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Weekly Update for October 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening This Weekend Carrie — Directed by Kimberly Peirce Peirce’s modernized version of the classic stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie, an ostracized teen, who learns...

News

Quote of the Day: Alfre Woodard

When asked by Variety about this year’s films starring or about African American and African experiences, she said: We’ve all been putting down roots in dry, dry land, but this year we see the...

Features, News

The Lady Killers: Considering the Female Killer in Horror

In contrast to many other genres, horror films have long been hospitable to the concept of the female hero. From Marion Crane to Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson to Clarice Starling, many of horror’s...

News

Films By and About Women

Women Centric Films Currently Playing The Huntsman Winter’s War The Meddler — Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria Nina — Written and Directed by Cynthia Mort Sworn...

Features, News

The Women of 12 Years a Slave

As a child my mother, an anthropologist, informed me that my great uncle’s mother disappeared from the shores of Lake Victoria or Nam Lolwe, as we call it, when he was a boy. My great great aunt...

Features, News

The Big O: Oscar Didn’t Always Have a Horror Problem

There is a new Carrie intown. She has access to the Internet now and her high-school tormentors usetheir smart phones to broadcast her shower-scene to even greaterembarrassment. But the wallflower...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

LFF Interview with Destiny Ekaragha — Director of Gone Too Far!

Destiny Ekaragha’s debut feature film, Gone Too Far!, follows two incredibly well received short films, Tight Jeans and The Park, onto the screens of her local film festival, the BFI’s LFF. But...

News, Television

America Ferrera Heads Back to Television

America Ferrera is heading back to television screens in her first leading role since Ugly Betty. Ferrera will headline Damascus, playing a nun in law school who uses her studies to benefit the...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

LFF Women Directors: Meet Elina Psykou

Born in Athens, Greece in 1977, Elina Psykou studied Film Direction at Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School and Sociology at Panteion University, both in Athens. She continued her studies receiving her...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

LFF Women Directors: Meet Chiemi Karasawa

Chiemi Karasawa founded Isotope Films in 2005 to develop and produce original content based on non-fiction material. Her award-winning work as a producerincludes Billy the Kid, The Betrayal, Tell...

Interviews, News

“It Reaches the Level of Myth” — An Interview with Kimberly Peirce — Director of Carrie

Kimberly Peirce is taking a stab at reimagining one of the most iconic horror classics, Carrie, which arguably stars one of the best horror heroines in the genre. Hitting theaters on Friday,...

Documentary, News

After Tiller Expands Across the Nation

Lana Wilson and Martha Shane’s deeply affecting and discourse changing documentary, After Tiller, is about the current state of late-term abortions after the murder of Dr. George Tiller in 2009....

Interviews, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

Interview with Diablo Cody — Director of Paradise

Diablo Cody’s directorial debut, Paradise, is out on October 18th, 2013 in Los Angeles and New York theaters. The story about a young Mormon girl named Lamb who survives a horrific plane crash and...

Features, News

Sarah Paulson Talks 12 Years a Slave and Being a Woman in Hollywood

Sarah Paulson is excited about this year’s Oscar race. “There are probably 10 women who could be nominated for Best Actress. When do we ever have that?” says the actress. “Usually it’s...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

LFF Women Directors: Meet Cherien Dabis

Cherien Dabis is an award-winning Palestinian American filmmaker who received her M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. She wrote, directed, produced and edited several short films including Make...

News, Women Writers

Eleanor Catton Wins Man Booker Prize

Besides winning this year’s prestigious Man Booker Prize, Eleanor Catton made history multiple times. At 28, Catton is the youngest winner in the history of the prize and her novel, The...

Comedy, News

How Can We Still be Talking About Whether Women Are Funny?

Yesterday morning brought the great news that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will be hosting the Golden Globes in 2014 and 2015. They were so terrific as hosts last year that the Globe people were smart...

News, Women Directors

France Pushes for Gender Equality in the Film Industry

France is setting up a sex equality charter for improving the numbers of women working within the film industry. The five point charter was signed last week by Culture and Communications Minister...

Features, News, Women Directors

Guest Post: A Trip Down the Rabbit Hole: Things I’ve Learned and Want to Fix

Back in 2011, I wrote a guest blog for Women and Hollywood entitled I Sold My House to Make My Feature.I had spent many years working in film art departments both in the U.S. and the U.K. ( Harry...

News

UK Sets a Diversity Forum

Screen International and Broadcast are teaming up with FilmLondon and Creative Skillset to host a forum on November 13 in London about improving diversity within the UK Film and TV...

Features, News

Woman Seeks Revenge: What’s the Purpose of the Rape/Revenge Horror Film?

If you want to start a spirited debate amongst horror fans, a sure fire topic to bring up is the infamous rape/revenge sub-genre probably best knownbecause of movies like Meir Zarchi’s 1978 film I...

News, Women Directors

Three of the Five Nominees for EFA’s Discovery Award Are Women

The European Film Academy announced the five nominees for their 2013 Discovery Award, which is given to recognize a director for their first feature film. Of the five nominated films three are...

News, Television

Susan Sarandon to Star in Mother-Daughter Sitcom at NBC

Susan Sarandon joins the growing list of actresses heading to the small screen. She will star in a mother-daughter sitcom for NBC alongside her daughter, Eva Amurri Martino. Martino will write...

Features, News, Women Directors

Cross Post: London Film Festival — Shorts Short on Women Directors

Yesterday we went to a good discussion on feminism, curated by performance artist Bryony Kimmings at Soho Theatre in relation to her show there at the moment, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model....

Features

Woman Seeks Revenge: What’s the Purpose of the Rape/Revenge Horror Film?

If you want to start a spirited debate amongst horror fans, a sure fire topic to bring up is the infamous rape/revenge sub-genre probably best known because of movies like Meir Zarchi’s...

News, Women Directors

Women Win Big at the Hamptons International Film Festival

The Hamptons International Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend and handed out their awards. Women directors and women centric films cleaned up the big prizes at the festival with the Judi...

Features, News

Overcoming Trauma of the Home: Women Gaining Strength in Light of Abuse

Much has been made by media critics of the propensity of horror movies to fetishize the murder of women — to make them victims, suffering at the hands of brutal forces for their sexual sins....

News

Nicole Kidman to Star in The Silent Wife

Nicole Kidman is attached to star in The Silent Wife. Kidman will play an affluent woman, whose nearly 20 year marriage is seemingly perfect on the outside, but her denial of her husband’s...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman, starring Felicity Jones, follows the life of Charles Dickens’ longtime mistress. Jones plays Nelly Ternan, who was Dickens’ mistress for 13 years up until his death. Ralph...

News, Television

Meg Ryan to TV

Another movie star (or former movie star) is taking to the small screen. Meg Ryan will soon be heading to television screens with a new NBC comedy from Marc Lawrence. Ryan will play a former big...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

LFF Women Directors: Meet Chika Anadu

Chika Anadu’s debut feature film, B For Boy, is in competition in the London Film Festival’s first feature section. Having delivered two ambitious and acclaimed short films on a similar subject,...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

HIFF Women Directors: Meet Shana Betz

Shana Betz served as Executive Director for the MVPA, the premiere trade association for the music video industry, and executive produced the Director’s Cuts Film Festival, a cutting edge film...

News

Introduction to the London Film Festival

Having opened in true Hollywood form on Wednesday night with a gala screening of Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, the 2013 BFI London Film Festival is well under way. What could be more...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

HIFF Women Directors: Meet Irene Taylor Brodsky

Irene Taylor Brodsky is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director whose documentaries have shown theatrically, at film festivals and on television worldwide. Irene most recently...

News, Weekly Update, Women Directors, Women Writers

Weekly Update for October 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening This Weekend A River Changes Course — Directed by Kalyanee Mann (doc) A River Changes Course is the moving and insightful 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning...

Awards, Features, News

The Big O: Reality Bites Oscar — Hard

It’s time to get real about the Oscar race. Most of the films in play for a coveted spot on the best-picture roster have some element of truth to them. Today marks the arrival of Captain...

Awards, Documentary, News, Women Directors

One Woman Directed Short on 2013 Oscar Documentary Short Shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the 8 documentary shorts that are on the 2013 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Short. Three to five of the films on the list will...

Features, News

The Bad Girls of American Horror Story: TV’s Most “Unlikeable” Women

At the American Horror Story: Coven premiere last weekend, Women and Hollywood asked creator Ryan Murphy how he goes about creating such complex and interesting female characters for the show. I...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

HIFF Women Directors: Meet Donna Zaccaro

Donna Zaccaro is Founder and President of Dazzling Media, a New York-based media production company and is also Geraldine Ferraro’s daughter. Donna served as the director and producer for...

News, Women Writers

Happy 200th Episode Grey’s Anatomy

Tonight, Shonda Rhimes’ Grey’s Anatomy will air it’s 200th episode. It’s truly a groundbreaking achievement. Not many shows make it to 100 episodes, let alone 200. In an interview with The...

Features, News

A Problematic TV Trend This Fall: Pregnant and Engaged Teenagers

By any measure, this hasn’t been an encouraging fall network television season. The dramas are soggy, the jokes in many of the comedies aren’t landing — or worse, they’re racism trying...

News

IFC Films Picks Up Megan Griffiths’ Lucky Them

IFC Films has acquired the rights to Megan Griffiths’ Lucky Them which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month. Written by Emily Wachtel and Hugo Botko, the film follows a music...

News

The 33rd Susan B. Anthony Awards

Last night I was one of four people who received a Susan B. Anthony Award from the NYC chapter of the National Organization for Women. It was a great event. I was really humbled by the other women...

Features, News

The Horror of Coming-of-Age: Subverting the Teen Girl Experience in Film

Growing up can be a bit of a bloodbath for everyone, regardless of gender. And when it comes to how the actual gory details of the process are portrayed on film, young female characters don’t...

Interviews, News, Women Writers

Guest Interview: Meg Wolitzer — Author of The Interestings

Novelist Meg Wolitzer talks with Holly Rosen Fink about the success of her latest novel, The Interestings (Riverhead Books, 2013), inspiration, sexism in the literary world, working with Nora...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

HIFF Women Directors: Meet Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker. A director of documentaries, as well as narrative TV and film, her most recent project is the documentary Running From Crazy, which...

News

Ridiculous Comment of the Day: “It’s Harder to Animate Female Characters”

Earlier this week, MovieViral.com ran an article about the 50 Things You May Not Know About Frozen, the upcoming Jennifer Lee co-directed Disney animated feature based on The Snow Queen. The...

News

Nicole Kidman Goes All Feminist at Variety Awards

Nicole Kidman was honored at this year’s Variety Power of Women awards for her work with UN Women to advance the rights of women and girls across the world. Variety’s 5th annual Power of Women...

News, Women Directors

Claire Denis to be First Woman Director to Receive Stockholm’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Claire Denis will be the first female director to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Stockholm International Film Festival. Denis directed her first feature film in 1988,...

Awards, News, Women Directors

16 of 76 Oscar Foreign Language Submissions Directed by Women

A record number of 76 films were submitted this year for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar. Last year, 71 films were submitted. Moldova, Saudi Arabia and Montenegro submitted films for the first...

Interviews, News, Women Directors, Women Writers

TIFF Interview: Jasmila Zbanic and Kym Vercoe — Director and Co-Writers of For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales written by Jasmila Zbanic and Kym Vercoe and directed by Zbanic is one of those rare films that just stays with you. The film tells the story of Kym...

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