Awards, News
Women directors received half of the awards presented at the closing of the American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles yesterday. British filmmaker Clio Barnard, whose first narrative...
Features, Films, News
It was terrific to get the news last week that Marvel, which has devoted its big-screen franchises to the adventures of white dudes in Spandex and body armor, would not just be producing four new...
News
No, not Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal’s chatty, batty twelve-year courtship. Twenty women from a performance group called Improv Everywhere, a “New York City-based prank collective that causes...
Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News
Merete Mueller is a writer and award-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. With a background in fiction-writing and journalism, Merete has worked as the Managing Editor of elephant journal, a...
Born in Jamaica and raised in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, social and environmental issues pervade Suzan’s work. Her films have appeared on National Public Television and on the...
Lots of people have from mommy issues, but none quite like Emanuel’s (Kaya Scodelario). In the dramatic thriller The Truth About Fishes (formerly Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes), the angry,...
Award-winning filmmaker Ky Dickens directed the documentary Fish Out of Water, which uses animation, LGBT narratives and historical analysis to deconstruct the seven Bible verses used to condemn...
Awards, Features, News
According toRodgers and Hammerstein, there is nothing like a dame. According toOscar, few dames are grander than Judi Dench. Of the 14 Academy Award-nominated actresses who have held the lofty...
Music, News
Lily Allen has staked a claim in mainstream music as pop’s most adorable tomboy, first arriving on YouTube in a flouncy dress and mall sneakers. Her public persona balances the sweetness in her...
Comedy, News, Television
SNL comedienne and Up All Night actress Maya Rudolph is the latest entertainer to attempt a resuscitation of the primetime variety show. She and SNL producer Lorne Michaels have sold a vehicle for...
Screen International and Broadcast hosted a diversity summit at the BAFTA headquarters yesterday, Diversify — Improving Diversity in Film and TV. The event was sold out and attendees were...
DawnPorter is the founder of Trilogy Films and the director/producer of Gideon’s Army, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. Before becoming a filmmaker, she was...
UPDATE: Hours after Judi Dench and Steve Coogan’s Funny or Die video was released, the MPAA backed down and lowered Philomena’s rating from R to PG-13. Read the original post below. Philomena...
Interviews, News, Women Directors
Born in Sao Paulo and raised mostly in Buenos Aires, Stephanie discovered her passion for film while at Wellesley College where she studied French and Political Science. Following graduation,...
News, Trailers, Videos
Teenage girls of the future continue to get the raw deal in Divergent, the big-screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling YA trilogy. Shailene Woodley plays Tris, a “divergent” who...
Angelina Jolie is all cheekbones and horns in the new teaser trailer for Disney’s Maleficent. The film follows the Wicked template of lending sympathy for the evil queen/stepmother/middle-aged...
News, Women Directors
There areseveral milestones among the 22 films directed by women that were released inOctober. Among the ten features is Carrie,the first wide-release (3,157 theaters) studio film from a female...
Laurie Collyer is best known for writing and directing Sherrybaby, for which actress Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination. She also directed the documentary Nuyorican Dream (1999)....
Patrice Toye was born in 1967 and studied film in Brussels. She has made several short films, documentaries and television programs. In 1995, she wrote the feature Tin Soldier with the support of...
Last week four non-profit movie theatres in Sweden (yes, Sweden again) released a ratings system named after the Bechdel Test. For those uninitiated, to pass the Bechdel Test, a film has to have two...
Karlyn Michelson is an Emmy Award-winning multimedia producer and video journalist. (AFI) Charlie Victor Romeo is playing AFI as part of the American Independents program. Women and Hollywood:...
News, Television, Women Writers
Today in “duh tinged with schadenfreude,” Shonda Rhimes reveals that gray-haired male ABC execs have no idea what women are like or what they want to watch. In an interview to NPR,...
News, Television
Yesterday, RollingStone.com published a revealing excerpt from Rookie: Yearbook Two, the second book from Tavi Gevinson’s teen site, in which Lena Dunham (HBO’s Girls) interviewed Mindy Kaling...
On the heels of yesterday’s story about Judi Dench and Harvey Weinstein’s battle against the logo-phobic pearl-clutchers at the MPAA comes another example of the rating board’s skewed...
Actress Reese Witherspoon is in talks to star in writer-director Nancy Meyers’ next project, a workplace comedy currently titled The Intern. (The name will probably be changed so as to avoid...
News, Theater
Alanis Morisette is riding the current wave of nineties nostalgia to Broadway. Her 1995 alt-rock album Jagged Little Pill, which helped usher angry rock chicks into mainstream radio and led to a...
Interviews, News
Hereis a small fact: You are going to die. Witha first line like that in a novel, you know it’s going to be serious. Andimportant. The Book Thief,based on the book by Martin Zusak, opened...
Jillian Mayer steeps her artistic practice in the verisimilitude of a generation that came of age in the 1980s. Her video works have premiered at galleries and museums internationally and at film...
Bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, New Girl star Zooey Deschanel, and Don’t Trust the B — — in Apt 23 creatorNahnatchka Khan are among several women who recently announced...
There’s no shortage of women in horror — on screen or in theater seats, that is. “We know that women make up about half of the audience for horror films, and yet the female creative voice...
In the superb upcoming drama Philomena, where an elderly woman embarks on atrans-Atlantic search for a son who was adopted against her will fifty years previously, star Judi Dench doesn’t kill...
News, Trailers
VeronicaMars is one of the best female characters to arrive on the pop culturallandscape in the past decade. Played with indelible humor by Kristen Bell,Veronica was a too-smart-to-be-cynical teen...
Award season is often the most frustrating time for Women and Hollywood, with so many nominations and prizes distributed to the same stubbled faces we see every few years. The European Film Awards...
Features, News
We’restill a long way off from a female-led superhero film. There’s just no wayaround it — even if the studios started working on it now, it would be pushingit to get it out by 2015. So...
Lynne Ramsay issued a short statement this weekend in response to the lawsuit filed last week by the producers of Jane Got a Gun. Here’s the short statement: Lynne Ramsay has not been served with...
Kasia Roslaniec was born in Poland in 1980. She graduated from Warsaw Film School and also studied at the Wajda School. Her graduation film, Mall Girls, won Best Debut Director at the Polish Film...
Jenni Toivoniemi studied screenwriting in several international workshops, including Torino Film Lab’s Script & Pitch and Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station. She is about to complete her...
Katrin Gebbe attended the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Arts and Design in the Netherlands and received her master’s degree in directing at the Hamburg Media School. Her short, Sores &...
News, Women Directors, Women Writers
Films About Women OpeningThis Weekend Ass Backwards — Written byCasey Wilson and June Diane Raphael Two best friends (Kate andChloe) embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to...
NataliePortman is in the midst of a very important performance, one that could decideher future in the movie industry. And, no, it isn’t her return to the bigscreen after a two-year break as Jane...
Reaching for the Moon tells the story of the explosive love affair between Pulitzer Prize winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Mirnada Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires) in...
Comedy, Films, News
You’d never know it from Marvel’s (white)sausage-fest movies, but the comic-book company has reinvented itself in recentyears as Team Diversity. Vulture noted last month that, “in a cheeky bit...
Nonfiction filmmakingtends to be the one bright spot for women in Hollywood, with female documentarydirectors nearing parity with their male counterparts. The nominations forCinema Eye’s 7th...
Femalefriendship is the subject of writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin’s fourth film, If You See Her. Carr-Wiggin’s follow upto this year’s romantic comedy If I WereYou will star JanetMontgomery...
Since1996, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prizefor Fiction, has awarded “excellence, originality and accessibility in women’swriting from throughout...
Michelle Morgan is sick of being just a screenwriter, even though she writes scripts for major studios. Most recently, her screenplay Imogene was brought to life by the talents of Kristen Wiig and...
The saga of Jane Got a Gun and Lynne Ramsay continues and it’s not pretty. If you recall, Lynne Ramsay left the production right before the start of production. Reports were that Ramsay never got...
Helenna Santos-Levy launched her online magazine, Ms. in the Biz, just six months ago, with thesimple goal of connecting women working in Hollywood with one another. Today ithas 61,000 readers in...
Documentary, News
In 2010, Laura Dekker made history by becoming the youngest person to sail around the world. She was 16, though she might have been even younger were it not for the interference of the Dutch...
In the November issue of Essence, the magazine published a study on how black female audiences viewed their counterparts on the big and small screens. Unsurprisingly, the results were dispiriting....
Between superhero fatigue, the low cost of digital filmmaking, and the new distribution medium of video on demand, we’re supposed to be living in the Golden Age of indie cinema. But director John...
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