Trailers
“I’m ready to go to the next adventure,” says Eli Timoner in a new trailer for “Last Flight Home.” Described as “so full of life” and “a pillar of...
Four tweens make a pact to solve a mystery in “Summering,” a coming-of-age story that’s reminiscent of “Stand By Me.” This time around, the friends at the center of the...
Lana Condor is determined to make the most out of the little life she has left in “Boo, Bitch.” From showrunners Erin Ehrlich (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) and Lauren Iungerich...
Films
“Last Flight Home” has landed at MTV Documentary Films. Ondi Timoner’s latest “had several bidders and the sale was highly competitive,” according to Variety. The doc...
Interviews
Ondi Timoner is an internationally-acclaimed filmmaker who has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice – for “Dig!” (2004), about the collision of art and...
Macha Colón is Gisela Rosario Ramos, an undisciplined artist currently based in Puerto Rico. Her award-winning short documentary “El Hijo de Ruby” has been shown in international...
With “Beautiful Something Left Behind,” director Katrine Philp wanted to explore grief from children’s perspective. “But it is not only a film about grief — it is a film...
Jada Pinkett Smith is bringing healing conversations beyond “Red Table Talk.” Variety reports that she’s signed on to topline “Redd Zone,” a drama about a woman who...
Features
“Dick Johnson Is Dead” sees a filmmaker struggling to come to terms with her father’s mortality the best way she knows how: by making a movie. “Just the idea that I might ever lose this...
“Dick Johnson Is Dead” sees a filmmaker struggling to come to terms with her father’s mortality. “Just the idea that I might ever lose this man is too much to bear,”...
Pailin Wedel is a Thai-American journalist and filmmaker who grew up in Asia. She has regularly produced documentary programs for Al Jazeera English, namely for its current events program “101...
Set to drop May 3 on Netflix, “Dead to Me” sees Christina Applegate playing Jen, a sardonic widow on a mission. When she’s not denying hugs to new friends or telling a well-meaning...
“Everything that’s happening — is it real?” asks a young woman convinced she’s the last person left on earth. A trailer has dropped for “Starfish,” and it...
Films, News, Women Writers
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the award-winning psychiatrist behind the seminal book “On Death and Dying” and coiner of the five stages of grief, is getting her own film. Deadline reports that...
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...
News, Television, Trailers, Women Writers
Mary Harris believes in her work. “Death gives life meaning,” the secret euthanasia provider (Caroline Dhavernas, “Hannibal”) declares in the trailer for Season 2 of Lifetime’s “Mary...
Films, News, Trailers, Women Directors, Women Writers
A woman searches for answers after her son’s death in a newly released trailer for Katherine Dieckmann’s “Strange Weather.” Darcy’s (Holly Hunter) son killed himself seven years ago, but...
Documentary, Films, News, Trailers, Women Directors
“It’s counter-intuitive — ironic, even — but obits have next to nothing to do with death, and in fact absolutely everything to do with the life,” an obituary writer observes in a...
Documentary, Films, News, Women Directors
After a successful run on the festival circuit, Vanessa Gould’s “Obit.” has secured a theatrical release. A press release announced that Kino Lorber has acquired all U.S. rights to the...
Films, Interviews, News, Women Directors
Maris Curran spoke with Women and Hollywood about the “joys and trauma of everyday life” that her debut feature, “Five Nights in Maine,” explores. The drama made its World Premiere at TIFF...
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