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Sundance Women Directors: Meet Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia
Web Junkie co-directors Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia came to work together on a documentary about Internet addiction out of a shared curiosity and anxiety about the effects that our technological...
Sundance Women Producers: Meet Galt Niederhoffer
Film producer, director, and novelist Galt Niederhoffer is a Sundance veteran, with eight Park City selections or award winners to her name. She is a producer on Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Maya Forbes
Maya Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to write for film and television. She began her career on HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show and has since...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jennifer M. Kroot
To Be Takei documentarian Jennifer M. Kroot previously directed the documentary feature It Came from Kuchar, about the legendary underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar, which screened...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Chelsea McMullan
Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian filmmaker and artist whose films have screened on the international festival circuit and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. McMullan is a member of...
Sundance Women Directors: Lynn Shelton on the Question that Shapes Her Work and the Beauty of Sundance
Laggies director Lynn Shelton is best known as the writer-director of the acclaimed comedy Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, which screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Her 2009...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Gillian Robespierre
Gillian Robespierre has written and directed several short films, including “Chunk” in 2006, which follows an overweight teen forced to attend fat camp, and “Obvious Child” in 2009. Her...
What Happened to the Women Directed Films from the Sundance Class of 2013?
The 2013Sundance Film Festival was notable for the number of women directors,particularly in the U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Competitions — where halfwere female filmmakers. As Sundance 2014...
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Valerie Veatch
Love Child director Valerie Veatch made her directorial debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with the hit Me @ The Zoo (co-directed by Chris Moukarbel). Her highly anticipated follow-up, Love...
Few Women-Directed Films to Premiere at Sundance
A disappointingly few number of women-directed narrative and nonfiction features will debut at Sundance. Only three women filmmakers from a total of sixteen will enjoy the prestige that comes with...
Sundance US Competition List a Disappointing Tumble from Last Year’s Equality Benchmark
At last year’s Sundance Festival, the future looked rosy, with half of all U.S. narrative features and documentaries in the Park City lineup coming from female filmmakers. It was a promising...
Sundance Interview Rerun: Concussion — Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert
Originally published on February 1st. Concussion opens in theaters and on VOD on October 4th. Concussion was one of my favorite movies at Sundance this year. It was truly a revelation. Robin...
Sundance Rerun: Interview with Lana Wilson and Martha Shane – Directors of After Tiller
Originally published on January 29. After Tiller is in theaters today. One of the highlights of Sundance was seeing the documentary After Tiller directed by Martha Shana and Lana Wilson....
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...
Sundance Institute Awards Documentary Grants
The Sundance Institute awarded 29 documentaries grants from their Documentary Film Program and Fund. Combined all the films will receive over $550,000 in grants. Here are the women directed...
Maggie Gyllenhaal to Star in Sundance Channel/BBC Miniseries The Honourable Woman
Maggie Gyllenhaal will be starring in a new miniseries The Honourable Woman, co-produced by the BBC and Sundance Channel. The eight part miniseries will follow Gyllenhaal as...
Sundance: Tribeca Film & Well Go Pick Up Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes
After premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Tribeca Film and Well Go have picked up Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes. Starring Kaya Scodelario and Jessica...
Women Directed and Written Projects Chosen for Sundance Institute’s June Directors and Screenwriters Labs
The Sundance Institute announced the 13 projects chosen for their prestigious June Director and Screenwriter Labs which take place from May 27-June 27. The program has fellows work with...
Sundance: Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight Gets Pick Up from Film Arcade and Cinedigm
After winning the U.S. Dramatic Directing award for her film Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway’s Sundance film has finally got picked up by Film Arcade and Cinedigm. In a statement, The Film...
Sundance 2013 Roundup: Women Directed Films Received Distribution
If you remember, the Sundance lineup in US features and US documentarues documentaries evenly divided between female and male directors. Since it’s been a couple of...
Lake Bell’s In A World Gets Post-Sundance Pick Up
Lake Bell’s directorial debut In A World finally got a post-Sundance pick up by Roadside Attractions and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. This was one of our favorite movies at...
Sundance Interview with Sarah Barnett, General Manager of the Sundance Channel
We got to spend a couple of minutes at Sundance with the woman behind the Sundance Channel, Sarah Barnett. We don't get to talk to executives too often so it was really nice to get her...
Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton – Director of Touchy Feely
I had never met Lynn Shelton before last month but I already felt like I knew her. She has a way of telling us stories about other people that are really about all of us. Her new film...
Sundance Interview: Concussion – Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert
Concussion was one of my favorite movies at Sundance this year. It was truly a revelation. Robin Weigert who we have seen for so many years as a supporting character in shows like...
Sundance Interview: Lana Wilson and Martha Shane – Directors of After Tiller
One of the highlights of Sundance was seeing the documentary After Tiller directed by Martha Shana and Lana Wilson. Here's our conversation right after they won a $5,000 grant from Women in...
Jill Soloway and Lake Bell Take Home Major Awards at 2013 Sundance Feature Film Awards
Sundance wrapped up over the weekend and announced their 2013 Film Awards. Women filmmakers took away some of the bigger prizes of the festival including Jill Soloway winning the directing award for...
Sundance News: Women In Film Awards Grants to Jordana Spiro, Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
During its 7th annual Sundance Filmmakers panel, Women In Film – Los Angeles awarded $30,000 in grants to women filmmakers. Jordana Spiro, director of Skin, received the Women In Film/CalmDown...
Sundance Watch: Austenland – Directed by Jerusha Hess
Austenland, directed by Jerusha Hess, centers around Jane (Keri Russell) who goes to a Jane Austen themed resort to find her own Austen-esque leading man. The film was acquired by Sony Pictures...
Sundance Review – Salma: Tamil Poet’s Struggle Against Patriarchy
Salma, a film premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this year, focuses on the life of the prolific Tamil poet, by British documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto. It highlights the struggles of a...
Sundance Watch: Blackfish – Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Blackfish, a documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, has been getting a lot of buzz at Sundance since its premiere. The doc follows the history of killer whales in captivity leading up to...
Sundance Watch: Afternoon Delight – Directed and Written by Jill Soloway
Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight, premiered the other day at Sundance. The film centers around a thirtysomething couple (the hilarious Kathryn Hahn and Josh Radnor) living in the Los Angeles...
Sundance Deals: Women Directed and Women Centric Round Up
Here are some of the deals coming out of Sundance in the past couple days that are women directed or women focused films. Sundance 2013: 'Pussy Riot' Doc to Air on HBO...
Sundance Watch: The East – Co-Written and Starring Brit Marling
The East, co-written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (who directed and previously collaborated with Marling on Sound of My Voice) centers around an ex-FBI agent (Marling) who goes undercover to...
Sundance Deals: Jerusha Hess and Stacie Passon Get Distribution Deals
Jerusha Hess’s directorial debut, Austenland, was picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for around $4 million. The film, which stars Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge, follows a...
Sundance Watch This: Gideon’s Army – Directed by Dawn Porter
Gideon's Army, directed by Dawn Porter, is a documentary that follows a group of public defenders in the south and the man who mentored them. The film premiered at Sundance. Judging from the...
Sundance Institute and Women in Film Release Unprecedented Study on Women Directors
This morning, here in Sundance, a new ground breaking study of women directors "Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Women Filmmakers" was released. The study is...
Sundance Diary Part One: Mother of George and After Tiller
I arrived in Sundance on Friday morning totally freaked out about the Sundance flu and the cold. But now I'm on day 2 and so far so good. I hear there are people stuck in their hotels...
Anticipating Sundance: Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
I am heading to Sundance for the first time. I am looking forward to seeing a bunch of women directed movies over the next couple of days. There are also several women's events...
Anticipating Sundance: Sundance Lineup is a Win for Women Directors and for Everybody Who Cares About Movies
This post was originally published on November 29, 2012. For the last couple of years (the time that I have written this blog) I have lived in a world full of disappointment when it comes to...
6 of 12 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab Project Picks Written by Women
The Sundance Institute has picked 12 projects to participate in their January Screenwriters Lab. The workshop provides writers the opportunity to find financing and other resources for their films....
Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions. (But we must also remember that women are still...
Jane Campion and Naomi Foner Included in Sundance Premieres Lineup
Sundance announced the films in their Premieres and Documentary Premieres categories. With films directed by Jane Campion and Naomi Foner amongst many women-centric films and a documentary...
Sundance Lineup is a Win for Women Directors and for Everybody Who Cares About Movies
For the last couple of years (the time that I have written this blog) I have lived in a world full of disappointment when it comes to film festivals which you can also extrapolate to a world full of...
15 of 27 Sundance Institute Grants Go To Women
The Sundance Institute recently announced their 27 recipients for development, production and audience engagement grants. Of the 27 grant recipients, 15 of the projects are led by women or include...
Sundance 2012: Interview with Amy Ziering — Producer of Invisible War
Amy Ziering is the producer of ‘The Invisible War’ directed by Kirby Dick and winner of the Sundance 2012 Documentary Audience Award. I spoke to Amy about feminist filmmaking, how she and Kirby...
Sundance Deals 2012: The Women
Here’s the list of women directed and women written films that got picked up out of Sundance. I’m sure there will be more to come. Women Directed 2 Days in New York (Magnolia) — directed...
Sundance 2012 Success Story: Ava Duvernay
One of the biggest success stories out of Sundance is Ava Duvernay. Here is a woman who started a new distribution movement — African American Film Festival Releasing Movement; put out two...
Sundance 2012: Interview With Aurora Gurerrero Director of Mosquita Y Mari
Aurora Guerrero debuted her feature film ‘Mosquita Y Mari’ at Sundance 2012 and I had a chance to talk to her near the end of a hectic but exciting festival. She shared the secret of her $80,000...
Lauren Greenfield and Ava Duvernay Win Top Directing Honors at Sundance
Another Sundance is in the books and women and their films took many of the top honors in this past weekend’s awards ceremony. Winner of the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film: Lauren...
Sundance 2012: Advice for Filmmakers
Chicken and Egg Pictures always has a great party at Sundance: delicious home-cooked food paired with a celebration of women filmmakers and the folks who support and nurture them. I pulled some of...
Sundance Press Obsession with the “It” Girl
I never realized how annoying the whole “it” girl thing was until I saw three straight “it” girls articles in my RSS feed yesterday about three different women. I know that people have to...