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DOC NYC’s Feature Film Lineup Is 44 Percent Women-Directed
The complete lineup for DOC NYC 2016 has been revealed, and the gender composition of directors is refreshingly even. Women-directed or co-directed 48 of 110 feature films screening at the fest, or...
Weekly Update for October 14: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
“Certain Women” Films About Women Opening This Week Certain Women — Written and Directed by Kelly Reichardt Kelly Reichardt directs an ensemble cast led by Michelle Williams, Kristen...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Laura Israel — “Don’t Blink — Robert Frank”
Laura Israel started editing award-winning commercials and music videos while a film student at NYU. By the time she graduated she had formed her own editorial company, Assemblage. “Windfall,”...
Annette Bening to Be Honored at AFI Fest
Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women” recently premiered to rave reviews at the New York Film Festival, and much of that praise was directed towards the drama’s star, Annette Bening. The...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Nicolette Krebitz — “Wild”
Nicolette Krebitz was born and raised in Berlin. After graduating from the National Ballet School, she studied acting at The Fritz Kirchhoff School in Berlin until 1992. Afterwards, she worked in...
Lifetime Greenlights Dark Comedy Series Created by Tara Armstrong
Lifetime has found great success exploring the cutthroat behind-the-scenes world of reality television in “UnREAL,” and now the network is tapping into more controversial subject...
Best-Selling Author Helen Walsh To Direct Second Feature
Award-winning novelist Helen Walsh is stepping behind the camera for a second time, Screen International reports. The English writer-director will follow up her 2015 debut “The Violators” with...
Aubrey Plaza’s “Nightmare Time” Gets Pilot Order from TBS
“Parks and Recreation” star Aubrey Plaza is involved in a new TV project, but this time she’ll be working behind the scenes, Deadline reports. TBS has given a pilot order to Plaza’s...
Lifetime’s “UnREAL” Gets a New Showrunner
“UnREAL” has a new captain steering the ship. The Emmy-nominated Lifetime series has hired a new showrunner for its third season, which begins production in February, 2017. The Hollywood...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Rahmatou Keita — “The Wedding Ring”
Rahmatou Keïta was born in Niger. After studying philosophy and linguistics in Paris, she started her career in France and made a name for herself as a journalist for European TV channels. In 1993,...
Queen Latifah to Be Honored with Princess Grace Award
Queen Latifah is set to receive a prestigious honor from the Princess Grace Foundation, Shadow and Act reports. The Prince Rainier III Award, given in recognition of “a renowned leader in the Arts...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Anocha Suwichakornpong — “By the Time It Gets Dark”
Born in Thailand, Anocha Suwichakornpong graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in film from Columbia University in New York. Her thesis film, “Graceland,” was screened at the Cannes Film...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Wang Yichun — “What’s in the Darkness”
“What’s in the Darkness” marks Wang Yichun’s directorial debut. The film screened at the Berlinale and the ninth FIRST International Film Festival in Xining, China. Yichun won the Best...
Oscar Foreign Language Race is 19 Percent Women-Directed
The Academy Awards won’t air until February 26, 2017 — over four months from today. Still, Oscar buzz is mounting. The Academy has announced all of the submissions for Best Foreign Language...
“Prime Suspect: Tennison” Heading to Masterpiece
The rebooted story of Detective Jane Tennison now has Masterpiece on board. Masterpiece will co-produce the “Prime Suspect” prequel “Prime Suspect: Tennison,” alongside ITV Studios and NoHo...
Jennifer Diaz Becomes First Female Head Carpenter of IATSE Theater Union
Jennifer Diaz has made history. In the 120 year history of Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, she is the first female head carpenter. In a profile in The New York...
NYFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Natalia Almada — “Everything Else”
Natalia Almada is recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Award and of the 2009 Sundance Documentary Directing Award for her film “El General.” Almada’s 2011 film “El Velador” premiered at...
“Sisters of Comedy” Joins New York Comedy Festival
Back in March, filmmaker and activist Agunda Okeyo announced a new monthly production called “Sisters of Comedy,” which is presented at Caroline’s on Broadway. “Sisters of Comedy” just...
Trailer Watch: A Woman Rules the Kitchen in “Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table”
Ella Brennan was one of America’s foremost restaurateurs, and now her life is being explored in the brand new documentary “Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table.” Directed by Oscar and...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Alice Lowe — “Prevenge”
Known for her work as a UK television comedy actress, Alice Lowe made her move into film with her screenwriting debut “Sightseers,” directed by Ben Wheatley, in which she also starred. After...
Variety’s Power of Women Honors Helen Mirren, Ava DuVernay, Scarlett Johansson, Laverne Cox, and…
Variety’s Power of Women Honors Helen Mirren, Ava DuVernay, Scarlett Johansson, Laverne Cox, and Miley Cyrus Variety has announced this year’s female entertainers for their annual Power of...
Watch: Jessica Sanders Celebrates the Power of Female Filmmakers in New Short
Academy Award-nominated producer and documentary filmmaker Jessica Sanders has turned her lens towards female directors, and the results are glorious. The activist has assembled a group of twenty...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Anna Muylaert — “Don’t Call Me Son”
Anna Muylaert was born in São Paulo. She has directed many shorts, including the award-winning “The Origin of Babies.” Her feature credits include “Durval Discos,” “É Proibido Fumar,”...
Campus Rape Series “Controversy” in the Works at Fox
Sexual assault was the focus of the second season of FX’s “American Crime,” but a new series is tackling this timely, sensitive subject matter from the get go, and from a decidedly different...
Tina Fey to Be Honored at THR’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast
Tina Fey will be honored at The Hollywood’s Reporter’s 2016 Women in Entertainment breakfast, THR reports. The writer, actress, and producer will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award,...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Fiona Gordon — “Lost in Paris”
Fiona Gordon studied theater and movement in Paris. She met Dominique Abel at the Lecoq school and after a short period in London working with Theatre de Complicité, she joined Abel in Belgium...
Shirley MacLaine to Recieve LA Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced that this year’s Career Achievement Award will go to the fabulous Shirley MacLaine, Variety writes. “We are very excited to be giving the...
Trailer Watch: Germany’s Delightfully Dysfunctional Oscar Pick “Toni Erdmann”
“Toni Erdmann” has had critics and audiences talking since its world premiere at Cannes back in May. Those who haven’t caught Maren Ade’s acclaimed comedy on the festival circuit finally...
Kirsten Johnson, Ava DuVernay, and More Nominated for Critics’ Choice Doc Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) have announced the nominees for the inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards,...
Quote of the Day: Ava DuVernay Says Hollywood is “a Patriarchy”
Ava DuVernay is having one hell of a 2016. After bursting into Oscar conversations, mainstream Hollywood circles, and onto A-lists in 2014 with her film “Selma,” DuVernay has been incredibly...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet So Yong Kim — “Lovesong”
So Yong Kim is an award-winning Korean-American independent filmmaker. In 2006 Kim received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her debut feature, “In Between Days.” Her...
Krista Vernoff Lands Pilot at NBC
NBC has ordered a put pilot from “Shameless” executive producer Krista Vernoff, Deadline reports. Along with her “Shameless” co-producer John Wells, Vernoff will executive produce “Flight...
Trailer Watch: Zoe Kazan Faces “The Monster” in New Horror Film
A pulse-quickening trailer has been released for “The Monster,” a mother-daughter horror film toplined by Emmy-nominated actress Zoe Kazan. The “Olive Kitteridge” star plays a divorced...
Gina Rodriguez to Host and Produce Ceremony Honoring Young Women
“Jane the Virgin” star Gina Rodriguez is producing and hosting a ceremony to honor young women making a difference in the world, the AP reports. Called the Marie Claire Young Women’s Honors,...
Production Begins on Angela Robinson’s “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”
Looks like we’re going to be getting another Wonder Woman movie pretty soon, though this one isn’t from Patty Jenkins and has a bit of a twist. Production has begun on producer, writer, and...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Mijke de Jong — “Layla M.”
Mijke de Jong’s international breakthrough came with “Bluebird,” for which she won a number of awards, including the Crystal Bear at the 2005 Berlinale. Her other credits include “Stages,”...
“Queen Sugar” Names Monica Macer as Season 2 Showrunner
“Queen Sugar” is getting a new showrunner for Season 2, Deadline reports. With creator, executive producer, and co-showrunner Ava DuVernay having to turn her attention to Disney’s “A Wrinkle...
“Finding Dory” Passes $1 Billion Mark
A blue tang has found herself among box office royalty — superheroes, star-crossed lovers Rose and Jack, and her old friend Nemo the clownfish. That’s right: “Finding Dory” has joined...
Nanfu Wang to Recieve IDA’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced the honorees for its upcoming 32nd Annual Documentary Awards. The special awards honorees, Screen Daily reports, will include...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Mattie Do — “Dearest Sister”
Mattie Do launched her career in the movie industry working as a makeup artist. Do is an alumni of the Cannes’ Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde talent lab, the TIFF Director Talent Lab, and the...
Trailer Watch: Isabelle Huppert is Finally Free in “Things to Come”
“I met someone.” A newly released trailer for writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come” starts on a sour note: The film’s protagonist, Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert), learns that...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum— “Letters from Baghdad”
Sabine Krayenbühl is an award-winning editor with over 20 theatrical documentaries and narrative features to her credit. Her work includes Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated “My...
Weekly Update for October 7: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
“The Girl on the Train” Films About Women Opening This Week The Girl on the Train — Written by Erin Cressida Wilson Rachel (Emily Blunt), devastated by her recent divorce, spends her...
NYFF 2016 Co-Directors: Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger— “Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan”
Linda Saffire has worked on numerous award-winning film and television productions. Among her feature documentary and film credits are “A Conversation with Gregory Peck,” a collaboration with...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Dreams of Being a “Ballerina”
Elle Fanning takes on the voice of the lead role of Félicie Milliner in the English-language version of the French animated film “Ballerina,” which has just premiered a lovely new trailer. Set...
“Orange is the New Black’s” Diane Guerrero Set to Star in Immigration Drama at CBS
Diane Guerrero of “Orange is the New Black” and “Jane the Virgin” is set to star in a CBS drama based on her memoir, “In the Country We Love: My Family Divided,” Deadline reports. The...
Diane Keaton to Be Honored with AFI’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Film Institute has announced that actress, director, producer, and writer Diane Keaton will be honored with the 45th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. “Diane Keaton is one of the most...
“Divorce” is No “Catastrophe”
Maybe it’s just that Sharon Horgan’s caustic dialogue sounds better in her own Irish accent. Maybe it’s too soon after “The Affair” to watch another well-off couple duking it out in an...
D.C.’s Signature Theatre and Broadway Producer Launch Writers Initiative to Support Female…
D.C.’s Signature Theatre and Broadway Producer Launch Writers Initiative to Support Female Playwrights Broadway producer Jenna Segal is teaming up with the Washington D.C. Signature Theatre to...
Trailer Watch: “It Had To Be You” Flips the Script on Marriage Proposals
Romantic comedies centering on heterosexual couples typically treat marriage proposals as a man’s job: The woman waits passively to be swept off her feet by her beloved’s grand, romantic...
BBC Orders “Motherland” Comedy from “Catastrophe’s” Sharon Horgan
The BBC has ordered a full season of Sharon Horgan’s new comedy “Motherland,” The Hollywood Reporter writes. Horgan is the co-creator and star of “Catastrophe,” which she has co-written...