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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
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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 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...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...
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
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
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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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...
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...
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....
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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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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