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Apply Now: The 2020-21 AFI Directing Workshop for Women
The AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is now accepting applications for its 2020-21 program. Open to women and nonbinary directors with at least three years of professional experience, DWW...
Lifetime Guarantees a Job to Every AFI DWW Grad
Lifetime has been putting its money where its mouth is by investing in women — and being handsomely rewarded for it. Now, the female-targeted cable network is making one of its biggest steps...
Philiane Phang Named the Inaugural Phosphate Prize at IFP Winner
Writer-director Philiane Phang has been named the inaugural winner of The Independent Filmmakers Project’s Phosphate Prize. IFP launched the prize to recognize narrative-feature-film screenplays...
Jill Soloway to Deliver Keynote for AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women Showcase
“Transparent” creator and “Afternoon Delight” writer-director Jill Soloway will deliver the keynote address at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) Showcase on May 14. Soloway will...
13 Studio Execs Sign On to Mentor for AFI Directing Workshop for Women
Thirteen female executives from the six major studios will assume mentorship duties for filmmakers at the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW). Those women comprise the “Executive Circle,”...
Ellen Burstyn to Direct Her First Film, Lake Bell Her Second
Ellen Burstyn will join Jodie Foster, Angelina Jolie, and Lake Bell among the (unfortunately not-so-large) ranks of actresses-turned-directors. According to Deadline, the 81-year-old Burstyn will...
AFI Expands Directing Workshop for Women Program for Digital Age
It’s a whole new world out there for filmmakers today — and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is changing to reflect that fact. This year’s DWW program, sponsored by Will &...
Watch: Kimberly Peirce Encourages the Next Generation of AFI Women Directors
As the keynote speaker at the 2014 AFI Directing Worshop for Women Showcase, Kimberly Peirce was upfront about the difficult road that her listeners had ahead of them while congratulating them for...
AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women Turns Forty; Kimberly Peirce to Deliver Keynote
When the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) was launched forty years ago, women made up less than 10% of Hollywood’s directing ranks. Sadly, the numbers have not...
The Directing Workshop for Women 2013 Showcase
On Monday night I stepped into the Directors Guild Building for the first time to attend the annual showcase for the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women My feelings about that place are...