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Guest Post: Making the Money Talk for Women Filmmakers
Oscar night is coming. The pinnacle of a year in film. What’s deemed to be the best fare from the brightest stars in entertainment. For most, the event brings little excitement beyond the...
2012 Oscar Contenders Fail the Bechdel Test
Another brilliant cultural criticism from Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency From her you tube page description: It’s been a few years since I’ve checked in with The Bechdel Test for Women...
Women in Film (LA) Names New Board Members
This board is full of some seriously powerful women. The new members (below) join the board for 2012. The board is led by producer Cathy Schulman. New Members Orly Adelson Adriana Alberghetti ...
Hollywood Reporter FAIL! — Directors Roundtable from Berlin
How many times do we really need to say that it is not cool to have a directors roundtable and not include women. Please do not tell me you could not find a single female director at the Berlin Film...
Guest Post: Sex, Lies, and Phone-Hacking: British Tabloid Journalism on Trial
Britain has been riveted by the Leveson Inquiry, a legal body set up to investigate illegal information-gathering techniques used by the tabloid press — such as phone-hacking, data...
Trailer Watch: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
I cannot wait to see this film. Hoping it will be ready for Athena Film Festival 2013! More info
Meryl Streep Gets Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
Coming off her BAFTA win for best actress in London on Sunday night, Meryl Streep headed to the Berlin Film Festival to pick up a lifetime acheivement award. At the variety of press conferences she...
A Studio Run By Women
Elizabeth Gabler just renewed her contract as the President of Fox 2000. This is the studio which is under the main Fox studio focuses on films targeted at the female audience. Its nickname is...
Trailer Watch: Musical Chairs — Directed by Susan Seidelman
Film Opens March 23.
Cross-Post: A Feminist Film Festival With a Different Take
A couple of years ago as part of my work on Women and Hollywood I hosted a party for the great Australian director Jane Campion. Campion is one of only four women nominated for a best director...
Trailer Watch: Seeking a Friend at the End of the World — Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria
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In Darkness
Agnieszka Holland’s latest film, “In Darkness,” pulls us into a monochromatic world in which all of the primary characters display shading and nuance. The film is based on a true story about a...
Cross Post: Streep Speaks and Illuminates the Need for More Female Critics
Earlier this week, Terry Gross broadcast a provocative interview with Meryl Streep on her NPR program Fresh Air. The interview was tied to Streep’s unprecedented 17th Oscar nomination for her...
Top Grossing Women Centric Films of 2011
When I read that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo crossed the $100 million mark, it reminded me to take a look at how women centric films did last year. One film — Twilight- Breaking Dawn is...
We Need to Talk About Kevin Wins Best Film at the Evening Standard Awards
Lynne Ramsey’s We Need to Talk About Kevin took another top award in Britain this week — The Evening Standard Award. These awards are given out by the top London film writers and are only...
Trailer Watch: Hemingway and Gellhorn
I seriously have not been this excited about a Nicole Kidman movie in a long time. Based on the voice over it should be named Gellhorn and Hemingway but as is typical with women in history, she seems...
Trailer Watch: New Trailer for the Hunger Games
Counting down towards March 23. The Hollywood Reporter in a cover story says that it took Jennifer Lawrence 3 days to say yes to the part of a lifetime and that she is made about $500,000. (But she...
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer Book New Projects
Smart women. Strike while the iron is hot. Octavia starts shooting Diablo Cody’s directorial debut shortly, but she also has booked her next role which came to me yesterday in one of the Hollywood...
Sexism Watch: Sexist Ads for Jean Dujardin’s New Film Les Infideles
Aside from the fact that the film is about male infidelity, this ad (which is among several problemmatic ads for the film) could cause Mr. Dujardin a perception problem. I know that Mr. Dujardin does...
Can Girls Be a Game Changer?
I found this brief behind the scenes one minute and forty two second piece from the upcoming HBO series Girls created by Lena Dunham and after I watched it I could not help but think that this show...
Ten Finalists for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Now in it’s 34th year, this is the most prestigious prize for female playwrights. It’s like the female Pulitzer. It’s a way for female playwrights to get noticed, since they are stil not...
New Trailer for Wish Me Away: Directed by Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi
This will open in theatres in the summer but New Yorkers can catch it at the Athena Film Festival on February 11. Details here.
Sexism Watch: Film Trailers
The NY Times ran a story this weekend calling movie trailers the last holdout for women in the business. If that were only true we could fight it, but we all know this is just one of the...
Trailer Watch: Game Change
This movie looks so much better than the book and I really loved the book. Julianne Moore is totally rocking as Sarah Palin. Love it!
A “Smash”ing Premiere
While I might write about Hollywood I live in NY. I really don’t get to see the everyday machinations of the business. I like it that way. It keeps it more mysterious. I was able to get a little...
Sundance 2012: Interview with Amy Ziering — Producer of Invisible War
Amy Ziering is the producer of ‘The Invisible War’ directed by Kirby Dick and winner of the Sundance 2012 Documentary Audience Award. I spoke to Amy about feminist filmmaking, how she and Kirby...
Sundance Deals 2012: The Women
Here’s the list of women directed and women written films that got picked up out of Sundance. I’m sure there will be more to come. Women Directed 2 Days in New York (Magnolia) — directed...
Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2012
At least they are all dressed. But all the satin kind of reminds me of a brothel. Thw women on the power panel which is the actual cover are Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica...
Sundance 2012 Success Story: Ava Duvernay
One of the biggest success stories out of Sundance is Ava Duvernay. Here is a woman who started a new distribution movement — African American Film Festival Releasing Movement; put out two...
Sundance 2012: Interview With Aurora Gurerrero Director of Mosquita Y Mari
Aurora Guerrero debuted her feature film ‘Mosquita Y Mari’ at Sundance 2012 and I had a chance to talk to her near the end of a hectic but exciting festival. She shared the secret of her $80,000...
The Help Wins Big at the SAG Awards
Check out this image of the cast of the Help winning best ensemble at the SAG Awards last night. I’m pretty sure we won’t see that many women on a stage again at the same time winning an award...
Lauren Greenfield and Ava Duvernay Win Top Directing Honors at Sundance
Another Sundance is in the books and women and their films took many of the top honors in this past weekend’s awards ceremony. Winner of the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film: Lauren...
Athena Film Festival Trailer Contest Winner
This year we held a trailer contest and the winner is Tony Szulc. We all love this trailer and thank him for his work and a big thanks to Joan Jett for letting us use her song Bad Reputation.
Interview with Valérie Donzelli — Director of Declaration of War
Valérie Donzelli has made a heartbreaking film about the fight a couple goes through to save their son from a brain tumor. They declare war on the cancer and with the support of their family their...
Cross-Post: Where Are the Women Directors
Here’s a thought exercise: In a nation where 33 percent of the Supreme Court justices are women, 17 percent of the seats in the Senate and House are held by women and 12 percent of the statehouses...
Maiwenn’s Poliss Scores 13 Cesar Nominations Including Best Director and Best Picture
The Maiwenn directed film Poliss scored the most Cesar nominations — 13 — including best picture, best screenplay and best director. But you wouldn’t know it from this breaking news...
Sundance 2012: Advice for Filmmakers
Chicken and Egg Pictures always has a great party at Sundance: delicious home-cooked food paired with a celebration of women filmmakers and the folks who support and nurture them. I pulled some of...
Sundance Press Obsession with the “It” Girl
I never realized how annoying the whole “it” girl thing was until I saw three straight “it” girls articles in my RSS feed yesterday about three different women. I know that people have to...
New Poster for Athena Film Festival
Check out the new poster for The Athena Film Festival. Will you be there?
Video: Shit Liz Lemon Says
Don’t tell me you’ve given up watching 30 Rock. It’s back on the air with two episodes tonight. I love me some Tina Fey. NBC.com Video Widget
Sundance Video: Interview with Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush — Directors of Finding North
I caught up with ‘Finding North’ directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush at Sundance 2012. The two shared some great advice for being female in filmland, and reveal why an all-woman crew...
Why Is Oscar Blue
From the indefatigable Jan Lisa Huttner who writes the Hot Pink Pen. Make sure to check out her Oscar Impact Chart. Here’s her thought process: We all want to believe that Oscar is “gold”...
Oscar Nomination Quotes
Here are some quotes that I picked up yesterday from some of the nominees Annie Mumolo Our main objective was to write a film that focused about relationships and friendships. We really tried to...
Are You My Mother and Who’s Your Daddy?
Hollywood has not been quiet on the third-party reproduction front. Movies such as Baby Mamma, The Back-Up Plan, The Switch and The Kids are All Right, highlight the silly and light-hearted approach...
First Look at Ashley Judd in Missing
I know this is not the best quality, but this looks like it’s going to be a good and fun show.
Feed is Fixed
Thanks to a heads up we learned that the RSS feed for Women and Hollywood was broken. It took a bit of detective work but the good folks at Indiewire have now fixed it so you probably got all the...
A Little Something to Brighten Your Day: The Athena Film Festival Trailer
Suck it to all of you who don’t think women are strong leaders in every aspect of life. Athena Film Festival
The Oscar Noms: It Sucks to Be a Female Filmmaker Part 2
This is an up and down day as you will see from the posts on the site. The Academy Award nominations have been released and while there are many great women nominated in a variety of categories, at...
The Sundance Institute and Women in Film Team Up to Get More Women Filmmakers Working in Hollywood
Finally some organizations have stepped up and stood up and committed resources to work towards improving the amount of female filmmakers working in the business. Women in Film and the Sundance...
What Bigelow Effect? Number of Women Directors in Hollywood Falls to 5 Percent
The Oscar nominations this morning give us another year where there are no women directors included in the list. This year we won’t see Kathryn Bigelow up on the stage giving out the best director...
New Trailer for The Lady
Film will open in the US on April 11 and will roll out to other major cities on April 13.