Festivals, News, Women Directors
The Atlanta Film Festival has chosen six narrative features and four documentaries — all directed by women — as its initial ten selections. ATLFF Director of Programming Kristy Breneman...
News
Wild opens today in NY and LA. It rolls out to more cities on Friday. You can see info here. I was able to have a great conversation with Cheryl Strayed, the author of the memoir that the film is...
News, Women Writers
Kerry Washington’s movie career is taking off. In addition to starring in director Elizabeth Allen’s upcoming rom com Is He the One, the Emmy-nominated Scandal actress is close to signing on to...
Awards, Documentary, Films, Women Directors
In anticipation of its 10-year anniversary next year, Chicken & Egg Pictures has chosen 18 documentaries to receive $330,000 in funding. Fourteen new films were selected as part of the 2014 Open...
Features, Women Directors, Women Producers, Women Writers
The following post originally appeared on Stephen Follows’ website and is published here with permission of the author. Last week, I looked at the most employed people in the UK film industry....
Documentary, News
Three political documentaries and a nonfiction yarn about art forgery represent female documentarians’ contributions to the 2015 Oscar doc shortlist. Four women-directed works will be eligible...
Features, News
Awards, News
Monday’s Gotham Independent Film Awards ceremony didn’t produce too many surprises. Oscar frontrunners Julianne Moore and Laura Poitras took home the Best Actress and Best Documentary prizes,...
It’s no secret that late-night television has a diversity problem. As we wrote previously, with Chelsea Handler off the air and Larry Wilmore’s Minority Report not set to debut until January...
Features, Films
Decembermight be cold and snowy, but the month’s wide range of films is worth venturingout to the theater to see. Starting strong on December 3, the comedy Zero Motivation follows a unit ofIsraeli...
Two women-directed films — Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour — won recognition from the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday. The Babadook, a horror...
Despite a BAFTA win for her directorial debut (A Way of Life), it took nearly a decade for Amma Asante to make her sophomore picture (Belle). Asante was clearly speaking from first-hand experience...
News, Theater
Documentary, News, Women Directors
Women and Hollywood is looking for two interns for 2015. The positions will begin in January and we are looking for interns to commit for at least six months. We are looking for people who are...
Features, Weekly Update
Films About Women Opening November 21 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Written and Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to...
News, Videos
Jennifer Aniston showed a rare and delightfully dark streak in the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses, in which she frolicked as a sexually predatory dentist. With this weekend’s release of Horrible...
Documentary, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Sculptor and writer Hella de Jonge has published two books about her youth and her family: Los van de wereld (Apart from the World) and Spring (Jump). (Press materials) Don’t Lose Heart will play...
Awards, News, Women Directors
Five women-directed films — Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love, and Anja...
Documentary, Interviews, News
Katelijne Schrama studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she produced a short film, Daydreams and Sandman, for her end exam. Since then, she has worked as a freelance...
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are the latest A-listers to sign up for plum gigs on the small screen. After jointly optioning Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, the two Oscar winners...
Camilla Nielsson was trained asa documentary filmmaker at the Tisch School of the Artsand holds an M.A. in visual anthropologyfrom New York University (NYU). Theaward-winning filmmaker has directed...
News, Trailers, Videos
After scamming her way through the 1970s in last year’s American Hustle and painting through the 1950s in the upcoming Big Eyes, Amy Adams will visit the decade between as Janis Joplin in a biopic...
Awards
Films, News, Women Directors
After weeks of rumors, we now have official confirmation that Michelle MacLaren will develop and direct the Wonder Woman movie, which is scheduled for release in Summer 2017. This is great news on a...
Munich-born Lia Jaspers is the director of the documentaries Tar Dakar (2005), You Drive Me Crazy (2012), and Match Me! (2014). She lives and works as a freelance author and writer in Munich. Match...
A Georgia O’Keeffe painting called Jimson Weed/White Flower №1 (below) has set a new auction record for women artists. The 1932 artwork was purchased for $44.4 million (you read that right) at...
Box Office
Here’s another feather in Jennifer Lawrence’s cap: her latest film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 opened nationwide at $123 million, landing the biggest domestic box-office weekend...
News, Television
30 Rock will no longer be Tina Fey’s TV home. After writing and starring in SNL and 30 Rock for a combined 15 years at NBC, Fey has jumped ship (at least temporarily) to Netflix. Her next series,...
Eline Jongsma is one half of Jongsma + O’Neill, an award-winning Dutch-American creative team working at the intersection of documentary, art, and technology. Jongsma + O’Neill’s latest...
Features, Research
Each year, my Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative assessesthe gender of all speaking characters (those saying one or more words onscreen) across the 100 top-grossing films. In 2013, only...
News, Women Producers
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En route to a seemingly inevitable Best Actress Oscar nod for Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike will pick up the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s 26th annual Breakthrough Performance Award....
Features
From my latest Forbes post on the sky-high projections for the world’s most popular female-led franchise and the two models of women’s leadership the blockbuster provides: The Hunger Games:...
Before The Scarlet Letter imprinted Hester Prynne with an indelible “A,” there was 18th-century noblewoman Lady Seymour Worsley, who caused a scandal — and inspired a court...
Interviews, News
Crossposted with permission from The Interval. “I’ve become an activist, which was kind of a surprise to me. I thought it was going to be enough that I do it [write, succeed]; that my example...
Eva Tomanova is a Czech author and director with abackground in journalism. For the last eight years, she has worked for Czech TV,Febio s.r.o., and TV Barrandov, and as a director of documentary...
After picking up the Best Picture trophy for 12 Years a Slave and guiding newcomer Lupita Nyong’o to a Best Actress win, Steve McQueen is using his considerably increased clout to bring a passion...
Non-blonde, non-spritely Melissa McCarthy has signed on to play Tinker Bell in an upcoming live-action comedy-adventure. At this point, we can only guess what kind of fairy McCarthy, who will star...
Misty Copeland is bringing her talent to the masses. Usually seen at work only in rarefied halls like the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland has been increasing her visibility off the stage in...
Awards, Features
Silence can be golden and talk doesn’t have to be cheap — all you need is the right actress to pull it off. As is common at year’s end, when the air is rife with Oscar buzz, film pundits...
Cind
After inviting five white guys in a row to host and roast the President and Washington politicians, the White House Correspondents Association has finally decided to shake things up. SNL’s Cecily...
Emma Thompson, the only artist to boast Oscar trophies for both writing and acting, will receive the Richard Harris Award at this year’s Moët British Independent Film Awards. The Richard Harris...
News, Women Directors
If you read Women and Hollywood regularly, you know that I am a gigantic fan of Ava DuVernay. I have been since her first movie, 2010’s I Will Follow, came out. She was one of the first people I...
Patty Jenkins has announced her first feature-directing project since 2003’s Monster, which garnered Charlize Theron the Best Actress Oscar, as well as its equivalents from the Golden Globes and...
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