Features, Festivals, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Liza Jonhnson is a writer and director whose feature films “Return” (2011) and “Hateship Loveship” (2013) have screened at the Cannes, Toronto, New York, Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals,...
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Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose (“Dreamgirls”) just landed her own leading television role. Deadline has reported that Rose will play the lead in BET’s pilot “The Yard.” Rose stars as...
Documentary, Features, Festivals, News
Ferne Pearlstein is is a prize-winning cinematographer, a feature film editor and a writer/director whose work has won numerous awards and been screened and broadcast around the world. In 2003...
Festivals, News
The lineup for Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival has been announced. Only one of seven films in Competition in the 55th installment of the Cannes’ sidebar is directed by a woman: Julia...
Documentary, Features, News, Women Directors, Women Producers
Years ago, when my husband, Hal, and I first arrived as young filmmaking partners in Washington, D.C., the first person I met was the wife of a fellow filmmaker. After talking to her briefly, it...
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Tracy Droz Tragos is an award-winning independent filmmaker. Tragos’ “Rich Hill” explored rural poverty through the intimate lens of vulnerable adolescents and their families struggling for a...
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Vanessa Gould is a filmmaker, editor and camera operator working in Brooklyn. Her film “Between The Folds” premiered on PBS’s “Independent Lens” in December 2009 and was re-broadcast the...
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega are documentary directors, producers and screenwriters whose work explores the intersections of institutional power, civil and human rights and political...
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Priscilla Anany was born in Ghana and migrated to the U.S. She studied Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Arts’ School of Filmmaking and obtained her Master’s degree in...
Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening This Week Sky — Directed by Fabienne Berthaud; Co-Written by Fabienne Berthhaud and Lucy Allwood Fleeing from the scene of a terrible crime, a young woman (Diane...
Stéphanie Gillard’s first documentary, “Une histoire de ballon,” explored the meeting point of oral tradition and soccer culture in Cameroon. She made a second documentary in 2009 in...
Amandla Stenberg has come a long way since playing the quiet Rue in “The Hunger Games.” In fact, the young actress, director and writer has already embarked upon her own filmmaking career. This...
News, Television, Women Directors
We love it when female filmmakers call out the industry for its sexism. Now Agnieszka Holland has joined in the fight. According to The BBC, during an on stage interview with BFI Southbank, which is...
Kristi Jacobson’s 2013 film “A Place at the Table” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film won the IDA’s prestigious Pare Lorentz Award and was nominated for Best Feature...
Features, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Director Amanda Marsalis is a photographer for publications including Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ and The Guardian, as well as a commercial director. Marsalis is an Echo Park resident. Her unique...
Mexican-born playwright and television writer Tanya Saracho has been brought on as showrunner for “Pour Vida,” a new Starz series in development. The series was inspired by a short story by...
Director, TV show host and actress, Marina Person graduated in Cinema from the University of São Paulo. She directed the 2007 feature documentary “Person,” selected for the Locarno and Trieste...
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Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and film director who has spoken at TED events in London, Jerusalem and India. Her and her partner Hanan Kattan are founders of the...
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The pressures of being a starlet in Hollywood is something that “The Neon Demon” star Elle Fanning (“Maleficent”) probably knows all too well. Now her experiences, and the experiences of...
Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. She is a BAFTA “Brit to Watch” and was named as one of the “Creative England 50” in 2015. Her short film “Emotional Fusebox” was...
Pamela Romanowsky is a Brooklyn-based writer and director. She is an alumnus of The Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting, Directing, and Composition & Sound labs and the Creative Producing...
Awards, News
Women student directors, here’s your chance to shine! The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced that the application period for the 22nd Annual DGA Student Film Awards for Women and...
Deb Shoval was raised by her Israeli father and American mother in a Pennsylvania coal town, where she now runs an organic vegetable farm. Shoval’s short film “AWOL” premiered at Sundance...
News, Television
Bravo’s first-ever scripted series, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” has been renewed for a surprising three seasons. Lisa Edelstein (“Castle”) stars in the dramedy as self-help writer...
Alma Har’el is a music video and film director, best known for her documentary “Bombay Beach,” which took the top prize at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, received a nomination for a 2011...
Features, News, Television
“Orphan Black,” the BBC’s endlessly twisty clone thriller, kicks off its new season tonight (if your memory’s hazy, you can get up to speed here). Thankfully, the show seems to have found a...
Lydia Tenaglia is co-founder and executive producer of ZeroPoint Zero Production, Inc. (ZPZ), creators of the Emmy- and Peabody- Award winningseries, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and...
Today marks the annual ritual which feels almost like torture — the unveiling of the Cannes Film Festival lineup. This year the main competition boasts three female directed films out of...
Documentary, Features, News
Meryl Goldsmith is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who got her bachelor’s degree in Film and Video from the University of Michigan. Goldsmith teamed up with an investigative journalist on her...
Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and German public television’s highest-rated and longest-running current affairs...
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This month’s crowdfunding picks are centered on the importance of love in the lives of women. Whether romantic or familial, love is the impetus driving the female protagonists in this month’s...
Dana Flor wrote anddirected the Emmy award-winning documentary “Latinos in Beisbol,” and theEmmy-nominated documentary “Cesar Chavez” for NBC. Flor wrote and producedthe two-hour special...
Festivals, News, Videos
“Our Little Sister,” another foreign Cannes 2015 favorite, is finally hitting the U.S. and a new trailer has premiered making the film seem like it may be this year’s “Mustang.” (I.e. a...
Musician Annie Clark, better known by her stage name of St. Vincent, will be making her directorial debut with a segment in “XX,” the upcoming all-female horror anthology film. As Rolling Stone...
Ester Gould has been directing her own documentaries for Dutch public broadcasters since 2005. Her first feature-length documentary, “Shout,” jointly directed with Sabine Lubbe Bakker and shot...
News, Women Producers
It’s looking like Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited screen version of the musical “Gypsy” has found a home. A deal is being finalized at STX Entertainment. Streisand will star as iconic stage...
“Bad Rap” is Salima Koroma’s directorial debut. She’s a former video producer for Time Magazine, NowThis and Current TV. She is also a former hip-hop and K-pop news writer. Koroma is...
FilmRise has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Elizabeth Wood’s controversial drama “White Girl.” In a previous interview with Women and Hollywood, Wood described the plot of her...
News, Research, Theater
The film world is in that lovely city of Las Vegas this week participating in its annual orgy of excess known as CinemaCon. This is when the major studios tout their upcoming big-budget movies and...
Amanda Micheli is an award-winning director and cinematographer. She earned an Oscar nomination for “La Corona,” which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO. In 2004,...
Documentary, News
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s new weekly docuseries has a trailer and a premiere date. “Woman” will debut on Viceland May 10. The activist and author of “Outrageous Acts and Everyday...
Jenny Gage’s fine art work has appeared in gallery and museum shows throughout the world. Her commissioned work and portraits have been featured in publications including W, Vanity Fair and...
Meryl Streep is officially the queen of August. Deadline has reported from CinemaCon that her latest film, “Florence Foster Jenkins,” will open on August 12, 2016. The films tells the true story...
Katie Holmes’ acting credits include “Touched With Fire,” “Woman in Gold,” “Ray Donovan,” “Batman Begins” and “Dawson’s Creek.” “All We Had” is her directorial...
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tomorrow. Only 33 percent of the films screening in the competition sections are directed by women. Still, the 15th edition of Tribeca features a significant...
Features, Guest Posts, News, Women Directors
“Hostile Border,” co-directed by Kaitlin McLoughlin, tells a story about a young undocumented woman (Veronica Sixtos) who is sent back to Mexico and gets involved with an charming drug smuggler...
Now that we know that Natalie Portman won’t be reprising her role as Jane Foster in the third Thor film, set for July 2017, there’s another female lead taking her place in Asgard. According to...
Features, News, Women Directors
Filmmaker Karyn Kusama hit the scene at Sundance 2000 where she premiered her debut feature, “Girlfight,” before a crowd of thousands. The film, which starred a then-unknown Michelle Rodriguez...
Deborah S. Esquenazi is an Austin-based documentary filmmaker, radio producer, instructor and journalist. Her work explores the intersections of mythology and justice, identity and power. Esquenazi...
Ingrid Jungermann created the WGA-Nominated web series “F To 7th,” featuring Amy Sedaris, Michael Showalter and Gaby Hoffmann. A television version of “F To 7th” is currently in development,...
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