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Cannes Final Juries Curiously Feature Female Actors and Male Directors
The Un Certain Regard Jury: Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 11–22 this year, has announced the jury members of the Un Certain Regard, Camera D’Or, and...
Daisy Ridley to Star in Holocaust Drama “The Lost Wife”
Daisy Ridley continues to ride the wave of her “Star Wars” success. According to Variety, the “Force Awakens” breakout is attached to star in “The Lost Wife,” a drama based on Alyson...
Trailer Watch: “The Fits” Turns Hysteria Into Dance
To film her directorial debut, “The Fits,” director Anna Rose Holmer scoured the West End of Cincinnati to cast real, non-actor teenagers for added authenticity. The resulting energy is clear...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Aslaug Holm— “Brothers”
Aslaug Holm is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor, as well as a partner and founder at Fenris Film since 1992. She has directed over 20 documentaries, including “The Rich...
LA Film Festival Unveils 2016 Lineup with 43% Women Directors
“Paint it Black”: LA Film Festival The LA Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its 2016 edition. Women directors are very well represented in the 22nd annual fest— take note, Cannes. The...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Molly Reynolds — “Another Country”
Molly Reynolds specializes in screen-based storytelling and digital media production. When she isn’t earning a living as a consultant in the digital sphere, she makes documentaries, including...
Lesli Linka Glatter Will Receive AFI’s Alumni Medal
Director Lesli Linka Glatter will be honored with the 2016 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, the American Film Institute has announced in a release. The award, AFI notes, “recognizes the...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Samira Goetschel — “City 40”
Samira Goetschel is an Iranian-born American award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. An alumnus of NYU Film School, her graduating film, “Clown de la Vie,” won Best Short Film at the New...
Trailer Watch: “AbFab” Ladies Kill Kate Moss and Flee to France
Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) are coming to the big screen, and now a full-length trailer has been released giving us an idea of what to expect from the tremendously...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Viveka Melki— “After Circus”
Viveka Melki is a storyteller working primarily in film. Her projects shed light on social issues that are often overlooked and focus on the resilience and hope of individuals and communities...
Paramount TV Developing “All the Single Ladies” from Rebecca Traister
Paramount TV has picked up the rights to Rebecca Traister’s best-selling book “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,” Variety has reported. Traister,...
Disney’s Upcoming Slate Includes Few Female Directors
Like 20th Century Fox before them, Disney recently released a line-up of films with few female directors in sight. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has staked out prime release dates for...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Susan Gluth — “Urmila: My Memory Is My Power”
Susan Gluth was born in Hamburg. After practical training as a forest ranger, cook, and veterinarian, she studied business and commerce, followed by film at the University of Television & Film...
Meet the Winner of Marvel’s Women in STEM Internship Challenge
Coinciding with the upcoming May 6 release of Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” Disney and Marvel Studios, Dolby Laboratories, Synchrony Bank, Broadcom MASTERS and Science &...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival to Feature Mexican Female Directors
“Amazing Cat Fish”: Karlovy Vary Film Festival The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which runs from July 1–9 this summer, has announced this year’s fest will include a special segment focusing on...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Eva Orner — “Chasing Asylum”
Academy and Emmy Award winner Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. According to her bio, Orner wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary “The Network,” set...
Trailer Watch: Penélope Cruz Fights Breast Cancer in “Ma ma”
Few movies stars can bridge the divide between Europe and the U.S. as effortlessly as Penélope Cruz. Though she continues to appear in American studio flicks like “Zoolander 2” and“The...
Cannes Film Festival Jury Includes Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Vanessa Paradis, and Katayoon…
Cannes Film Festival Jury Includes Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Vanessa Paradis, and Katayoon Shahabi The Cannes Film Festival has announced the complete Jury for the 69th fest, which will run...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Rama Rau — “League of Exotique Dancers”
Rama Rau is an award-winning writer-director whose credits include cyber bullying doc “No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story” (2015), which had its world premiere at Hot Docs and was among...
Theresa Rebeck to Write and Direct Family Drama Starring Anjelica Huston
Great news for fans of NBC’s “Smash.” The creator behind the musical drama is set to reunite with two of its stars. Theresa Rebeck will write and direct “Trouble,” an indie comedy drama...
Trailer Watch: “Weiner” Sex Scandal Rocks the Political World
A trailer has finally landed for Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman’s political sex scandal doc “Weiner.” The feature took home the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this...
Nancy Buirski To Make Jim Crow South Sexual Violence Drama
Award-winning filmmaker Nancy Buirski has her next project lined up. The director of “The Loving Story” and “By Sidney Lumet” will helm “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” described as an “epic...
Tribeca Winner Ingrid Jungermann Gets Showtime Deal
Hot off her Best Screenplay win at Tribeca for “Women Who Kill” comes the news that writer-director-actress Ingrid Jungermann is headed to the small screen. She’ll executive produce and write...
Women-Directed Tribeca Audience Award Winners: “The Return” and “Children of the Mountain”
The Audience Awards for the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced. Women helmed two of the four features to honored at the 15th edition of the fest. Taking home the top prize in the...
Emma Stone, Kate McKinnon, and Jillian Bell Will Star in “Women in Business”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emma Stone, Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live,” “Ghostbusters”), and Jillian Belle (“22 Jump Street”) have signed on for the comedy “Women in...
Trailer Watch: “Lady Dynamite” Loses Her Mind and Makes a TV Show
Sometimes you have to lose your mind to find yourself. Or so Maria Bamford (“Adventure Time”)has learned, and is so expressed in her upcoming Netflix comedy, “Lady Dynamite,” for which a new...
Weekly Update for April 22: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
“The Meddler”: Sony Pictures Classics Films About Women Opening This Week “The Meddler” — Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria (Opens in LA and NYC)Susan Sarandon is every young...
Trailer Watch: The King and the President Cross Paths in Liza Johnson’s “Elvis & Nixon”
It takes a lot of chutzpah to send the President of the United States a letter that reads, “I can and will do more good if I am made a Federal Agent at large” — especially when such a...
Trailer Watch: “Chevalier,” Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Buddy Comedy from Hell
A U.S. trailer has arrived for “Chevalier,” award-winning Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s hilarious dark comedy about middle-aged male frenemies. A group of six men aboard a luxury...
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