Films About Women Opening
Actress (Docudrama)
Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Using elements of melodrama and cinema verité, Actress is both a present-tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself in a complex yet familiar story. It’s a film about starring in the movie of your life. This is what happens when we break the rules. (Press materials)
Jessabelle
From the mastermind producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious comes the ghostly tale of Jessabelle. Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a horrific car accident, Jessabelle (Sarah Snook) comes face-to-face with a long-tormented spirit that has been seeking her return — and has no intention of letting her escape. (Press materials)
West — Written by Heide Schwochow
Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff (Jördis Triebel), while living in East Germany in the late 1970s, plots to escape from behind the Berlin wall in the hope of leaving her traumatic past behind. However, when the Allied Secret Service begins an investigation into Wassilij’s disappearance, Nelly must decide between finding out the truth about her former lover and her dreams of a better future. (Press materials)
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (doc) — Opens in South Florida
The rags-to-riches story of Sophie Tucker, an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Sophie Tucker was the first woman to infatuate her audiences with a bold, bawdy, and brassy style unlike any other. The woman nicknamed “The Last of the Red Hot Mamas” is rediscovered through 400-plus recently rediscovered personal scrapbooks. Authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker take you on their seven-year journey retracing Tucker’s sixty-year career in show business. (Press materials)
Films About Women Currently Playing
Before I Go To Sleep
Laggies — Directed by Lynn Shelton; Written by Andrea Seigel
Sleeping with the Fishes — Written and Directed by Nicole Gomez Fisher
White Bird in a Blizzard
Dear White People
The Golden Era — Directed by Ann Hui
Camp X-Ray
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Addicted — Co-Written by Christina Welsh
Annabelle
Tracks
No Good Deed — Written by Aimee Lagos
Wetlands
The Congress
If I Stay
Lucy
Maleficent — Written by Linda Woolverton
Films Directed by Women Opening
Pelican Dreams (doc) — Directed by Judy Irving
Sundance- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (with her first film since the widely acclaimed and loved The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) follows a wayward California brown pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores the nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and survival challenges of these ancient birds, sometimes referred to as flying dinosaurs. The film is about wildness and asks the following questions: How close can we get to a wild animal without taming or harming it? Why do we need wildness in our lives, and how can we protect it? (Press materials)
Read guest post by Judy Irving.
Films Directed by Women Currently Playing
ABCs of Death 2 — Directed by Kristina Buozyte, Jen and Sylvia Soska
Citizenfour (doc) — Directed by Laura Poitras
The Great Invisible (doc) — Directed by Margaret Brown
Awake: The Life of Yogananda (doc) — Directed by Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman
Art and Craft (doc) — Co-Directed by Jennifer Grausman
I Am Eleven (doc) — Directed by Genevieve Bailey
Land Ho! — Co-Directed by Martha Stephens
Films Written by Women Currently Playing
The Good Lie — Written by Margaret Nagle
Men, Women & Children — Co-Written by Erin Cressida Wilson
The Hero of Color City — Co-Written by Jess Kedward and Kirsty Peart
Guardians of the Galaxy — Co-Written by Nicole Perlman
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Co-Written by Amanda Silver
DVD/VOD
Happy Christmas
Tammy — Co-Written by Melissa McCarthy
Exhibition
Land Ho! — Co-Directed by Martha Stephens
