Trailers
“When you think of the profit of people’s pain, you can only be furious,” says Nan Goldin in a new trailer for Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.”...
Films
HBO Documentary Films has landed worldwide rights to “Master of Light,” which took home SXSW’s top non-fiction prize earlier this year. Deadline confirmed the news. Rosa Ruth...
“Krimes” is going global. MTV Documentary Films acquired worldwide rights to Alysa Nahmias’ documentary, which made its world premiere at Heartland Film Festival and is currently...
Interviews
Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Los Angeles-based production company AJNA. Her work has been shown at festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including the Venice...
“Pole can be so many things to so many different people,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Strip Down, Rise Up.” Michèle Ohayon’s vérité documentary follows...
Directed by former MASS MoCA director of development Jennifer Trainer and narrated by Meryl Streep, “Museum Town” explores how the largest museum for contemporary art in the world ended...
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel collective in the ‘70s. She co-founded Pandora Films, one of the first woman’s...
Television
Get ready to learn more about Artemisia Gentileschi. A television series about the influential Baroque painter’s life is in the works at ViacomCBS International Studios, Deadline reports....
Features
Before “Aggie” was selected for Sundance 2020, I had never heard of Agnes Gund. Unless you’re very tuned into the worlds of art and social justice, you probably haven’t...
Taika Waititi became the first Māori person to win an Oscar when he accepted the award for Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s ceremony. “I dedicate this to all the indigenous kids in the...
Strand Releasing has snagged North American rights to “Aggie,” Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund’s doc about her mother, art collector and philanthropist Agnes...
Halina Dyrschka is a director and producer. After studying acting, classical singing, and film production, she founded the company Ambrosia Film. The first film she directed, the short...
Jodie Foster is already attached to topline and direct a remake of “Woman at War,” Iceland’s submission for 2019’s Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, and now word comes that...
Multi-disciplinary artist Prune Nourry always loved anatomy, and gained an international following for her projects exploring bioethics. “I was working a lot about the body, but I think I lost...
News
One of the most influential artists of the ’70s-era Feminist Art Movement is finally getting her own retrospective. Per ARTnews, Judy Chicago announced she will be receiving her first-ever...
Jill Magid is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work includes performance art and large and small-scale installations. She has been commissioned to make work for the Whitney Museum of American...
Paloma Baeza’s second feature film will celebrate the life and work of Frida Kahlo. Baeza is set to direct an as-yet untitled animated movie about the renowned Mexican artist for the...
Artist and filmmaker Jill Magid’s exhibition “The Proposal” has been called “ghoulish,” “grotesque,” and a “desecration,” as well as...
If you enjoyed Midge and Rose’s adventures in the art world during Season 2 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” you’re going to love Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel...
Festivals
Next month, Shakespeare’s Globe will put on a festival dedicated to “Women & Power.” From May 12-18, the iconic theater will host a series of performances, panels, workshops,...
Jennifer Trainer is an award-winning journalist and author of 19 books that have been translated into ten languages. She wrote the first story about Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art for The...
Awards
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced that German artist Isa Genzken will receive its fourth annual Nasher Prize. The New York Times writes that the prize honors achievement in...
In these turbulent times the desire to do something can be overwhelming. At the same, time many of us can feel powerless against the actions of Trump, Sessions, and the rest of their brigade of...
Films, News, Women Directors, Women Writers
Fresh off directing a pic about the Manson Family murders, Mary Harron has lined up her next project. The “American Psycho” director is taking on the life of surrealist artist Salvador Dali in...
Festivals, Films, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Lisa Immordino Vreeland is an award-winning director whose credits include “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” and “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.” “Love, Cecil” premiered at the...
Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum, among...
Films, News, Trailers, Women Directors
Maud Lewis is one of Canada’s most well-known folk artists, but a new trailer for Aisling Walsh’s “Maudie” shows the painter’s humble beginnings. “Let me tell you how it is. There’s...
Awards, News
Helen Marten has been awarded the 2016 Turner Prize. According to the BBC, the artist intends to share the £25,000 award (about $31,500) with her fellow nominees. Including Marten, women accounted...
Debora L. Spar is taking the reins of Lincoln Center, the largest performing arts center in the U.S. The president of Barnard College will serve as the arts complex’s 10th president beginning in...
Awards, News, Theater, Women Writers
Playwright Aleshea Harris has won The Relentless Award, for her play “Is God Is,” The New York Times reports. The award includes prize money of $45,000 and opportunities for staged readings at...
Awards, Films, News, Theater
Elizabeth LeCompte, founding member and director of experimental theater company The Wooster Group, has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, Broadway...
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