Documentary
New Trailer for Wish Me Away: Directed by Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi
This will open in theatres in the summer but New Yorkers can catch it at the Athena Film Festival on February 11. Details here.
Sundance Video: Interview with Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush — Directors of Finding North
I caught up with ‘Finding North’ directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush at Sundance 2012. The two shared some great advice for being female in filmland, and reveal why an all-woman crew...
Two Women Directed Films Get Deals
Magnolia PIctures has picked up the documentary Queen of Versailles by Lauren Greenfield. Here’s the description: the film “tells the story of David and Jackie Siegel, a couple who began...
Interview with Dori Berinstein — Director of Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Women and Hollywood: You’ve been a producer of Broadway shows for a number of years. How did you segue into becoming a documentary filmmaker? Dori Berinstein: I’ve actually been in the film...
Sundance Trailer Watch: Finding North Directed By Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush
My first cry of the day. This film looks heartbreaking. Synopsis: 49 million people in the U.S. — one in four children — don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our...
Sundance Trailer Watch: West of Memphis — Directed by Amy Berg
I have now become obsessed with this case. I watched the HBO film this weekend and am going to catch up on the older HBO docs shortly. This is the Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh produced film. This...
How Will the New Documentary Rules Affect Women Filmmakers?
When I read the NY Times story earlier this week about the proposed changes for films to qualify for a documentary Academy Award nomination, I wondered how these new rules would affect films by and...
Sundance Trailer Watch: The Invisible War
Here is your holy crap moment of the day. This makes by blood boil and makes me cry at the same time. I cannot wait to see this film. Over 16,000 women were assaulted in 2009. The facts and figures...
The Documentary Short List: The Women
The Academy released it’s list of 15 films (out of 124) that made the short list for the best documentary feature. The list is sent out with production companies not the directors, so it’s hard...