Films
Women and Hollywood January 2014 Film Preview
January is for December movies. That’s the conventional knowledge in Hollywood, where the first two months of the year are reserved as dumping grounds for stinkers while audiences catch up on the...
Make Her as Likeable as Possible and Other Advice Filmmakers Should Ignore
My narrative feature, Vino Veritas, opens with a wife and husband arguing. Lauren, a former globe-trotting photojournalist and adventurer, expresses her extreme dissatisfaction with her current...
Wonder Woman Casting Suggests Hollywood’s Never Giving Diana Prince Her Own Movie
I don’t want to see a Wonder Woman movie, but I desperately want one to exist. As a child of the eighties and nineties who grew up on TV rather than comic books and only knew Lynda Carter from...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Helped Fund 23 Documentaries by Women Directors This Year
Chicken & Egg Pictures, the “only nonprofit film fund devoted solely to supporting women documentary directors,” announced last week that it would help support 23 nonfiction features...
Women and Hollywood December 2013 Film Preview
With the exception of big showcases for Oscar favorites like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts (August: Osage County) and Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks), December looks to be an anemic...
5 Things Melissa Rosenberg Should Do with Her Jessica Jones Show for Netflix
It was terrific to get the news last week that Marvel, which has devoted its big-screen franchises to the adventures of white dudes in Spandex and body armor, would not just be producing four new...
Marvel Introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim-American Superheroine
You’d never know it from Marvel’s (white)sausage-fest movies, but the comic-book company has reinvented itself in recentyears as Team Diversity. Vulture noted last month that, “in a cheeky bit...
Indie Director Ava DuVernay on Dressing for Success
Clothes make the director. That’s the lesson filmmaker Ava DuVernay imparted in her keynote speech at the LA Film Independent Forum last week. In her 45-minute speech, the 2012 winner of the...
November Film Preview
After an Oscar buzzy October with Sandra Bullock’s turn in Gravity and the tremendous performances of the controversial Blue is the Warmest Color, we move into a more mainstream November. November...
Wonder Woman Fan Film Shows Up Hollywood
With superheroes dominating the box office and pop culture landscape, it’s simply astonishing that there hasn’t been a female-lead film added the mix yet. While Marvel has a dearth of male...
October Film Preview
We’ve come off an impactful September for women in film with Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Wadjda breaking boundaries for women directors in Saudi Arabia and being the country’s first Oscar entry;...
The Directing Workshop for Women 2013 Showcase
On Monday night I stepped into the Directors Guild Building for the first time to attend the annual showcase for the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women My feelings about that place are...