Lyn’s in charge of Vida now — and business seems to be booming. A new teaser for “Vida’s” upcoming third season has dropped, and sees the historic ne’er-do-well...
Time’s Up’s mission includes striving to protect women and marginalized communities in the workplace — in Hollywood and beyond. Now the organization is focusing on supporting women...
“Radium Girls” will soon be hitting theaters. Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s feature directorial debut will open April 3 at the Quad Cinema in New York City, a press release...
WeForShe has unveiled its annual slate of “industry-vetted, quality-female driven” TV scripts. The 2020 WriteHer List has been announced via a press release, and this year’s 20...
The 10th annual Karen Schmeer Emerging Editor Fellowship is now accepting submissions, a press release has announced. Named in honor of the Sundance-winning editor of “Sergio,” the...
Garrett Bradley recently won Sundance’s Directing Award: U.S. Documentary for “Time,” the story of a real-life superheroine fighting to free her incarcerated husband. Her next...
Stephanie Allain is coming off her Oscars producing gig with her first TV studio deal. According to Deadline, the veteran producer has inked a multi-year first-look pact with Warner Horizon Scripted...
Eleven-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren and opera singer Anna Netrebko have been named the 2020 Polar Music Prize Laureates. Variety reports that the two will receive the award, and its...
Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas) needs something to occupy her time — and worrying mind — while her colonel husband is off on his fifth tour in Afghanistan. So, as we see in the new trailer...
The 10th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) kicks off in just over two weeks and — adding to the excitement — the fest has unveiled its 2020 awardees, the winners of the Athena List, and...
It’s wintertime and, thanks to this news, the livin’ is still easy. Dee Rees is writing and directing a big screen adaptation of the Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” for MGM,...
Ava DuVernay’s next film will honor late rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle. She’s set to direct a feature-length documentary about him for Netflix, Deadline confirms. “A...
Essence’s recent Black Women in Hollywood event did what the rest of the 2020 awards season wouldn’t: it honored women of color, multiple women of color. The annual awards ceremony and...
“Shirley” is continuing its Sundance hot streak. Following its Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking win and the stigma-shattering portrait taken of breastmilk-pumping director...
While at Sundance promoting her new film, “Shirley,” director Josephine Decker did something that’s both radical and a part of millions of women’s everyday routines: she...
Oscar winner Minnie Driver has extended her overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV and lined up a new dramedy series at FX. Deadline confirms the “Speechless” alumna and her Huge Fan...
Paz Vega is headed to “Tacowood.” The Cannes award-winning actress is set to star in and produce the MGM International TV comedy series, Deadline reports. The story focuses on a single...
Meryl Streep has joined Rachel Feldman’s long-in-the-works biopic about fair pay whistleblower and activist Lilly Ledbetter. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three-time Oscar winner is...
For Theresa Ikoko, writing is about “loving people back.” As the playwright and screenwriter recalled in an interview with International Cinephile Society, she had this epiphany when she...
UCLA has released Part 1 of its annual Diversity Report, focusing on representation on both sides of the camera among the top 200 films released in 2018 and 2019. Like the 2019 report and the 2018...
The good news: there are more women nominated in non-acting categories at the Oscars this year (56, or 30 percent of all non-acting nominees) than in 2019 (51, 25 percent). The bad news: 30 percent...
A new report from USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative and ReFrame concludes — yet again — that diversity sells. “The Ticket to Inclusion” analyzed the economic...
The Oscars and BAFTAs are still #SoWhite, but show business seems to be upping its on-screen inclusivity as of late. A new research brief from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that...
Sundance is bringing on its first new Festival Director in 11 years — and she’s the first woman and person of color to take on the role. A press release has announced that, following a...
“The Avengers weren’t my first family,” Natasha Romanoff reveals in “Black Widow’s” Super Bowl spot. The upcoming Marvel pic, the first from a solo woman director,...
Jenny Bicks explored NYC with “Sex and the City” and the suburbs with “Divorce” — and now she’s heading to small town America. The writer-producer’s...
Despite the success and critical acclaim of films with racially inclusive casts this past year — “The Farewell,” “Hustlers,” and “Parasite” among them...
“Harry Potter” actress Imelda Staunton will wear “The Crown” for the Netflix drama’s final season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the epic saga of Queen Elizabeth...
Everywoman Studios, a studio dedicated to women-created content and cause-related social campaigns, and Realscreen, an international magazine focused on non-fiction film and TV, have teamed up on a...
Filmmaker and PBS producer Leya Hale has received the 2020 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship. Named in honor of the late groundbreaking Māori filmmaker Merata Mita, the annual fellowship...
Another woman-directed film has secured distribution out of Sundance. “The Fight,” from Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres, has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures in “a...
SAG-AFTRA is following HBO and Directors UK’s lead. Hollywood’s largest union has published a four-page guide on how best to utilize intimacy coordinators — i.e. professionals who...
Ulrike Ottinger will soon have another Berlinale award to go with Special Teddy she won at the film festival in 2012. The filmmaker and artist is set to receive the Berlinale Camera at the...
“How I Met Your Mother” alumni Ashley Williams and Pamela Fryman are teaming up for a new project. The former portrayed recurring fan favorite Victoria and the latter directed almost...
Zawan Mahmoud and Viviane Charlestin are the winners of the 2020 Horizon Award for rising female filmmakers. Prize founders Christine Vachon, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Cassian Elwes presented the...
We’re smack dab in the middle of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where 46 percent of competition directors are women and 38 percent are people of color. Given that Sundance is ongoing and that...
A Welsh journalist travels to Soviet Russia to interview Stalin and cover “the story no one is talking about” in “Mr. Jones.” A trailer for Agnieszka Holland’s new film...
Elaine Welteroth is a judge and associate producer on “Project Runway,” has appeared as herself on “Black-ish” and “Grown-ish,” and penned an episode of the...
Boyish, a digital media company spotlighting content created by women, is teaming up with In The Know and Malka Media for a female filmmaker contest. Boyish will award five women-identifying...
Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Reese Witherspoon, Brie Larson, and Lena Waithe are among the Hollywood heavyweights joining filmmaker Jessica Dimmock in urging the Directors Guild of America (DGA) to...
Several fests including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF, and Athena Film Festival will ensure more women, people of color, and other marginalized communities receive press credentials. According to...
In June 2016, the British Film Institute (BFI) introduced guidelines to increase and improve diversity on-screen and off. These Diversity Standards addressed inclusion in regards to on-camera...
Laura Dern coached Scarlett Johansson through a messy divorce in “Marriage Story,” and now the Oscar nominee is set to offer a sympathetic ear to a bunch of other unhappy characters....
Chicken & Egg Pictures is ringing in the new year by naming the recipients of its 2020 Chicken & Egg Awards and introducing its newest programs, Project: Hatched and the Chicken & Egg...
Chelsea Winstanley is flying high. She recently made history as the first indigenous woman producer to score an Oscar nod for Best Picture, for “Jojo Rabbit.” Now she’s launched a...
Greenwich Entertainment, the distributor behind “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” one of 2019’s top docs, will release Billie Holiday documentary “Billie” this...
“It’s beautiful for the most part, but it comes at a cost,” Gently James (Xosha Roquemore, “The Mindy Project”) says of the connection she shares with Evan Fisher (Alano...
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady will examine the threats, intimidation, and violence used to silence journalists with Ronan Farrow for their next project. Deadline confirms...
If you’re still (rightfully) pissed about the male-dominated Oscar nominations, the Alice Initiative has something that will make you feel better. The org has unveiled its annual list of rising...
Awkwafina will be “Nora From Queens” for at least two seasons. Deadline reports the Golden Globe winner’s upcoming Comedy Central show, “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens,”...
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment — which granted women the right to vote in the U.S. — PBS is highlighting stories about groundbreaking women this...
