Trailers
The title of Eliza Hittman’s latest, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” refers to the counseling session a young woman undergoes prior to getting an abortion. A healthcare provider...
Features
Season’s greetings from Women and Hollywood. We’re getting ready to go on break, so this will be our last Weekly Update of the year. We’ll resume the feature on January 3. Happy...
Adaptations of classic novels, feminist takes on the One Crazy Night trope, true stories based on actual lies — 2019 has been a superb year for women in film. From “Portrait of a Lady on...
In 1969, 100 million people tuned in live to Miss World — “more viewers than for the moon landings or the World Cup final,” we learn in a trailer for “Misbehaviour.”...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Black Christmas – Directed by Sophia Takal; Written by Sophia Takal and April Wolfe Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen...
Director Meghna Gulzar brings Laxmi Agarwal’s story to the big screen in “Chhapaak.” A trailer has arrived for the Hindi-language portrait of an acid attack...
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Guest Posts
Guest Post by Rachel Feldman 2019 is a banner year for international women directors, with 30 percent of the International Oscar contenders being female — and brava! Plenty of excellent...
News
The Critics’ Choice Award nominations are in — and they’ve bested the Golden Globes. While the latter nominated zero women in the directing category, “Little Women”...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma (Opens in NY and LA) Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter, is...
Festivals
The Sundance Film Festival has bested its ratio of women filmmakers for the third year in a row. Its 2020 competition lineup is 46 percent women-directed or co-directed, as compared to 2019’s...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Ximei (Documentary) – Directed by Gaylen Ross and Andy Cohen (Opens in NY November 29) “Ximei” Ximei is a young peasant woman from rural Henan Province who...
Mia Wasikowska wakes up bloodied and beaten in a new trailer for “Judy & Punch.” “Do you remember what happened to you?” she’s asked. The only way she can respond is...
Anna and Elsa’s venture “Into the Unknown” turned out to be extremely lucrative. “Frozen II” netted $127 million domestically and $223.3 million abroad — $350.2...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Frozen II – Directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck; Written by Allison Schroeder Why was Elsa (Idina Menzel) born with magical powers? What truths about the past...
Guest Post by Alexa Khan After graduating from college, I embarked on a very successful and lucrative career in finance — yet I felt stuck in life. Although I loved the sense of accomplishment,...
Awards
The 2020 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations are in — and a wide selection of women-directed pics, including “The Farewell,” “Booksmart,” and...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Charlie’s Angels – Written and Directed by Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie’s Angels takes flight. In...
Women and Hollywood is organizing a casual meeting in London in the early evening of December 4. If you’re interested in participating, please email Melissa Silverstein...
A new trailer for “Wendy” sees a sidekick taking the starring role in a wildly reimagined take on the beloved “Peter Pan” story. “All children grow up, but some, the...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Harriet – Directed by Kasi Lemmons; Written by Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard I seriously can’t believe that it has taken this long to tell the story of...
Possibly emblematic of changing societal attitudes, “Scattered Night” — directed by Lee Jihyoung and Kim Sol, and written by the former — is one of several recent festival films from...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Paradise Hills – Directed by Alice Waddington (Available on VOD November 1) On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a...
Kitty Green’s portrait of an aspiring filmmaker working for a powerful, abusive media mogul is hitting theaters this winter. Deadline reports that Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to...
Research
The good news: the number of European feature films directed by women released in 2017 (357) was more than triple the 2003 figure (118). There are definitely more women making movies in Europe. The...
“People keep telling me they know me,” Rey (Daisy Ridley) says in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” final trailer. “No one does.” But that doesn’t...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Written by Linda Woolverton, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, and Noah Harpster There’s a lot of awesome woman power on-screen in this sequel to...
Interviews
Erin Derham is an award-winning film director who began her career editing and directing for PBS. Her films include “Buskin’ Blues,” a music documentary exploring the secretive lives of street...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Sky Is Pink – Directed by Shonali Bose; Written by Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar An epic tale of love and family — and based on a true story —...
“Many of you don’t know slavery firsthand,” Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) says at an abolitionist meeting. “But I remember. I’ve heard their groans, seen their tears....
Mackenzie Davis has no idea what she’s in for when she takes her first live-in nanny position in “The Turning,” director Floria Sigismondi’s modern reimagining of Henry...
“I’m not going anywhere,” Camila Morrone (“Never Going Back”) promises her dad in the trailer for “Mickey and the Bear.” The prospect of leaving must be...
For a moment, things seem to be going pretty well for Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander) in Tokyo. She’s seeing Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi), a photographer, and has just struck up a friendship with another...
The Academy has confirmed which films have been submitted to the International Feature category for the 2020 Academy Awards. Of 93 titles from around the globe, 28 are directed or co-directed by...
“You know you’re marrying Omar in 10 days, right?” a friend asks Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) in the trailer for Mati Diop’s “Atlantics.” “But I’m in love...
Crystal Moselle’s “Skate Kitchen,” Haifaa Al-Mansour’s “The Perfect Candidate,” Nancy Biurski’s “The Rape Of Recy Taylor,” and more films about and/or made...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Lucy in the Sky Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by the...
Things are pretty grim in the trailer for “Salvation”: A priest flagellates himself and struggles to comfort people in crisis. A young man runs from some unknown danger. Set to a cover of...
Laura Baumeister made a major mark at this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival. Not only did the filmmaker win the €20,000 (about $21,800 USD) EFADs-CAACI Europe-Latin America...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Sister Aimee – Written and Directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann (Available on VOD October 1) Aimee Semple McPherson was a hugely popular evangelist in...
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Hustlers – Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria Inspired by a New York Magazine article by Jessica Pressler that went viral, the story centers around a group of...
Alma Har’el is a film and music video director, best known for her documentaries “Love True” and “Bombay Beach,” the latter of which was awarded the top prize at the 2011 Tribeca Film...
Klaudia Reynicke is a screenwriter and director from Lima, Peru, now based in Switzerland. She directed her first short film, “Great Expectations NY,” in 2005. It was followed by additional...
Hind Meddeb currently works between Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Her first film, “Casablanca: One Way Ticket to Paradise,” tells the story of 14 Moroccan suicide bombers who killed...
Join our weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date on women centric, directed, and written films and news. Newsletters are sent on Fridays at noon EST.