#Filmmaking

Awards

Tilda Swinton Will Chair Jury for BFI’s Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity

Tilda Swinton will lend her expertise to the BFI’s new initiative, the Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winner will chair the awards’ jury...

News

Apply Now: Season 2 of Lena Waithe and Indeed’s Rising Voices Filmmaking Program

Lena Waithe and her Hillman Grad Productions shingle have, along with employment site Indeed, renewed Rising Voices for a second go-round. According to a press release, applications are now being...

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Apply Now: Constellation Incubator for Independent Filmmakers

Storytellers and artists Abeni Bloodworth, Angela Harmon, Naomi McDougall Jones, and Liz Manashil are bringing 36 feature filmmaking teams together for an eight-week incubator. They have founded...

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Apply Now: Lena Waithe, Hillman Grad Prods., and Indeed’s Rising Voices Filmmaking Initiative

Lena Waithe, her company Hillman Grad Productions, and employment site Indeed are teaming up to “discover, invest in, and share stories created by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)...

News

Submit Now: Dedza Films, Kino Lorber-Supported Distributor for Emerging and Student Filmmakers

Kino Lorber is collaborating with filmmaker and programmer Kate Gondwe on a “new distribution initiative that will showcase short films by emerging talent, aimed at fostering and mentoring...

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Attagirl Film Lab Unveils Inaugural Class, Majority of Projects Are Directed by Women and POC

Attagirl, a film lab supporting women and non-binary writers, directors, and producers, has selected the projects for its inaugural edition. A press release announced that 13 films have been chosen,...

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Aurora Guerrero and More Launch First Latinx Directors Database

Aurora Guerrero (“Gentefied”), Alberto Belli (“The House of Flowers”), Joel Novoa (“Arrow”), and Diego Velasco (“Orange Is the New Black”) have set up...

Interviews

DOC NYC 2019 Women Directors: Meet Martha Shane – “Narrowsburg”

Martha Shane is an Emmy-award-winning documentary filmmaker whose credits include “After Tiller” and “Picture Character.” The former won the Emmy for Best...

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Sundance Institute Selects 2020 Momentum Fellows, Announces Inaugural Launch Grant Fund Recipients

Sundance Institute has chosen eight underrepresented filmmakers for its second Momentum Fellowship, and four women filmmakers for its inaugural Launch Grant Fund, a press release has announced. The...

Research

Raising Films Survey: Carers Aren’t Getting Support They Need from the Industry

Raising Films recently conducted a survey “to query the particular impact that caring responsibilities have on those within the [film industry], focusing on those who care for people other than...

News

Winners Announced for Bumble’s Second Female Film Force Competition

Bumble is awarding five women-made short films funding as part of its second Female Film Force competition. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning projects include a comedic drama about...

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Apply Now for the Inaugural Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator

The Walt Disney Company is offering directors from underrepresented communities the chance to “present diverse perspectives through the production of original, live-action short films for...

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Apply Now: Chicken & Egg Pictures’ 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab

If you’re a woman or nonbinary director working on your first or second nonfiction feature, this is for you. Chicken & Egg Pictures is now accepting applications for its 2020 (Egg)celerator...

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AFI to Study Gender Parity in American Film History with $350K NEH Grant

The American Film Institute (AFI) has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and plans to use those funds to conduct “an unprecedented, landmark study...

Guest Posts

Guest Post: How Censorship Made Me a Filmmaker

Guest Post by Shakti Bhagchandani When I was in the seventh grade, my English Literature class was assigned Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo.” On our first day of studying...

Research

Number of Women Directors in France Is Increasing, Study Finds

“Captain Marvel’s” record-breaking debut was in good company on International Women’s Day. March 8 also saw the publication of a new study concluding that the number of women...

News

Brown Girls Doc Mafia Appoints Board of Directors, Receives $105K MacArthur Grant

Big things are happening at Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM), an org advocating for women and non-binary people of color in documentary filmmaking. According to Filmmaker Magazine, BGDM has announced...

News

Women Make Up Over 50 Percent of Variety’s Annual Directors to Watch List

Women dominate Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch list for 2019. Women represent 60 percent of slots on the annual ranking, which recognizes up-and-coming filmmaking talent. Olivia Wilde...

News

Sundance Institute Announces New Inclusive Filmmaking Fellowship, Names Inaugural Class

Sundance is continuing to up its inclusion game ahead of its 2019 festival. As previously reported, the fest has agreed to make its submissions data transparent and is working to ensure a more...

Films

Pamela B. Green’s Alice Guy-Blaché Doc “Be Natural” Secures Distribution

Audiences will soon be able to learn more about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first woman filmmaker. According to Deadline, Pamela B. Green’s documentary “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice...

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Join Women and Hollywood for a #MeToo Panel Discussion at Hamptons Film Fest

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is commemorating the #MeToo movement. It’s been nearly a year since the Harvey Weinstein stories broke and #MeToo became part of our everyday...

Awards

Both Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellowships Go to Women Writer-Directors

Erica Liu and So Young Shelly Yo are the 2018 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellows. SFFILM, a Bay Area-based org championing films and filmmakers, announced the news in a press...

News

Apply Now: AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab for Teen Girls

If you are — or know — a teen girl who dreams of following in the footsteps of Patty Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, and other female directors, take note. Aspiring filmmakers...

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