#Ana Lily Amirpour
Trailer Watch: Kate Hudson & Jeon Jong-seo Lead Ana Lily Amirpour’s “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon”
Kate Hudson befriends a fugitive who has escaped from the Home of Mentally Insane Adolescents in “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.” A trailer just dropped for Ana Lily Amirpour’s...
Ana Lily Amirpour to Direct Female-Led “Cliffhanger” Reboot
Ana Lily Amirpour is kicking off principal photography on “Blood Moon” next month. The fantasy tells the story of a girl with strange and dangerous abilities. Now word comes that...
Kate Hudson to Star in Ana Lily Amirpour’s Next Feature, “Blood Moon”
Ana Lily Amirpour has another genre flick on the way. After telling the story of a lonely vampire in “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” and cannibals in a desert dystopia in “The...
Four Universal Cable Prods. Pilots Will Have Women Directors
Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has brought on four female directors to helm some of its biggest pilots. Variety reports the NBCUniversal company hired Ana Lily Amirpour, Steph Green, Laure de...
Filmmaker Mag Names 25 New Faces of Independent Film; Pippa Bianco and 10 Other Women Featured
Filmmaker Magazine has released its annual list identifying the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” and nearly half of the featured up-and-comers are women. Previous honorees include Lena...
Megan Ellison to Produce ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s Next Film
The critically lauded A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night didn’t just garner writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour a Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, but a powerful...
The A to Z of Women in Film in 2014: Part 1
In some ways, it’s been a year like any other. Some extraordinary female talent has broken through. Some miraculous, female-led stories have been told. And yet the industry as a whole has done its...
Trailer Watch: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Iranian Vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
We’ve been hearing raves about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. And now first-time filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, who was nominated...
A Third of New Directors/New Films FF Lineup Directed by Women
Nine emerging female helmers will have their works featured at the 43rd New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Women-directed films...
Five More Women-Directed Films Sold at Sundance
Some deals for women directors coming out of Sundance. Sony Pictures Classics is the new home of Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz’s Land Ho! In her interview with Women and Hollywood, Stephens...