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Trailer Watch: Michelle Monaghan Fights for Asylum Seekers in “Saint Judy”
Michelle Monaghan is giving her all to make America great in a new trailer for “Saint Judy.” Based on real events, the drama tells the story of U.S. immigration attorney Judy Wood, who...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Tayarisha Poe – “Selah and the Spades”
Tayarisha Poe is a storyteller from West Philly. She was chosen as one of the “25 new faces of independent film” by Filmmaker magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance...
Lilly Wachowski to Co-Write & Co-Direct “Work in Progress” Series Starring Abby McEnany
Abby McEnany and Tim Mason’s pilot, “Work in Progress,” won’t be premiering at Sundance until Tuesday but it’s becoming a series — and a big name has already come...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Alice Waddington – “Paradise Hills”
Alice Waddington’s first short 2015’s “Disco Inferno,” was invited to 65 international film festivals, including Fantastic Fest, where it won Best Director and Best Feature...
Glasgow Film Fest 2019: Over Half of the Films Up For the Audience Award Are Women-Directed
The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has announced its 2019 lineup and — in news that’s most welcome considering the Oscars failed to nominate a woman director again — most of the films...
Trailer Watch: Abbi and Ilana Say Goodbye in “Broad City’s” Final Season
The broads are back to say goodbye. A new trailer has landed for the fifth and final season of “Broad City,” and it looks like Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana’s (Ilana Glazer) swan...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Sacha Polak – “Dirty God”
Sacha Polak is an award-winning director and screenwriter. Her feature films “Hemel” and “Zurich” were both screened ata range of international film festivals. “Hemel” was awarded the...
Julia Reichert to Receive Outstanding Achievement Award at Hot Docs 2019
Documentarian Julia Reichert will soon have another honor to go with her Emmy and three Oscar noms. Hot Docs has announced it is presenting the director with its Outstanding Achievement Award at...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Debra Eisenstadt – “Imaginary Order”
Debra Eisenstadt is a writer, director, producer, and editor. She wrote, produced, directed, shot, and edited the feature film “Daydream Believer,” which won a 2002 Independent Spirit...
Quote of the Day: Mindy Kaling & Nisha Ganatra on the Importance of Opening Doors for Others
A timely tale of inclusivity and women trying to make it in a male-dominated field, “Late Night” is among our most anticipated films screening at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Written...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Ursula Macfarlane – “Untouchable”
Ursula Macfarlane is an award-winning UK-based documentary filmmaker. Her films include “One Deadly Weekend in America,” “Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris,” and...
Kate Winslet to Topline and Exec Produce HBO Detective Limited Series “Mare of Easttown”
Kate Winslet is returning to HBO. The Oscar winner has signed on to her first small screen role since starring in the premium cable network’s 2011 miniseries “Mildred Pierce,” for...
“Grey’s Anatomy” Showrunner Krista Vernoff Signs Overall Deal with ABC Studios
Krista Vernoff is sticking with ABC and “Grey’s Anatomy.” The Hollywood Reporter confirms the “Grey’s” showrunner has inked a multi-year overall deal with ABC...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Penny Lane – “Hail Satan?”
Penny Lane has previously directed feature documentaries “The Pain of Others,” “Our Nixon,” and “Nuts!” Her work has screened at International Film Festival...
“Mystic Pizza” Musical in the Works from Melissa Etheridge
Good news, ’80s movie fans and lovers of esoteric “30 Rock” references: a “Mystic Pizza” musical is on the way. According to Deadline, Melissa Etheridge will be writing...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Nisha Ganatra – “Late Night”
Nisha Ganatra is a director and producer of “Transparent,” which won a Golden Globe for best television series, musical or comedy, and received numerous Emmy nominations. She recently...
Trailer Watch: A Drama Teacher & Her Class Help Heal Their School in “Song of Parkland”
“We were in the middle of rehearsal, the middle of a scene, and I heard some shots,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas High drama teacher Melody Herzfeld recalls about February 14, 2018 in the...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Lulu Wang – “The Farewell”
Lulu Wang is a classical-pianist-turned-filmmaker. Born in Beijing, raised in Miami, and educated in Boston, Wang is a recipient of the 2014 Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship, awarded at the...
Exclusive: Women Take the Lead in Trailer for the 2019 Athena Film Festival
“The key to success is to look into the future and visualize what you want to become,” says Geena Davis in an exclusive new trailer for the 2019 Athena Film Festival. The actress and...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Martha Stephens – “To the Stars”
Martha Stephens is a writer and director. Her micro-budget feature films “Passenger Pigeons” and “Pilgrim Song” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. She co-wrote and co-directed “Land...
ACLU and “On the Basis of Sex” Team Up for “All Rise” Workplace Equality Campaign
Mimi Leder’s “On the Basis of Sex” traces Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work in a landmark gender discrimination case. The events depicted in the biopic changed the world. And now the...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Jennifer Baichwal – “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch”
Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for over 20 years. Her award-winning films include “Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles,” “Watermark,”...
Kristin Scott Thomas Named as President of France’s Cesar Awards
Kristin Scott Thomas will serve as President of the French Academy’s most prestigious event, the Cesar Awards. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news. The British actress is a three-time...
Sundance 2019 Women Directors: Meet Kim Longinotto – “Shooting the Mafia”
Kim Longinotto is an award-winning documentarian known for making films about female outsiders and rebels. Among her 20 films, she has followed a teenager struggling to become a wrestling star in...
Quote of the Day: Regina King Says We Have to Give Women “More First Shots”
While accepting this year’s Golden Globe for supporting actress, “If Beale Street Could Talk” star Regina King made a public pledge: within two years, women will make up 50 percent...
Oscar Noms 2019: Another All-Male Directing Category
The 2019 Oscar nominations have been announced, and we can still count every woman who has ever been nominated for Best Director on one hand: Lina Wertmüller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn...
Sundance 2019 Preview: Films About Late Night Writers, Cliques, Toni Morrison, and More
Sundance 2019 begins this Thursday, January 24, and will be screening plenty of buzzy women-driven and women made films. As always, Women and Hollywood has put together some of the festival...
Trailer Watch: Two Mothers Collide in Laura Bispuri’s “Daughter of Mine”
A 10-year-old girl is torn between two mothers in a newly released trailer for “Daughter of Mine,” Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, “Sworn...
Trailer Watch: A Stepmother Crosses the Line in Sundance Pic “Queen of Hearts”
Sundance drama “Queen of Hearts” sees Anne (Trine Dyrholm), a happy lawyer, wife, and mother, upending her life and entering into an affair — with her husband’s troubled son,...
PGA Awards 2019: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Being Serena” Win Big
“Mrs. Maisel” is still on a marvelous awards season streak. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s tale of a ’50s housewife forging a career in standup comedy won the The Danny Thomas Award...
Guest Post: Why My Sisters and I Shared Our Story of Childhood Sex Abuse in a Documentary
Guest Post by Desirae Brown In the fall of 2007 we were at the peak of our careers. All five of us, including our brothers Gregory and Ryan, had attended Juilliard, capturing the attention of The New...
Weekly Update for January 18: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Adult Life Skills – Written and Directed by Rachel Tunnard (Also Available on VOD) Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is stuck: she’s approaching 30, living like a hermit in her...
Trailer Watch: A Super-Powered Gugu Mbatha-Raw Can’t Save the World in “Fast Color”
Julia Hart’s new film sees Gugu Mbatha-Raw playing a woman with superhuman capabilities without superhuman ambitions. As someone in “Fast Color’s” trailer phrases...
Doc About Hollywood Gender Discrimination “This Changes Everything” Secures Release
“This Changes Everything,” a documentary investigating Hollywood’s decades of discrimination against women on and off-screen, has nabbed distribution. According to a press...
Flipping the Script: Crowdfunding Picks
Creating change in any field requires flipping the script — that is, upending the status quo and redefining expectations. Fortunately, there are countless women who do just that every day,...
Vicky Jewson on Telling the Story of a Female Bodyguard in Noomi Rapace-Starrer “Close”
Vicky Jewson began her career at age 16, directing several short films. She founded her production company, Jewson Film, at age 18. Jewson made her feature directorial debut with the 2006’s...
Trailer Watch: Judi Dench Is Accused of Spying for Russia in “Red Joan”
“You are being charged with 27 breaches of the Official Secrets Act,” Judi Dench is told in a trailer for “Red Joan.” Retired and living a quiet life in the suburbs, Joan...
Jenji Kohan Will Be Honored with WGA West Laurel Award for TV Writing
“Orange Is the New Black” creator Jenji Kohan will be this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, Deadline confirms. Given in recognition of a guild member...
Trailer Watch: A Choir Teacher Will Do Whatever It Takes to Save the World in “Woman at War”
A choir teacher is living a double life in a new trailer for Icelandic comedy “Woman at War.” Fifty-one-year-old Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, “Prisoners”) spends her...
Women Directed 60 Percent of Films Screening in Competition at SXSW 2019
Women-directed films once again dominate the Competition sections of the South by Southwest Conference and Festival. Just like last year, titles helmed and co-helmed by women account for 60 percent...
WIF LA Names 2018 Film Finishing Fund Recipients
Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF LA) has awarded its 33rd annual Film Finishing Fund to nine projects about and/or made by women, a press release announced. The Fund provides cash grants and in-kind...
Berlinale 2019: 41% of Films Eligible for Top Honors in Competition Are Women-Directed
The Berlin International Film Festival has finalized its 2019 Competition. Of the 23 films selected, eight are helmed by women, or about 35 percent. That figure is more than double last year’s...
Trailer Watch: Pamela Adlon Has a Lot to Stress Over in Season 3 of “Better Things”
Pamela Adlon is on her knees puking in a toilet in a new trailer for “Better Things'” third season, and that’s the least of her problems. “Did you drink too much last night?...
Inaugural Coven Film Festival to Screen Shorts from Women Filmmakers
A press release has introduced the Coven Film Festival, a collection of world-class short films “made by women, for everyone.” Set to take place February 9 at the New People Cinema in San...
Upholding Gender Parity Pledge, Cannes Unveils Selection Committee for the First Time
The Cannes Film Festival is sticking to its word. Last year the fest signed the Gender Parity Pledge, promising to make its film selection process more transparent to the public — and inspired...
Trailer Watch: Kimmy Writes a Book in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s” Final Episodes
Head down memory lane with the world’s most optimistic doomsday cult survivor in a new trailer for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” The second half of the beloved Netflix comedy’s...
AFI Directing Workshop for Women Announces Class of 2020
Robin Cloud, Revati Dhomse, Ashley Eakin, Tiffany Huang, Marie Jamora, Bridget Moloney, Lara Panah-Izadi, and Nicole Taylor-Roberts are the AFI Directing Workshop for Women’s (DWW) Class of...
“Grace and Frankie” Renewed for a Sixth Season
“Grace and Frankie” will be sticking together for at least another season. The Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin Netflix comedy has been renewed for Season 6, Variety confirms. Season 5 drops this...
Trailer Watch: Juliette Binoche Is a Mad Scientist in Space in Claire Denis’ “High Life”
“There’s nothing to fear. Everything’s going to be fine,” says Juliette Binoche in a new trailer for “High Life,” Claire Denis’ English-language debut....
Sofia Coppola to Direct Apple and A24’s First Film, “On the Rocks”
Sofia Coppola is set to team up with Bill Murray for a third time. The frequent collaborators are joining forces for “On the Rocks,” Apple and A24’s first film partnership, and...
Book Excerpt: “Writing the TV Drama Series”
The following is excerpted from the 4th edition of Pamela Douglas’ “Writing the TV Drama Series,” which is available now. Recently, a student on the verge of graduating asked me...