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UK’s Women in Film and Television Awards Honors 15 Women
At the U.K.’s 22nd annual Women in Film and Television Awards, fifteen women were honored from all aspects of television and film. Amongst the winners were Clare Balding, a sports presenter,...
TV Link Roundup: December 10
Here's some of the women-centric television news that we didn't get the chance to cover last week. Molly Ringwald Developing John Hughes–esque Lifetime Drama...
Film Link Round Up: December 8
Here's some of the women-centric film news that we thought people should know about: Jane Goldman to Write 'Pinocchio' for Robert Downey Jr. and Tim Burton (The Hollywood...
If Women Ran Hollywood…
If women ran Hollywood is a question worth pondering and one we often do here at Women and Hollywood. Apparently it’s been a question on the minds of those over at The Hollywood Reporter, so...
Interview with Nancy Buirski – Director of The Loving Story
The Loving Story is a powerful and beautifully wrought film about two people – Richard and Mildred Loving – who just wanted to be married and live in their home state of Virginia. ...
Cross Post: Okay, Jen. Here Goes: “Stop Being Mean To Women On The Internet”
My fellow comedian Jen Kirkman is boycotting Twitter until men stop using it as a medium to be awful to her because she’s a woman yet still has the audacity to express her views on occasion. Or...
Amy Herzog Receives 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award
The New York Times awarded their 2012 Outstanding Playwright Award to Amy Herzog for her play After the Revolution. After the Revolution, an off-Broadway hit, follows an extremely...
Athena Film Festival Needs Volunteers and Women Filmmakers
As we previously reported, The Athena Film Festival (co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein) is gearing up for its third year. Here’s where you come in! If you are in the New York...
Zero Dark Thirty Wins Big with the National Board of Review
Kathryn Bigelow is on a roll. After receiving Best Director, Best Film and Best Cinematography (for Greig Fraser) for Zero Dark Thirty from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, the film...
Using Sundance to Shift the Narrative on Women Directors
The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions. (But we must also remember that women are still...
Sexist Quote of the Day by Bret Easton Ellis
In a ploy to make himself relevant again after being turned down to write the screeplay for 50 Shades of Grey, Bret Easton Ellis took to twitter and slammed director Kathryn Bigelow. Here's the...
Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta, Nisha Pahuja Named to the Top 10 Films of Canada
Canada’s 12th Annual Top 10 Film list was announced this week. Films by Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja were included on the list. TIFF will screen the films in Toronto from...
Guest Post: On Editing and Cooking
The first time I told some friends that I was working on a film about a man in an iron lung trying to lose his virginity, I got looks that were somewhere between incredulity and pity. I could tell...
AFI Review: The Central Park Five – Co-Directed by Sarah Burns and West of Memphis – Directed by Amy Berg
Los Angeles’ AFI Film Festival gave me the chance to see two documentary films directed by women: The Central Park Five co-directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns and David McMahon and West of...
The Hollywood Reporter Announces Top Women in Entertainment for 2012
The Hollywood Reporter has unveiled the top ten of their 21st annual Top 100 Women in Entertainment. The honorees will join one another at a breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel, which will honor...
Jane Campion and Naomi Foner Included in Sundance Premieres Lineup
Sundance announced the films in their Premieres and Documentary Premieres categories. With films directed by Jane Campion and Naomi Foner amongst many women-centric films and a documentary...
Trailer Watch: Black Rock – Directed by Katie Aselton
Black Rock, directed by Katie Aselton (who also stars), is a thriller about three best friends (Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth and Aselton) who take a weekend together to revisit a childhood getaway that...
Fran Walsh Steps Out
You can't watch Hitchcock without thinking what life would be like had Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife lived today. From the film you see how much a partner she is in life (expected) and...
3 of 15 Documentaries on Oscar Shortlist Directed by Women
Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences released the 15 films on the short list in the Documentary feature category for this year’s Oscars. Only three films on the shortlist are...
Maggie Smith Gets the Star Treatment for Quartet
77 year old Maggie Smith has had a great year in TV and film. She rocks in Downton Abbey and she has a shot at a supporting nod for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Now it looks like...
9 Women Included on The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Most Powerful Authors
The Hollywood Reporter announced their inaugural list of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. They based the selection of living authors on how successful they’ve been in getting their...
Kathryn Bigelow Becomes First Woman to Win Two Best Director Nods from New York Film Critics Circle
Yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle, a group of 35 critics (but just 8 women) named Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty the best film of the year. Bigelow also picked up the best...
Lena Dunham Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year
Entertainment Weekly named Lena Dunham one of their 2012 Entertainers of the Year in their recent issue. Considering the massive success Dunham had this year, she's very deserving of this...
Sight & Sound’s Best of 2012 Includes No Women Directed Films
Sight & Sound released their Best of 2012 list over the weekend. In similar fashion to the summer rage over the update of their top 50 list and then the expansion of that to 250 films,...
Is the Marketing for Starlet a Turn Off for Women?
It has become hard for me to go and see movies with my friends because I see so many of them ahead of time for work. During Thanksgiving week my friends and I were trying to find a movie we...
Jennifer Lee Named Director of Disney’s Frozen
Last week, Disney announced that Jennifer Lee, writer of the hit Wreck-It Ralph, will be co-directing their 53rd full length animated feature film, Frozen. Lee will become the 2nd woman to helm...
Women in Film International Chapters Hit DC
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Interview with Liz Garbus – Director of Love, Marilyn
Liz Garbus takes a well worn subject — Marilyn Monroe — and brings a whole new substance and understanding to this woman through her own words. Using material that has never before...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Director Roundtable Omits Women
Yesterday was a good day with the Sundance numbers news. But we were reminded not to get overexcited about those numbers since women directors only made up 17% of the worldwide competition and...
Theresa Rebeck on Leaving Smash and New Play, Dead Accounts
Smash creator and former showrunner, Theresa Rebeck recently revealed some of the reasons why she stepped down as showrunner in March (replaced by Gossip Girl’s Josh Safran). Mind you...
Sundance Lineup is a Win for Women Directors and for Everybody Who Cares About Movies
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 film festivals which you can also extrapolate to a world full of...
Women Make Movies Up for $1,000,000 Prize from American Giving Awards
Women Make Movies, an incredible New York based non-profit that supports and distributes women directed documentaries from around the world, is one of the 25 finalists for the 2012 American Giving...
Stacie Passon Wins Two Women Directing Awards
Stacie Passon has had a big couple of weeks. First on November 20 she won this year’s IFP Labs/Adrienne Shelly Foundation Director’s Grant for her film Concussion at the...
Athena Film Festival Honors Gale Anne Hurd with The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award
The third annual Athena Film Festival, co-founded by our own Melissa Silverstein, has announced the recipients for this year’s Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor actors, directors,...
The Hollywood Reporter 2012 Actress Roundtable: Addressing Sexism, the Fight for Parts and Creating Media
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter released their annual Actress Roundtable issue. This year the list was all white and included Sally Field, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Helen Hunt,...
Women Nominees from 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards
The 28th Annual Film Independent Spirit Award nominees were announced yesterday. And while some of the results are less than stellar (zero women directed films for best feature (seriously!), no women...
Trailer Watch: Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
We saw Susanne Biers' follow-up film to her Academy Award winning In a Better World at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival where we interviewed the director. Here is a new trailer. As of...
Kathryn Bigelow Talks Making Zero Dark Thirty with Martha Raddatz
Kathryn Bigelow talked with Martha Raddatz of ABC News about the making of her new film Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow and screenwriter, Mark Boal, discussed how the project originally focusing...
Cross Post: Extreme Weight Loss for Roles is Not “Required” and Not Praiseworthy
Kale and dust. Hummus and radishes. Two squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. If you recognize any of these phrases, then you've probably been hit by the Anne Hathaway...
Trailer Watch: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – Written by I. Marlene King
We have another contender to add into the post-Twilight YA film adaptation pool. This time it's Cassandra Clare's insanely popular The Mortal Instruments series. Adapted by Pretty Little...
Will Kathryn Bigelow Be a Two Time Best Director Nominee?
Right after Thanksgiving Kathryn Bigelow's long awaited follow-up to her Oscar award winning film The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty (which I will see next week) started screening and the word has...
Guest Post: 2012’s Best Actress Race: A History of Inequality
Capote. Ray. Malcolm X. Nixon. Milk. Ali. Chaplin. Do these ring a bell? They are the names of famous politicians, filmmakers, activists, authors and athletes who inspired biopics that were...
Cross Post: How To Audition Internationally
Wake up and smell the latte. Opportunity knocks all over the world, and the common passport is talent. We live in an era where casting directors can cast internationally from their own laptops and...
Watch This: See Jane Trailer from Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Geena Davis's commitment to gender in the media is truly inspiring. See Jane, an affiliated program with her Institute on Gender in the Media, focuses specifically on making sure that...
Trailer Watch: The Heat – Written by Katie Dippold, Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
The Heat, written by Katie Dippold and directed by Bridesmaids director Paul Feig brings together two stars Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock as a tough Boston cop and uptight FBI agent...
Guest Post: Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks: The Parallels between Children’s Brains and the Global Brain of the Internet
We’re constantly striving to push ourselves further. When we couldn’t see far enough, we invented the telescope. When we needed to speak with people who weren’t within shouting...
Cross Post: What Is Feminism?
Women are not yet on equal footing with men politically, financially, or culturally. If you have a pulse and a sense of right and wrong, there is a moral imperative to do something about this,...
Link Roundup: TV Edition- November 2012
There has been a ton of women centric TV news, some of which we haven't had the chance to cover. Here's a round up of some recent women in TV news. Diablo Cody Developing Romantic Comedy...
Hunger Games Catching Fire Teaser Poster Revealed
The Hunger Games franchise is taking up the Thanksgiving slot now vacated by the Twilight saga. One year from today the second film – Catching Fire – will be released. Here's the...
A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series
I had the opportunity to speak with the hugely successful and very interesting screenwriter and TV writer Melissa Rosenberg last week while she was on the set of her new show Red Widow. Women...
Emotional Creature Celebrates Girls Lives
There have been so few shows and events that truly reveal what it is like to be a girl that when you see truth – the good and the bad – you immediately know that you are seeing something...