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Trailer Watch: Una Noche – Written and Directed by Lucy Mulloy
Lucy Mulloy’s feature debut (she previously directed the short documentary This Morning) is Una Noche. The film centers on Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) who is desperate to leave Havana to go and...
The Women Directed Films at 2013 New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival announced their 2013 main lineup. New films from Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland are in the line up. Of the 32 films in the lineup (not including...
Director Laura Poitras Is at the Center of the Biggest Political Story of the Year
Unless you live under a rock you know that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, political stories this year is the release of classified documents by Edward Snowden about the US government and...
Political Women on the Small Screen: Barbara Hall’s Secretary of State TV Show and Hillary Clinton Miniseries Update
CBS is working with Barbara Hall, co-executive producer of Homeland, on a series about a female secretary of state. Entitled Madame Secretary, the series will follow a female secretary of state as...
Blue is the Warmest Color International Trailer Hits
Palme d’Or winning film, the controversial, Blue is the Warmest Color will also play at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. The film about two young lesbians won the top award at Cannes...
Weekly Update for August 16: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Austenland – Written and Directed by Jerusha Hess, Adapted for the Screen by Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale Keri Russell plays unlucky in love Jane Hayes,...
Interview with Jerusha Hess – Writer and Director of Austenland
Women and Hollywood: Can you talk a little bit about what drew you to this project? Jerusha Hess: I got the book from the author. I had no idea about the book. I was interested in another project...
Tips from Gale Anne Hurd on Success
Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of The Walking Dead, spoke with Media Bistro about her career in Hollywood. Hurd, who received the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Athena Film...
Five Plays by Lucy Thurber to Open Simultaneously in New York
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is putting on a festival dedicated to the playwright Lucy Thurber this month. Thurber’s series of 5 plays, The Hill Town Plays, will be staged...
TV Pilot Roundup for August 16th: New Shows from Shonda Rhimes, Tina Fey and Nahnatchka Khan
Here’s a roundup of some of the most notable pilot news from the last week. Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ production company just nabbed a comedy from Cougar Town co-producers Christine...
Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires Anita Hill Documentary
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Anita, the documentary about Anita Hill. Directed by Freida Mock, Anita follows the life of Anita Hill–looking at her experiences...
How Pop Culture Can Enhance Our View of Hillary Clinton
It’s no real surprise that the moment NBC announced that it had ordered a fictionalized mini-series about Hillary Clinton written by Courtney Hunt and starring Diane Lane, and CNN...
Interview with Golshifteh Farahani – Star of The Patience Stone
This is from Toronto Film Festival in 2012 The Patience Stone was the movie in Toronto that two separate women told me I needed to see. And boy was it worth it. It is basically a monologue...
Cross Post: In ‘Planes’ Males Soar, Females Get Grounded
I’ve blogged twice about the sexist preview for “Planes,” and after seeing the movie today, I’m afraid I’ve got to blog about this awful scene once more. The sexist...
Trailer Watch: How I Live Now – Co-Written by Penelope Skinner
How I Live Now, based on the novel by Meg Rosoff, stars Saoirse Ronan as Daisy, who is sent to live with her family in the English countryside. She falls for the boy next door just as World War III...
Jennifer Lawrence Covers the September Issue of Vogue
Jennifer Lawrence covers Vogue’s coveted September issue (consisting of a backbreaking 665 pages). In a seven hour interview with Jonathan Van Meter, Lawrence spoke about The Hunger Games,...
Susanne Bier and Julie Delpy Line Up New Gigs
Susanne Bier and Julie Delpy are in talks for two exciting and high-profile projects. Bier is getting set up to direct Saoirse Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots. Penelope Skinner alongside Michael Hirst...
Trailer Watch: Inch’Allah – Directed and Written by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s Inch’Allah follows Chloe (Evelyne Brochu) a young Canadian obstetrician working in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Chloe is face to face with...
Pixar to Release Inside Out – Set Inside an Adolescent Girl’s Brain
Over the weekend at the D23 Expo, Pixar discussed details, showed footage and introduced the cast of their new project Inside Out. Directed by Up and Monster’s Inc. director Pete Docter,...
Toronto 2013 Adds Films to Galas, Special Presentations and World Cinema
This year’s Toronto Film Festival has added more films to their Gala, Special Presentation and World Cinema programs. There are now 19 Galas with only one woman directed film out of that. The...
Fall 2013 Preview – The Women
Entertainment Weekly released its annual Fall Preview issue and so we thought it was time to do an overview of the women directed and women centric movies coming out over the next several months....
Nine for IX: The Runner Directed by Shola Lynch Premieres Tonight
The latest Nine for IX documentary The Runner directed by Shola Lynch (Free Angela and all Political Prisoners) will premiere tonight at 8pm on ESPN. The film tells the story of the...
Trailer Watch: Homeland – Season 3
Check out Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in the trailer for the upcoming 3rd season of Homeland. New episodes of Showtime’s acclaimed drama begin on September 29th at 9:00pm.
Rebel Wilson’s Super Fun Night: When Self-Deprecating Heroines Tear Themselves Too Far Down
“I want to defend you, and then I find out you’re the person who wrote it which is brilliant,” Conan O’Brien told Australian comedienne Rebel Wilson at the ...
Trailer Watch: Philomena – Starring Judi Dench
Judi Dench’s upcoming Philomena focuses on a woman looking for her son. Forced to give up her child, after becoming pregnant at a young age, Philomena spends the next 50 years looking for...
Joy Behar Has Last Day on The View
Friday was Joy Behar’s last day on The View and she was sent out with a bevy of celebrity friends. Behar’s 16 years on the show were celebrated by her The View castmates as well as Joan...
Cross Post: Heroines of Cinema: 15 Female Directors Who Made Their First Feature After Turning 40
Two weeks ago, this column profiled ten female directors aged 40 or younger . My reasons for imposing an age limit were clearly stated, but it had the unfortunate side...
Karen Black: Perfectly Misunderstood
Karen Black died last week and she was my unlikely friend. I say so because all the conventional markers could not have predicted it. I am an atheist, a feminist and a film director and Karen...
Trailer Watch: Mother of George – Written by Darci Picoult
Mother of George, written by Darci Picoult, was a Sundance hit with massive praise for Danai Gurira’s standout performance. It’s gorgeous cinematography took home the top award. Gurira...
Weekly Update for August 9: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Currently Playing Lovelace The only thing I knew about Linda Lovelace was that she was a porn star from the infamous porn movie Deep Throat. Sadly, I think...
Patricia Cornwell Switches Publishers and Gets Huge Advance for New Book
Patricia Cornwell, after 18 years at Penguin, has jumped ship to HarperCollins. She is the first writer to go elsewhere after the Penguin and Random House mega-merger. She’s signed on...
Lake Bell’s Directorial Debut, In A World…, Smartly Examines Industry Sexism
Lake Bell’s directorial debut, In A World…, is a hilarious and uncomfortable look into how deeply sexism can plague an industry. She stars as Carol Solomon, a struggling...
Mira Nair to Direct Bengali Detective
Mira Nair is set to helm Bengali Detective as her next project. The film, which is based on a 2011 documentary by Phil Cox, follows a Calcutta based detective who while navigating the crime...
Cross Post: Fostering Our Future
The new fantastic, flashy, female-fronted shows of the season have received seemingly endless and endlessly deserving ink. We all love “Orphan Black” and “Orange Is the New...
Women Created Pilot News Roundup
In the past week, there’s been a ton of notable women created pilot news. Writers like Marti Noxon, Jill Soloway and Rashida Jones (the soon to be dearly departed Ann Perkins from Parks and...
Tangerine Entertainment’s Juice Fund to Support Women Directors
Tangerine Entertainment, a production company and community builder for female filmmakers, has launched the Juice Fund. It will provide community involvement and a direct way to support women...
The Hillary Clinton TV Panic – Part One
It’s summer and everyone is sick of talking about Anthony Weiner and his sexting, so now there is another controversy to discuss — the impending Hillary Clinton media TV projects on both...
The Heat Opening Weekend Box Office in the UK
Paul Feig’s follow-up to the gender-defying Bridesmaids was ushered into UK cinemas by supportive critics and very positive reviews. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy received...
Trailer Watch: Winnie Mandela
Winnie Mandela, which premiered two years ago at TIFF, finally has a release date and a trailer. Starring Jennifer Hudson, the film follows Mandela through her upbringing, the beginnings of...
An Appreciation of Summer Roberts: The O.C.’s Greatest Character
It’s eerie to think that 10 years ago this week, I watched The O.C. huddled around a TV in my friend’s parents basement. It was a show I had been anticipating all summer...
Billie Jean King Talks Coming Out and Tennis for Upcoming PBS Special
Iconic tennis player, Billie Jean King, spoke at the PBS TCA panel this week for her upcoming American Masters special. King is the first sports figure to be profiled in the series. The...
Glass Ceiling Breakthrough of the Day: Two Women to Anchor Weeknight News Show
Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making major history at PBS. The pair will be co-anchoring PBS Newshour. The pair will both serve as anchors and managing editors of the newscast which will...
Trailer Watch: Enough Said – Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener’s latest Enough Said will premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival before hitting theaters. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva, a divorced, single parent and...
Meryl Streep Books Two New Roles
Meryl Streep has just booked two new roles in the upcoming adaptations of The Giver and The Good House. Streep is in talks to portray the Chief Elder in The Giver. Based on Lois Lowry’s...
Trailer Watch: Full Trailer – Diana
I have to say that this looks really good to me. I just wonder how it will play in the new Princess Catherine world we live in. But I think people are still fascinated with Diana, and...
HBO to Develop Comedy Series Starring Issa Rae
Issa Rae is teaming up with Larry Wilmore to co-write a comedy series for HBO. Rae is set to star. The project will focus on the life of a modern African-American woman through both her extremely...
TIFF Trailer Watch: Gloria
Celebrating its North American Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival is Gloria starring Paulina Garcia. Garcia plays Gloria, a middle-aged divorcee, who is trying to embrace her single status...
Mariska Hargitay to Make Documentary on Rape Kit Backlog
Mariska Hargitay is working on a documentary, slated to shoot within the next two months, about the backlog of untested rape kits in this country. The project has a producer but they are currently...
Update to Romola Garai’s Campaign Against Tesco
Romola Garai’s support of UK Feminista’s and Object’s Lose the Lads’ Mags campaign has paid off – both the Co-op and Tesco have capitulated, albeit in limited...
The Sapphires DVD Cover Controversy
The Sapphires, which was released earlier this year, is about the true story of four indigenous women from Australia who are discovered by a talent scout and are sent to Vietnam to perform for the...
Kathy Bates is Not Happy With NBC
Over the weekend at the Television Critics Association’s Summer TV 2013 Press Tour, Kathy Bates spoke out about the Harry’s Law cancellation and her experience with NBC. When asked...