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Guest Post: The Celluloid Ceiling is Much Lower Than You Think

After many years working in the film industry, I am struggling in to find work. It’s hard for me to admit when I need help, and even harder to ask for it. I got into film so I could tell stories...

Box Office, Women Directors

Frozen Now the Highest-Grossing Animated Film in History

With over a $1 billion in ticket sales internationally, Frozen is no longer just the highest-grossing animated film in Disney history, but the highest-grossing animated film ever. Jennifer Lee and...

Interviews, News

AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women Turns Forty; Kimberly Peirce to Deliver Keynote

When the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) was launched forty years ago, women made up less than 10% of Hollywood’s directing ranks. Sadly, the numbers have not...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for March 28: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening Refuge — Written and Directed by Jessica Goldberg When Amy’s (Krysten Ritter) parents head to Florida for a “vacation” without a return ticket, she is left to...

News, Women Directors

Quote of the Day: Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris has over 30 directing credits to her name, including the films Wayne’s World, The Little Rascals, and Black Sheep, but she doesn’t have the career she wants. “When people...

News, Women Directors

Study: French Film Industry Suffers Gender Gap in Employment, Budgets

A new study has revealed that French female directors are much better represented in their industry than their counterparts in many other countries, but even they still have a ways to go. The first...

Comedy, News, Television

TV: Latina Women Demand SNL Hire Latina Comedienne After Offensive Caricature

Taking inspiration from the sustained campaign that led to Saturday Night Live’s hiring of Sasheer Zamata, the first black comedienne to join the cast in nearly seven years, Twitter activists have...

Box Office, Features, News

Can Women Drive Studio Movie Decision Making?

Yesterday, Amanda Hess at Slate’s XX Factor blog published a piece titled “Women Buy Half of All Movie Tickets. That Won’t Mean More Female Characters.” She responds to a couple of Women and...

Festivals, News, Women Directors

Andrea Arnold to Head Cannes Critics Week Jury

British director Andrea Arnold has been named the head of the five-person jury at Cannes Critics Week. A showcase of 20 films (with 7 in competition), Critics Weeks is devoted to discovering new...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

Krysten Ritter on the Life She Could’ve Led in Her New Film “Refuge”

When Amy’s (Krysten Ritter) parents head toFlorida for a “vacation” without a return ticket, she is left to take care ofher two younger siblings: Nat (Logan Huffman, V), her temperamental...

Awards, News, Theater

Janine Nabers Wins Yale Playwriting Prize

The Yale Drama Series competition, which recognizes full-length, unpublished plays in English, has announced Janine Nabers the winner of its 2014 prize. Nabers was chosen by judge Marsha Norman,...

News

Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Ricky Gervais

When I think of male writers who write great female characters, The Office (UK) and Extras creator Ricky Gervais — who mostly pens TV and film vehicles for himself — isn’t someone who...

News, Television, Videos

TV: Addiction Unmoors Nurse Jackie in Season 6 Sneak Peek

Showtime has released a video previewing the upcoming season of Nurse Jackie, which finds Edie Falco’s damaged-caretaker character back in the grips of her pill addiction. Season six looks like a...

Features, News

Women and Hollywood Summer 2014 Preview

Mark Wahlberg gave us all something to laugh about when he declared the Transformers movies to be “the most iconic franchise in movie history” at this year’s Cinema Con, the annual convention...

News, Theater, Women Directors, Women Producers

UK’s Channel 4 Exec Tessa Ross Becomes Head of National Theatre

Tessa Ross, the Channel 4 film and drama controller who’s been called “the mother of British filmmaking,” will leave her current position to head the National Theatre. Ross will take over NT...

News, Women Directors, Women Writers

Madonna to Adapt Novel by Alice Walker’s Daughter

Madonna has announced her third feature-directing project: an adaptation of Rebecca Walker’s debut novel Ade: A Love Story. Published last fall, Ade: A Love Story follows a 19-year-old American...

News, Women Writers

Meryl Streep to Star in Jonathan Demme Film Written by Diablo Cody

Without a word to anyone, Meryl Streep has begun a one-woman revolution in Hollywood. The 18-time Oscar nominee (and three-time winner) has steadily and tenaciously pursued projects by female...

Box Office, News, Statistics

MPAA Data Shows That Women Are Still The Majority of Moviegoers

In their annual release of box office statistics during the movie upfronts known as CinemaCon, the MPAA data showed that women are still the majority of filmgoers, and we buy half of all the...

News

Brunei Looking to Distribute Its Own Wadjda

Last year, director Haifaa Al-Mansour made history with Wadjda, the first female-directed film to be shot in Saudi Arabia. The tiny nation of Brunei, which borders Malaysia, is poised to release...

Awards, News, Television

Jennifer Lopez to Receive GLAAD Award

Jennifer Lopez will receive GLAAD’s Vanguard Award later this spring. The award honors entertainers who have made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for LGBT people. Lopez will...

Features, News

Dispatch from the Game Developers Conference: #1ReasonToBe a Woman in Gaming

Last week, I attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This is a yearlypilgrimage for most people in games. I love writing music for games,and I do at least one major game project a...

News, Television, Women Writers

WGA Lobbying for NY Tax Breaks for Diverse Writers’ Rooms

The Writers Guild of America-East is currently lobbying the New York State legislature to receive tax breaks for diverse writers’ rooms. Of the $420 million in tax credits currently allocated to...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves

A French trailer has been released for Kelly Reichardt’s fifth feature, the eco-thriller Night Moves. Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, and Peter Sarsgaard star as a trio of extreme...

News

Blockbusters with Young Action Heroines Mean Pink Weapons for Girls

Hollywood has been ridiculously slow to get the message that audiences want action heroines, but toy companies have received the message loud and clear. In a fascinating look at recent changes in...

News, Television

TV: Alfre Woodard to Play First Black Female POTUS on NBC’s State of Affairs

The list of black actors who have occupied the Oval Office on the big and small screen is long: Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Blair Underwood, Jamie Foxx,...

Box Office, News

Divergent Leaps to the Top of the Box Office; Sequel Planned

Another action-romance with a female hero has dominated the weekend box office. Critics may not have liked Divergent, but audiences sure did. In addition to the $56 million weekend haul, the...

Box Office, News

Manohla Dargis Hits It on the Head (Again) With Her Review of Divergent

How could I love her even more? Is she reading my mind? This is from her review for Divergent. Women warriors are on the rise again in American movies, and so, too, are hopes that they’ll be able...

Comedy, Features, News

5 Reasons to Watch Broad City

Broad City, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s webseries-turned-Comedy Central show, wraps up its debut season next Wednesday. (Fret not: the Amy Poehler-produced series has already been renewed for...

Features, Weekly Update

Weekly Update for March 21: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (doc) — Directed by Grace Lee American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs plunges us into...

News

Jem and the Holograms Movie to Be Made Without Female Creator Christy Marx

Not being a child of the 80s the news that a live action movie was going to be out of the animated Hasbro series Jem and the Holograms passed me by yesterday. But I got an email this morning (thanks...

Box Office, News

Will Divergent be the Next YA Phenom?

I wish people would stop calling Divergent a Hunger Games knock-off. Sure, the two franchises have some similar elements, like an ass-kicking teenage heroine struggling to survive in an improbable...

Interviews, News, Women Directors

ND/NF Women Directors: Meet Jessica Oreck

Jessica Oreck makes projects large and small that instill a sense of wonder and invite viewers to question their relationship with the natural world. Her most recent feature-length documentary,...

Box Office, News, Women Directors

Frozen Estimated to Become Highest-Grossing Movie in Disney History

Who knew that the best holiday gift Disney could give itself was turning its back on its past? Last November’s Frozen flipped the script on the passive-princess protagonists and...

Interviews, News

Taylor Schilling and Wiebke von Carolsfeld on Selling Stories About Women

Actress Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black) and writer-director Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge) share a mutual passion: telling women’s stories. “I was really compelled by...

Documentary, Festivals, News, Women Directors

Review of Freida Mock’s Anita: The Story of a Hero

The following review was originally published as part of Women and Hollywood’s Sundance 2013 coverage. When I was a young woman just starting my career, I encountered sexual harrassment like so...

Features, Films

5 Reasons Why Those Star Wars Casting Rumors about Lupita Nyong’o Are Worth Celebrating

Let me put all my cards down on the table. I want Lupita Nyong’o to succeed beyond her wildest dreams. I want her to enjoy a career like Jessica Chastain’s — another actress who was...

Documentary, News, Women Directors

AFFRM Acquires Nailah Jefferson’s Vanishing Pearls

Nailah Jefferson’s Slamdance documentary Vanishing Pearls, which profiles the devastation wrought by the BP oil spill on the tiny fishing community of Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana, has found...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie Sprouts Wings in New Maleficent Spot

While previous trailers for Maleficent focused on the surrogate mother-daughter relationship between the titular sorceress (Angelina Jolie) and Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning), the newest video for...

News

Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda to Reunite in Netflix Sitcom from Friends Creator

It looks like Netflix learned the right lesson from the gangbuster success of Orange is the New Black Audiences want more stories about women — all different kinds of women. The subscription...

Documentary, Festivals, Interviews, News

Interview with Freida Mock, Director of Anita

I was able to see the new documentary Anita at Sundance 2013. Here are my thoughts. The film opened the 2013 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in NYC and opens this week in NY and LA. The following...

News, Television, Women Writers

Women Comprise Majority of WGA’s 2014 Writer Access Project Honorees

Since 2009, the Writers Guild of America has held the Writer Access Project (WAP) — a competition that discovers and awards mid-level players from one of five diversity categories: minority...

News, Women Directors, Women Producers

Wadjda Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Announces Next Project

After making history as Saudi Arabia’s first woman director, Wadjda helmer Haifaa Al-Mansour is in final negotiations for her follow-up film: a romance between writers Percy Shelley and Mary...

News, Women Directors

Sofia Coppola to Direct Live-Action Little Mermaid Movie

For her sixth movie, Sofia Coppola will be departing from the placid, meditative films that have defined her oeuvre thus far to make a live-action version of the Hans Christian Andersen tale....

News, Television

TV: Melonie Diaz to Star in HBO Drama About PTSD

Fruitvale Station co-star Melonie Diaz is in talks to star as a PTSD-afflicted veteran in the HBO drama Laughs Unlimited (working title). Oren Moverman (Rampart, The Messenger) and Anthony Swafford...

Films, News

Still No Plans for a Marvel Superheroine Movie

Here are all the upcoming movies that have been announced from Marvel from now until 2018: Captain America 2, Captain America 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, and The Amazing...

News

Women and Hollywood is Hiring New Columnists

Women and Hollywood is expanding. We are looking to add several columnists who will put together longer think pieces on a variety of topics of importance to the entertainment world. These pieces...

News, Trailers, Videos

Trailer Watch: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep Season 3

In the third season of HBO’s Veep, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) will run to become the first female president of the United States of America. If you think there’s anything remotely...

News, Women Producers

Reese Witherspoon Bets on Kimberly McCreight as Next YA Sensation

Can’t decide on next month’s book club selection? Let Reese Witherspoon help. For nearly a decade, Witherspoon has been producing adaptations of novels with complicated female protagonists...

News

Women in Film’s Finishing Fund Application Process Now Open

Women in Film is currently accepting applications for its Film Finishing Fund. Projects that are by, for, or about women and have completed 90% of principal photography with a rough cut on hand are...

Features, Festivals, News

Rated SR for Socially Relevant: The Birth of a New NYC Film Festival

The inaugural edition ofRated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York (March 14–20 at New York’sQuad Cinema) assembles 55 films from 18 countries, offering an uplifting,enlightening, and...

Awards, News

Petition Launched to Include Katniss Among MTV Awards’ Heroes

The MTV Awards raised the Internet’s hackles last week by snubbing The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen from its Best Hero category. Sure, the awards are “little more than a corporate-sponsored...

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