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TIFF 2020 Women Directors: Meet Tracey Deer – “Beans”
Tracey Deer is a Mohawk filmmaker and the recipient of this year’s TIFF Emerging Talent Award. Deer is the director, co-creator, and co-showrunner of “Mohawk Girls,” for which she has been...
TIFF 2020 Women Directors: Meet Jennifer Abbott – “The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel”
Jennifer Abbott is a Sundance and Genie award-winning filmmaker who has been making films about social, political, and environmental issues for 25 years. She is best known as one of the directors and...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with Miranda July About “Kajillionaire”
Miranda July will be discussing “Kajillionaire” at the Girls Club’s next live event. The conversation will be held Thursday, September 10, at 5:30 p.m. EST. Written and directed by...
Venice 2020 Women Directors: Meet Celine Held – “Topside”
Celine Held is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. She works as a co-writer and director with her partner Logan George. Their work as a team has premiered in competition at SXSW, Sundance Film Festival, and...
Teaser Watch: Julie Taymor, Julianne Moore, & Alicia Vikander Celebrate Gloria Steinem in “The Glorias”
“I want to write about the women’s movement,” says Gloria Steinem in a new teaser for “The Glorias.” The feminist icon’s journalism and activism played — and...
Venice 2020 Women Directors: Meet Mona Fastvold – “The World to Come”
Mona Fastvold is a New York and Oslo-based writer-director. In early 2012 Mona received a prestigious development grant from the Norwegian Film Fund followed by production support for her directorial...
Zeina Durra’s Andrea Riseborough-Starrer “Luxor” Acquired by Samuel Goldwyn
At a time when most of us are stuck at home, Zeina Durra’s latest offers a powerful reminder of what it’s like to explore a country other than your own. “Luxor,” her sophomore...
September 2020 Film Preview
By Shayna Maci Warner and Tatiana McInnis September is rich in documentaries and epic narratives with long-awaited releases. This month’s varied documentary releases highlight women’s...
“Miss Juneteenth” Wins Best Narrative Feature at BlackStar Film Festival
Philadelphia’s BlackStar Film Festival, a showcase for Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmakers from around the world, has named “Miss Juneteenth” as its best narrative feature. The...
Chinonye Chukwu to Direct Pic About Emmett Till’s Death, How His Mother Helped Spark Civil Rights Movement
Chinonye Chukwu’s next project will revisit a tragic, and galvanizing, moment in American history. According to Deadline, the “Clemency” filmmaker has signed on to direct a feature...
Trailer Watch: Radha Blank Takes the Mic in “The Forty-Year-Old Version”
A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by...
Ekwa Msangi’s Intergenerational Immigrant Story “Farewell Amor” Acquired by IFC Films
Ekwa Msangi’s feature debut has secured distribution. A press release announced that IFC films snagged North American rights to “Farewell Amor,” an intergenerational immigrant...
Janicza Bravo Will Tell Dan Mallory’s Story in “A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions”
Janicza Bravo is taking on another story about an unreliable narrator. The “Zola” filmmaker has been tapped to write and direct “A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of...
Trailer Watch: Fox Rich Fights for Her Husband’s Freedom in Garrett Bradley’s “Time”
Throughout the new trailer for “Time,” Garrett Bradley’s Sundance award-winning documentary, Fox Rich tries to get an update on a ruling concerning her husband, Rob. He’s...
AMPAS Launches Conversation Series Focusing on Inclusion in Industry, First Ep Features Whoopi Goldberg
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the organization behind the Oscars, has released the first installment of “Academy Dialogues: It Starts with Us,” a conversation series...
Julie Taymor’s “The Glorias” Will Debut on Amazon Prime Video
COVID-19 has affected the theatrical release of Julie Taymor’s “The Glorias,” but we’ll still get to see the Gloria Steinem biopic before the election. Deadline reports the...
Trailer Watch: An 11-Year-Old Girl Joins a Dance Clique in Maïmouna Doucouré’s “Cuties”
“What are you doing, Amy? Who are you, Amy?” an 11-year-old girl’s mother asks in a new trailer for “Cuties.” The French-language coming-of-age story is set in Paris and...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “Hillary” Director Nanette Burstein
The Girls Club will welcome Nanette Burstein, director of the Emmy-nominated docuseries “Hillary,” for its next live conversation. The discussion will take place Thursday, August 20, at 3...
Weekly Update for August 14: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD Represent (Documentary) – Directed by Hillary Bachelder The past few years have seen a record-breaking number of women running for office. Hillary...
Teaser Watch: Elle Lorraine Deals with Some Truly “Bad Hair” in Hulu’s Horror Satire
“You’re not tender-headed, are you?” a hairdresser (Laverne Cox) asks her customer in the new teaser for “Bad Hair.” Anna (Elle Lorraine, “Insecure”), the...
Pick of the Day: “Boys State”
There’s much to love about “Boys State,” a Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ doc gives an all-access look into an...
Garrett Bradley’s “Time” Sets Theatrical, Streaming Release Dates
Garrett Bradley’s Sundance darling is coming to theaters and Amazon Prime Video. “Time,” a doc about a modern-day abolitionist, will open theatrically October 9 and launch on Amazon...
Lulu Wang to Direct Feature Inspired by “Like Father, Like Son”
Lulu Wang has lined up yet another project. The “Farewell” filmmaker is already set to make her small-screen debut with “The Expatriates,” an original Amazon series exec produced by...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “A Thousand Cuts'” Ramona S. Diaz and Maria Ressa
Ramona S. Diaz and Maria Ressa, the respective writer-director-producer and subject of the new documentary “A Thousand Cuts,” will sit down with the Girls Club this Thursday, August 13,...
Weekly Update for August 7: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD I Used to Go Here – Written and Directed by Kris Rey A former professor and crush beckons Gillian Jacobs back to her old stomping grounds in “I Used...
Ava DuVernay Becomes the First Female Filmmaker to Win the Gish Prize
Ava DuVernay is making history with her latest accolade. The New York Times reports she has won the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, marking the first time a woman filmmaker has received the award....
Pick of the Day: “A Thousand Cuts”
“A Thousand Cuts” is a powerful portrait of an indomitable journalist and an impassioned call to arms. Described by director Ramona S. Diaz as a film about “the erosion of democracy,...
Apply Now: The ITVS Diversity Development Fund
Independent Television Service (ITVS) is looking to develop “exceptional stories by filmmakers from diverse backgrounds: stories that take creative risks, inspire dialogue, and are rarely seen...
Catherine Hardwicke Discusses “Don’t Look Deeper,” “Twilight,” “Thirteen,” & More with the Girls Club
Catherine Hardwicke hardly needs an introduction — she’s been in our lives for a very long time making some great movies, starting with “Thirteen,” and breaking new ground...
Elyse Steinberg on Why “The Fight” Is the Most Important Film She’s Ever Made
Elyse Steinberg directed “The Fight” with Josh Kriegman and Eli B. Despres, her partners at Edgeline Films. The film offers an up-close look at four recent ACLU (American Civil Liberties...
Trailer Watch: Evan Rachel Wood Is a Scammer in Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire”
“We can only ever be how we are,” says Evan Rachel Wood in a new trailer for “Kajillionaire.” Miranda July’s latest sees the Emmy-nominated “Westworld”...
Weekly Update for July 24: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD Yes, God, Yes – Written and Directed by Karen Maine “Yes, God, Yes” Described by writer-director Karen Maine as “a love story between...
Pick of the Day: “Amulet”
“Amulet” features several horror staples: a derelict house, a mysterious family, a handsome, tortured hero, and a young woman in need. And yet Romola Garai’s feature directorial...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke About “Don’t Look Deeper”
The Girls Club will welcome Catherine Hardwicke for a discussion about “Don’t Look Deeper,” her new Quibi show. The event will take place Tuesday, July 28, at 4 p.m. EST. Hardwicke...
Trailer Watch: Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz Unpack the State of Our “Immigration Nation”
Directors Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz follow undocumented immigrants and ICE alike in their upcoming Netflix docuseries. A new trailer for “Immigration Nation” shows families...
Trailer Watch: Three Women Set Their Sights on Political Office in Hillary Bachelder’s “Represent”
Myya Jones, Bryn Bird, and Julie Cho each run for office and — in one way or another — take on politics’ boys’ club in “Represent.” A trailer for Hillary...
Maimouna Doucouré’s “Cuties” Gets Netflix Release Date
Maimouna Doucouré’s feature debut has a release date. Netflix announced that “Cuties,” or “Mignonnes,” will start streaming September 9 worldwide, excluding...
Naomi McDougall Jones Talks Her Book “The Wrong Kind of Women” and Revolutionizing Hollywood
Earlier this year the Girls Club hosted actress, producer, and author Naomi McDougall Jones to discuss her book, “The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of...
Weekly Update for July 17: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
“Black Lives Matter” FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD Carmilla – Written and Directed by Emily Harris Fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives with her father and her...
Brenda Robinson Named Board President of International Documentary Association
Brenda Robinson is taking her experience as an entertainment attorney and executive producer to the International Documentary Association (IDA). The funding, education, and advocacy organization has...
Trailer Watch: “A Thousand Cuts” Sees Journalists Fighting to Keep Democracy Alive in the Philippines
Described by director Ramona S. Diaz as a film about “the erosion of democracy, and one woman’s story to hold power to account,” “A Thousand Cuts” examines social media...
Weekly Update for July 10: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN COMING TO STREAMING/VOD The Old Guard – Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a...
Weekly Update for July 3: 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 Desperados – Directed by LP; Written by Ellen...
Trailer Watch: Romola Garai Inspires Dread with Gothic Horror “Amulet”
“There are many like you, Tomaz, who seek refuge here,” a nun tells a former soldier in a new trailer for Romola Garai’s “Amulet.” The house he’s moving into...
July 2020 Film Preview
This July offers many new films by and about women to discover on VOD and streaming platforms, and — as some films make their tentative return to cinemas — in movie theaters,...
Trailer Watch: A Psychic Preaches Love in “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado”
“Since the moment I was born, I [knew] I was not like everybody. Everything about me was different,” says Walter Mercado in a new trailer for “Mucho Mucho Armor.” The Netflix...
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre In Talks to Direct “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre will follow up her critically acclaimed feature debut with an adaptation of a literary classic. The “The Mustang” writer-director is in “active...
Weekly Update for June 26: 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 House of Hummingbird – Written and Directed by Bora Kim Set in...
Trailer Watch: ACLU Attorneys Continue “The Fight” Against Injustice
“If I’m not going to be a civil rights lawyer right now, in this moment, when?” asks one of the characters featured in “The Fight.” A trailer for the upcoming doc about...
Jennifer Fox to Adapt “The Other Dr. Gilmer”
Jennifer Fox’s narrative debut earned nods from the Emmy Awards, Indie Spirits Awards, and Gotham Awards, among others. Now she’s following up “The Tale” with another feature...
U.S. and U.K. Black and Brown Creatives Sign Open Letters to Respective Industries
In the latest step in tackling systemic racism, the past week has seen Black and Brown creatives in the United States and United Kingdom pen open letters to the wider film and TV industry. On June...