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Weekly Update for November 7: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Actress (Docudrama) Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor,...
Trailer Watch: ‘Girls’ Season 4: “Taking the Next Step in a Series of Random Steps”
The Season 3 finale of Girls marked the biggest shakeup in the show’s history: Hannah (Lena Dunham) is off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Adam (Adam Driver) is about to make his Broadway debut,...
‘First Wives Club’ Musical Assembles Tony-Winning Cast
Faith Prince (A Catered Affair), Christine Sherrill (Mamma Mia), and Carmen Cusack (Wicked) have been announced as the women getting vengeance on their cheating ex-husbands in the new musical...
ABC to Air Modern-Day ‘Little Women’ Miniseries Starring Natascha McElhone
Twenty years after the big-screen adaptation starring Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Kirsten Dunst, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will be translated for the screen again, this...
Trailer Watch: Martin Luther King, Jr. is a Man, Not a Monument, in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’
“I always knew that MLK was badass, but he’s been homogenized to a speech and a statue,” said director Ava DuVernay at an Urbanworld Film Festival sneak-peek event for Selma a few months ago....
Cindy Chupack’s Directorial Debut to Star Allison Janney and Susan Sarandon
Cindy Chupack, the two-time Emmy-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family, will make her feature directorial debut with the mom com Whatever Makes You Happy. Susan Sarandon and Allison...
AFI Fest Women Directors: Meet Sarah Adina Smith — ‘The Midnight Swim’
‘The Mindy Project’ Finds Its Footing (By Occasionally Slipping)
Four Women-Directed Animated Features Land on Oscar Shortlist
Next year’s February 22 ceremony is still far away, but here’s one thing that’s already crystallized about the Oscars’ animation race: There are no female frontrunners this year (like most...
Women and Hollywood Launches Podcast
Women and Hollywood is joining the podcast universe. This is just another way for us to engage with a wider audience with our work and the terrific women who are a part of the entertainment...
Fox Announces Its Women Directors Initiative Fellows
Our sincerest congrats to the 20 accomplished female filmmakers who have been chosen to participate in the Fox Global Directors Initiative, a new multi-year program by the studio to develop the...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Eva Longoria
The ever-busy Eva Longoria used the stage at a Web Summit conference in Dublin yesterday to speak out against sexism in the media and tech industries. “There is definitely under-representation of...
Trailer Watch: Final Spot for ‘Annie’ Highlights Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx’s Comedic Chops
The Big O: Can Hilary Swank stake a third claim on an Oscar?
You can have your SAGs and Golden Globes. But the ultimate acting prize in the movie biz has been and remains an Oscar for a lead performance. And if owning one is impressive, having two on your...
Laura Dern Creates Comedy About Obsessive Female Football Fans, Will Team With Judd Apatow to Produce it
It was bad enough when HBO canceled Enlightened, one of TV’s most brilliant series in the past decade. But it’s been hell seeing Laura Dern on the big screen since, stuck in unchallenging,...
Guest Post: Finding the Perfect Animal Doc Subject As She’s Being “Arrested” on the Golden Gate Bridge
Ilike to film relationships, especially those between urban people and wildanimals. Pelicans have intrigued me since I was a child — they remind me offlying dinosaurs: so graceful in the air,...
EXCLUSIVE: ShortsHD Celebrates Women Filmmakers with ‘100 Films By Her’ Month
ShortsHD, a high-definition cable network dedicated to short movies, will celebrate women directors this month with a 100 Films By Her special. Programming will consist of works from established and...
Crosspost: Broadway Actress Erin Davie on Being Called “Weird” and Avoiding the Typical Ingenue Roles
Crossposted from The Interval with permission of the author. We took Erin Davie to Coney Island to talk to her about starring in the Broadway revival of Side Show, and it was an adventure. There...
Trailer Watch: Niki Caro’s ‘McFarland, USA’: “There Ain’t Nothing ‘American Dream’ About This Place”
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Sharon Stone to Star as Vice President in TNT’s Political-Conspiracy Miniseries ‘Agent X’
The latest movie star to sign up for a limited small-screen engagement is Sharon Stone, who’ll play the Vice President of the United States in the political thriller Agent X on TNT. Stone will...
37% of Oscar-Submitted Documentaries Directed by Women
A total of 134 nonfiction films were submitted for Oscar consideration this fall, and 50 of them (or 37% of the total) boast female directors or co-directors. The award-hopefuls will be winnowed to...
Essence Holds Second Annual Shorts Competition for Black Women Filmmakers
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Betsy Beers’ Keynote: “I Hope Girls Can Count on Our Shows to Remind Them It’s Okay to Be Strong and Complicated”
Shonda Rhimes’ producing partner Betsy Beers delivered a moving and revealing keynote address at the Marie Claire New Guard luncheon last Thursday. Beers, along with actress Rashida Jones,...
DOC NYC to Honor ‘Citizenfour’ Director Laura Poitras with Inaugural Award
Filmmaker and “MacArthur Genius” grantee Laura Poitras (CitizenFour, The Oath, Flag Wars) will receive DOC NYC’s inaugural Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence in a ceremony...
November 2014 Film Preview
The month of November arrives under thesign of the Mockingjay, promising the keenly anticipated return of KatnissEverdeen to our screens in The HungerGames: Mockingjay — Part 1. The hype has...
Women Directors — Speak Out Now About Sexism in the Industry
This is a post for all women directors (whether you are a DGA member or not) of feature films, episodic TV shows, commercials, shorts, experimentals etc. Have you been refused directing jobs despite...
Weekly Update for October 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Before I Go To Sleep A taut thriller based on the worldwide best-selling novel by S.J. Watson, Before I Go To Sleep is the story of a woman (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up...
Watch: Anita Sarkeesian Explains GamerGate on ‘Colbert,’ Brianna Wu Announces Legal Fund for Female Victims
The necessary fight against GamerGate continues, with critic Anita Sarkeesian making one of her most prominent media appearances yet and game developer Brianna Wu announcing her intentions to start...
Stacey Snider to Be Named Co-Chair of 20th Century Fox
Another female executive is about to join the uppermost echelons of the film industry. Sources have confirmed that Stacey Snider will be named the co-chair of 20th Century Fox. That will make her...
‘Olive Kitteridge,’ Where Have You Been All My Life?
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Lawrence is a Possible Murderer in Susanne Bier’s ‘Serena’
Timber heir George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) wanted “a wife and a partner” when he married Serena Shaw (Jennifer Lawrence). But his elegant, ambitious, scheming bride isn’t just a modern...
Producer Gale Ann Hurd to Receive PGA’s David O. Selznick Award
Gale Ann Hurd will receive the Producers Guild of America’s 2015 David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Hurd will be feted in a ceremony on January 24. “I am humbled to be mentioned in the same...
Kyra Sedgwick to Headline HBO Comedy About Ex-Nun
After starring in seven seasons of The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick will trade her badge for a wimple — then her wimple for a shot at an ordinary life. The Emmy-winning actress will star as an...
Trailer Watch: Katniss Joins the Revolution in Final Spot for ‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1’
Elle Fanning to Play Transgender Character in Multigenerational Drama
One of the most moving and original aspects of Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent is seeing a trans character’s life story play out in the context of her (troubled but...
Guest Post: Advice for Execs, Agency Owners, and Filmmakers Dealing with Agents Who “Don’t Do Women Directors”
So this happened this week: And I was not at all surprised. But I want to offer somesolutions. Because really, what’s the point of complaining about anything ifyou’re not going to try to solve...
Women Remain Afterthoughts as DC and Marvel Plan 18 Movies About Superdudes, 2 About Superheroines
It seems like we’ve been waiting forever (and ever and ever) for Marvel and DC, the two comic-book conglomerates, to make a super-heroine movie. DC announced two weeks ago that Wonder Woman would...
Trailer Watch: Israeli Military Comedy ‘Zero Motivation’ Finds Humor in the Trenches
The Big O: Stand By Your Man — And Grab That Oscar Nomination
There are a number of films vying for awards attention this year that feature a certain female trope that’s grown increasingly popular since the dawn of the 21st century — one that often...
LA Agent to Producer: “I Don’t Do Women Directors”
Yesterday, my Twitter timeline exploded with the following tweet from French producer Charles Gillibert: While infuriating, sexist, and unjust, this sentiment really does not surprise me. Here’s...
April Prosser’s Female-Friendship Comedy ‘Plus One’ to Be Released by Weinstein Co.
One of the first projects coming out of Gloria Sanchez Productions — Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay’s new shingle for female-centric comedies — will be screenwriter April...
‘Hysteria’ Filmmaker Tanya Wexler to Direct Keanu Reeves in Sci-Fi Thriller
Here’s a new female filmmaker about to make it big: Tanya Wexler, who directed Maggie Gyllenhaal in the 2011 vibrator-themed period rom com Hysteria. Wexler will have the opportunity to tackle a...
Trailer Watch: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Iranian Vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
We’ve been hearing raves about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. And now first-time filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, who was nominated...
‘See No Evil 2’ Directors Jen and Sylvia Soska on Reinventing Horror and the Benefits of a Creative Partnership (VIDEO)
Canadian Recommendations For Achieving Gender Equity
Dear American readers: Your neighbors to the north are producing lots of original television and film content besides Degrassi and Atom Egoyan movies. Also, we — — much like you — are...
Playwright Katori Hall to Direct Film Version of ‘Hurt Village’
Katori Hall, the Olivier Award-winning playwright of The Mountaintop, will direct a screen adaptation of another one of her works. Hall will helm Hurt Village, her 2011 play about the dissolution...
Watch: Jill Soloway Delivers Keynote About Nearly Quitting Hollywood and Her 5-Year Plan for ‘Transparent’
‘An Education’ Director Lone Scherfig Books Next FIlm
Lone Scherfig, the director of Italian for Beginners, An Education, One Day, and most recently The Riot Club, has begun casting her next project. The Danish filmmaker will adapt Lissa Evans’...
Crosspost: Tony-Winning Theater Director Susan Stroman on What’s Changed for Women in the Last Ten Years
Originally published on and cross-posted with permission from The Interval. Let’s just start with some facts. Susan Stroman has won five Tony Awards and has received an additional nine...
‘Invisible War’ Filmmakers Making Doc About Campus Sexual Assault
After exposing the endemic rates of and barriers to justice regarding rape in the military in the Oscar-nominated The Invisible War, documentary director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering will...
Weekly Update for October 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Laggies — Directed by Lynn Shelton; Written by Andrea Seigel “Suck it up, go with your gut.” That’s the advice Seattle late-twentysomething Megan (Keira...