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Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Christy Garland — “Cheer Up”
Before moving to documentary filmmaking, Christy Garland directed several award-winning dramatic and comedic shorts, while working in the film industry as an assistant director. The Canadian...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Aude Leroux-Lévesque — “Living with Giants”
In 2009, Aude Leroux-Lévesque moved to Bangladesh to co-direct her first documentary, “Call Me Salma.” The film aired on Direct 8, ARTE, EBS Korea, and screened at over a dozen film festivals....
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Nimisha Mukerji — “Tempest Storm”
An award-winning director of film and television, Nimisha Mukerji’s work has been featured on National Geographic and VICE. Her critically acclaimed debut feature “65_RedRoses” was selected by...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumball-LaValle — “Ovarian Psycos”
Documentary filmmakers Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-LaValle met while earning their M.A. in Social Documentation at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Directing their thesis films, the...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Samira Goetschel — “City 40”
Samira Goetschel is an Iranian-born American award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. An alumnus of NYU Film School, her graduating film, “Clown de la Vie,” won Best Short Film at the New...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Viveka Melki— “After Circus”
Viveka Melki is a storyteller working primarily in film. Her projects shed light on social issues that are often overlooked and focus on the resilience and hope of individuals and communities...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Susan Gluth — “Urmila: My Memory Is My Power”
Susan Gluth was born in Hamburg. After practical training as a forest ranger, cook, and veterinarian, she studied business and commerce, followed by film at the University of Television & Film...
Hot Docs 2016 Women Directors: Meet Eva Orner — “Chasing Asylum”
Academy and Emmy Award winner Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. According to her bio, Orner wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary “The Network,” set...
Prince, Queer Girls and the Permission to be Weird
The permission to be weird isn’t so much granted as it is finally realized. Yet if you were a queer kid growing up in the 1980s, the permission to be weird was something you thought would never...
Prince, Queer Girls and the Permission to be Weird
The permission to be weird isn’t so much granted as it is finally realized. Yet if you were a queer kid growing up in the 1980s, the permission to be weird was something you thought would...
Katherine Heigl Clarifies Her ‘Knocked Up’ Comments But She Was Right All Along
Katherine Heigl seems to have begun an apology tour for the nearly decade-old “Knocked Up” scandal that simply seems rooted in sexism. Appearing on Howard Stern this week, Heigl referenced her...
Katherine Heigl Clarifies Her “Knocked Up” Comments But She Was Right All Along
Katherine Heigl seems to have begun an apology tour for the nearly decade-old “Knocked Up” scandal that simply seems rooted in sexism. Appearing on Howard Stern this week, Heigl referenced her...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Maura Axelrod — ‘Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back’
Maura Axelrod has been producing news and documentaries for over 15 years. She began at ABC News in New York as a writer and producer. She lived and worked as producer for AP Television News in the...
2016 Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Maura Axelrod -“Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back”
Maura Axelrod has been producing news and documentaries for 15 years. She started at ABC News in New York as a writer and producer, then lived and worked in the Middle East and the Caribbean,...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Lorene Scafaria — ‘The Meddler’
Lorene Scafaria made her directorial debut with her original screenplay “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. She also adapted the young adult...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Liza Johnson — ‘Elvis & Nixon’
Liza Jonhnson is a writer and director whose feature films “Return” (2011) and “Hateship Loveship” (2013) have screened at the Cannes, Toronto, New York, Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals,...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ferne Pearlstein — ‘The Last Laugh’
Ferne Pearlstein is is a prize-winning cinematographer, a feature film editor and a writer/director whose work has won numerous awards and been screened and broadcast around the world. In 2003...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Tracy Droz Tragos — ‘Abortion: Stories Women Tell’
Tracy Droz Tragos is an award-winning independent filmmaker. Tragos’ “Rich Hill” explored rural poverty through the intimate lens of vulnerable adolescents and their families struggling for a...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway — ‘The Return’
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega are documentary directors, producers and screenwriters whose work explores the intersections of institutional power, civil and human rights and political...
Weekly Update for April 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Sky — Directed by Fabienne Berthaud; Co-Written by Fabienne Berthhaud and Lucy Allwood Fleeing from the scene of a terrible crime, a young woman (Diane...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Stéphanie Gillard — ‘The Ride’
Stéphanie Gillard’s first documentary, “Une histoire de ballon,” explored the meeting point of oral tradition and soccer culture in Cameroon. She made a second documentary in 2009 in...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Kristi Jacobson — ‘Solitary’
Kristi Jacobson’s 2013 film “A Place at the Table” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film won the IDA’s prestigious Pare Lorentz Award and was nominated for Best Feature...
‘Echo Park’ Director Amanda Marsalis Talks Race, Gentrification and Love
Director Amanda Marsalis is a photographer for publications including Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ and The Guardian, as well as a commercial director. Marsalis is an Echo Park resident. Her unique...
Shamim Sarif on Her Politically-Charged Romance ‘Despite the Falling Snow’
Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and film director who has spoken at TED events in London, Jerusalem and India. Her and her partner Hanan Kattan are founders of the...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Rachel Tunnard — ‘Adult Life Skills’
Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. She is a BAFTA “Brit to Watch” and was named as one of the “Creative England 50” in 2015. Her short film “Emotional Fusebox” was...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Alma Har’el — ‘LoveTrue’
Alma Har’el is a music video and film director, best known for her documentary “Bombay Beach,” which took the top prize at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, received a nomination for a 2011...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ester Gould — ‘Strike a Pose’
Ester Gould has been directing her own documentaries for Dutch public broadcasters since 2005. Her first feature-length documentary, “Shout,” jointly directed with Sabine Lubbe Bakker and shot...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Katie Holmes — ‘All We Had’
Katie Holmes’ acting credits include “Touched With Fire,” “Woman in Gold,” “Ray Donovan,” “Batman Begins” and “Dawson’s Creek.” “All We Had” is her directorial...
Tribeca 2016 Preview: Films By and About Women to Catch At This Year’s Fest
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tomorrow. Only 33 percent of the films screening in the competition sections are directed by women. Still, the 15th edition of Tribeca features a significant...
10 Things We Learned About Karyn Kusama’s Tumultuous Career from Her BuzzFeed Profile
Filmmaker Karyn Kusama hit the scene at Sundance 2000 where she premiered her debut feature, “Girlfight,” before a crowd of thousands. The film, which starred a then-unknown Michelle Rodriguez...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ingrid Jungermann — ‘Women Who Kill’
Ingrid Jungermann created the WGA-Nominated web series “F To 7th,” featuring Amy Sedaris, Michael Showalter and Gaby Hoffmann. A television version of “F To 7th” is currently in development,...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Kadri Kõusaar — ‘Mother’
Kadri Kõusaar is an Estonian novelist and film director. She has also worked as a radio DJ and television host, and has a universitydegree in Spanish language and literature. Kõusaar made her...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Leyla Bouzid — ‘As I Open My Eyes’
Leyla Bouzid is a Tunisian born and raised filmmaker. She studied French literature at the University of Paris and film directing at La Fémis. Her shorts “Soubresauts” (2011) and “Zakaria”...
Tribeca 2016 Women Directors: Meet Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching — ‘After Spring’
Ellen Martinez was the associate producer on “Tested,” a feature documentary about educational inequality in the NYC public school system. Steph Ching was the associate producer and additional...
Liz Garbus on Her Mother Son Doc ‘Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper’
Liz Garbus’ films have been acclaimed worldwide and have garnered multiple Academy Award nominations and Emmy Award wins. Her previous film, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” was the Opening Night...
Lilibet Foster on ‘Spartacus’ Star Andy Whitfield’s Battle with Cancer in Doc ‘Be Here Now’
Lilibet Foster is an award-winning director, producer and writer of feature documentaries, television programs and integrated brand campaigns. She received an Oscar nomination for producing the...
‘Sherlock’ Getting Its First Female Director
In what is some rather ridiculous news, Variety is reporting that “Sherlock” is getting its first female director…ever. Season 4 of the hit BBC series. which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the...
Gayle Kirschenbaum on Childhood Trauma and Forgiveness in ‘Look At Us Now, Mother!’
Gayle Kirschenbaum is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker, TV producer and personality. She is the producer and director of the documentary “My Nose,” based on Kirschenbaum’s experience with her...
YA Author Meg Rosoff Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
YA author Meg Rosoff has won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children and young adult literature. The world’s largest prize for the genre will award Rosoff with five million...
Cross-Post: Let’s Make Female Directors More Visible
There’s this game that I play when I have trouble falling asleep: I start listing female film directors. I usually doze off when reaching number 20–25 — if my insomnia is particularly bad,...
Trailer Watch: Nancy Buirski Honors a Great in ‘By Sidney Lumet’
A trailer has arrived for “By Sidney Lumet,” a heartfelt tribute from one director to another. Emmy award-winner Nancy Buirski (“Afternoon of a Faun”) premiered her documentary about the...
Weekly Update for March 25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 — Written by Nia Vardalos Written by Academy Award-nominee Nia Vardalos, who stars alongside the entire returning cast of...
Trailer Watch: Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt Leave ‘Nothing Left Unsaid’
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has made a name for himself outside of his famous Vanderbilt family, but now his relationship with his socialite mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, is being explored in Liz...
Smile, Baby: How ‘The Catch’ Does Mireille Enos Wrong
I have a simple litmus test for female-centric shows and movies that almost never steers me wrong. It sounds petty, but it’s very revealing: Does the main character wear impractical footwear in...
Tribeca Film Festival Announces Tribeca Talks Lineup with Daring Women Summit
The Tribeca Film Festival has released the lineup for its Tribeca Talks series. The festival will run from April 13–24 this year. New to this year’s festival are Tribeca Talks: Storytellers,...
A Change of Culture Is Necessary for Hollywood Diversity Measures to Succeed
Yesterday, several prominent Asian-American Academy members, including Freida Lee Mock, Ang Lee, Sandra Oh and George Takei, sent a letter to the Academy’s Board of Governors protesting the...
Chelsea Handler Announces New Show’s Premiere Date with Hilarious Self-Written Note
Just how will a talk show on Netflix work? We’re about to find out. Chelsea Handler has announced, in a hilarious, self-written press release, that her new show will premiere on May 11 on the...
Trailer Watch: Sarah Follows in Beth’s Footsteps in ‘Orphan Black’ Season 4
The clone club survived Season 3 of “Orphan Black,” but they’re far from unscathed in the aftermath of clone gate. A new, action-packed trailer has arrived for the fourth season of BBC...
SXSW 2016 Women Directors: Meet Anne Hamilton — ‘American Fable’
Anne Hamilton is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She got her start in the business as an intern on Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life.” Hamilton was selected to be one of eight women in the...
14 Women Directors Included in Second Half of Tribeca Fest’s Feature Film Lineup
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the second half of its feature slate for 2016. This newly announced 55-film lineup is 25% female directed, with the work of 14 women directors being featured...
SXSW 2016 Women Directors: Meet Julia Hart — ‘Miss Stevens’
Julia Hart’s debut script “The Keeping Room” landed on the Black List and was made into a feature directed by Daniel Barber starring Brit Marling. She’s written for John Requa and Glenn...