about a man in an iron lung trying to lose his virginity, I got looks that were somewhere between incredulity and pity. I could tell...
AFI Review: The Central Park Five – Co-Directed by Sarah Burns and West of Memphis – Directed by Amy Berg
Los Angeles’ AFI Film Festival gave me the chance to see two documentary films directed by women: The Central Park Five co-directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns and David McMahon and West of...
The Hollywood Reporter Announces Top Women in Entertainment for 2012
The Hollywood Reporter has unveiled the top ten of their 21st annual Top 100 Women in Entertainment. The honorees will join one another at a breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel, which will honor...
Jane Campion and Naomi Foner Included in Sundance Premieres Lineup
Sundance announced the films in their Premieres and Documentary Premieres categories. With films directed by Jane Campion and Naomi Foner amongst many women-centric films and a documentary...
Trailer Watch: Black Rock – Directed by Katie Aselton
Black Rock, directed by Katie Aselton (who also stars), is a thriller about three best friends (Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth and Aselton) who take a weekend together to revisit a childhood getaway that...
Fran Walsh Steps Out
You can't watch Hitchcock without thinking what life would be like had Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife lived today. From the film you see how much a partner she is in life (expected) and...
3 of 15 Documentaries on Oscar Shortlist Directed by Women
Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences released the 15 films on the short list in the Documentary feature category for this year’s Oscars. Only three films on the shortlist are...
Maggie Smith Gets the Star Treatment for Quartet
77 year old Maggie Smith has had a great year in TV and film. She rocks in Downton Abbey and she has a shot at a supporting nod for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Now it looks like...
9 Women Included on The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Most Powerful Authors
The Hollywood Reporter announced their inaugural list of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. They based the selection of living authors on how successful they’ve been in getting their...
Kathryn Bigelow Becomes First Woman to Win Two Best Director Nods from New York Film Critics Circle
Yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle, a group of 35 critics (but just 8 women) named Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty the best film of the year. Bigelow also picked up the best...
Lena Dunham Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year
Entertainment Weekly named Lena Dunham one of their 2012 Entertainers of the Year in their recent issue. Considering the massive success Dunham had this year, she's very deserving of this...
Sight & Sound’s Best of 2012 Includes No Women Directed Films
Sight & Sound released their Best of 2012 list over the weekend. In similar fashion to the summer rage over the update of their top 50 list and then the expansion of that to 250 films,...
Is the Marketing for Starlet a Turn Off for Women?
It has become hard for me to go and see movies with my friends because I see so many of them ahead of time for work. During Thanksgiving week my friends and I were trying to find a movie we...
Jennifer Lee Named Director of Disney’s Frozen
Last week, Disney announced that Jennifer Lee, writer of the hit Wreck-It Ralph, will be co-directing their 53rd full length animated feature film, Frozen. Lee will become the 2nd woman to helm...
Women in Film International Chapters Hit DC
I'm here this weekend.