#Films
Safe (and Unsafe) Spaces: Crowdfunding Picks
How do we react in the face of adversity or tragedy? Specifically, how do our identities and backgrounds shape the means by which we grow from these experiences? These are the questions our latest...
Only One Woman-Directed Film Will Screen in Competition at 2018 Venice Fest
The Venice Film Festival announced the lineup for its 2018 edition and once again it is years behind in terms of representing women directors. Just eight films of the 64 screening in the fest’s...
Brenda Chapman Launches Production Company, Signs First-Look Deal at Fox
Not only has Brenda Chapman lined up her next gig, she’s started her own production company. According to Deadline, the “Brave” co-director has launched ‘Twas Entertainment...
Weekly Update for July 20 Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING THIS WEEK Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” This sequel to 2008’s “Mamma Mia!” follows a pregnant Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) as she...
Exclusive: A Sex Worker and Writer’s Many Lives Are Explored in “Nelly” Trailer
“I’m not a writer,” a sex worker tells a client in the trailer for “Nelly” — but she actually is. Nelly Arcan (Mylène Mackay) is, in her words, a...
BAMcinématek Hosting “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” Film Series
BAMcinématek has lined up its next feminist film series. The Brooklyn venue is teaming up with Kino Lorber and the Library of Congress for “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers,” which...
Trailer Watch: A Filmmaker and Activist Is Honored in “Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen”
According to her son Hepi, the late filmmaker Merata Mita once said, “What you see when you look at an archival film are resurrections taking place.” She explained, “A past life...
Teaser Watch: Elle Fanning Goes on the Run in Mélanie Laurent’s “Galveston”
“Are you gonna kill me?” Elle Fanning asks Ben Foster in the new teaser for “Galveston.” Roy (Foster), a terminally ill hitman with a bounty on his head, replies no. And so...
Trailer Watch: RBG Is Ready to “Topple the Whole Damn System” in “On the Basis of Sex”
“You’re a smart girl, Ruthie,” some condescending old dude tells a young Ruth Bader frickin’ Ginsburg in the trailer for “On the Basis of Sex.” “You married...
Weekly Update for July 6 Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING THIS WEEK Whitney (Documentary) With over 200 million album sales worldwide, and remaining the only artist to chart seven consecutive U.S. No. 1’s,...
BFI Celebrates Joan Crawford with Two-Month Program
BFI Southbank is paying tribute to a Hollywood legend. The cinema has announced a two-month program featuring 20 films starring Joan Crawford. Kicking off August 1 and running through October 9,...
July 2018 Film Preview
By Beandrea July and Sophie Willard While the summer is often associated with big budget films, like the “Mamma Mia!” sequel (July 20), this July is defying expectations by releasing a...
Weekly Update for June 29: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING THIS WEEK Woman Walks Ahead – Directed by Susanna White (Also Available on DirecTV) Based on true events, “Woman Walks Ahead” tells the story of...
All-Female Ambulance Corps Doc “93Queen” Goes to Abramorama
It won’t be long before audiences are introduced to the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in the United States. Abramorama has acquired U.S. and Canadian theatrical rights to...
Trailer Watch: Lily James Reports on “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
For Juliet, writing is the “perfect job.” She gets to sit indoors and is “always near a teapot.” But the free spirit is desperate to write about “something...
Teaser Watch: All Hell Breaks Loose in Salem in “Assassination Nation”
“You may think that I’m exaggerating, but this is the story of how my town Salem lost its motherfucking mind,” says Lily (Odessa Young, “High Life”) in a new red-band...
Under the Radar: Motherhood Meets Magical Realism in Brazilian Fairy Tale “Good Manners”
Unsurprisingly for a film infused with magical realism, “Good Manners” was first conceived in a state of sleep: “the original image came from a dream of [co-director Marco Dutra’s]: two women...
Academy Invites 928 New Members, 49% Are Women and 38% POC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited a record 928 people to join its ranks. As Variety reports, the Academy’s list of invitees has been growing steadily for three years....
Trailer Watch: An Aspiring DJ Lives in Minsk But Dreams of Chicago in “Crystal Swan”
Twenty-two-year-old Evelina (Alina Nasibullina), also known as Velya, is a law school grad who enjoys living in her native Minsk, Belarus. But, as Velya proudly announces in a trailer for...
Korean-American Superheroine Pic “Silk” in the Works at Sony, Amy Pascal Producing
Cindy Moon could be getting her own movie. Deadline reports a pic centering on the Marvel character, aka Silk, is in early development at Sony and Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures. Created by Dan...
MoMA Series to Highlight Emerging Women Directors
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is working toward “a brighter, more inclusive future in which cinema can more accurately reflect the world around us,” according to a press release. With...
Trailer Watch: A Friend’s Murder Spurs Amandla Stenberg to Activism in “The Hate U Give”
Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) loves her family and her neighborhood, Garden Heights. She goes to predominantly white high school, but is fine with being the non-“ghetto” “Starr,...
Weekly Update for June 22: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING THIS WEEK Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts – Co-Written and Directed by Mouly Surya (Opens in NY; Opens in LA July 6) In the windswept uplands of the Indonesian...
Céline Sciamma Will Start Shooting Her Next Film This Fall
Céline Sciamma’s fourth feature is in the works. The French filmmaker will follow up “Girlhood” with “Portrait de la jeune fille en feu,” which roughly translates to...
Trailer Watch: A Girl Finds Her Crew in Crystal Moselle’s “Skate Kitchen”
“For a while I was feeling really lonely — that loneliness that you have even in a crowded room. But I don’t feel it anymore,” says Camille (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) in a...