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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Elizabeth Wood – ‘White Girl’

Elizabeth Wood, an Oklahoma City native, moved New York City to study writing at The New School. After a few years of making experimental and documentary films, Wood received a screenwriting...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Frankie Shaw – ‘Too Legit’

Frankie Shaw is an actress/writer/director from Brookline, Massachusetts. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in English literature. She wrote, directed and...

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The Investigative Fund Names Inaugural Doc Award Winners: Lyric R. Cabral and Elizabeth Lo

The Investigate Fund, a New York-based award-winning nonprofit journalism organization, has unveiled the winners of its inaugural documentary film contest. Directors Lyric R. Cabral...

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Regina Hall to Star in Napa-Set Hulu Comedy From Writer Tina Gordon Chism

Regina Hall is set to star as the female lead in "Crushed," a single-cam Hulu comedy from writer Tina Gordon Chism.  Hall’s screen credits include "Vacation,"...

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Watch: New ‘Wonder Woman’ Footage Offers Peek of the Superheroine We’ve Been Waiting For

We finally have the chance to see Wonder Woman as the star of her own film. And from the looks and sounds of it, our long-awaited superheroine is everything we could hope for. Warner Bros....

Festivals

Berlinale 2016’s Complete Competition Lineup Announced: Only 9% Directed By Women

The 2016 Berlin Film Festival has released its full competition lineup. Now that we can take stock of all the directors screening films in the festival’s most prominent category, we...

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Phyllis Nagy Developing Rachel Kushner’s ‘Telex From Cuba’ As ’50s-Set TV Series

"Carol" screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, who received her first Oscar nod for penning the lesbian romance last week, is currently developing a TV adaptation of Rachel Kushner’s 2008 novel...

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Guest Post: The Aerial Cinematography and Fearless Living of ‘Sunshine Superman’

As I write this, my documentary "Sunshine Superman" has been out in the world for a little over a year. We have played at over 40 festivals worldwide and had a limited theatrical run...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Liz Garbus – ‘Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper’

Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus is one of the most celebrated American documentary filmmakers working today. Her films have been acclaimed worldwide and have garnered multiple Academy...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Milica Zec – ‘Giant’

Milica Zec is a New York City-based film and virtual reality director. Raised in war-torn Serbia, Zec’s work is deeply rooted in issues of conflict, identity and the human struggle. Highlights of...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Maggie Greenwald – ‘Sophie and the Rising Sun’

Writer, director and producer Maggie Greenwald is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a picture and sound editor. Her 1987 film "The Kill-Off," a noir thriller based on a...

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Jennifer Lawrence to Play Real-Life American Spy in Cuba Who Romanced Fidel Castro

Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to portray a woman with one of the strangest life stories we’ve heard in awhile.  The actress is set to play Marita Lorenz, a woman who had a relationship...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Penny Lane – ‘NUTS!’

Penny Lane was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012. Her debut feature-length documentary, "Our Nixon," world-premiered at International...

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A24 to Release Andrea Arnold’s ‘American Honey’

Andrea Arnold’s "American Honey," a coming-of-age tale about a girl (Sasha Lane) who joins a group of roving, law-flouting teenagers, has been acquired by A24.  Co-starring Shia...

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Elaine May to Receive WGA’s Lifetime Achivement Award

Elaine May has been named the 2016 recipient of the Writers Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award. She will be presented with the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement at the...

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Join Us at the Women and Hollywood/The Director List Sundance Meet-Up

Please come, mingle, and network at Women and Hollywood and The Director List’s Sundance meet-up on Wednesday, January 27.  We’re gathering at the No Name Saloon on 447 Main from...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Siân Heder – ‘Tallulah’

Siân Heder writes and produces on the acclaimed Netflix series "Orange is the New Black," for which she has received multiple WGA nominations. Her first short film,...

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Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Nanfu Wang – ‘Hooligan Sparrow’

Nanfu Wang is an independent filmmaker based in New York City. Wang was born in a remote farming village in Jiangxi Province, China. Realizing that she wanted to help tell the stories of people who...

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Sundance 2016 Preview: Eagle Huntresses, Toddler Kidnappers, Other Festival Gems By and About Women

January hasn’t been a great — or even remotely good — month for films by and about women in theaters, as our January Film Preview proves. But tomorrow marks the beginning of the...

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Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces Recipients of Its Inaugural Breakthrough Filmmaker Award

Documentary filmmakers Kristi Jacobson, Julia Reichert, Yoruba Richen, Elaine McMillion and Michèle Stephenson have been named the five recipients of Chicken & Egg Pictures’...

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Celebrities Speak Out As #OscarsSoWhite Protest Grows

Women and Hollywood generally focuses on gender issues in the entertainment business. But the fight against racism and the fight against sexism cannot and should not be separated, and so it is our...

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Women and Hollywood is Not Going Away

News hit this morning that Penske Media has bought Indiewire. This was quite a surprise; I am just beginning to digest it. While the news is early, my understanding is that the blog network will be...

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Quote of the Day: Marielle Heller on How Male and Female Directors Are Perceived Differently

Marielle Heller recently received some well-deserved love from the DGA for her critically acclaimed directorial debut, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl." Heller, who also penned the script for...

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Sundance Selects Acquires Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman’s Anthony Weiner Doc

Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman’s doc portrait of Anthony Weiner documentary has found a buyer in Sundance Selects days ahead of the film’s January 24 premiere at the 2016 Sundance...

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Netflix News: Updates on ‘Kimmy Schmidt,’ ‘Jessica Jones,’ ‘Orange/New Black,’ ‘Grace & Frankie’

Netflix dropped several news bombs over the weekend at the Winter TCAs. Here’s the latest updates on four of our favorite (female-centric, female-created) shows:  "Unbreakable Kimmy...

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All-Female Ebert Fellows Cohort Announced for Sundance 2016

The recipients of the third annual Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism have been announced, and all three aspiring film critics this year are young women: Hunter Harris, Sara Alexandra Pelaez...

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Anne Hathaway’s Next Two Sci-Fi Action Films to Take Place During Baby Shower, Nervous Breakdown

Anne Hathaway is making a big move into genre both on screen and behind the scenes.  The Oscar-winning actress and writer-director Jac Schaeffer are close to making the sci-fi action-comedy...

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Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey Team Up for Paula Pell Comedy

"Sisters" is a bona fide sleeper hit: Since its release opposite "Star Wars" four weeks ago, the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler vehicle has racked up $94 million worldwide.  No wonder,...

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Kylie Bunbury to Star in Fox Drama About MLB’s First Female Pitcher

Kylie Bunbury has been cast as the lead in "Pitch," Fox’s just-picked-up drama about the major leagues’ first pitcher.  The series will focus on a young female baseball...

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Weekly Update for January 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening This Week The Lady in the Van (Opens in Los Angeles and New York) The film tells the true story of Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) strained friendship with Miss Mary...

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Support Women Filmmakers at Cannes- 2015

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Celebrate Women Filmmakers at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

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Meryl Streep to Lead Master Class at Berlinale 2016

Meryl Streep will host a master class with 300 emerging film professionals at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.  Participants were chosen from a pool of more than 2,700 applicants....

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Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot to Star in ‘The Midwife’

French stars Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot will star in "The Midwife." Written and directed by Martin Provost, the film will center on Claire (Frot), an extraordinarily talented...

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Rutina Wesley to Star In Ava DuVernay’s TV Series ‘Queen Sugar’

Former "True Blood" star Rutina Wesley has landed a starring role in Ava DuVernay’s upcoming OWN series "Queen Sugar." The drama, based on a novel of the same name by...

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Why “Carol” Failed to Become the Lesbian ‘Brokeback’

Well, that’s that. Lesbians will not have their “Brokeback Mountain” this year after all. That’s because “Carol,” perhaps the most critically acclaimed mainstream film of all time...

Events

Strategies for Success: Event with Creative England

Creative England and Women and Hollywood hosted an evening for representatives from across the industry, including BBC Films, Women in Film & TV, Warner Brothers, BAFTA, Silver Salt Films and...

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Anxiety and Alzheimer’s on Film: January 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks

This month’s crowdfunding post focuses on filmmakers tackling topics rarely discussed in mainstream film. “From Away” highlights racism in an idyllic town, “MNSTR” dramatizes the feeling of...

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Melissa Leo to Star in Showtime Comedy About Stand-Up in the ’70s

Melissa Leo has joined the cast of Showtime’s newly greenlit "I’m Dying Up Here," an upcoming dark comedy about stand-up in the ’70s.  Leo will play a...

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Juliet Stevenson Set to Star in Polly Steele’s Intergenerational Drama About Mothers and Daughters

Four-time BAFTA nominee and theater vet Juliet Stevenson will likely star in Polly Steele’s "Let Me Go." The drama, an intergenerational story about mothers and daughters tracing back...

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Women-Directed Films from Major Studios 2009-2013

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Women-Directed Independent Features

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Trailer Watch: Sarah Jessica Parker Reconnects With an Italian Ex in ‘All Roads Lead To Rome’

Sarah Jessica Parker is back with another rom com. A trailer has been released for writer-director Ella Lemhagen’s "All Roads Lead To Rome," and as the film’s title suggests,...

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Rashida Jones Brings Back Slapstick With TBS’s ‘Angie Tribeca’

"Surely you can’t be serious?" "I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley." Whether you’ll take to the new TBS comedy "Angie Tribeca" depends, I expect,...

Awards

2016 Oscar Noms Announced; ‘Brooklyn,’ ‘Room,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ to Compete For Best Picture

2016 won’t go down as the most homogeneous (i.e., exclusionary) year in recent Oscar history. Three female-centric films ("Brooklyn," "Room" and...

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Netflix Reboots Post-Divorce Family Sitcom ‘One Day At A Time’ With Rita Moreno-Led Latino Cast

Netflix has given a 13-episode direct-to-series order to a reboot of Norman Lear’s "One Day at a Time," the classic sitcom that ran from 1975 to 1984. The new version will...

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2016 DGA Nods for Angela Bassett, Jill Soloway, Amy Schumer, Dee Rees, Sofia Coppola, and More

A handful of familiar names — among them Angela Bassett, Amy Schumer, Jill Soloway and Sofia Coppola — received DGA Awards nominations for their directing work this year. Also nominated...

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Netflix Buys Sian Heder’s ‘Tallulah,’ Starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney

Sian Heder’s feature directorial debut "Talluhlah" has found a home prior to its world premiere at Sundance just over a week away. Netflix is reported to have spent somewhere in the...

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Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ EDA Winners: ‘Carol,’ ‘Mad Max,’ Kristen Stewart and More

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has unveiled the winners of the 2015 EDA Awards. As expected, "Carol" won big. The period romance, written by Phyllis Nagy and starring Cate Blanchett...

Festivals

Athena Film Festival’s 2016 Lineup Released; Dawn Porter’s ‘Trapped’ Will Open Fest

Remember when "Room," "Carol" and "Brooklyn" were in the Oscar conversation?* This award season — like most award seasons — has been another chilly winter...

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Trailer Watch: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Take On Wall St. in Jodie Foster’s ‘Money Monster’

A trailer has arrived for Jodie Foster’s much anticipated "Money Monster." The star-studded drama focuses on a TV personality, financial guru Lee Gates (George Clooney), who is taken...

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