Eva Longoria, Catherine Hardwicke, Cara Delevingne, and Marcia Gay Harden are set to tell “Women’s Stories.” The anthology film will be made up of six vignettes starring and directed by women from around the world. Longoria, Delevingne, Harden, Margherita Buy (“My Mother”), Jasmine Luv (“Starter Pack”), Leonor Varela (“Dallas”), Jacqueline Fernandez (“Aladdin”), and model Anjali Lama are among the all-women cast, while the project’s directors include “Twilight” helmer Hardwicke, Maria Sole Tognazzi (“Me, Myself & Her”), Lucia Puenzo (“XXY”), and Leena Yadav (“Parched”). Deadline broke the news.
“Women’s Stories” will shoot in the U.S., Italy, and India, and the segments will encompass a myriad of genres, such as drama, comedy, and animation. Carol Polakoff (“The Death of Cinema and My Father Too”) will exec produce, and gender equality non-profit We Do It Together is producing.
So far, four of the “Women’s Stories” have been fleshed out. Hardwicke’s “Elbows Deep” will star Delevingne, Harden, and Luv. Longoria will topline Puenzo’s “Lagonegro,” and Buy will star in Tognazzi’s “Unspoken.” Directed by Yadav, “Sharing a Ride” will star Fernandez and Lama.
“At We Do It Together, our mission is to enhance and change the image of women in films and media, from object to subject. We are dedicated to telling stories of women, both in front of and behind the camera. That’s why ‘Women Stories’ is so important to us – we have brought together female directors, from all over the world, who collaborate and share personal stories from their own point of view,” said company founder and president Chiara Tilesi, who is also among the film’s producers. “We are telling the stories of these heroines and their aspirations: from health workers to mothers, artists, and business women, to name a few. We also want to be inclusive and have as many different perspectives as possible, which is why connecting globally is so important to us,” she explained. “Now more than ever, especially after the latest UN policy brief ‘The Impact of Covid-19 On Women,’ it has emerged that gender inequality is still a very present reality and, unfortunately, we remain far from a solution. Some of the achievements that were made, are at risk of being erased once again. This is why it is so important for us to continue to tell stories about women, by women, but for everyone. Only together can men and women finally change these paradigms.”