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Daisy Ridley Picks ‘Kolma’ as First Project After ‘The Force Awakens’ with Marielle Heller to Direct
There was no doubt that Dasiy Ridley’s star would rise to intergalactic heights after the premiere of “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” back in December. Now the young actress is...
Award-Winning Race-Car Doc ‘Speed Sisters’ Acquired by First Run Features
“Speed Sisters” is racing towards a theatrical release. First Run Features has acquired the U.S. rights to Amber Fares’ debut feature and will release the portrait of the first all-woman...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Sophie Goodhart — ‘My Blind Brother’
Sophie Goodhart began her career in news and documentaries for UK television. She is perhaps best known for her short film “My Blind Brother,” which screened in competition at Cannes in 2003...
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Features Laura Poitras’ ‘Risk,’ Sólveig Anspach’s Last Film and 2 Debuts
The Cannes Film Festival has revealed the selections for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the festival, a non-competitive section awarded by the Société des Réalisateurs Français. Last...
Listen: Women and Hollywood Podcast #26 — ‘The Night Manager’ Director Susanne Bier
Women and Hollywood spoke with Danish helmer Susanne Bier about her role in bringing one of this year’s most addictive series, “The Night Manager,” to the small-screen. Bier directed all six...
NBCUniversal Short Film Festival Now Open for Submissions
Short film directors, if you dare to dream of being the next Tina Fey, have we got a contest for you. NBCUniversal has announced that its 11th annual Short Film Festival is now accepting...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Meera Menon — ‘Equity’
Meera Menon was recently selected to be a fellow at 20thCentury Fox’s Global Directors initiative. Her directorialdebut, “Farah Goes Bang,” premiered at the TribecaFilm Festival, where Menon...
Woman to Watch: Actress-Writer-Producer Tracy Oliver
Last weekend, the latest installment of the “Barbershop” franchise opened. “Barbershop: The Next Cut” has already grossed over $20 million. The comedy was co-written by Tracy Oliver, an...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Lorene Scafaria — ‘The Meddler’
Lorene Scafaria made her directorial debut with her original screenplay “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. She also adapted the young adult...
Naomi Watts and Sam Taylor-Johnson Head to Netflix for New Series ‘Gypsy’
Another award-winning movie star is set to topline a television series. Two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is headed to Netflix for “Gypsy,” a new one-hour psychological thriller. Watts will...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Liza Johnson — ‘Elvis & Nixon’
Liza Jonhnson is a writer and director whose feature films “Return” (2011) and “Hateship Loveship” (2013) have screened at the Cannes, Toronto, New York, Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals,...
Tony Winner Anika Noni Rose Will Star in BET Pilot ‘The Yard’
Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose (“Dreamgirls”) just landed her own leading television role. Deadline has reported that Rose will play the lead in BET’s pilot “The Yard.” Rose stars as...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ferne Pearlstein — ‘The Last Laugh’
Ferne Pearlstein is is a prize-winning cinematographer, a feature film editor and a writer/director whose work has won numerous awards and been screened and broadcast around the world. In 2003...
Cannes Critics’ Week Lineup Unveiled: Chloe Sevigny, Julie Ducournau and More
The lineup for Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival has been announced. Only one of seven films in Competition in the 55th installment of the Cannes’ sidebar is directed by a woman: Julia...
Guest Post: A Woman in Film Highlights Women in Science
Years ago, when my husband, Hal, and I first arrived as young filmmaking partners in Washington, D.C., the first person I met was the wife of a fellow filmmaker. After talking to her briefly, it...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Tracy Droz Tragos — ‘Abortion: Stories Women Tell’
Tracy Droz Tragos is an award-winning independent filmmaker. Tragos’ “Rich Hill” explored rural poverty through the intimate lens of vulnerable adolescents and their families struggling for a...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Vanessa Gould — ‘Obit’
Vanessa Gould is a filmmaker, editor and camera operator working in Brooklyn. Her film “Between The Folds” premiered on PBS’s “Independent Lens” in December 2009 and was re-broadcast the...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway — ‘The Return’
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega are documentary directors, producers and screenwriters whose work explores the intersections of institutional power, civil and human rights and political...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Priscilla Anany — ‘Children of the Mountain’
Priscilla Anany was born in Ghana and migrated to the U.S. She studied Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Arts’ School of Filmmaking and obtained her Master’s degree in...
Weekly Update for April 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Sky — Directed by Fabienne Berthaud; Co-Written by Fabienne Berthhaud and Lucy Allwood Fleeing from the scene of a terrible crime, a young woman (Diane...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Stéphanie Gillard — ‘The Ride’
Stéphanie Gillard’s first documentary, “Une histoire de ballon,” explored the meeting point of oral tradition and soccer culture in Cameroon. She made a second documentary in 2009 in...
Watch: Amandla Stenberg Releases Short Film ‘Blue Girls Burn Fast’
Amandla Stenberg has come a long way since playing the quiet Rue in “The Hunger Games.” In fact, the young actress, director and writer has already embarked upon her own filmmaking career. This...
Oscar Nominee Agnieszka Holland Calls Filmmaking a ‘Boys’ Club’ That Ignores Women
We love it when female filmmakers call out the industry for its sexism. Now Agnieszka Holland has joined in the fight. According to The BBC, during an on stage interview with BFI Southbank, which is...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Kristi Jacobson — ‘Solitary’
Kristi Jacobson’s 2013 film “A Place at the Table” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film won the IDA’s prestigious Pare Lorentz Award and was nominated for Best Feature...
‘Echo Park’ Director Amanda Marsalis Talks Race, Gentrification and Love
Director Amanda Marsalis is a photographer for publications including Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ and The Guardian, as well as a commercial director. Marsalis is an Echo Park resident. Her unique...
Tanya Saracho Hired as Showrunner of Starz’s ‘Pour Vida’
Mexican-born playwright and television writer Tanya Saracho has been brought on as showrunner for “Pour Vida,” a new Starz series in development. The series was inspired by a short story by...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Marina Person — ‘California’
Director, TV show host and actress, Marina Person graduated in Cinema from the University of São Paulo. She directed the 2007 feature documentary “Person,” selected for the Locarno and Trieste...
Shamim Sarif on Her Politically-Charged Romance ‘Despite the Falling Snow’
Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and film director who has spoken at TED events in London, Jerusalem and India. Her and her partner Hanan Kattan are founders of the...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning is a Hyper-Stylized Killer in ‘The Neon Demon’
The pressures of being a starlet in Hollywood is something that “The Neon Demon” star Elle Fanning (“Maleficent”) probably knows all too well. Now her experiences, and the experiences of...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Rachel Tunnard — ‘Adult Life Skills’
Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. She is a BAFTA “Brit to Watch” and was named as one of the “Creative England 50” in 2015. Her short film “Emotional Fusebox” was...
Pamela Romanowsky on the Past and the Mysteries of Our Minds in ‘The Adderall Diaries’
Pamela Romanowsky is a Brooklyn-based writer and director. She is an alumnus of The Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting, Directing, and Composition & Sound labs and the Creative Producing...
Submissions for DGA’s Student Film Awards Spotlighting Diverse Student Filmmakers Now Open
Women student directors, here’s your chance to shine! The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced that the application period for the 22nd Annual DGA Student Film Awards for Women and...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Deb Shoval — ‘AWOL’
Deb Shoval was raised by her Israeli father and American mother in a Pennsylvania coal town, where she now runs an organic vegetable farm. Shoval’s short film “AWOL” premiered at Sundance...
‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’ Renewed for 3 More Seasons
Bravo’s first-ever scripted series, “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” has been renewed for a surprising three seasons. Lisa Edelstein (“Castle”) stars in the dramedy as self-help writer...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Alma Har’el — ‘LoveTrue’
Alma Har’el is a music video and film director, best known for her documentary “Bombay Beach,” which took the top prize at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, received a nomination for a 2011...
‘Orphan Black’ Returns, Looks Back
“Orphan Black,” the BBC’s endlessly twisty clone thriller, kicks off its new season tonight (if your memory’s hazy, you can get up to speed here). Thankfully, the show seems to have found a...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Lydia Tenaglia — ‘Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent’
Lydia Tenaglia is co-founder and executive producer of ZeroPoint Zero Production, Inc. (ZPZ), creators of the Emmy- and Peabody- Award winningseries, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and...
Cannes 2016 Lineup: 15% Women Directors in Main Competition
Today marks the annual ritual which feels almost like torture — the unveiling of the Cannes Film Festival lineup. This year the main competition boasts three female directed films out of...
Meryl Goldsmith On Fighting a Medical Standard in ‘The Syndrome’
Meryl Goldsmith is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who got her bachelor’s degree in Film and Video from the University of Michigan. Goldsmith teamed up with an investigative journalist on her...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Sonia Kennebeck — ‘National Bird’
Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and German public television’s highest-rated and longest-running current affairs...
What Women Do For Love: April 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This month’s crowdfunding picks are centered on the importance of love in the lives of women. Whether romantic or familial, love is the impetus driving the female protagonists in this month’s...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Dana Flor — ‘Check It’
Dana Flor wrote anddirected the Emmy award-winning documentary “Latinos in Beisbol,” and theEmmy-nominated documentary “Cesar Chavez” for NBC. Flor wrote and producedthe two-hour special...
Trailer Watch: ‘Our Little Sister’ Might Be This Year’s ‘Mustang’
“Our Little Sister,” another foreign Cannes 2015 favorite, is finally hitting the U.S. and a new trailer has premiered making the film seem like it may be this year’s “Mustang.” (I.e. a...
St. Vincent to Make Directorial Debut in All-Female Horror Anthology ‘XX’
Musician Annie Clark, better known by her stage name of St. Vincent, will be making her directorial debut with a segment in “XX,” the upcoming all-female horror anthology film. As Rolling Stone...
‘Confirmation’ Proves Why Anita Hill Still Matters
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ester Gould — ‘Strike a Pose’
Ester Gould has been directing her own documentaries for Dutch public broadcasters since 2005. Her first feature-length documentary, “Shout,” jointly directed with Sabine Lubbe Bakker and shot...
Barbra Streisand Will Finally Get to Play Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’
It’s looking like Barbra Streisand’s long-awaited screen version of the musical “Gypsy” has found a home. A deal is being finalized at STX Entertainment. Streisand will star as iconic stage...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Salima Koroma — ‘Bad Rap’
“Bad Rap” is Salima Koroma’s directorial debut. She’s a former video producer for Time Magazine, NowThis and Current TV. She is also a former hip-hop and K-pop news writer. Koroma is...
FilmRise Acquires Elizabeth Wood’s Controversial Sundance Drama ‘White Girl’
FilmRise has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Elizabeth Wood’s controversial drama “White Girl.” In a previous interview with Women and Hollywood, Wood described the plot of her...
Women Make Up Half the Movie Audience and Other Takeaways from the 2015 MPAA Report
The film world is in that lovely city of Las Vegas this week participating in its annual orgy of excess known as CinemaCon. This is when the major studios tout their upcoming big-budget movies and...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Amanda Micheli — ‘haveababy’
Amanda Micheli is an award-winning director and cinematographer. She earned an Oscar nomination for “La Corona,” which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO. In 2004,...