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Pick of the Day: “Miss Juneteenth”
Today’s release of “Miss Juneteenth” couldn’t be more welcome or better timed. As calls for making Juneteenth a federal holiday gain further momentum amidst Black Lives Matter...
Connections and Conversations: Crowdfunding Picks
Remembering the things that connect us and bring us together, as well as committing to honest conversation with each other — even when the topic is difficult — has never been more...
Ivy Meeropol on Looking Beyond Evil in “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn”
Ivy Meeropol’s documentary feature debut was “Heir to an Execution,” which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. It was followed by two short...
Keira Knightley to Star in Hulu’s “The Other Typist,” Ilene Chaiken Serving as Showrunner
Keira Knightley, last seen in Philippa Lowthorpe’s “Misbehaviour,” is making a leap to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two-time Oscar nominee is set to star in and...
Weekly Update for June 12: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Read our message on BLM and the protests against racism and anti-Black police brutality. FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD The Short History of the Long Road – Written and Directed by...
Remembering Lynn Shelton
We were honored to host Lynn Shelton in an interview with The Girls Club to discuss her films and her recent work on “Little Fires Everywhere.” Sadly, Lynn passed away just two weeks...
Human Rights Watch Film Fest 2020 Women Directors: Meet Christina Antonakos-Wallace – “From Here”
Christina Antonakos-Wallace is a filmmaker and cultural organizer. Her short films and interactive work has been exhibited in over a dozen countries, in contexts from schools to festivals galleries...
Human Rights Watch Film Fest 2020 Women Directors: Meet Juliana Fanjul – “Radio Silence”
Juliana Fanjul received a BA in Visual Communication and attended the documentary department at EICTV (International Cinema and TV School of San Antonio de las Banos). She received a Masters in...
Human Rights Watch Film Fest 2020 Women Directors: Meet Ursula Liang – “Down a Dark Stairwell”
Ursula Liang is a journalist-turned-filmmaker and producer. Her producing credits include “One October,” “Tough Love,” “Wo Ai Ni Mommy,” “Spartan Ultimate...
AFI Docs Announces 2020 Lineup, 61 Percent Women-Directed
Like many festivals, AFI Docs is going digital this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Film Institute just announced the full slate of films being presented online via a press release....
Weekly Update for June 5: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD Shirley – Directed by Josephine Decker; Written by Sarah Gubbins Towards the beginning of “Shirley,” an unwanted house guest tells Shirley...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Elizabeth D. Costa – “Bangla Surf Girls”
An alumna of the IDFA academy and former participant in the Chicken and Egg Accelerator Lab, Elizabeth D. Costa has over eight years of experience working on media projects as producer, director,...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Pippa Ehrlich – “My Octopus Teacher”
Pippa Ehrlich is a natural history filmmaker and award-winning environmental journalist, specializing in the field of marine science and conservation. Ehrlich has worked with some of the world’s...
Trailer Watch: An Artist Mourns Eric Garner in “A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone”
“I was never really encouraged to be an artist or anything. I don’t think anybody took me seriously,” says Edythe Boone in a trailer for “A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe...
A Message to the Women and Hollywood Community
This was a hard weekend and week for all of us, especially people living here in the United States. The disease of white supremacy and the abuse of the police against black people has been on stark...
Weekly Update for May 29: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Iryna Tsilyk – “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
Iryna Tsilyk is a Ukrainian film director and writer. “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” marks her debut feature-length documentary film and has won a directing award at Sundance and two...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Judith Helfand – “Love & Stuff”
Peabody award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand tackles some of the most pressing issues of our time — from the climate crisis and systemic inequality to love, grief, and the transformative...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Priscila Padilla – “Breaking the Silence”
Priscila Padilla is a Colombian documentarist and scriptwriter. With over 20 years of experience in the documentary field, her film work has always revolved around women’s issues and stories...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Andrea Testa – “Mother-Child”
Andrea Testa is an Argentinian-born filmmaker. She made her feature documentary debut with 2016’s “Pibe Chorro.” Her 2016 feature film “The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis,” co-directed...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Sharon Liese – “Transhood”
Before completing “Pink Collar Crimes,” a true crime series for CBS, Sharon Liese’s short documentary “Fight for the First” premiered at Chuck Todd’s Meet the Press...
June 2020 Film Preview
From hard-hitting documentaries to coming-of-age dramedies, there are a bevy of films by and about women hitting VOD and streaming platforms in June. Among the pics opening the month are Josephine...
Pick of the Day: “On the Record”
In the two-plus years since the #metoo movement changed the culture, most of those who have been removed from power for misdeeds have been older white men — Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer,...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Nathalie Bibeau – “The Walrus and the Whistleblower”
Nathalie Bibeau is a director and producer of international award-winning productions. She began her career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, producing documentary projects such as “8th...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Deepti Gupta – “Shut Up Sona”
Deepti Gupta is a filmmaker and director of photography living in Mumbai, India. An alumna of the Film & TV Institute of India, she has shot many documentaries, narrative feature films, and music...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Suzanne Crocker – “First We Eat”
Suzanne Crocker’s first feature, “POV” documentary “All the Time in the World,” won 22 festival awards from around the world including nine audience choice awards, four...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Lulu Wei – “There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace”
Lulu Wei is a Toronto based filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores themes of urbanization and cultural identity. Wei’s short films and installations have been screened and exhibited...
Weekly Update for May 22: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Mia Donovan – “Dope is Death”
Mia Donovan is an award-winning filmmaker based in Montreal. She was the recipient of the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement as an emerging filmmaker in 2012. Her films have been...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Maria Finitzo – “The Dilemma of Desire”
Maria Finitzo is a two-time Peabody Award-winning social issue documentary filmmaker. She has been producing and directing documentary films for network television, public broadcasting, cable TV, and...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Ali Weinstein – “#BLESSED”
Ali Weinstein is a documentary director and producer based in Toronto. Her directorial debut “Mermaids,” about a group of women who strongly identify with the powerful aquatic archetype,...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Tamara Mariam Dawit – “Finding Sally”
Tamara Mariam Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she runs the production company GobezMedia. Dawit also manages the Creative Producers Training Program...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Yoruba Richen – “The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show”
Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The Atlantic, and Field of...
Hot Docs 2020 Preview: LGBTQ Parents, Surfer Girls, & More
Originally scheduled to take place April 30-May 10 in Toronto, Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival didn’t go as planned this year. The physical version of the fest was cancelled due...
S.J. Clarkson to Direct Sony Pic Featuring Mystery Female Marvel Character
Spider-Man and Venom won’t be the only Marvel characters to get their own Sony movie. According to Variety, a “secret” movie following a female Marvel character is in the works....
TV Series in the Works Based on Ivy Pochoda’s “These Women”
“The Handmaid’s Tale” creator and showrunner is bringing another woman-penned novel to the small screen. Bruce Miller will develop and produce a series adaptation of “These...
Indigo Girls Doc in the Works from Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach will follow up her award-winning portrait of Nadia Murad, a survivor of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq who went on to escape sexual slavery at the hands of ISIS,...
Weekly Update for May 15: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
“The Good Fight” Renewed for Fifth Season at CBS All Access
“The Good Fight” will continue. Deadline reports the “Good Wife” spinoff has been renewed for Season 5 at CBS All Access. Season 4, now dropping new episodes on Thursdays,...
Agnes Gund Doc “Aggie” Acquired by Strand Releasing
Strand Releasing has snagged North American rights to “Aggie,” Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund’s doc about her mother, art collector and philanthropist Agnes...
Director Nadia Hallgren Talks About “Becoming” a Part of Michelle Obama’s Life
“Becoming” offers a personal and intimate view into the world of Michelle Obama. Nadia Hallgren’s new Netflix documentary takes viewers on an all-access journey alongside the former...
Guest Post: A Recovering Angry Asian Girl Celebrates Trailblazers in PBS’ “Asian Americans”
Guest Post by Renee Tajima-Peña I am a recovering angry Asian girl and showrunner of “Asian Americans,” a docuseries about the epic and unexpected history of the country’s fastest...
Weekly Update for May 8: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
“Mother’s Little Helpers'” Kestrin Pantera on Telling a Story About a Dysfunctional Family
Kestrin Pantera is an actress, writer, and director. She made her feature debut with 2014’s “Let’s Ruin It with Babies,” and has since directed TV series such as “Bad Parent Theater,”...
Trailer Watch: A Debt-Ridden Woman Turns to Sex Work in SXSW Winner “Alice”
A trailer has dropped for the winner of last year’s SXSW Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature. “Alice” sees its titular character shocked to discover that her husband has been...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Sabrina Doyle – “Lorelei”
Sabrina Doyle is a British writer and director based in Los Angeles and London. The AFI alumna’s directing has been supported by Women in Film LA, the Chimaera Project, Google, Panavision, the...
Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi Are Developing a TV Series Based on “Cold” Podcast
“Cold” is heading to the small screen. Deadline reports that Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions’ optioned the podcast from KSL with plans to develop a TV...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Anna Kerrigan – “Cowboys”
Anna Kerrigan is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker with a background in independent film, digital storytelling, and theater. “Hot Seat,” which she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance in...
Weekly Update for May 1: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Cristina Ibarra on Making a New Kind of Immigration Narrative in “The Infiltrators”
Cristina Ibarra has been making award-winning films that explore the U.S.-Mexico border for the past 16 years. Her PBS-broadcast documentary “Las Marthas” premiered on “Independent Lens” in...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Michèle Stephenson – “Stateless”
As co-founder of Rada Studio, Michèle Stephenson pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots and experience as a human rights attorney to tell provocative stories that speak to personal and systemic...