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Films About Women Opening This Week Gemma Bovery — Co-Written and Directed by Anne Fontaine Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her...
News, Television
Comedy BFFs Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are having their achievement as the first female co-hosts of “SNL’s” Weekend Update segment commemorated with action figures from Entertainment Earth. The...
News, Women Directors
Meet Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute and our latest film-industry heroine. Since she took up her current position in October 2011, Serner has reached her stated intent of...
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In her first live-action comic turn since her breakthrough role in “The Help,” Jessica Chastain has signed on to play the lead in the April Prosser-penned comedy “Plus One.” Chastain’s...
Features, News, Television
The Hollywood Reporter hosted an especially candid and entertaining roundtable interview with some of TV’s best and brightest comic actresses, and the results speak for themselves. The...
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s “Carol” didn’t take home the top prize at Cannes, but the lesbian romance was undoubtedly one of the highest-profile films of the festival. Perhaps it’s...
Features, News, Women Directors
George Clooney is weighing in on what have become two very hot topics in Hollywood: the pay disparity between male and female actors and the lack of opportunities for female directors. “One good...
Animation has traditionally been the realm of nerdy white men, but that may soon be changing. A recent Los Angeles Times article has found anecdotal evidence suggesting that female students are...
Features, Festivals, Women Directors
From my latest Forbes post on the sudden but momentous political progress women in film have made this month: “These last two weeks have been the most important moments in the fight for gender...
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Na Torres is currently adirector/writer/producer who brings experience from all areas of filmmaking to her work. In 1985, Torres won the CannesFestival Camera d’Or, among twelve other...
News, Trailers, Videos
People have all sorts of coping strategies to deal with trauma, but crafting and donning gender-bending superhero costumes is one we haven’t heard before. Blurring fact and fiction, “Felt” is...
Actress Lena Headey, best known for her role as the conniving Queen Cersei on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has written a letter to her unborn daughter and girls worldwide about the relative...
Two weeks ago, the ACLU sent letters to three government agencies requesting an investigation into the gender-based discrimination against women directors in the film and TV industries. The...
Minnie’s life has, by her own admission, “gone really crazy as of late.” She has sex for the first time, and her partner in action isn’t a gangly, pimple-plagued adolescent peer struggling...
Netflix has renewed its septuagenarian sitcom, “Grace and Frankie,” for a second season. Starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as two very different women who turn to each other for comfort when...
People have all sorts of coping strategies to deal with trauma, but crafting and donning gender-bending superhero costumes is one we haven’t heard before. Blurring fact and fiction,...
News, Women Writers
Amma Asante (“Belle”) is set to direct “Selma” star David Oyelowo and “Gone Girl” Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike in an upcoming period drama about a black-white marriage that creates a...
Documentary, Films, News
RichardLinklater’s “Boyhood” got a lot ofdeserved attention for the dedication it took to make a feature film over 12years. While that timeline was planned, getting a film made often turns out...
Festivals, News
Frances McDormand made quite the statement on Shoegate — and sundry other issues relating to women in the film industry — during a Women in Motion panel at this year’s Cannes Film...
Festivals, News, Television
Apparently not even achieving legendary status has shielded Agnes Varda from a common problem afflicting women directors. “I have an entire bestiary of prizes with bears, dogs, etc., but people...
Christina Zeidler is a film and video artist with over thirtytitles in distribution. Zeidler is one half of the Euro-electronica-pop-diva sensation “ina unt ina” and part of the high-conceptart...
The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival has come to a close, with a number of female performers and helmers recognized for their talent and accomplishments. As with previous installments of the...
Awards, Features, News, Theater
On June 7th, when girls across the country turnon the Tony Awards, what do you want them to see? This is the question we’re posing to the Tony AwardsManagement Committee and CBS in a petition...
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Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist and writer with The New Yorker Magazine, where she has been drawing cartoons about culture and politics for over thirty years. She is also a columnist and...
In what is already shaping up to be an exciting year for lesbian features, with both “Carol” and “Freeheld” sporting high-profile casts and higher expectations, queer female filmmakers are...
In both real life and fictional narratives, there is always a turning point in the story, a catalytic moment when everything begins to change. Whatever happens going forward can be traced back to...
Films About Women Opening This Week Aloft — Directed and Written by Claudia Llosa As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an...
Documentary, News, Videos
Before she directed the critically lauded documentary “The Queen of Versailles,” about the construction of the largest mansion in the country and the wealthy weirdoes who contracted it,...
Festivals, News, Women Directors
For the first time in 28 years, a female-directed film kicked off the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Now comes word, just as the Croisette is winding down, that the US rights of Emmanuelle Bercot’s...
In what feels like a match made in heaven, Amy Schumer is set to team up with proven female-comedy-lover Paul Feig (“Spy,” “The Heat,” “Bridesmaids”). The rising star will act in a...
Documentary, Features, News
A highly prolific filmmakerand videographer, Barbara Hammer has directed over eighty films and videos in acareer that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. Hammer made the...
The Brooklyn Museum has announced that its next director will be Anne Pasternak, making her the institution’s first-ever female chief. Founded in 1977, the museum is the second largest in New York...
Documentary, News, Trailers, Videos
Batman’s least broody iteration introduced himself on the streets of San Francisco on November 15, 2013, in front of thousands of enraptured strangers. Behind the mask was five-year-old Miles...
The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a petition with the hopes of gaining more support and momentum in the struggle to put an end to the industry’s gender-biased hiring practices. Last...
Reese Witherspoon is claiming one of Disney’s most iconic characters as her next big-screen role. The Oscar-winning actress will play Tinker Bell in “Tink,” a live-action, revisionist take on...
Features, Women Directors
If you were on Twitter recently, you might have seendirector Ava DuVernay’s clever call to social media to name films with “black,brown, native or Asian women leads” which were also directed...
EGOT winner Barbra Streisand will pen a book reflecting on her life and her five-and-a-half decades in showbiz. Viking will publish the as-yet-untitled memoir in 2017. Streisand has discussed...
News, Videos
Just when you’d finally gotten the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” theme song out of your head, here comes a must-see mash-up of Tina Fey’s Netflix series and the “Mad Max: Fury Road” scenes...
“There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time,” Maggie Gyllenhaal admitted in a new interview with TheWrap. Among...
“I don’t think I’m going to be at all famous,” predicts Amy Winehouse in the new documentary about her, which has opened to critical acclaim at Cannes 2015. That statement was probably...
The Turkish drama “Mustang,” which debuted to ecstatic reviews at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, has been acquired by the Cohen Media Group. The Directors’ Fortnight selection focuses on a...
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A new initiative to “give voice to the unique perspective of Arab women” has been launched as a partnership between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) and the...
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Beyond the Lights,” “The Secret Life of Bees”) has released a statement voicing her support of the ACLU’s request for the government to investigate sexist...
Awards, News, Television
Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan were recognized for “changing the face of media” by the Feminist Majority Foundation at the 10th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards on Monday. Rhimes and Kohan...
One of the busiest women in TV might finally get her own show. Kristen Schaal — who appears on the Fox comedy “Last Man on Earth,” voices the Fox animated sitcom “Bob’s Burgers” and...
Emily Blunt has found critical success (if not quite blockbuster megabucks) in action flicks like “Looper” and “Edge of Tomorrow.” But she almost got shut out of the crime thriller...
Here’s a story you haven’t heard before: A free spirit rescues a baby from her negligent mother, leading everyone to think she’s kidnapped the infant. She passes the baby off as her own around...
Two weeks before the release of “Spy,” her latest comedy, Melissa McCarthy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony, she thanked her parents’ steadfast support for...
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