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Jane Campion and Stacie Passon’s Films Announced in Berlin Line Up
Last week, the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival announced more films to their lineup. Among the women directed films include Stacie Passon’s Concussion, which premiered at Sundance (and...
Sundance Deals: Jerusha Hess and Stacie Passon Get Distribution Deals
Jerusha Hess’s directorial debut, Austenland, was picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for around $4 million. The film, which stars Keri Russell and Jennifer Coolidge, follows a...
Sundance Watch This: Gideon’s Army – Directed by Dawn Porter
Gideon's Army, directed by Dawn Porter, is a documentary that follows a group of public defenders in the south and the man who mentored them. The film premiered at Sundance. Judging from the...
Jessica Chastain Rules the Box Office with Top Two Films
In an awesome development over the weekend, one of Women and Hollywood’s favorite actresses, Jessica Chastain dominated the box office this weekend with both her films in the top spots. Mama,...
Sundance Institute and Women in Film Release Unprecedented Study on Women Directors
This morning, here in Sundance, a new ground breaking study of women directors "Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Women Filmmakers" was released. The study is...
Sundance Diary Part One: Mother of George and After Tiller
I arrived in Sundance on Friday morning totally freaked out about the Sundance flu and the cold. But now I'm on day 2 and so far so good. I hear there are people stuck in their hotels...
Guest Post: Why We Shot on Film in Rural West Texas
“What’s the movie about?” a very solemn man in a cowboy hat asks us. I hesitate. One of the first things I learned when traveling to West Texas to shoot our low budget indie BEST...
In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing Volume 1 Available Now!
For the past couple of years I have been working IN HER VOICE: WOMEN DIRECTORS TALK DIRECTING, a book of interviews with women directors from the first couple of years of the site. I am happy...
Anticipating Sundance: Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
I am heading to Sundance for the first time. I am looking forward to seeing a bunch of women directed movies over the next couple of days. There are also several women's events...
Abi Morgan to Adapt ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ Anne Hathaway to Star
Brit Abi Morgan is taking on the master and adapting Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Morgan, who created the BBC series The Hour and has written Shame and The Iron Lady, is supremely...
Teaser Trailer for HBO Miniseries Parade’s End – Directed by Susanna White
Susanna White, director of HBO's Generation Kill, directed the new HBO miniseries, Parade's End, penned by Tom Stoppard. The series is adapted from a series of 1920s novels by Ford...
A24 Acquires Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring for June Release
One of our most anticipated movies of 2013, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, was just acquired by A24. Coppola’s film is based on the real life story of a group of rich teenagers who...
Anticipating Sundance: Sundance Lineup is a Win for Women Directors and for Everybody Who Cares About Movies
This post was originally published on November 29, 2012. For the last couple of years (the time that I have written this blog) I have lived in a world full of disappointment when it comes to...
Kathryn Bigelow Speaks Out About Zero Dark Thirty Criticism to Los Angeles Times
Kathryn Bigelow has decided to address the torture criticism surrounding Zero Dark Thirty in a personally written response to her critics in the LA Times. And it’s a must read. Bigelow...
Lucy Alibar and Doris Kearns Goodwin Nominated for USC Scripter Award
USC announced their 2013 Scripter award nominees this week. The Scripter award celebrates both the screenwriter and the author of the original text that the film was adapted from. This year, due to a...
Trailer Watch: Life Is But A Dream – Directed by Beyonce
Be prepared to bow down everyone. One of my personal queens, Beyonce, has self-directed a documentary about who she is behind the scenes. Stripping away the glamour of the stage, the doc looks at...
New York Times Says ‘Female Directors Gain Ground, Slowly.’ Should We Wait That Long?
The great Carrie Rickey published a piece in the New York Times this past weekend with the depressing headline ‘Female Directors Gain Ground, Slowly’. The piece reported that in 2012, by...
Lauren Greenfield and Alison Klayman Receive DGA Nominations for Best Documentary
Earlier this week, the Directors Guild of America announced their nominees for best documentary. They’ve previously announced the nominees for film and television. Two women were nominated out...
Watch This: New Trailer for Athena Film Festival – February 7-10
Check out the new trailer for the Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein), hosted at Barnard College, on February 7-10. The new trailer incorporates clips from the films...
Cross Post: The Brave One
Hard as it may be to believe, I won’t remember the 70th annual Golden Globes Awards for my beloved Tina Fey. Or Amy Poehler. Or Sofia Vergara’s golden globes. I mean, sure, they were all...
Taymor vs. Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark Lawsuit Back On
The complicated saga of Julie Taymor’s infamous Spider-Man:Turn off the Dark continues, with the revival of her lawsuit against the producers of the musical. Taymor first filed the suit in...
Zero Dark Thirty Scores Number 1 at Box Office, Sony’s Co-Chair Speaks Out on Torture Remarks
The Zero Dark Thirty torture conversation shows no sign of abating. Sony’s co-chairman Amy Pascal responded to claims from AMPAS member, actor David Clennon (Miles from Thirtysomething),...
Women Directors and Women-Centric Films Win Big at Palm Springs Film Festival
Women and women-centric films were big winners at the 24th annual Palm Springs Film Festival. The fest began on January 3rd and ends today. The Sapphires, about an Aboriginal girl group in the 1960s,...
Why Girls Still Matters in Season 2
Last night was a huge lady-centric night for television with the delightful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting the Golden Globes, the premiere of season two of the criminally underwatched Enlightened...
Thoughts on the Golden Globes – Girls Literally Ruled
Last night, I ended up watching the Golden Globes in real time (with the commercials too.) The reason why that was possible was because of twitter and because I was having such a good time watching...
Cher to Bring More Glamour to Television Screens with 60s Focused Project
Personal life icon and owner of my favorite Twitter account, Cher, has recently inked a development deal with Logo, an LGBT focused network that has blessed lives with RuPaul’s Drag...
Critics and Film Lovers Respond to Kathryn Bigelow Snub
After Kathryn Bigelow’s name wasn’t announced for Best Director during yesterday’s Oscar nominations, film and entertainment critics as well as movie lovers were outraged causing a...
Guest Post: How to Do an Abortion Plotline
When Amy tearfully asked Drew, “Do I look normal?” following her abortion procedure in the latest episode of Parenthood, it spoke to the narratives often pushed by the anti-choice...
2 of 15 Films in Berlin Competition Line Up Directed by Women
The Berlin International Film Festival announced their full competition line up for the Golden Bear. Two of the nine films from this most recent announcement are directed by women. As we previously...
Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter Talk Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake at TCAs
At the Sundance Channel’s Television Critics Association panel last week, everyone was buzzing about Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s epic seven part miniseries starring Elisabeth Moss and...
DGA Announces Television and Commercial Award Nominees
Earlier this week the Directors Guild of America announced their film nominees. In addition, they also announced nominees for television and commercials. There are quite a few women nominated...
2013 BAFTA Nominees Include Kathryn Bigelow, Judi Dench, Lynne Ramsay
On the heels of learning that 4 out of the 5 nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star Award are women, comes the full list of the 2013 BAFTA awards nominees. Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Zero...
Good and Bad Surprises Come with 2013 Oscar Nominations
Oscar nominations were announced this morning and per usual there were the surprises, both of the good and bad variety. Nine year old Quvenzhané Wallis becomes the youngest Best Actress...
The Academy Snubs Kathryn Bigelow for History Making Second Best Director Nomination
I sit here ruminating, fulminating and seething, thinking about how Kathryn Bigelow could have been overlooked for a second best director nomination. I'm pretty sure the people who thought...
Interview with Callie Khouri – Creator of Nashville
Women and Hollywood is a big fan of Nashville (we love Connie Britton) and Callie Khouri. We were excited to get an opportunity to talk with Ms. Khouri as the show returns with a new episode...
Where’d You Go Bernadette Gets Writers and Producers
One of the best books I read over the holidays and last year is Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette? It is an original, funny, touching, moving story of a 50 year old woman,...
New Trailer: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Sally Potter's gorgeous Ginger & Rosa was one of my favorite films from last year's AFI Film Festival. A coming of age story, set during the Cold War, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning)...
Bette Midler Returns to Broadway After 30 Years
Bette Midler is making a return to Broadway after a 30 year absence. She'll be starring as Sue Mengers in I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers. Mengers is still regarding as the most...
Kathryn Bigelow Nominated for DGA Award
The Directors Guild of America announced their nominees for film today. Kathryn Bigelow was nominated for Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow previously won the DGA in 2009 for The Hurt Locker and was the...
Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty Win Big at EDA Awards
Zero Dark Thirty has swept, yet again, another awards ceremony, this time around at the EDA Awards, from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Bigelow received the award for best director, Mark...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2013 Line Up
I am so very proud to be sharing with you the line-up for the 3rd Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership, which will take place this upcoming February 7-10 on the campus on...
Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There
This eye-opening and disturbing movie is about a woman, Tania Head, who completely fabricated a story of being a 9/11 survivor. She so ingratiated herself into the survivor world that she was...
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Defend Film at NY Film Critics Circle Award Ceremony
Over the last several weeks the steady drumbeat against Zero Dark Thirty has grown louder and louder. There's been the discussion that Boal was a bully and Bigelow defered to him on the set...
Guest Post: A Response to “This Woman is Too Fat for Hollywood?”
Recently Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood wrote a blog entitled "This Woman is Too Fat For Hollywood?" Consider this a response to the aforementioned article. There's a lot...
4 Women out of 5 Nominated for BAFTA Rising Star Award
Last year’s British Academy of Film and Television Rising Star award nominees were dominated by only actors. This year, actresses are taking the upper hand, with 4 out of the 5 nominations...
Watch This: Best of 2012: Women in Film
Check out this extremely cool trailer mashup of women in film from 2012 from Pawn Takes Queen Productions. It features both performances and behind the scenes from some of the best moments women...
Two Women Nominated for 2013 Writers Guild Awards
Last week, the Writers Guild of America announced the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards. Out of all the categories, original, adapted and documentary screenplay—only two...
Hillary Clinton The Early Years Script “Rodham” Gets Some Heat
One of the hottest screenplays in Hollywood right now isn’t just being discussed by industry insiders over lunches in Beverly Hills or in the entertainment blogosphere—it’s also...
Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize Has No Women Nominees
The Cinema Eye Honors for Non Fiction Filmmaking have announced their 2013 nominees for outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking. We were troubled to note that their Audience Choice...
Watch This: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Talk Hosting the Golden Globes
If the previously released promo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for the Golden Globes didn't get you excited for their upcoming hosting gig, then the video below should. The hilarious duo discuss...
A Women and Hollywood Announcement
If you read this site regularly, I'm sure you have noticed the growing contribution of intern Kerensa Cadenas. She's been working with the site since this past summer and has been doing...