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Guest Post: Marilyn Monroe Comic Book Tribute
I had written one comic book for the publisher, Bluewater Productions, which was about Elizabeth Taylor and they asked me to take on Marilyn. I said yes because I loved writing the first one so much,...
Guest Post: Can Major League Dreams Defy Martial Law?
In the face of daunting odds of gender, geography and living under the gun, women and girls are the power players in my new documentary – The Only Real Game. This is the first nonfiction...
Trailer Watch: Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes – Starring Willa Holland
Teenagers of many generations have connected to Judy Blume’s iconic novels that focus on their interior lives. It’s actually pretty surprising that none of Blume’s work hasn’t...
Marianne Elliott and Helen Mirren Win at Olivier Awards
This year’s Olivier Awards winners, Britian’s prestigious awards for excellence in theatre, were announced on Sunday in London. Some new changes for the awards this year included a new...
LACMA Holds Special Film Series Highlighting Young Women Filmmakers from Mexico
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is holding a special film series featuring the work of young female filmmakers from Mexico on May 10-11. The series was organized with AMBULANTE, a non-profit...
Remembering Mary Thom
The feminist movement suffered a huge loss this weekend with the death of Mary Thom. Mary Thom was a long time editor at Ms. Magazine where she arrived in 1972, and rose through the ranks...
Trailer Watch: Shadow Dancer – Starring Andrea Riseborough
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as a woman who is arrested in a failed bombing attempt in London. She’s a member of a family of IRA fighters circa the 1990s. After threats...
Weekly Update April 26: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Sun Don’t Shine – Directed and Written by Amy Seimetz Written and directed by actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz (Tiny Furniture, Upstream Color and Pit...
Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi Directing New Films
Writer/Directors Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi have some new projects that are currently being developed. Gordon Chism, whose directorial debut Peeples starring Kerry Washington hits theaters...
Tribeca Film: Wadjda – Written and Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so difficult, but when you live in Saudia Arabia, a place where women can’t drive, a girl...
Happy Friday: Watch Tilda Swinton’s Ebertfest 2013 Dance Party
The marvelous and flawless Tilda Swinton alongside the late Roger Ebert’s wife, Chaz led a dance party to Barry White at this year’s Ebertfest. It’ll make you want to go out...
Cannes Adds 2 More Women Directed Films to Un Certain Regard, None to Competition
Today the Cannes Film Festival announced additions to their Competition and Un Certain Regard line ups. Two films directed by women were added to Un Certain Regard. Katrin Gebbe’s directorial...
Watch This: Ron Charles “Explains” Women’s Fiction
Watch The Washington Post’s book critic, Ron Charles hilariously satirize the idea of “women’s fiction.” He brings light to the sexism embedded within criticism and the truly...
Trailer Watch: See Girl Run – Starring Robin Tunney
Emmie (Robin Tunney) is questioning the choices she’s made–about her husband, her life and her past relationships. She decides to go back to her hometown to see if her high school love...
Meera Menon Receives Inaugural Nora Ephron Prize
As we previously reported, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival established a new award in honor of the late, great Nora Ephron that would be given to a new emerging female filmmaker....
Hot Docs Preview: Interview with Liz Marshall – Director of The Ghost in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine is an extremely upsetting yet moving film about how we treat animals. It tells the story of Jo-Ann McArthur, a photographer, who has dedicated her life to showing the...
Cartoon: The New Hollywood
This came from Donnelly’s piece on the latest episode of Mad Men in her ForbesWomen.com column. _________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist...
Cannes Announces Jury Members
Cannes just announced the members of this year’s Steven Spielberg led jury for the festival and to say it is a high profile bunch would be an understatement. Joining the jury is Oscar winning...
New Trailer for The Bling Ring – Directed by Sofia Coppola
As we’ve recently reported, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will be opening up Un Certain Regard at Cannes. On the heels of that announcement here comes another trailer for the film....
CinemaCon Holds Panel on Women and the Box Office
Last week at CinemaCon, they held a panel about women and the box office. Moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Editorial Director, Janice Min, the panel touched upon the depressing statistics...
Ava DuVernay Wins Inaugural Heineken Affinity Award at Tribeca
One of our favorite women directors, Ava DuVernay has had an incredible year. And the accolades for DuVernay’s work, keep on rightly coming. Heineken, alongside the Tribeca Film...
Cannes Announces Critic Week and Directors Fortnight Line Ups
The Cannes Film Festival continues to roll out more of the lineup. Directors Fortnight: Henri by Yolande Moreau The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard El verano de los peces voladores by Marcela...
Trailer Watch: Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes – Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini
Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes made its debut at Sundance. The film follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who lives with her father (Alfred Molina) and stepmother (Frances...
A Night With Barbra Streisand
Monday evening, Barbra Streisand received the 40th Chaplin Award given by the Film Society at Lincoln Center. As you can guess the award was named after the first recipient Charlie Chaplin....
Infographic: Where are the Women Directors?
Fandor, a streaming movie service with a huge library of global independent films, has put together an infographic on the lack of women directors working within the Hollywood system. It does...
NYC Event Alert: The Ins & Outs of Film Festival PR Panel On 4/24
If you are in New York, check out Women and Hollywood’s Melissa Silverstein moderating a panel on film festival PR tomorrow, Wednesday (4/24) at Merrill Lynch (601 Lexington Avenue, 47th Floor)...
Interview with Lily Tomlin – Narrator and Executive Producer of An Apology to Elephants
Tonight, in honor of Earth Day, HBO will premiere An Apology to Elephants narrated by Lily Tomlin that will put to an end any feeling person’s trips to the circus. It’s an...
Barbra Streisand to Receive Chaplin Award for Lifetime Achievement
Tonight, Barbra Streisand will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award for her impressive carer. The society specifically mentioned her work in front and behind the camera...
Time Unveils 2013 Most Influential People in World
Time magazine has announced it’s 2013 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. And it’s full of extremely inspirational women from some of our favorites in entertainment...
Whose Responsibility Is It To Move The Dial for Women Directors?
So now that the Cannes lineup is in the rear view mirror it’s time for a moment of reflection. I want to thank Mr. Thierry Fremaux the head of the Cannes Film Festival, for inspiring this...
Marin Alsop to be First Female Conductor for BBC’s The Last Night of The Proms
Until now, for 118 years, BBC Proms has never been led by a female conductor. American born, premiere conductor Marin Alsop will be the first woman to do so. The festival will have over...
Watch The Top 3 WNBA Picks Talk Sports and Sexuality
While we have made great progress on gay marriage, we stil live in a world where there is not a single professional out male athlete that is currently playing a major sport. They are there,...
Weekly Update April 19: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Filly Brown A promising hip-hop rhymer from Los Angeles finds herself in a gray area when a record producer offers her a compromising shot at stardom. (From...
Kathleen Kennedy Accepts 2013 Pioneer of the Year Award at CinemaCon
As we previously reported, Kathleen Kennedy was tapped to receive the Pioneer of the Year award at the Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers dinner at CinemaCon. Kennedy became only the second woman...
Jada Pinkett Smith Addresses Gossip
As you know we don’t cover the personal lives of the people in the entertainment business on Women and Hollywood. But there Are occasions where we need to make an exception. Jada...
Vulture Includes No Women on 20 Essential Documentary List, Thom Powers Counters
Recently, Vulture listed their 20 Essential Documentaries of the century. Documentaries from Michael Moore, Werner Herzog and Morgan Spurlock made the cut, but not a single women-directed documentary...
Trailer Watch: Caroline and Jackie
Caroline and Jackie is about the relationships between two sisters. On a celebratory birthday trip, Caroline (Marguerite Moreau) visits Jackie (Bitsie Tulloch) and her boyfriend. What is at first a...
Cannes Unveils 2013 Line Up With One Female Director in Main Competition
Well I guess there will be no petition or protests this year because the folks at Cannes have picked a single female directed film to compete in the main competition for this year’s festival....
2013 Independent Film Week Call for Entries
Independent Film Week is coming up and they are putting out a call for entries. It is one of the largest forums for the discovery of new projects in independent film in the country. Their...
Nora Ephron Prize at Tribeca Film Festival
In honor of the late, great Nora Ephron, the Tribeca Film Festival has created a new award after the writer/director, The Nora Ephron Prize. The $25,000 prize supported by Vogue.com will recognize a...
A Look at the Women’s Films Opening in the Summer of 2013
With the arrival of Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Movie Preview last week, the summer blockbuster season is officially creeping upon us. As always, be prepared for explosions, superheroes,...
Oscars Rehire Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron
While we here at Women and Hollywood had many problems with the Oscars executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the Academy is very pleased that the show was able to bring in that coveted...
Quote of the Day from CinemaCon
CinemaCon is underway in Las Vegas. It is the annual event where the theatre owners are presented with the blockbusters that they will be showing in their theatres this summer. Catherine...
Cross Post: Some Depressing Stats about Female Comedy Directors
Last week, I wrote about how rare it is to be a female director especially a female comedy director. Well, we decided to do some research and find out exactly how rare it is – here are the...
Zadie Smith on Granta and Women’s Prize for Fiction Lists
The truly great Zadie Smith is up for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her most recent novel, NW. Smith is also on Granta’s 2013 list of the 20 most promising British authors under...
Rosario Dawson Gives Some Real Talk on the Reality for Actresses
In a recent interview, Rosario Dawson gave some honest talk about the disturbing reality of being an actress in Hollywood. She says she’s come to meetings with producers with them looking at...
Cicely Tyson on Her Career, New Broadway Role and Making a Difference
The great Cicely Tyson was recently profiled on CBS News for her new role on Broadway. Tyson, an award-winning actress, hasn’t been on the Broadway stage in 30 years. She’s starring in a...
Dame Maggie Smith Honored with Portrait at National Portrait Gallery
Last week, Dame Maggie Smith was honored with a new painting of her which will hang at the National Portrait Gallery. The portrait, painted by James Lloyd, was intended to capture the iconic actress...
San Francisco International Film Festival Unveils Line Up
Last week, the 56th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival announced their line up. This will be the first festival with Ted Hope at the helm since he took over the Executive Director...
Trailer Watch: The English Teacher – Co-Written by Stacy Chariton
The English Teacher, co-written by Stacy Chariton and starring Julianne Moore follows an English teacher in a small town who gets involved with a former student. Here’s a description from the...
Sofia Coppola Talks Her Directing Style for DGA Quarterly
Sofia Coppola is known for an aesthetically gorgeous certain kind of film about people in some sort of life transition, wanting to become something else. As Coppola herself says in the...