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DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Gracie Otto- ‘The Last Impresario’
Gracie Otto is an accomplished filmmaker with substantialcredits as a director, writer, editor, and actress from her bases in Sydney,Paris, and Los Angeles. Since graduating from Sydney Film School...
Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Seduces and Bullies in Liv Ullmann’s ‘Miss Julie’
We are introduced to Miss Julie through the eyes of John, her father’s valet, who describes her as “elegant” and “magnificent” and praises her “waist and neck.” Her first lines of...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Michele Josue — ‘Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine’
Michele Josueis a filmmaker born to Filipino immigrant parents and raised in Maryland. Aftergraduating from Emerson College, Michele relocated to Los Angeles and worked asa short-form video editor...
Trailer Watch: Anne Hathaway is Consoled by Music and Love in Kate Barker-Froyland’s ‘Song One’
“Your brother was in an accident. You need to come home.” So begins a journey for archaeologist Franny, played by Anne Hathaway in Song One. Franny leaves a dig in Morocco to spend time with her...
Quotes of the Day: Hilary Swank and Natalie Dormer on Girl Power, Feminism, and the Gender Pay Gap
Hilary Swank and Natalie Dormer are both promoting movies that focus on female protagonists, and nuanced ones at that — a rarity in the world of cinema. Swank and Dormer were drawn to their...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Jilann Spitzmiller — ‘Still Dreaming’
DOC NYC Women Directors & Producers: Meet Roberta Grossman and Nancy Spielberg — ‘Above and Beyond’
Roberta Grossman (Above and Beyond’s director) is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice. She has written and produced more than forty hours of documentary film...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander — ‘Us, Naked: Trixie and Monkey’
Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander is a full-time professor at the MarylandInstitute College of Art (MICA), where she teaches in Foundation; Film andVideo; and Community Arts. She has received numerous...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Cheryl Furjanic — ‘Back on Board: Greg Louganis’
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Olga Lvoff — ‘When People Die They Sing Songs’
Olga Lvoff received an MFA in Social Documentary from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. She has worked as an independent film director since 2009. Her recent short documentary film, Two Travelers,...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Meghan O’Hara — ‘In Country’
Meghan O’Hara is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and educator. She is a 2014 Fellow of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and was named one of the 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014 by...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Johanna St. Michaels — ‘Penthouse North’
Johanna St. Michaels’ first documentary Best WishesBernhard was awarded the Swedish national film award “Dokumentärfilmspremien” in 2003.Her second work, Snap Shots from Reality,was nominated...
Listen: Women and Hollywood Podcast #3: Paula van der Oest
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Weekly Update for November 14: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Beyond the Lights — Written and Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees) humanizes...
Laura Poitras’ ‘Citizenfour’ Tops Cinema Eye Nominations
Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour has emerged as the nonfic to beat this awards season. The Edward Snowden documentary led the Cinema Eye Honors nominations with nods in six categories, including best...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Norah Shapiro — ‘Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile’
Trailer Watch: ’50 Shades of Grey’ is Proud Lady Porn
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Lesley Chilcott — ‘A Small Section of the World’
ProducerLesley Chilcott partnered with Davis Guggenheim on the 2006 AcademyAward-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary feature It Might Get Loud (2009), the Barack Obama...
Women in Film Announces Nine Finishing Fund Recipients
The Women In Film Foundation has announced the nine female directors and producers who will receive finishing funds this year. In its 29th year, the fund will provide cash grants and in-kind...
‘Beyond the Lights’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood on Being Inspired by Alicia Keyes and the Search for Her Birth Mother
Given the central role that overt sexuality plays in female pop and hip-hop stardom, I’m sure we’ve all wondered what the performers are thinking as they parade down the red carpet, on stage, or...
Is ‘State of Affairs’ Katherine Heigl’s Big Comeback?
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Abby Ginzberg — ‘Soft Vengeance’
Filmmaker Abby Ginzberg has been producing and directing award-winning documentary films for nearly three decades. Her most recent feature-length documentary, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Mary Dore — ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’
Mary Dore is an award-winning documentary producer who brings an activist perspective to her films. Dore grew up in Auburn, Maine, and began her career working with a Boston film collective that...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Geeta V. Patel — ‘Meet the Patels’
Geeta V. Patel is writer/director of the upcoming feature film Mouse. Patel made her directorial debut with the documentary war thriller Project Kashmir, which led to directing fellowships at...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Rachel Lears — ‘The Hand That Feeds’
RachelLears’ most recent feature documentary, TheHand That Feeds, co-directed with Robin Blotnick, won the audience awardfor best feature at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2014, Best of...
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley is a Bona Fide Action Heroine in ‘Insurgent’
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Wanda Sykes, Dawn Ostroff Among 2014 Women in Film and Television Awardees
For its 34th year, the New York Women in Film and Television’s Muse Awards will honor Maggie Gyllenhaal, Wanda Sykes, Conde Nast Entertainment president (and former CW head) Dawn Ostroff, and...
The Big O: Oscar Needs to Honor More Women With the “Write” Stuff
As the Academy Awards prepares for its 87th edition, a nagging fact continues to rear its gender-biased head: the astonishing fact that only four women have ever been nominated for Best Director and...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Natasha Verma — ‘Hardy’
Natasha Vermawas born in New York City and raised in South Texas. She is a 20-year oldtelevision journalist, producer, and filmmaker. Her work has been featured onABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox News. Verma...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Yuki Kokubo — ‘Kasamayaki’
Yuki Kokubo is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in NewYork City. Raised in an artists’ community in rural Japan, Kokubo and her familyrelocated to New York City in 1986. She began...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Jessica Solce — ‘No Control’
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Keira Knightley (Again)
In the past few months, Keira Knightley has proven herself a thoughtful and engaged actress by using her press tours for Lynn Shelton’s Laggies and the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game to...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Sara Newens & Mina T. Son — ‘Top Spin’
Amazon Announces Only One Female-Created Series for Its Next Pilot Season
After getting on the TV map with Jill Soloway’s Transparent, Amazon’s nascent media empire remains a male-dominated enterprise. Six new scripted projects were announced for its next pilot...
Kristen Stewart, Kate Winslet, ‘Frozen’ Director Jennifer Lee Among Mentors for ‘Twilight’ Short Film Contest
As anyone with a glancing familiarity with Bella and Edward knows, the Twilight fandom is powerful, passionate, and legion. A new short film contest called “The Storytellers — New Voices of...
Nia Vardalos’ ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Finds Studio Distribution
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of the biggest success stories to ever emerge from the independent film world, having grossed $368 million worldwide on a $5 million production budget (and a...
Lone Scherfig is First Woman Director to Deliver David Lean Lecture at BAFTA
To quote Geena Davis, “It’s ridiculous that we would have the first woman anything in the 21st century.” But here we are with another feminist milestone, albeit a small one: Lone Scherfig...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Pamela Yates — ‘Disruption’
Pamela Yates is the co-founder of Skylight Pictures, a company dedicated to making films and advanced digital media abouthuman rights and the quest for justice. Her previous film Granito: How to...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Ursula Liang — ‘9-Man’
Ursula Liang is a journalist who has worked in a wide range of media, including posts at ESPN The Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New York Times Op-Docs, and StirTV. She is the...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Linda Hoaglund — ‘The Wound and The Gift’
Linda Hoaglund was born in Japan as the daughter of American missionaryparents and raised in rural Japan, where she attended Japanese public schools.A graduate of Yale University, she subtitled 200...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Stephanie Wang-Breal — ‘Tough Love’
Stephanie Wang-Breal has been producing and directing commercials, television shows, anddocumentaries for the past 10 years. Tough Love is Wang-Breal’s second feature-length documentary. The film...
How Not to Do Gender or Racial Diversity: A Lesson from David Letterman
When David Letterman retires next year after 22 years on the air, one of the legacies he’ll leave behind is his contribution to the maintenance of late-night TV as one of the last bastions of...
Caitlin Moran’s Autobiographical Novel ‘How to Build a Girl’ Headed for Big Screen
How to Build a Girl, Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel of a teenage girl’s self-invention from an impoverished nobody to a plucky and enterprising somebody, is getting the big-screen...
Trailer Watch: ‘Testament of Youth’ Witnesses World War I From Female Writer’s POV
DOC NYC Directors: Meet Andrea B. Scott — ‘Florence, Arizona’
Andrea B. Scott is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker, editor, and writer. She was an editor and an associate producer on A Place at the Table, directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush,...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Sarah Teale & Lisa F. Jackson — ‘Grazers: A Cooperative Story’
Sarah Teale hasproduced a number of films for HBO, including the recent four-part series TheWeight of the Nation, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy; Dealing Dogs(Emmy-nominated for Best...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Victoria Campbell — ‘Monsieur Le Président’
I am a visual artist, performer, and filmmaker. My first film, House of Bones, is a personal memoir and meditation on family, past and present, and the way a house/space defines a person.The film...
Shonda Rhimes to Receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award
We hope Shonda Rhimes has a dozen fireplaces in her home, because the awards to place on her mantelpiece just keep coming. The latest is The Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 Sherry Lansing Award,...
‘Inside Amy Schumer’: Freeing the Pussy on Comedy Central
Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer is one of the most incisive and brutally honest feminist commentaries in mainstream media today. The skit “Compliments” (about the inability of women,...
Guest Post: Preserving the Excitement of 1990s’ Independent Filmmaking
From 1991–2002, I wrote regularly about American independentand foreign films for Tower Records’ Pulse! magazine. I did interviews with filmmakers when their movies were releasedtheatrically and...
DOC NYC Women Directors: Meet Brenda Goodman — ‘Sex(Ed)’