Documentary
SXSW Women Directors: Meet Nelly Ben Hayoun — ‘Disaster Playground’
Award-winning director and designer of experiences Nelly Ben Hayoun is a critical explorer and a fearless and passionate provocateur. Wired Magazine awarded Nelly Ben Hayoun with an Innovation...
Listen: Women and Hollywood Podcast #9: ‘The Hunting Ground’ Producer Amy Ziering
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Tribeca FF Announces Lineup for High-Profile Spotlight Screenings: Claudia Llosa, Leslye Headland
While women directors are well-represented in the international categories at the upcoming 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, they feature much less prominently in the high-profile Spotlight section. TFF...
Women Directors Well Represented in Tribeca Fest’s First Round of Announced Films
The lineups of two international categories at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced, and female directors are well represented in both competition lineups. Eight of the 12 World...
SFFS Announces 2015 Documentary Film Fund Finalists; 7 Women Directors Make the List
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the finalists for its 2015 Documentary Film Fund, with awards totaling more than $75,000 going towards feature-length documentaries in post-production....
Women and Hollywood Pick of the Week: ‘The Hunting Ground’
“The Hunting Ground” is an extraordinarily powerful and searing look at the epidemic of sexual assault on campuses across this country. College is supposed to be the first step towards adulthood...
EXCLUSIVE TRAILER: ‘How I Got Over’ Chronicles the Streets-to-Stage Journey of 15 Homeless Women
The talent, intelligence, and creativity of women on the margins is showcased in “How I Got Over,” an inspirational documentary that chronicles how 15 formerly homeless women put together and...
Berlinale Women Directors: Meet Willemiek Kluijfhout — ‘Sergio Herman: F*cking Perfect’
Willemiek Kluijfhout studied Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and attended the DutchFilm and Television Academy as a director. She has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries...
Berlinale Women Directors: Meet Silvina Landsmann — ‘Hotline’
Born in Argentina in 1965, Silvina Landsmann emigrated to Israel with her family at the age of eleven. After studying psychology in Paris and math in Tel Aviv, she graduated from Tel Aviv...
SXSW Lineup Announced: 5 of 20 Films in Competition Directed By Women; DuVernay To Give Keynote
Few of South by Southwest 2015’s highest-profile films will be directed by women. The Austin festival, which will take place on March 13–21, will showcase only two narrative features in...
Sundance 2015 Winners: Kim Longinotto, Jennifer Phang, Alante Kavaite, Chai Vasarhelyi
Sundance 2015 proved to be an action-packed — and awards-heavy — time for female filmmakers. A number of female filmmakers, especially documentarians, left Park City with prizes from the...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York — ‘Tig’
Kristina Goolsby’s producing credits include Intervention and Who Do You Think You Are? Ashley York previously served as a producer on Inside Deep Throat and TransGeneration, and she directed the...
Sundance Women Producers: Meet Susan Bedusa — ‘Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead’
Susan Bedusa is currently Senior Vice President of Production and Development at 4th Row Films, where she sets up development and distribution deals with various networks and studios. She also...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Sophie Deraspe — ‘The Amina Profile’
Sophie Deraspe fell into cinema through visual arts and literature. As both a director and a cinematographer, she worked mostly in documentary before directing her realism-bending first feature...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Kim Longinotto — ‘Dreamcatcher’
One of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned internationally for her compellingly human portraits and her sensitive and compassionate treatment of difficult...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Alexandra Shiva — ‘How to Dance in Ohio’
Alexandra Shiva is the founder of Gidalya Pictures, a Manhattan-based documentary production company. Shiva produced and directed Bombay Eunuch in 2001, which went on to win Best Documentary Feature...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Erika Cohn — ‘In Football We Trust’
Erika Cohn is a DGA award-winning filmmaker with a diverse background in the arts and a passion for documentary photography. (Kickstarter)Co-directed by Tony Vainaku, In Football We Trust will...
‘A Path Appears’: Finding Hope and Horror While Uncovering Stories of Global Gender Oppression
Trailer Watch: How College Campuses Became ‘The Hunting Ground’ for Rapists
The first trailer has arrived for The Hunting Ground, and it is heartbreaking and frustrating, which is to be expected given its subject matter: the ubiquity of sexual assault on U.S. campuses and...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Mor Loushy — ‘Censored Voices’
Mor Loushy graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2007 and has been working as a freelancer ever since. Her debut film, Israel Ltd., world-premiered at IDFA 2009 and has been...
Guest Post: Earning My Invitation into the Highly Secretive, Male-Dominated Fraternity of Magicians
Ricky Jay, the subject of my American Mastersdocumentary DeceptivePractice (premieres Friday, January23 at 9 PM on PBS), told me that the field of sleight of hand is one of theworld’s few true...
Watch: First Clip from Liz Garbus’ Nina Simone Documentary
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Louise Osmond — ‘Dark Horse’
Director Louise Osmond started her career at the UK network ITN in their news journalism graduate trainee program, covering stories in Europe and Africa before moving into documentaries. Her most...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Ilinca Calugareanu — ‘Chuck Norris vs Communism’
Ilinca Călugăreanu is a freelance documentary filmmaker and editor based in London with a background in anthropology. As she describes herself, “I moved towards filmmaking whilst exploring the...
Guest Post: ‘It Happened Here’: Documenting Rape Culture on College Campuses
I’ve been adocumentary filmmaker for over 40 years, and in that span I have crafted film on topicsas diverse as the Barbie doll, the New York Mets, restorative justice, breastcancer, and people...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Friday Barkfors — ‘Pervert Park’
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Chai Vasarhelyi — ‘Meru’
(Elizabeth) Chai Vasarhelyi is an award-winning film director and producer with Hungarian, Chinese, and Brazilian roots. Her first film, A Normal Life, about young Kosovars who came of age during...
Guest Post: #OscarSoWhite Includes the Documentary Category, Too
The 2015 Oscarnominations upset many people. When the Academy nominated the highlyregarded film Selma for Best Picture but snubbed its African-American femaledirector, Ava DuVernay, publications as...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jean Carlomusto — ‘Larry Kramer in Love and Anger’
Jean Carlomusto’s documentaries have been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums, and on television. She produced, directed, and edited Sex in an Epidemic, which premiered on Showtime....
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Liz Garbus — ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’
Academy Award-nominated director/producer Liz Garbus co-founded Moxie Firecracker, Inc., an independent documentary production company, with filmmaker Rory Kennedy in 1998. Her directorial credits...
Alexandra Shiva’s Autism Coming-of-Age Doc ‘How to Dance in Ohio’ Acquired by HBO
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Guest Post: How I Met My Mother By Making My Family History Doc ‘Farewell Herr Schwarz’
After two hours of interviews, thecinematographer signals that the battery is running out and that we need tostop. Thank God. I have been interviewing my mother for what feels like aneternity now,...
Trailer Watch: ‘Above and Beyond’ Uncovers the Little-Known American Origins of the Israeli Air Force
If Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken whet your appetite for more tales of WWII heroics, Roberta Grossman’s Above and Beyond will likely satisfy that craving. The Nancy Spielberg-produced documentary...
Trailer Watch: Searching for Solutions to Women’s Oppression in ‘A Path Appears’
Trailer Watch: ‘Jane’ is a Portrait of Jane Fonda As a Young, Pre-Fame Artist
Chicken & Egg Pictures Gives $330,000 in Grants to 18 Women-Directed Projects
In anticipation of its 10-year anniversary next year, Chicken & Egg Pictures has chosen 18 documentaries to receive $330,000 in funding. Fourteen new films were selected as part of the 2014 Open...
Laura Poitras’ ‘Citizenfour,’ Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Make Oscar Doc Shortlist
Three political documentaries and a nonfiction yarn about art forgery represent female documentarians’ contributions to the 2015 Oscar doc shortlist. Four women-directed works will be eligible...
Amy Berg Partnering With Nate Parker for Doc About the “Black Male Crisis”
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Hella de Jonge — ‘Don’t Lose Heart’
Sculptor and writer Hella de Jonge has published two books about her youth and her family: Los van de wereld (Apart from the World) and Spring (Jump). (Press materials) Don’t Lose Heart will play...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Katelijne Schrama — ‘Georgica’
Katelijne Schrama studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she produced a short film, Daydreams and Sandman, for her end exam. Since then, she has worked as a freelance...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Camilla Nielsson — ‘Democrats’
Camilla Nielsson was trained asa documentary filmmaker at the Tisch School of the Artsand holds an M.A. in visual anthropologyfrom New York University (NYU). Theaward-winning filmmaker has directed...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Lia Jaspers — ‘Match Me!’
Munich-born Lia Jaspers is the director of the documentaries Tar Dakar (2005), You Drive Me Crazy (2012), and Match Me! (2014). She lives and works as a freelance author and writer in Munich. Match...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Eline Jongsma — ‘Empire’
Eline Jongsma is one half of Jongsma + O’Neill, an award-winning Dutch-American creative team working at the intersection of documentary, art, and technology. Jongsma + O’Neill’s latest...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Eva Tomanova — ‘Always Together’
Eva Tomanova is a Czech author and director with abackground in journalism. For the last eight years, she has worked for Czech TV,Febio s.r.o., and TV Barrandov, and as a director of documentary...
IDFA Women Directors: Meet Gina Leibrecht — ‘How to Smell a Rose’
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Gracie Otto- ‘The Last Impresario’
Gracie Otto is an accomplished filmmaker with substantialcredits as a director, writer, editor, and actress from her bases in Sydney,Paris, and Los Angeles. Since graduating from Sydney Film School...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Jilann Spitzmiller — ‘Still Dreaming’
DOC NYC Women Directors & Producers: Meet Roberta Grossman and Nancy Spielberg — ‘Above and Beyond’
Roberta Grossman (Above and Beyond’s director) is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice. She has written and produced more than forty hours of documentary film...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander — ‘Us, Naked: Trixie and Monkey’
Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander is a full-time professor at the MarylandInstitute College of Art (MICA), where she teaches in Foundation; Film andVideo; and Community Arts. She has received numerous...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Cheryl Furjanic — ‘Back on Board: Greg Louganis’
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Olga Lvoff — ‘When People Die They Sing Songs’
Olga Lvoff received an MFA in Social Documentary from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. She has worked as an independent film director since 2009. Her recent short documentary film, Two Travelers,...