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TIFF Women Directors: Meet Caroline Link
Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany. She studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Her films include Beyond Silence (96), Punktchen und Anton (99), Nowhere in...
Women Make Small Incremental Gains Onscreen and Behind the Scenes
As the new TV season starts, we get the annual look Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes and OnScreen Women in 2012-13 Prime-time Television from Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego...
Weekly Update for September 6: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Touchy Feely – Lynn Shelton Touchy Feely is about about a brother a sister, one who touches for a living and one who makes a point of...
Interview with Anne Fontaine – Director of Adore
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Anne Fontaine about her new film, Adore, which she directed. Adore hits theaters today. Women and Hollywood: You say in the press notes...
Trailer Watch: Gravity – Starring Sandra Bullock
As we previously reported, Alfonso Cuaron got flack from having a female lead in the upcoming Gravity. However with the great reviews of the film coming out of Venice and TIFF, it looks like those...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley
Leanne Pooley was born and raised in Canada, and now lives in New Zealand. She has directed over twenty features, including the documentaries Haunting Douglas (03), The Promise (05), Try...
Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury to Receive Academy’s Governors Awards
Angelina Jolie and Angela Lansbury will be receiving awards at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards. Lansbury will receive an Honorary award. The Honorary Award is given to honor those...
SXSW Rerun: Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher
Originally published on April 9. A Teacher is in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today and is available on VOD. A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
The second trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming remake of the horror classic, Carrie, gives a larger glimpse at how Peirce will interpret the classic scenes from the original. Based on...
TIFF Women Directors and Producers: Meet Sabine Emiliani and Stephanie Levy
Sabine Emiliani’s documentary editing has garnered accolades from Sundance to Cannes to the Academy Awards. Ms. Emiliani’s 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, March of the Penguins...
Sundance Rerun: Interview with Lynn Shelton – Director of Touchy Feely
Originally published on on February 5. Touchy Feely is open in limited release today. It is also available on VOD. I had never met Lynn Shelton before last month but I already felt like I knew...
Pondering Roseanne On Its 25th Anniversary
As we stare down the beginning of another grim new crop of fall television shows, the prospects this year seem even worse in part because of a looming anniversary: twenty-five years ago this...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Lisa Langseth
Lisa Langseth was born in Stockholm, Sweden and studied at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a playwright and director of theatre. Her film directing credits include the short...
September Film Preview
As we head out of a strong August for women directed and centric films, we go straight into a September filled with varied and interesting projects from new and veteran women filmmakers. Films this...
Guest Post: Filming the Unimaginable
I remember feeling scared of entering the room Neil was in, of approaching him. Maybe part of this was fear of seeing his suffering, but it was also disquiet about the ethics of filming...
Variety Announces Recipients of 5th Annual Power of Women
Variety has announced the group of women they will be honoring at their 5th annual Power of Women event, which celebrates leaders in the industry and their philanthropic work. This year the...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland. Her first feature film, Provincial Actors (79), won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Her last film, In Darkness, was nominated for an Academy Award for...
Trailer Watch: Palo Alto – Directed by Gia Coppola
There’s another Coppola getting into directing. Gia Coppola’s feature debut (which she wrote and directed) Palo Alto, premiered at Telluride and will screen at Toronto the next...
Women in Film Announces 28th Annual Film Finishing Fund Recipients
Women in Film announced the winners of their 28th annual Film Finishing Fund. The Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that are by or about...
The Big O: The Oscar Season Kicks Off
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Big O, Women & Hollywood’s new Oscar column. Not that there is any lack of web outlets that engage in prognostication and updates on the status of...
2013 BFI London Film Festival Unveils Full Lineup
The programme for the 2013 BFI London Film Festival has been announced to great fanfare in Leicester Square. When it comes to women filmmakers, the news is as usual a bit scarce, but there...
Sarah Siegel-Magness to Direct Castro’s Daughter
Sarah Siegel-Magness will direct Castro’s Daughter, based on the memoir written by Alina Fernandez. She will be replacing Michael Radford on the project. Fernandez was born in 1956,...
Women and Hollywood Events in Toronto 2013
I’m heading up to the Toronto Film Festival for the third time and again the anxiety of creating a decent schedule has set in. We will have a new feature on the site this year –...
You Can Decide – The European Film Awards People’s Choice Award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for its People’s Choice Award, the winners of which will be feted at the EFA ceremony on 7th December in Berlin. Academy Award winning...
Trailer Watch: Divergent – Starring Shailene Woodley
The first trailer for Divergent, based on the first novel in Veronica Roth’s trilogy, was released last week. Starring Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior, the film is set...
Happy Birthday Women and Hollywood – This is What 6 Looks Like
I can’t believe it but Women and Hollywood is entering its 7th year. (And for the record I got a little bit ahead of myself – it’s our 6th birthday and we are going into our...
The Weinstein Company Acquires Women Centric Tracks
The Weinstein Company, as of late, has been nabbing some high profile women centric titles. In May, they picked up the Judi Dench starrer, Philomena, about a woman who looks for the son she was...
Dakota Johnson to Star in Fifty Shades of Grey
The highly anticipated casting news of who will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation was announced yesterday. Dakota Johnson, of Fox’s...
While We Were Away…Some Links of Interest
Here are some links from when we were away that might interest people: Summer Stories Hollywood is in Trouble, and We’re All Going to Pay (New Republic) Good News And Bad News Of 2013 Summer...
Inspirational Woman of the Day: Diana Nyad
There is no better way to start the fall off than with a dose of some serious inspiration. Diana Nyad, on her fifth attempt (the first one was in 1978), accomplished a lifelong dream —...
Weekly Update for August 23 & 30: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Check out the women centric, directed and written films playing near you in the next two weeks. Films About Women Opening This Weekend August 23: Short Term 12 ...
Summer’s Final Thoughts: Wonder Woman, Strong Women, Indie Women and All the Women in Between
This summer will be remembered for, among other things, the fact that male superheroes and male non superheroes were practically all the we saw onscreen. For all the box office fatigue —...
Interview with Jill Soloway – Writer and Director of Afternoon Delight
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Jill Soloway about her film Afternoon Delight, which she wrote and directed. Afternoon Delight opens in theaters on August 30th. Women...
Cross Post: Meet The Butler’s Powerhouse Producer
Sheila Johnson is a highly successful businesswoman, entrepreneur, producer, and philanthropist, with achievements and accolades far too numerous to list. I have the honor of serving on the...
Listless Women and Life Realizations in The Lifeguard and Afternoon Delight
Entering into the late twenties–one becomes increasingly accustomed to seeing life’s so-called major plot points swelling around them–high school reunions, careers,...
Trailer Watch: The Book Thief
The Book Thief, based on Marcus Zusak’s bestselling novel, follows a young foster girl, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) living with her foster parents outside Munich during the horrors of WWII. Liesel...
SXSW Rerun: Interview with Brie Larson – Star of Short Term 12
Originally published on March 26. Short Term 12 is in theaters today. Short Term 12 , written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was hands down one of my favorite films I saw at SXSW....
Interview with Liz W. Garcia – Writer and Director of The Lifeguard
Women and Hollywood got the chance to speak to Liz W. Garcia, writer and director of The Lifeguard, which opens in theaters on August 30th. The film is also available on ITunes now. Women and...
GLAAD Releases First Annual Studio Responsibility Index
GLAAD, the nation’s leading LGBT media advocacy organization, released their first annual Studio Responsibility Index, which looks at the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT...
Trailer Watch: Plush – Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
As of late, there hasn’t been much news about Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming, Plush, her first film since 2011’s Red Riding Hood. This week, a trailer and stills for the film...
TV Pilot Roundup for August 22: New Shows from Rashida Jones, Lauren Graham and Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland
Here’s some of the most notable news from this week about TV pilot pickups. Lauren Graham’s adaptation of her YA novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, has been picked up by The CW. ABC has...
Trailer Watch: Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters
Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters is the latest in paranormal YA adaptations wanting to take the spot Twilight once held. Adapted from Richelle Mead’s bestselling series, the film follows Rose...
Guest Post: For Life
In my country, a female director is a rare exception (but fortunately not for long). In the Middle-East, some consider that a miracle and others a heresy. On the set of Inch’Allah,...
Up and Comer to Watch: MJ Delaney
MJ Delaney came to our attention as the precocious directing talent behind a parody of Alicia Key’s New York State of Mind – the young filmmaker (25) scored over 2 million hits...
Patricia Clarkson as Katha Pollitt in Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive
Patricia Clarkson will play writer Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive, a film based on Pollitt’s 2002 essay in The New Yorker. The film directed by Isabel Coixet and adapted by Sarah...
Cross Post: Legendary Passed On Red Reaper Because It Has a Female Action Hero
When Tara Cardinal’s labor of love and sweat and tears, the fantasy/action feature Legend of the Red Reaper, was written, it was shopped at various distributors and production...
Watch This: Say Yes – Directed by Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay has had a huge year so far–winning awards for Middle of Nowhere and being invited to join the Academy. That doesn’t even touch upon DuVernay’s increasingly prolific...
There is Still Time to Submit Your Film to the Athena Film Festival
This summer I have had the privilege with working with three amazing young Barnard students — Jo Chiang, Lili Safron and Caroline Moore — who have been helping me find the movies that we...
The 99ers Premieres Tonight on ESPN
I am a product of Title IX. I grew up playing soccer. It was the late 70s and early 80s and pretty much everyone I knew played soccer so I thought all girls did. It wasn’t...
Forbes Names Women and Hollywood One of the 100 Best Websites for Women
Here’s some great news. Women and Hollywood was just named one of the 100 Best Websites for Women by Forbes. We are incredibly honored and humbled by this honor for the third year...
Tina Fey Nabs Second TV Deal in One Week
As we reported last week, NBC picked up a comedy produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock from 30 Rock writer Colleen McGuinness–a workplace set comedy about a young woman who is looking to...