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TIFF Women Directors: Meet Allison Berg
Allison Berg was born in New York City. She received the Special Jury Award at SXSW for her debut feature documentary Witches in Exile (04). The Dog (13) is her latest film. The Dog is playing...
Ellen Page in Talks to Star in Queen and Country
Ellen Page is in talks to star in Queen and Country based on the comic by Greg Rucka. Page would play Tara Chace, a British SOS operative, whose missions take her all over the world to protect the...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Dyana Gaye
Dyana Gaye is a Franco-Senegalese filmmaker who graduated with a master’s degree in film studies from the University of Paris 8. She directed the short films Une femme pour Souleymane...
Batwoman Writers Quit After DC Won’t Approve Lesbian Wedding
Even though Batwoman has proposed to long-time partner Maggie Sawyer twice, DC refused to allow the pair to finally marry in the comic in an upcoming issue. The writers behind Batwoman J.H. Williams...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Claire Blanchet
Claire Blanchet studied animation at Concordia University. She has co-directed Trash and No Star! (08) and The Wobble Incident (09). The End of Pinky (13) is her latest short film. The End...
Salon Pictures Announces Slate of Women Directed Films
Just months after they opened their doors for business, Salon Pictures has announced a slate of films including three features to be directed by women: Eva Sorhaug (90 Minutes) helms Lenny,...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Marion Vernoux
Marion Vernoux was born in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. She wrote the screenplay for Bernard Schmitt’s Pacific Palisades (90). Her directorial credits include Personne ne m’aime...
Emma Watson to Star in Francesca Gregorini’s Your Voice in My Head
Emma Watson is set to star in Francesca Gregorini’s Your Voice in My Head adapted from Emma Forrest’s memoir of the same title. The film, adapted by Forrest, follows a young woman who is...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Gita Pullapilly
Gita Pullapilly was born in South Bend, Indiana. She studied finance at University of Notre Dame and journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School. She produced all of Aron...
TIFF Trailer Watch: Under the Skin – Starring Scarlett Johansson
Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, premiered last night at TIFF. The film follows an alien seductress who preys on men while drifting around Scotland. A24 acquired the U.S. rights to...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Sarah Spillane
Sarah Spillane has been writing and directing film and television for the past decade. Among her work is the documentary short The Apology (08) and the fiction short This Life (09). Around...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Appoints Jenni Wolfson as Executive Director
Chicken & Egg Pictures has recently appointed Jenni Wolfson as their first executive director. Wolfson joins Chicken & Egg from WITNESS, an international human rights video advocacy...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Anne Weil
Anne Weil has worked as an editor on such films as Seaside (02), Toi et moi (06), Actrices (07), and A Castle in Italy (12). She has directed the short film Une cuilleree pour papa (92) and...
Carol Burnett to Receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
On October 20th, Carol Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award given to comedians and satirists who have had an “impact on American society in ways similar to...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Megan Griffiths
Megan Griffiths was born in Athens, Ohio and received her MFA in film from Ohio University. She has written and directed the short films Moving (08), and Eros (09), and the features First...
Trailer Watch: Ass Backwards – Written by and Starring Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael
Ass Backwards, written by and starring Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael, premiered earlier this year at Sundance. The first trailer for the film shows Kate (Wilson) and Chloe (Raphael) who are...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Honkasalo was born in Helsinki, Finland. She co-directed several features with Pekka Lehto, including Flame Top (80). Her documentary directorial credits include Mysterion (91),...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron was born in London. She studied at the National Film and Television School and co-founded the educational charity FILMCLUB. Her directing credits include the fiction features Used...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Judy Kibinge
Judy Kibinge was born in Nairobi and studied at Manchester Polytechnic. She is the founder of DOCUBOX, a documentary film fund for East Africa. She has directed the features Dangerous...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Liza Johnson
Liza Johnson holds a Masters in visual art from the University of California, San Diego and has had her artwork exhibited in such galleries as MoMA and the National Gallery of Art. Her...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Caroline Link
Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany. She studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Her films include Beyond Silence (96), Punktchen und Anton (99), Nowhere in...
Women Make Small Incremental Gains Onscreen and Behind the Scenes
As the new TV season starts, we get the annual look Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes and OnScreen Women in 2012-13 Prime-time Television from Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego...
Weekly Update for September 6: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Touchy Feely – Lynn Shelton Touchy Feely is about about a brother a sister, one who touches for a living and one who makes a point of...
Interview with Anne Fontaine – Director of Adore
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Anne Fontaine about her new film, Adore, which she directed. Adore hits theaters today. Women and Hollywood: You say in the press notes...
Trailer Watch: Gravity – Starring Sandra Bullock
As we previously reported, Alfonso Cuaron got flack from having a female lead in the upcoming Gravity. However with the great reviews of the film coming out of Venice and TIFF, it looks like those...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley
Leanne Pooley was born and raised in Canada, and now lives in New Zealand. She has directed over twenty features, including the documentaries Haunting Douglas (03), The Promise (05), Try...
Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury to Receive Academy’s Governors Awards
Angelina Jolie and Angela Lansbury will be receiving awards at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards. Lansbury will receive an Honorary award. The Honorary Award is given to honor those...
SXSW Rerun: Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher
Originally published on April 9. A Teacher is in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today and is available on VOD. A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
The second trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming remake of the horror classic, Carrie, gives a larger glimpse at how Peirce will interpret the classic scenes from the original. Based on...
TIFF Women Directors and Producers: Meet Sabine Emiliani and Stephanie Levy
Sabine Emiliani’s documentary editing has garnered accolades from Sundance to Cannes to the Academy Awards. Ms. Emiliani’s 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, March of the Penguins...
Sundance Rerun: Interview with Lynn Shelton – Director of Touchy Feely
Originally published on on February 5. Touchy Feely is open in limited release today. It is also available on VOD. I had never met Lynn Shelton before last month but I already felt like I knew...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Lisa Langseth
Lisa Langseth was born in Stockholm, Sweden and studied at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a playwright and director of theatre. Her film directing credits include the short...
September Film Preview
As we head out of a strong August for women directed and centric films, we go straight into a September filled with varied and interesting projects from new and veteran women filmmakers. Films this...
Variety Announces Recipients of 5th Annual Power of Women
Variety has announced the group of women they will be honoring at their 5th annual Power of Women event, which celebrates leaders in the industry and their philanthropic work. This year the...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland. Her first feature film, Provincial Actors (79), won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Her last film, In Darkness, was nominated for an Academy Award for...
Trailer Watch: Palo Alto – Directed by Gia Coppola
There’s another Coppola getting into directing. Gia Coppola’s feature debut (which she wrote and directed) Palo Alto, premiered at Telluride and will screen at Toronto the next...
Women in Film Announces 28th Annual Film Finishing Fund Recipients
Women in Film announced the winners of their 28th annual Film Finishing Fund. The Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that are by or about...
2013 BFI London Film Festival Unveils Full Lineup
The programme for the 2013 BFI London Film Festival has been announced to great fanfare in Leicester Square. When it comes to women filmmakers, the news is as usual a bit scarce, but there...
Sarah Siegel-Magness to Direct Castro’s Daughter
Sarah Siegel-Magness will direct Castro’s Daughter, based on the memoir written by Alina Fernandez. She will be replacing Michael Radford on the project. Fernandez was born in 1956,...
Women and Hollywood Events in Toronto 2013
I’m heading up to the Toronto Film Festival for the third time and again the anxiety of creating a decent schedule has set in. We will have a new feature on the site this year –...
You Can Decide – The European Film Awards People’s Choice Award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for its People’s Choice Award, the winners of which will be feted at the EFA ceremony on 7th December in Berlin. Academy Award winning...
Trailer Watch: Divergent – Starring Shailene Woodley
The first trailer for Divergent, based on the first novel in Veronica Roth’s trilogy, was released last week. Starring Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior, the film is set...
Happy Birthday Women and Hollywood – This is What 6 Looks Like
I can’t believe it but Women and Hollywood is entering its 7th year. (And for the record I got a little bit ahead of myself – it’s our 6th birthday and we are going into our...
The Weinstein Company Acquires Women Centric Tracks
The Weinstein Company, as of late, has been nabbing some high profile women centric titles. In May, they picked up the Judi Dench starrer, Philomena, about a woman who looks for the son she was...
Dakota Johnson to Star in Fifty Shades of Grey
The highly anticipated casting news of who will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation was announced yesterday. Dakota Johnson, of Fox’s...
While We Were Away…Some Links of Interest
Here are some links from when we were away that might interest people: Summer Stories Hollywood is in Trouble, and We’re All Going to Pay (New Republic) Good News And Bad News Of 2013 Summer...
Inspirational Woman of the Day: Diana Nyad
There is no better way to start the fall off than with a dose of some serious inspiration. Diana Nyad, on her fifth attempt (the first one was in 1978), accomplished a lifelong dream —...
Weekly Update for August 23 & 30: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Check out the women centric, directed and written films playing near you in the next two weeks. Films About Women Opening This Weekend August 23: Short Term 12 ...
Summer’s Final Thoughts: Wonder Woman, Strong Women, Indie Women and All the Women in Between
This summer will be remembered for, among other things, the fact that male superheroes and male non superheroes were practically all the we saw onscreen. For all the box office fatigue —...
Interview with Jill Soloway – Writer and Director of Afternoon Delight
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Jill Soloway about her film Afternoon Delight, which she wrote and directed. Afternoon Delight opens in theaters on August 30th. Women...
Trailer Watch: The Book Thief
The Book Thief, based on Marcus Zusak’s bestselling novel, follows a young foster girl, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) living with her foster parents outside Munich during the horrors of WWII. Liesel...