BY Women and Hollywood
Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve Confirmed to Write ‘Captain Marvel’ Movie
Marvel has hired two women writers, “Guardians of the Galaxy” co-writer Nicole Perlman and “Inside Out” co-writer Meg LeFauve, to pen the company’s first female-driven film. Marvel...
Barbara Seyda’s Debut Play “Celia, a Slave: 26 Characters Testify” Wins Yale Drama Prize
Barbara Seyda’s first play, “Celia, a Slave: 26 Characters Testify,” has been named this year’s winner of the prestigious Yale Drama Series Prize. Based on historical events, “Celia”...
Ann Hui’s ‘The Golden Era’ Wins Hong Kong Film Awards’ Best Film, Best Director Prizes
Ann Hui’s “The Golden Era” continues its domination of Chinese film awards. Hong Kong’s 2015 Oscar submission for the foreign-language-film category has thus far garnered Hui, its director,...
Cannes 2015 Announces All-Male Roster for Critics’ Week Program
Cannes lives up to its chauvinistic reputation once again with an all-male roster for its high-profile Critics’ Week program. This year’s jury president Ronit Elkabetz will have ten features to...
Susan Sarandon to Exec Produce Rebecca Parrish’s Doc About Feminist Nuns
Twenty years after her Academy Award-winning performance as Sister Helen Prejean in “Dead Man Walking,” Susan Sarandon is attached to another project about politically progressive nuns. Sarandon...
Noomi Rapace to Star in Sci-fi Thriller ‘Rupture’
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace has landed the lead role in “Rupture,” a sci-fi adventure thriller about a single mother who is kidnapped by a mysterious organization and learns an extraordinary...
Meryl Streep Launches Fund for Women Screenwriters Over 40
One of the highlights of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is the announcement of a new program funded by Meryl Streep to provide support and development opportunities for women screenwriters over...
Cinedigm Acquires Sarah Hirsh Bordo’s ‘A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story’
Cinedigm has secured the North American rights to Sara Hirsh Bordo’s directorial debut, “A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story.” The documentary premiered at SXSW to great acclaim, winning...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy — ‘Song of Lahore’
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is an Academy-and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work centers on human rights and women’s issues. She has worked with refugees and marginalized communities...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Cosima Spender — ‘Palio’
London-based director Cosima Spender graduated with a degree in anthropology and art history from the University of London. Since graduating from the National Film and Television School in 2001, she...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Vanessa Hope — “All Eyes and Ears”
Vanessa Hope started her film career in China while teaching a graduate course at People’s University. Fluent in Chinese, she’s produced multiple films in China, with civil rights as a common...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Lisa Immordino Vreeland — ‘Peggy Guggenheim — Art Addict’
Long immersed in the world of fashion, Italian director Lisa Immordino Vreeland adapted her book “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” into her first documentary. It won the Silver Hugo at the...
Weekly Update for April 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Alex of Venice — Co-Written by Jessica Goldberg and Katie Nehra (simultaneously releasing to VOD) In “Alex of Venice,” workaholic environmental attorney...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Natalia Leite — ‘Bare’
Natalia Leite is from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since moving to New York, she has directed music videos, documentaries and short films. She is a recipient of the Kodak Grant Award, a Sundance Screenwriters...
Jill Soloway to Deliver Keynote for AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women Showcase
“Transparent” creator and “Afternoon Delight” writer-director Jill Soloway will deliver the keynote address at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) Showcase on May 14. Soloway will...
Sony to Distribute Kelly Reichardt’s Next Film With Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams
Sony has acquired the global distribution rights to Kelly Reichardt’s next film. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy about small-town life in Montana, the untitled project will be a series of...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Claudia Llosa — ‘Aloft’
Clauda Llosa was born in Lima, Peru. Her debut film “Madeinusa” premiered in Sundance’s official competition in 2006 and won several international awards. Her second film, “The Milk of...
Anna Kendrick Signs Book Deal for Humorous Autobiographical Essays
Anna Kendrick is adding another title to her already impressive resume. The Academy Award-nominated actress and Tony-nominated musical star will soon be a published author. Kendrick has signed a...
Sarah Jessica Parker’s ‘Divorce’ Comedy a Go at HBO
Thirteen years after “Sex and the City” ended its run, Sarah Jessica Parker has announced her return to HBO to explore another facet of modern womanhood. In a single-cam comedy called...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Amy Kohn — ‘A Courtship’
Amy Kohn is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and showrunner. Her documentary work has included the critically acclaimed “My Life as a Child” (TLC), which profiled children ages 7 to 11...
Trailer Watch: Elizabeth Banks Searches For a Missing Child in Amy Berg’s ‘Every Secret Thing’
A trailer has arrived for Amy Berg’s psychological thriller “Every Secret Thing,” starring Elizabeth Banks, Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning and Danielle Macdonald (“2 Broke Girls”). The film...
Guest Post: Actress Anne Archer on How Women Can Play the Game Today
Since avery small girl, I have loved to perform and really only cared about acting. And yes, I would say it is still my number one love and goal, but I had an epiphany afew years ago that to...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Leslye Headland — ‘Sleeping with Other People’
Leslye Headland started her writing career in theater, with such plays as “Bachelorette” (Second Stage), “Assistance” (Playwrights Horizons), and the rest of the “Seven Deadly Plays”...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Hélène Zimmer — ‘Being 14’
Hélène Zimmer studied literature before directing “Being 14,” her first movie. In 2013, she co-wrote an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel “The Diary Of A Chambermaid.” (Tribeca Film...
Trailer Watch: Patricia Clarkson Takes the Wheel in Isabel Coixet’s ‘Learning to Drive’
A trailer has been released for Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s “Learning to Drive,” a romantic comedy starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley. The film, which premiered at the Toronto...
Variety’s Power of Women Awards to Honor Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Lena Dunham
Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Lena Dunham, Rachel Weisz and Kim Kardashian West will be honored at Variety’s Power of Women: New York, a biannual event celebrating the philanthropic work of women...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Hemal Trivedi — ‘Among the Believers’
Hemal Trivedi’s credits include “Outlawed in Pakistan,” “Saving Face,” “Shabeena’s Quest” and “Beyond Mumbai.” She has produced and edited over 50 award-winning shorts for...
‘Orphan Black’s’ Clone Club Admits Men — Sort Of
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Abigail Disney — ‘The Armor of Light’
Tribeca Film Festival alumna Abigail Disney is an Academy Award nominee, philanthropist and activist based in New York. Her passion for women’s issues has led her to producing films. Her film...
Cannes Announces 2015 Lineup; 5 Women Directors to Compete; Natalie Portman Makes Filmmaking Debut
Unlike many other film festivals of its caliber, Cannes has never been a great place to see works by women. A new announcement of the current 2015 lineup reveals that continues to be the case at...
Things We Learned from the Change of Directors for Wonder Woman
Not 48 hours ago, we learned that Michelle MacLaren, the woman who was going to break through DC’s superhero glass ceiling with “Wonder Woman,” had departed the project. Speculations abounded...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Laura Bispuri — ‘Sworn Virgin’
Laura Bispuri was an attendee of the Fandango Lab Workshop. She won the David Donatello Award (Italian Oscars) for Best Short Film in 2010 with “Passing Time.” “Sworn Virgin” is her first...
Gillian Anderson to Pen “Revolutionary” Self-Help Book for Women
Actress Gillian Anderson (“The Fall,” “The X-Files”) and journalist Jennifer Nadel will co-write a “revolutionary self-help guide” for women. Titled “WE,” the book will focus on the...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Malika Zouhali-Worrall — ‘Thank You For Playing’
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. She is one of the directors and the producer of “Call Me Kuchu” (2012), a documentary that depicts the last year...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Ivy Meeropol — ‘Indian Point’
Ivy Meeropol is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Her work has been featured on the Sundance Channel and HBO. Meeropol’s films have been nominated for numerous awards, and her feature, “Heir...
Authors Anne Tyler, Sara Waters, Ali Smith Make Baileys Women’s Prize Shortlist
Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler and frequent Booker Prize finalists Sara Waters and Ali Smith are among the authors shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Tyler’s “A...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Jeanie Finlay — ‘Orion: The Man Who Would Be King’
Jeanie Finlay is an acclaimedBritish artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personaldocumentary films and artworks. Her focus is on creating compelling portraits, and she is obsessed...
Sally Field’s ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’ Lands 2015 SXSW Film Fest’s Biggest Deal
A third Oscar statuette might be headed Sally Field’s way when her Sundance hit “Hello, My Name is Doris” is released by its domestic distributor, Roadside Attractions. Roadside is set to...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Andrea Nevins — ‘Play It Forward’
Academy Award-nominated Andrea Nevins has produced, directed and written for documentary film, television news, public radio and newspapers for over 25 years. She has produced critically acclaimed...
Teaser Watch: Meryl Streep Urges “Never Surrender, Never Give Up the Fight” in ‘Suffragette’ Teaser
In the all-too-brief first teaser for “Suffragette,” the team behind the political period drama reminds us that #VotingMatters. The spot has been released ahead of the UK’s general election...
2015 Full Frame Doc Film Fest Announces Winners: Lyric R. Cabral, Alexandra Shiva, Phie Ambo
Female documentarians made up 8 of the 11 award winners at the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. Betzabé Garcia’s “Kings of Nowhere” and Lyric R. Cabral...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg — ‘In My Father’s House’
Tribeca Film Festival alumni Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg are multi-award-winning producers and directors best known for “Knuckleball!,” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” “The Devil Came...
Trailer Watch: Official U.S. Spot for Kate Winslet’s Versailles Romance ‘A Little Chaos’
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Katee Sackhoff to Create and Star in Climate Change-Themed Sci-Fi Series ‘Rain’
“Battlestar Galactica” actress Katee Sackhoff will return to the future in “Rain,” a sci-fi series that she created, wrote and will star in. Sackhoff’s Fly Free Productions will partner...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Anna Sandilands — ‘Uncertain’
Anna Sandilands and her co-director Ewan McNicol are the directing and producing team behind and the co-owners and creative directors of the documentary studio Lucid Inc. Both are named in Filmmaker...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Diane Bell — ‘Bleeding Heart’
“Bleeding Heart” is writer/director Diane Bell’s second feature. Her first feature film, “Obselidia,” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival,...
Thoughts on Michelle MacLaren Departing as Director of the Wonder Woman Film
I’ve seen a lot of firsts in my life. The first African-American woman to run for President. The first woman to be nominated for Vice President by the Democratic Party. The first woman in space....
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Melanie Shaw — ‘Shut Up and Drive’
Melanie Shaw was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her short films have been featured in the LA Film Festival, NYU’s New Visions and Voices (2010 Best Director), and more. In 2011, Shaw directed a...
Rebel Wilson Presents ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Clip at MTV Awards, Confirms ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ is Happening
Rebel Wilson confirmed late last week the best possible a cappella news there is: There will be a “Pitch Perfect 3.” Wilson was also on hand to introduce a brief but satisfying clip from...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Reed Morano — ‘Meadowland’
Reed Morano is the youngest active member in the American Society of Cinematographers and one of only 13 women out of approximately 345 active members in the organization. In 2011, she was the...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Connelly Contemplates the Son She Abandoned in Claudia Llosa’s ‘Aloft’