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Remaking Hollywood: Towards a Better, More Inclusive Future – A Conversation About Criticism
The Girls Club’s next Remaking Hollywood conversation will be with several critics and journalists to discuss what criticism looks like during the pandemic — and what could be different...
Weekly Update for May 1: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Submit Now: Athena Film Festival’s Virtual Writers Lab
The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College has just announced its first ever Virtual Writers Lab. In partnership with WIST (Women in the Script Trade) and Stephens College, the Athena Film Festival...
“Bull” Director Annie Silverstein on Rodeo Culture and the Realities of On-Set Childcare
Interview by Becca Harrison Annie Silverstein won the Cinéfondation jury prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for “Skunk,” a short about a 14-year-old girl whose pit bull is stolen by an...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume V)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Weekly Update for April 24: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Remaking Hollywood – Conversation with Lisa Cortés, Anne Carey, & Mary Jane Skalski
The Girls Club’s latest Remaking Hollywood: How to Build a Better, More Inclusive Future conversation will center producers Lisa Cortés, Anne Carey, and Mary Jane Skalski — how they are...
Weekly Update for April 17: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Tribeca 2020 Preview: Hurricane Maria, Hereditary Trauma, and More
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival has been postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Of 114 features that were set to screen, 44 were directed or co-directed by a woman, amounting to about...
Remaking Hollywood: How to Build a Better, More Inclusive Future – Conversation with Sarah Mosses
The next conversation in Girls Club’s Remaking Hollywood series will be this Thursday, April 16, at 2 p.m. EST. Girls Club member Sarah Mosses, CEO and founder of Together Films, will join us....
Weekly Update for April 10: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume IV)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Weekly Update for April 3: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume III)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Alyssa Milano Exec Producing “Surge,” Doc About Women Candidates in 2018 Midterms
The longer the coronavirus crisis rages on, the more obvious it is that we need new, better people in office. You know, ones who aren’t science deniers. Luckily, there is a documentary that...
Weekly Update for March 27: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We’ll be enjoying media from the comfort of our homes and encourage you...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume II)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Quote of the Day: Cathy Yan on Making Harley Quinn Her Own Hero and Savior in “Birds of Prey”
Cathy Yan reflects on transforming Harley Quinn from little more than the Joker’s girlfriend to a fantabulously emancipated three-dimensional character in “Birds of Prey” in a new...
Quote of the Day: Vanessa Bell Calloway on the Visibility of Black Women in Hollywood
With well over 100 credits to her name and decades of experience in the business, Vanessa Bell Calloway has witnessed first-hand how much in Hollywood has changed — and how much has stayed the...
Weekly Update for March 20: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We’ll be enjoying media from the comfort of our homes and encourage you...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help.
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
The Girls Club Is Offering Free One-Month Membership
Founded by Women and Hollywood publisher and founder Melissa Silverstein, the Girls Club is a community for women creatives, culture-changers, and storytellers to connect, create, network, advocate,...
Women and Hollywood’s Response to COVID-19
Friends, We’re living in unprecedented times. At Women and Hollywood we are trying to determine how to operate in the throes of the coronavirus. We remain dedicated to supporting works by and...
Weekly Update for March 13: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Written and Directed by Eliza Hittman Eliza Hittman’s latest depicts 17-year-old Autumn’s (Sidney Flanigan) attempts to deal with...
SXSW 2020 Preview: Striking Secretaries, an Inclusive Musical, and More
After murmurs of speculation, word came last week that SXSW 2020 had officially been cancelled. Coronavirus put the brakes on the 27th edition of the Austin-based fest, which was set to include a...
Has Your Project Been Impacted by SXSW or Another Fest’s Cancellation? W&H Wants to Help
With the cancellation of SXSW — and numerous other festivals and events — due to the coronavirus outbreak, many filmmaking teams are struggling. Money has been lost, not to mention a huge...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for March 12
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Frankie Shaw Is Developing an HBO Limited Series Based on Judy Blume’s “Wifey”
Frankie Shaw is returning to the small screen. The Golden Globe-nominated “SMILF” star, creator, writer, director, and exec producer is developing a limited series adaptation of Judy...
Weekly Update for March 6: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Go Back to China – Written and Directed by Emily Ting (Also Available on VOD) This semi-autobiographical film follows spoiled rich girl Sasha Li (Anna Akana), who...
Tribeca Film Festival’s 2020 Feature Program Is 39 Percent Women-Directed
Tribeca Film Festival has announced its 2020 slate. Of 114 features set to screen, 44 are directed or co-directed by a woman, amounting to about 39 percent of the slate. The fest’s 18th edition...
Weekly Update for February 28: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Invisible Man Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Elizabeth Moss) escapes in the dead of night and...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for February 27
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
“Saudi Runaway” Lands at Nat Geo Documentary Films
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the rights to “Saudi Runaway” following its world premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, Deadline confirms. Susanne...
Exclusive: A Teen Takes a Pregnancy Test in a Clip of Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
A teen discovers the result of her pregnancy test in our exclusive clip of Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” “If it’s positive is there any way it can be...
Weekly Update for February 21: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Emma. – Directed by Autumn de Wilde; Written by Eleanor Catton (Opens in Limited Release; Opens in Wide Release March 6) Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for February 19
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Weekly Update for February 14: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Photograph – Written and Directed by Stella Meghie When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton (Issa...
Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic “The Glorias” Lands at LD Entertainment & Roadside Attractions
“The Glorias” will hit theaters early this fall. LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have scored domestic rights to Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Gloria Steinem’s 2015...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for February 13
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Guest Post: Collaborating Taught Me Different Ways of Making Films and Seeing the World
Guest Post by Lynne Sachs Most people imagine the structure for making a film as a pyramid with one person sitting proudly at the top. The industry as we know it endows the director with almost...
Oscars 2020: Female Composers Make History, Natalie Portman Honors Women Directors
Exactly zero women were up for Best Director at last night’s Academy Awards, but Natalie Portman helped ensure that some of 2019’s leading female filmmakers got attention on film’s...
Weekly Update for February 7: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – Directed by Cathy Yan; Written by Christina Hodson You ever hear the one about the cop, the...
Guest Post: Why Do We Reduce “Little Women’s” March Sisters to Types?
Guest Post by Sarah Rebell Which March sister are you? The Internet is full of online quizzes asking that question, and promising to tell you whether you’re more of a reliable Meg or a headstrong...
Weekly Update for January 31: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Rhythm Section – Directed by Reed Morano Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively) is an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for January 30
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Berlinale 2020: 33 Percent of Competition Titles Are Women-Directed
The Berlin International Film Festival has announced its 2020 Competition lineup. The program is composed of 18 titles, and six of them, or 33 percent, are directed or co-directed by women. Last...
“Rafiki” Writer-Director Wanuri Kahiu Will Helm Gotham Group’s Adaptation of “The Black Kids”
“Rafiki” writer-director Wanuri Kahiu is revisiting an important chapter in American history. The Gotham Group has tapped the Kenyan filmmaker to direct “The Black Kids,” a...
Celine Song Will Write and Direct A24’s Korean Romance “Past Lives”
Celine Song is set to make her feature directorial debut. The “Endings” playwright will write and direct Korean romance “Past Lives” for A24. Collider broke the...
Weekly Update for January 24: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Turning – Directed by Floria Sigismondi Inspired by Henry James’ landmark novel, “The Turning” takes us to a mysterious estate in the Maine countryside,...
Megan McDonnell to Write “Captain Marvel 2,” Marvel Looking to Hire a Female Filmmaker to Direct
Megan McDonnell is writing the next chapter of Carol Danvers’ epic journey, taking Brie Larson “higher, further, faster” than ever before. Already part of the Marvel family, the...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for January 23
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...