Interviews
Violet Columbus is a writer-director currently living in New York City. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts in 2016. “The Exiles” is her debut feature film. “The Exiles...
Amanda Lipitz is an award-winning producer, writer, and director. Her directorial debut and first feature-length documentary, “Step,” premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film...
Trailers
Shot in 51 locations across China, “Ascension” explores the country’s industrial supply chain. Director Jessica Kingdon described the doc to us as “an image-driven essay film...
Films
“All About My Sisters” has secured distribution ahead of its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival. A press release announced that Icarus Films snagged North American...
“Found,” Amanda Lipitz’s documentary about three adopted teens and their unexpected connection, has landed at Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streamer acquired...
New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC...
Cathy Yan’s debut film, “Dead Pigs,” premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting, and garnered numerous...
Features
“Eight people were punished for spreading rumors about an unknown pneumonia,” various anchors tell us over and over again, sharing a January 1, 2020 announcement from the Wuhan police....
When a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in economically depressed Dayton, Ohio, its residents are promised communal growth, jobs, and a future for their children. As the trailer for Julia...
Born during the height of China’s controversial, headline-making attempt to address its population crisis, Nanfu Wang never gave much thought to the One Child Policy. That all changed when the...
Shosh Shlam is a director and producer. She has directed several documentaries, including “Last Journey into Silence,” “Good Garbage,” and “Web Junkie.” Hilla...
Nanfu Wang is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Wang’s feature debut, “Hooligan Sparrow,” premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was...
Under the Radar is Women and Hollywood’s newest feature. Published monthly, the post offers a chance for us to highlight works by and/or about women that haven’t received big releases or...
Festivals, Films, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Heather White is a first-time documentary director. She is the founder and former Executive Director of Verité, an award-winning non-profit organization recognized for its groundbreaking leadership...
Miao Wang an award-winning filmmaker who focuses on documentaries that inspire cultural understanding and a humanist perspective of the world. Her previous directing credits include “Beijing...
Films, News, Trailers, Women Directors
A trailer has landed for “All Eyes and Ears,” Vanessa Hope’s documentary feature debut. Hope told Women and Hollywood that she hopes the film “will stand the test of time as one of the more...
News, Television
Liu Xiaoqing is introducing U.S. audiences to Empress Consort Wu. The Chinese actress will star in and co-produce “Empress,” a TV series centered on the seventh and eighth century empress Wu...
Awards, Books, News, Women Writers
Madeleine Thien has been named as the 2016 recipient of Canada’s Giller Prize, the country’s most prominent fiction award, Reuters reports. The author won the $100,000 award — the...
News
Last year, I wrote an article for The Atlantic defending the influx of Chinese money into the American film industry. The forced diversification of Hollywood is an overwhelmingly positive...
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