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Lupita Nyong’o Shines a Light on Africa (NY Times) Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald on New ‘Malala’ Doc, Feminist Barbie and a Revived ‘Men in Black’ (Sans Will Smith) (THR) Patricia...
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Films About Women Opening This Week Freeheld “Freeheld” tells the story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a veteran police detective who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and her fight to...
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Trailblazing Women, the multi-year initiative by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Women in Film (WIF LA), kicked off last night with a month-long programming event. As we previously reported, TCM...
News, Women Directors
Deepa Mehta, the director of “Fire,” “Earth,” “Water” and the screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” will be honored by the Toronto International Film...
Back in May, we reported that the ACLU had sent a letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requesting that the agency look into the systemic discrimination against women...
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Remember not too long ago when every actress walking a red carpet would be asked what she was wearing? Remember not too long ago when actresses were asked about their babies and their boyfriends...
People are always telling me they don’t like horror. Like rightafter I tell them I make horror films. Or programmers pickingme up from the airport who have barely said hello and whose festival...
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“One Big Happy” creator Liz Feldman has landed a put pilot commitment from CBS for her new comedy series “Hello Again.” Deadline reports that the show will focus on a “mostly happy”...
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The bond between identical twin sisters takes a supernatural and sinister turn in “The Forest,” starring “Game of Thrones” star Natalie Dormer and co-written by Sarah Cornwell. Dormer plays...
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The Athena Film Festival is now accepting applications for its Black List mini-lab. The Manhattan-based festival has partnered with The Black List for the inaugural mini-lab. Four women...
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about Judy Greer’s summer of tiny, thankless roles, in which she plays characters designed to be instantly forgettable in “Tomorrowland,” “Entourage,”...
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