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Trailer Watch: After an Assault, Michaela Coel Focuses on Friends and Work in “I May Destroy You”
Michaela Coel turns her attention to her friendships, work, and activism in the new trailer for “I May Destroy You.” Although its tone is lighter than the previously released teaser, the...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Diana Neille – “Influence”
Diana Neille is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. Neille co-founded two media startups with the intention of fostering long-form investigative storytelling...
Pick of the Day: “I Will Make You Mine”
“I Will Make You Mine” “explores the experience you have when you are confronted by your past,” writer-director-star Lynn Chen explains in her director’s statement....
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Suzanne Crocker – “First We Eat”
Suzanne Crocker’s first feature, “POV” documentary “All the Time in the World,” won 22 festival awards from around the world including nine audience choice awards, four...
Celeste Ng’s “Everything I Never Told You” Is Coming to TV
The last episode of “Little Fires Everywhere” dropped on Hulu last month, and while showrunner Liz Tigelaar would “love” to do a second season, there are no official plans for...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Lulu Wei – “There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace”
Lulu Wei is a Toronto based filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores themes of urbanization and cultural identity. Wei’s short films and installations have been screened and exhibited...
Weekly Update for May 22: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Mia Donovan – “Dope is Death”
Mia Donovan is an award-winning filmmaker based in Montreal. She was the recipient of the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement as an emerging filmmaker in 2012. Her films have been...
Kino Lorber to Virtually Release Sue Williams’ “Denise Ho – Becoming the Song”
A doc about Cantopop icon and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho is heading to Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema platform, Kino Marquee. A press release announced that Kino Lorber has secured North...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Maria Finitzo – “The Dilemma of Desire”
Maria Finitzo is a two-time Peabody Award-winning social issue documentary filmmaker. She has been producing and directing documentary films for network television, public broadcasting, cable TV, and...
“Tuca & Bertie” Revived for Season 2 at Adult Swim
A Netflix cancellation won’t keep our fave loud-mouth toucan and anxious song thrush apart. The streamer announced that “Tuca & Bertie” wouldn’t be picked up for a second...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Liz Marshall – “Meat the Future”
Liz Marshall is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker. Since the 1990s, she has written, produced, directed, and filmed diverse international and socially conscious documentaries. Marshall’s...
Hot Docs Shorts Spotlight: Projects Featuring Protests, Aquaculture Magicians, & More
Women and Hollywood has already spotlighted some of our most anticipated women-driven and -directed features at Hot Docs in our preview, and now we’re turning our attention to the fest’s...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Ali Weinstein – “#BLESSED”
Ali Weinstein is a documentary director and producer based in Toronto. Her directorial debut “Mermaids,” about a group of women who strongly identify with the powerful aquatic archetype,...
Trailer Watch: A Pageant Winner Convinces Her Daughter to Compete for the “Miss Juneteenth” Crown
A new trailer for “Miss Juneteenth” kicks off with a former beauty queen cleaning toilets. Turquoise’s (Nicole Beharie, “Sleepy Hollow”) life took unexpected twists and...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Tamara Mariam Dawit – “Finding Sally”
Tamara Mariam Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she runs the production company GobezMedia. Dawit also manages the Creative Producers Training Program...
Pick of the Day: “Military Wives”
In her review of 2018’s “A Star Is Born,” NPR’s Linda Holmes wrote, “if you happen to have notes at the end of the film that remind you that you did, for all the analysis you may attempt...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Yoruba Richen – “The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show”
Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The Atlantic, and Field of...
Pick of the Day: “Homecoming”
At this moment in time, watching a thriller like “Homecoming” is a fairly cathartic experience. The new season, like its first, is chock-full of destructive corporate greed, elaborate...
Martyna Majok’s Play “Queens” Being Developed as HBO Drama
Martyna Majok is bringing one of her plays to HBO. The network has put a series adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s “Queens” into development, Deadline reports. Majok...
Teaser Watch: Emily Mortimer’s Mom and House Are Haunted in Natalie Erika James’ “Relic”
“This house is the only thing left. All our memories,” says Robyn Nevin in a new trailer for “Relic.” Edna’s (Nevin) daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam...
Issa López to Direct “Our Lady of Tears”
Issa López is set to direct another supernatural pic with a young cast. The “Tigers Are Not Afraid” helmer will step behind the camera for “Our Lady of Tears,” Deadline...
Vicky Jenson to Direct Musical Fantasy “Spellbound” for Skydance Animation
Vicky Jenson will unite a kingdom in her next animated pic. The “Shrek” and “Shark Tale” filmmaker is set to helm “Spellbound,” a musical fantasy. Per Deadline,...
Trailer Watch: Janelle Monáe Is Stuck in a Nightmare in “Antebellum”
Janelle Monáe’s idyllic life comes to a grinding halt in a new trailer for “Antebellum.” We see glimpses of Veronica (Monáe), a successful author, painting, cuddling, and playing...
Hot Docs 2020 Preview: LGBTQ Parents, Surfer Girls, & More
Originally scheduled to take place April 30-May 10 in Toronto, Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival didn’t go as planned this year. The physical version of the fest was cancelled due...
Trailer Watch: Charlize Theron & KiKi Layne Defy Death in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Old Guard”
Charlize Theron leads a group of soldiers with an extremely rare skill set in a new trailer for “The Old Guard.” “Let’s just say we’re very hard to kill,” she...
“My Salinger Year” Lands at IFC Films, Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley Star
“My Salinger Year,” the story of Joanna Rakoff’s experiences working for J. D. Salinger’s agent in the ’90s, has secured distribution. IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights...
Pick of the Day: “Blood & Water”
Puleng Khumalo (Ama Qamata) is a 16-year-old girl who has been living with a ghost her entire life — but “Blood & Water” is not a ghost story, at least not in a typical sense....
S.J. Clarkson to Direct Sony Pic Featuring Mystery Female Marvel Character
Spider-Man and Venom won’t be the only Marvel characters to get their own Sony movie. According to Variety, a “secret” movie following a female Marvel character is in the works....
“Search Party” Creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers to Write and Direct “Monster”
Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers are teaming up for another pic. Their first joint feature, “Fort Tilden,” took home the 2014 Grand Jury Award at SXSW. Since then, they co-created...
TV Series in the Works Based on Ivy Pochoda’s “These Women”
“The Handmaid’s Tale” creator and showrunner is bringing another woman-penned novel to the small screen. Bruce Miller will develop and produce a series adaptation of “These...
Apply Now: Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab
Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab is accepting submissions for its 2020 edition. Now in its 11th year, the 18-month fellowship supports emerging filmmakers of color working on their first or...
Submit Now: Women In Film, ReFrame, and IMDbPro’s Curbside Shorts Filmmaking Challenge
Women In Film LA, ReFrame, and IMDbPro have launched a contest for women and nonbinary filmmakers who have been keeping creative during quarantine. Per a press release, the Curbside Shorts Two-Minute...
Trailer Watch: Marina Zenovich Shows a Different Side of Lance Armstrong in ESPN Doc
“I needed a nuclear meltdown and I got it,” says Lance Armstrong in a new trailer for “Lance.” “I’m not going to lie to you, Marina. I’m going tell you my...
Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor Tapped to Pen “Legally Blonde 3”
Mindy Kaling and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” co-creator Dan Goor have signed up — hopefully on pink, scented paper — to write the third installment of the “Legally...
Teaser Watch: Gina Brillon Talks Misleading Photos and Dating Apps in “The Floor is Lava”
Gina Brillon’s third stand-up special has a premiere date and teaser. Amazon will drop “The Floor is Lava” June 5. Described as a “journey of love, laughter, and heart”...
Trailer Watch: Gun Control Activists Fight for Change in Cheryl Horner McDonough’s “Parkland Rising”
“More people died at our school than died at Columbine. Think about that,” gun control activist and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting survivor David Hogg says in the...
Trailer Watch: Affairs Dominate Hannah’s Personal and Professional Lives in “The Split” Season 2
Everyone’s favorite family of divorce attorneys is back — and at a new firm. A trailer for the second season of Abi Morgan’s “The Split” has arrived, and sees the Defoes...
Indigo Girls Doc in the Works from Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach will follow up her award-winning portrait of Nadia Murad, a survivor of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq who went on to escape sexual slavery at the hands of ISIS,...
Francesca Gregorini to Direct Tennis Pic “The Match” for Inclusive Production Co. Four Daughters
Another day, another announcement of a women-centric sports film. Alexis Ostrander is directing a movie about The Red Rose Crew rowers, Netflix is working on a pic about the World Cup-winning 1999...
Jessica Alba to Topline Mouly Surya-Directed Netflix Thriller “Trigger Warning”
Set to reprise her role as a police detective and Navy veteran in “L.A’.s Finest’s” second season, Jessica Alba has signed on to play a vet in another action story. The...
Weekly Update for May 15: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
FemmePower Productions Introduces New Platform for Queer Content
FemmePower Productions, a queer femme-led company, is launching a new platform to help meet your “queerantine” needs. A press release announced that FemmePower TV and its lineup of queer...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival’s Digital Lineup Is 73 Percent Women-Directed
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival has announced the lineup for its first full digital edition. Of 11 feature docs set to screen, eight are directed by women, amounting to 73 percent of the...
“The Good Fight” Renewed for Fifth Season at CBS All Access
“The Good Fight” will continue. Deadline reports the “Good Wife” spinoff has been renewed for Season 5 at CBS All Access. Season 4, now dropping new episodes on Thursdays,...
Agnes Gund Doc “Aggie” Acquired by Strand Releasing
Strand Releasing has snagged North American rights to “Aggie,” Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund’s doc about her mother, art collector and philanthropist Agnes...
Pick of the Day: “The Great”
“The Great” tells the story of woman who won’t let sexism or her hilariously incompetent husband stand in the way of her destiny. Billed as “an occasionally true story,”...
Trailer Watch: A Father & Daughter Embrace Transient Living in “The Short History of the Long Road”
Teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter) and her father (Steven Ogg) have made a home of the open road. The pair are always on the move in their refurbished RV, and as Nola explains it, they let the road...
The Story of the Red Rose Crew Rowers Is Headed to the Big Screen, Alexis Ostrander to Direct
It’s been a good week for women-driven sports films. A few days ago it was announced that Netflix is working on a pic about the World Cup-winning 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer team. Now,...
Director Nadia Hallgren Talks About “Becoming” a Part of Michelle Obama’s Life
“Becoming” offers a personal and intimate view into the world of Michelle Obama. Nadia Hallgren’s new Netflix documentary takes viewers on an all-access journey alongside the former...
Rita Coburn to Direct Doc About Trailblazing Opera Singer Marian Anderson for PBS
Rita Coburn has signed on to helm another documentary about a pioneering woman of color. The “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” filmmaker is directing a doc chronicling the life and work of...