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Kathleen Kennedy Moves to Disney
Back in June we reported that Kathleen Kennedy had been named co-chair of LucasFilms. Word came last week that LucasFilm has now been bought by Disney for over $4 billion dollars, and Kennedy will...
Guest Post: An Epoch of Parity for Women Directors?
It seems like everyone’s talking about women right now. With the 2012 presidential election just a day away with a demographic breakdown of male to female voters at 48% to 52%, women’s voices...
Francis Lawrence to Direct the Rest of the Hunger Games Franchise
His first film of the franchise Catching Fire is not even completed, yet Mr. Lawrence seems to made the producers and the studio quite happy because he already has the job to direct the final two...
Listen to Barbara, Cher and Kathy Griffin Support Obama
One day more! Don’t forget to vote.
Women Are Not a Special Interest Group — Yes We Plan
A vote for Obama is a vote for Planned Parenthood and a vote for women.
Guest Post: Cinema Eye Honors 2013 Nominations
In her latest research, Independent Women: Behind-the-Scenes Representation on Festival Films (2011–2012), Martha Lauzen found that in selected film festivals 39% of documentary directors were...
Chatting with Keenan Novi — Student at Temple University
I don’t get to talk about the big picture very often and I am always happy to talk with a student. I also love to talk with men who are interested in the topic. Keenan Novi got in touch with me...
Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling
This was originally posted on April 9, 2012. Vamps is in theaters now. Amy Heckerling has made some serious classic films in her career namely Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless. She was in...
Watch This: Stella is 95 — Airing on PBS
The documentary, Stella is 95, is airing on PBS throughout November. Directed by Robin Baker Leacock, the documentary follows 95 year old Stella, a woman who doesn’t see her age as any impediment...
Political Video of the Day: Stockard Channing A is for: Always Remember
National treasure, Stockard Channing, recently did a video for the “A is For” campaign. With a group of women founders including Martha Plimpton, Lizz Winstead and Sarah Thyre, A is For brings...
Jodie Foster to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes
Adding more lady power to the evening, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that they will be honoring Jodie Foster with the Cecil B. DeMille award at this year’s Golden Globes. The...
Women Created and Centric TV News Roundup — November 1
With every roundup we do, we get more excited and hopeful for the upcoming crop of future TV shows by and about women. With projects from Jennifer Garner, Shonda Rhimes and Oprah — there is...
Political Video of the Day: Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria Are Voting Obama
In a video for MoveOn.org, actresses Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria give women some of the reasons why they should go vote for Obama in the upcoming...
Off Topic- The New New York City Normal Post Sandy
I just want to thank people for all their concern in the wake of Sandy. I am fine. I am lucky. My neighborhood escaped with relatively little damage. I went to bed on Monday night with my...
Trailer Watch: Breaking the Girls — Directed by Jamie Babbit
IFC recently aquired the rights to Breaking the Girls from Jamie Babbit best known for But I’m A Cheerleader The script is co-written by Go Fish writer, Guinevere Turner, and follows two college...
2012 Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Women Directors
The Houston Cinema Arts Society recently announced their lineup for the 2012 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. This year in honor of the 40th anniversary of Women Make Movies, the festival is...
Quote of the Day: I Wanted to Show People That Pregnancy is Not a Disability, And a Pregnant Lady Can Be in a Position of Power and Crazy Shit Won’t Happen — Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody just had her second child. She directed her first film Lamb of God while pregnant. She spoke with David Zax at Fast Company about the sexism in the media especially surrounding...
The Refreshing Honesty of Melissa Leo
I find Melissa Leo to be one of the most interesting actors around. Two years ago she got a lot of shit for creating her own “For Your Consideration” ads for her role in The Fighter when she...
TV Trailer Watch: The Carrie Diaries — Starring AnnaSophia Robb
The CW recently released the trailer for their prequel series to Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries. The show follows Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) in high school, right after she’s lost her...
Political Video of the Day: Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap Movie
In 1984, Jenny Rohrer directed Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap Movie to inform people about the gender gap as the election approached. With real life testimonials from women combined with visuals...
Guest Post: American Mary Sets Out to Modify the Way You Think About Women in Horror
In short, our film American Mary proclaims that she is the story of medical student Mary Mason who is growing increasingly broke and disenchanted by medical school and the surgeons she once admired....
Canada Establishing Rosalind Prize for Women Fiction Writers
During the Vancouver Writers Fest, frustration turned into creation. A panel of five women, including the founder of the U.K.’s Orange Prize for fiction, discussed the current state of women’s...
TIFF: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa — Director and Star of Hannah Arendt
Last, but not the bit least is a conversation with master director Margarethe von Trotta along with actress Barbara Sukowa who bring us the story of Hannah Arendt one of the first highly visible...
Hollywood Gets Political
With only eight days left before the upcoming Presidential election, more and more of our favorite actors, writers and directors are releasing content in support of Obama. We’ll continue to post...
Trailer Watch: Save The Date — Starring Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie
Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan star in Save the Date as sisters, Beth and Sarah, who are dealing with their own respective romantic entanglements. Sarah’s in a rebound relationship after rejecting...
Book Excerpt We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy: A Very Oral History
The first time I ever heard the statement “women aren’t funny” was while reading it in a Christopher Hitchens’s column in the January 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. At the time, I was more...
Watch This: The Michelle Obama Diaries — Produced by Issa Rae
We had previously written that Issa Rae was a woman in media to watch. She continues to produce content that proves that. Her latest is The Michelle Obama Diaries. Written by Lena Waithe and...
Interview with Julia Loktev — Writer and Director of The Loneliest Planet
Women and Hollywood: Where did you get the idea for this film? Julia Loktev: I was actually traveling in Georgia with my boyfriend at the time when I remembered this short story I had read by Tom...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kerry Washington
This week, Kerry Washington, star of ABC’s Scandal, wrote an op-ed piece for The Daily Beast about why she’s voting for Barack Obama. With the very high stakes for women in this election, more...
This is What You Don’t Want When Releasing a New Product
Go Ellen h/t Upworthy
Academy Award Winning Writer Callie Khouri Slams Movies About Women As Relegated to Trash Heap
Callie Khouri gave the movie business a lot of years of her life. It’s been an up and down relationship. The up — winning an Academy Award for writing Thelma and Louise. The...
Guest Post: Looking at Real Women With Real Life and Body Issues in Yogawoman
With the presidential debate including talk once again of women getting equal pay, it seems surreal to me that we are still having this discussion. In the 70’s, when I was a teenager reading books...
Change in Release Pattern for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her Oscar winning The Hurt Locker was supposed to open wide into the crowded Christmas market on December 19. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Sony is now...
Early Look at the WIGS Channel’s Celia Starring Dakota Fanning and Allison Janney
Premiering on You Tube’s WIGS channel this Friday is Celia — a short film about reproductive rights starring Dakota Fanning and Allison Janney. Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (also a...
Trailer Watch: The Central Park Five — Co-Directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns and David McMahon
Recently nominated for a 2012 IDA Documentary Award for Best Feature and on the roster for the upcoming 2012 AFI Film Festival, The Central Park Five is based on Sarah Burns’ best-selling book. In...
Must Watch: Lana Wachowski Speaks About What It Means to Be Transgendered
What ever happens with Cloud Atlas (which opens this Friday) what Lana Wachowski has done in coming out as a transgendered person will go down as a seminal moment in Hollywood culture. She is a high...
Australia Launches Literary Award for Women — The Stella Prize
Australia has launched its first major literary award for women writers inspired by the UK Women’s Prize for fiction. The Stella Prize, named after author Stella Maria Miles Franklin who wrote...
Jane Fonda to Star in ABC Comedy Now What?
As reported by Deadline, Jane Fonda will be starring in her first series ever for ABC. After a guest spot on HBO’s Newsroom this season, Fonda is attached to star in ABC’s comedy Now What?...
Women Created and Centric TV Roundup
In women and television news, some more promising deals have been cropping up from NBC, The Hallmark Channel and MTV. NBC has picked up a drama from 9 To 5 writer, Patricia Resnick. Loosely...
Cross Post: Why The Twilight Saga Film Franchise Mattered, What it Accomplished, and Why its Legacy is Ultimately a Positive One
In just one month The Twilight Saga film franchise will come to an end. Oh sure we may see spin-offs, reboots (probably in a different medium) and/or quasi-sequels in some form in another, but the...
Women Nominees at the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards
The International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their 2012 IDA Documentary Awards. It’s really exciting to note that 4 of the 5 shorts are directed by women as well as 2 of...
Femme Celebs Croon You Don’t Own Me For Reproductive Freedom
Whom do you recognize in this video? I spy Mae Whitman, Miranda July, Natasha Lyonne, Lena Dunham. You Don’t Own Me.
Cross Post: I Was Hired Because I Was A Woman
Yep. You read correctly. I was hired because I was a woman. I’m not making assumptions. I was simply told that by the executive at Disney Animation with the cold blue eyes who sat behind his...
Liza Johnson Directing Kristen Wiig in Hateship, Friendship
Kristen Wiig will be starring in Hateship, Friendship which begins shooting next week in New Orleans. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Liza Johnson, director of 2011’s Return, will be...
A Tale of Two HBO Movies — The Girl and Ethel
There is not too much that The Girl and Ethel have in common except for the fact that they are both on HBO last week. The Girl is the story, untold publicly until now, that Alfred Hitchcock was a...
The Academy Celebrates the Career of Ann Roth
A couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festival. I was able to catch up on a bunch of films and attend some really cool events including a tribute to the...
Talking with Maggie Gyllenhaal about Won’t Back Down
I’m a bit obsessed with this film. My obsession stems from the fact that we have a film with two previous women with Oscar nominations in it (three if you count Holly Hunter in her supporting...
Cross Post: Ry Russo-Young Discusses John Krasinski’s First Sex Scene and Collaborating With Lena Dunham for ‘Nobody Walks’
Ry Russo-Young may have worked with her highest profile cast to date for her third directorial offering Nobody Walks, but that doesn’t mean she’s softened up. Working off an incisive and...
Ava DuVernay Talks About The Gotham Nominations
I was in LA yesterday and already had a meeting set up with Ava DuVernay to just say hi in between her press appearances. I was able to chat with her a couple of hours after her two Gotham award...
Breakdown of Women Nominees for 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards
The nominees for the 22nd Annual Independent Filmmaker Project’s Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced today. A total of 26 Films were nominated in six categories. Actress Marion Cotillard...
Interview with Coley Sohn — Writer and Director of Sassy Pants
Sassy Pants is, yes, a sassy movie starring the breakout star of MTV’s show Awkward Ashley Rickards. She plays Bethany Pruitt who is basically held prisoner in her home by her overprotective...