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Women in Film, Indiegogo, and the Black List Launch New Award for Young Female Filmmakers

When it comes to fostering female directing talent, support and mentorship can’t come soon enough. To that end, a group of producers, media companies, and film organizations have come together to...

News

Mary-Louise Parker to Pen Memoir

After a quarter-century in Hollywood, Mary-Louise Parker will reflect on her life in a memoir — though not necessarily about her career. In Dear Mr. You, “an autobiographical literary work...

Comedy, Documentary, News, Videos

‘Makers’ Starts Tonight With History of Women in Comedy

It was less than a decade ago that the late Christopher Hitchens, a respected writer and thinker, wondered aloud in a mainstream publication “why women aren’t funny.” Many rational people...

News

Kate Winslet’s ‘A Little Chaos’ Finds Release Date

Those of us who have missed Kate Winslet playing headstrong women in period garb have much to look forward to in A Little Chaos. Winslet reunited with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Alan...

News

Three New Sci-Fi Epics With Female Protagonists in Development

Or maybe it’s just the “Hollywood’s finally getting its head out of its ass” effect. News arrived yesterday that three separate sci-fi tales with female protagonists are currently in...

News, Television

All-Female Sports Talk Show to Debut Sept. 30

Just a few weeks after the Ray Rice video plainly illustrated that women’s issues (and a humane sense of right and wrong) are sorely lacking in both professional sports and its commentariat, the...

Features, News

Hollywood Feminist of the Day: John Cusack

Hollywood has been kind to John Cusack, who steered his teen stardom into over six dozen acting credits. But the Say Anything icon, who appears in the industry-savaging Maps to the Stars (out early...

News

Review: Rosamund Pike Gives An Oscar Worthy and Career Making Performance in ‘Gone Girl’

There hasn’t been a soignée blonde so flat-out hate-able since Gwyneth bitched about the burdens of motherhood. Welcome to the A-list, Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike! The tall, slender,...

News, Trailers, Videos

Watch: A Mother is Terrorized by Her Child’s Favorite Book in ‘The Babadook’

When it debuted at Sundance this year, writer-director Jennifer Kent’s debut, The Babadook, became one of the festival’s breakout hits, with critics praising the film as a “flat-out...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for September 26: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening Bjork: Biophilia Live (doc) In 2011, Icelandic artist Björk released her eighth full-length studio album Biophilia, yet the Biophilia project has continued beyond an album...

Awards, News, Videos

Julianne Moore’s ‘Still Alice’ to Receive Oscar-Qualifying Run (Plus Bonus Clip)

With four nominations and no wins yet, Julianne Moore might finally deserve her due at the next Academy Awards ceremony. The vehicle that’ll get here? Not the Hollywood-skewering showbiz satire...

News, Women Directors

CineCause Launches New Mentorship and Networking Initiative for Female Filmmakers

Producer Gina Belafonte, Killer Films chief Christine Vachon, and writer-director-actress Jocelyn Towne will be among the headliners at the inaugural Fueling Female Filmmakers (F3) event, a new...

News, Theater, Women Writers

Women Playwrights Make Up Only 33% of the Most-Produced Plays of the Past Decade

American Theatre has released its annual list of the top ten most-produced plays, and while the 2013–2014 season boasted a commendable 50–50 split between male and female writers, a look at the...

Features, News

Guest Post: What is Queer Film Culture’s Past and Present?

Queer film culture has a longhistory, which directly links queer cinema, with its specific aesthetics andpolitics, with the film festival as a community experience. The oldest LGBT/Q film festival...

Awards, News

Women Directors Comprise Majority of San Francisco Film Society Grant Finalists

The San Francisco Film Society has announced the 14 finalists who will be competing for a $300,000 grant from the SFFS and the Kenneth Rainn Foundation. One or more narrative films from the Bay...

Films, News

Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers Now Receiving Applications

Cinematography is one of the film industry’s least equal fields. In the last five years, women accounted for just 3% of all cinematographers among the 250 top-grossing films. In what might be the...

News, Women Directors

Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Eden’ to Be Released Next Spring

French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s fourth feature, Eden, has been a staple this year at major festivals like TIFF and NYFF. And now the 20-year electronica epic has found a distributor in Broad...

News, Theater

Has the London Theatre Community Found a Solution to Gender Inequality?

Earlier this week, the theatre community in across the UK came together to discuss the problem of gender inequity on its stages. The numbers are just as bad over on that side of the Atlantic as they...

Features, News, Television

‘Key & Peele’s’ Lady Problem (And the Perils of Loving Comedy While Female)

News, Women Directors, Women Writers

Julie Delpy to Start Shooting Her Sixth Film Next Month

Fresh off her Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nod for Before Midnight (along with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke), Julie Delpy is set to start shooting her sixth feature next month. Delpy will...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: A Rebellious Sprite Faces Marriage or Death in Studio Ghibli’s ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’

When the divine Princess Kaguya took earthly form after being born inside a lotus flower, she probably wanted something more out of mortal existence than a marriage conundrum. She doesn’t...

Festivals, News, Women Directors

Women Directors Dominate the Competition at Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Seventy percent of the works in competition at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Film Festival (October 23 — November 1) will be directed by women. The ADFF will only showcase shorts (along with a Truffaut...

Features, News, Women Directors

DGA Celebrates Women Directors, But What’s the Next Move?

The DGA hosted an event last Saturday night to celebrate the six women who created the Women’s Steering Committee 35 years ago. The 600-seat theatre was packed, with impassioned cheering and...

News, Women Producers

Powerhouse Female Producers Join Forces to Launch New Company

Big-league UK producers Alison Owen (Saving Mr. Banks, The Giver, HBO’s Temple Grandin) and Debra Hayward (Les Miserables, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Atonement) have teamed up to form a new...

Awards, Features, News

The Big O: Lead or Supporting Actress? Depends on Which Category is Likeliest to Hit Gold

As of today, Patricia Arquette stands as the favorite to win a supporting-actress Oscar for her 12-years-in-the-making portrait of devoted motherhood in Boyhood. That is, if you believe the expert...

Features, News

Guest Post: Pioneering Women DIrectors, Then and Now

This past Saturday night, the Directors Guild of America celebratedthe accomplishments of the Pioneering Women Directors of the DGA. Susan Bay, NellCox, Joelle Dobrow, Dolores Ferraro, Victoria...

News, Women Directors

Things I Learned from the ‘Selma’ Sneak

On Saturday night, Ava DuVernay brought a short clip of her upcoming film Selma (opening Christmas Day) to the Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC. (As Ava put it: “Jason Reitman takes his films to...

News, Theater

Julie Taymor’s ‘The Lion King’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Work of Any Media in Entertainment History

The stage version of The Lion King has a lot of things going for it: a universal story, sing-a-long songs, childhood nostalgia for the animated movie, and relatively affordable tickets. But it’s...

Features, News

Seeking Our Story: Living Comedy with Elaine May’s ‘The Heartbreak Kid’

Elaine May traveled and told stories on the Yiddish theater circuit evenbefore she was born. In 1932, Jack and Ida Berlin welcomed baby Elaine inPhiladelphia, PA. After Jack’s untimely passing in...

Features, News, Theater

The World Doesn’t See Lydia Diamond As a Female Playwright

The dearth of women in the theater world is well documented. While the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama this year were all women, not a single female playwright appeared on the Tony...

News

Eva Longoria Producing Drama About Latino Texas Politician Brothers

Since the end of Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria has reinvented herself as a producer, especially of projects with Latino leads. Longoria’s biggest producing hit is Lifetime’s...

Features

Geena Davis Institute New Research Shows That Girls and Women Are Missing Onscreen and Behind the Scenes Worldwide

From my latest Forbes post on the Geena Davis Institute’s new findings on the state of film worldwide: Girls and women are missing. There are 2.24 male characters for every female character. Only...

Films, News, Television

Supergirl Coming to TV

Superheroes haven’t just taken over the multiplex, but the Huluplex too. Debuting this fall are Fox’s Gotham and NBC’s Constantine, which will join CW’s The Flash (in its first season) and...

News, Videos

Watch: Emma Watson Explains Why Feminism is the Opposite of Man-Hating in UN Speech

It’s no secret that the word “feminism” has a PR problem. Just this spring, Shailene Woodley echoed the (misinformed) sentiments of a lot of girls and women when she declared that she wasn’t...

News, Women Directors

Angelina Jolie Announces Her Fourth Directing Project

Three months ahead of the release of Unbroken, her second film as director, Angelina Jolie has signaled that she’s serious about her mid-career turn as a filmmaker by announcing her fourth...

Documentary, News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Exclusive: Vessel Directed by Diana Whitten

One of the fundamental tenets that I hold true is that women’s rights are human rights, and included in those rights is the right to a safe and legal abortion should a woman want or need one. When...

News, Television

Liz Heldens to Write New Show from Carol Mendelsohn

Few industries have been as utterly transformed in the past decade like those of journalism and the media. Former CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn is spinning that anxiety about the changing job...

Television, Women Writers

Alessandra Stanley or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Marginalize Black Women

I thought about whether or not I wanted to dignify the verbal sludge that is Alessandra Stanley’s article about How To Get Away With Murder (and Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal) showrunner Shonda...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for September 19: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening Tracks Based on a true story, Tracks is the first film (Wild will be the second) to come out this fall about a woman who takes a solitary journey for reflection and...

Music, News

Barbra Streisand is About to Make History: Six Decades of Being #1

Barbra Streisand is about to make history. In all likelihood, her new album, Partners, will debut at №1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. What is remarkable about this achievement is that, if...

News, Videos

Trailer Watch: Amy Adams Fights for Artistic Recognition in ‘Big Eyes’

The trailer has finally arrived for Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Keane, the couple behind the paintings, postcards, and prints of big-eyed...

News

Toronto Deals: Anne Fontaine’s ‘Gemma Bovery’ and Lone Scherfig’s ‘Riot Club’ Find US Distribution

Two women-directed films that played at the Toronto International Film Festival have found US distributors. TIFF 2014 was host to two films that rhymed with “Emma Bovary” — Sophie...

Features, Television, Women Directors, Women Writers

The Stagnation of Opportunities for Women on TV

From my latest Forbes post on how the progress for women writers and especially directors on the small screen has stalled: Women are stuck, and that is even more clearly illustrated in the data...

Features, News, Television

Guest Post: Why I Couldn’t Turn Down Starz’s Filmmaking Experiment ‘The Chair’

When I was offered the role of filmmaker/guinea pig on Chris Moore’s The Chair, a filmmaking experiment-turned-docu-series currently airing on Starz, it was a no brainer. The premise of The Chair...

Documentary, News, Videos

Trailer Watch: ‘E-Team’ Profiles Human-Rights Investigators in Action

In places like Syria and Libya, where human-rights abuses were/are rampant, someone has to compile, analyze, and collect evidence of crimes against humanity in the midst of chaos to tell the world...

Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News

TIFF Women Directors: Meet Mami Sunada — ‘The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness’

Mami Sunada was born in Tokyoand studied documentary filmmaking at Keio University. She broke into film by assisting director Hirokazu Kore-eda on StillWalking and Air Doll. She also wrote and...

Festivals, Interviews, News

TIFF Women Directors: Meet Boo Ji-Young — ‘Cart’

Boo Ji-Young attended the Korean Academy of Film Arts. She directed the feature film Sisters on the Road (2009), as well as four shorts: Spark (1997), His Humming (2000), A Drop of Clear Salty...

Awards

Roz Chast, Jane Smiley, Marilynne Robinson Among National Book Award Nominees

Roz Chast, a cartoonist for the New Yorker, has become the first graphic memoirst to be nominated for the National Book Award. Unfortunately, her account of her elderly parents’ difficult few...

Features, News, Television

‘Madam Secretary’ is Her Own Woman

When early news of the CBS series Madam Secretary came out, word was the title role was a fictionalized version of Hillary Clinton. (Meanwhile, NBC was said to be developing a Hillary-centric...

Documentary, News

Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig to Take on Gun Violence in New Doc

After tackling America’s obesity epidemic in the “sugar is the new tobacco” documentary Fed Up, Katie Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig are reteaming to take a hard look at another...

Awards, News

Alison Bechdel Wins MacArthur “Genius” Prize, Working on Third Graphic Memoir

Already a household name in feminist, queer, and film circles, Alison Bechdel was named one of the 21 recipients of this year’s MacArthur “Genius Grant.” Bechdel was in an Italian castle at...

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