#Films
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “Family Squares” Writer-Director Stephanie Laing
Writer, director, and producer Stephanie Laing will sit down with the Girls Club to talk about her new film, “Family Squares,” on Wednesday, February 23, at 4 p.m. EST. The virtual chat...
Guest Post: How to Make a Movie on a $100K Budget
By Suzette Brown Making an independent film successful is not easy — the key is arming yourself with proper planning. On the first feature I produced, I was told by the director, “There are...
Trailer Watch: A Malevolent Force Threatens to Tear a Family Apart in “You Are Not My Mother”
In Kate Dolan’s feature directorial debut, “You Are Not My Mother,” a woman goes missing — and she’s not quite herself when she returns. A new trailer for the horror pic has...
Mindy Kaling to Set Up Own Book Line, Adapt Material for Film Under New Deal with Amazon
Mindy Kaling is well on her way to mogul-dom. The actress, writer, and producer has inked a new deal with Amazon Publishing and Amazon Studios that will see her curating her own literary line,...
Trailer Watch: Daisy Edgar-Jones’ New Relationship Takes a Horrifying Turn in Mimi Cave’s “Fresh”
Disillusioned by dating — the constant swiping through apps, the awkward conversations, the slim pickings — Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones, “Normal People”) is about ready to give up...
Trailer Watch: A Missing Person Case Brings Three Women Together in Berlinale Pic “Robe of Gems”
Natalia López Gallardo’s feature directorial debut revolves around a missing person case — and the three women whose lives collide because of it. A trailer has arrived for “Robe of...
Berlinale 2022 Women Directors: Meet Natalia López Gallardo – “Robe of Gems”
Natalia López Gallardo is a Mexican-Bolivian film director, writer, editor, and occasional actress. She has edited films by Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas, and Amat Escalante, among other...
Berlinale 2022 Women Directors: Meet Yulia Trofimova – “The Land of Sasha”
Yulia Trofimova lives and works in Moscow. She studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in 2017-2018 and directing at the Moscow School of New Cinema in 2018-2019....
Berlinale 2022 Women Directors: Meet Alejandra Márquez Abella – “El Norte Sobre El Vacío”
Alejandra Márquez Abella studied filmmaking at Centre D’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya in Barcelona. Her first feature film, 2015’s “Semana Santa,” and her sophomore...
“Master,” “The Janes,” & More to Screen at 2022 Athena Film Festival
The 12th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) has unveiled its lineup. To be held in-person March 11-13 at Barnard College in New York City and virtually March 11-20, the fest will celebrate women...
Women Directed Over Half of SXSW 2022’s Feature Competition Titles
SXSW will return with an in-person edition this year — and, happily, the fest’s recent pattern of gender parity among its filmmakers is back, too. Women directed or co-directed nine out...
Paz Encina’s “EAMI” Wins Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The 2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has handed out its competition awards, with Paz Encina taking home the top prize. A press release has announced Encina’s “EAMI”...
Trailer Watch: A Teenage Delinquent Finds Magic in Kate Tsang’s “Marvelous and the Black Hole”
Kate Tsang’s coming-of-age comedy “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” has another magic trick up its sleeve: a charming trailer, just released. Written and directed by Tsang, the film...
February 2022 Film Preview
February brings a slate of films about and made by women centered on the theme of love, in all its follies. Kicking off the month is Oscar hopeful “The Worst Person in the World”...
Trailer Watch: Mattie Do Tells a Ghost Story in “The Long Walk”
“People say they’ve seen a boy walking down the road with a young woman, but when they get close enough, she vanishes,” we’re told in a new trailer for “The Long...
DGA TV Nominations: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Lorene Scafaria, Lucia Aniello, and More
The TV nominations are in for the 2022 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards. Oscar favorites Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are among the directors in the running for Documentary Feature...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro – “Am I Ok?”
Tig Notaro is an Emmy- and Grammy-nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actor. Her credits include “Army of the Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery.” She...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt – “Aftershock”
Tonya Lewis Lee is a director, producer, and writer whose work through storytelling often explores the personal impact of social justice issues such as civil rights and criminal justice. Paula Eiselt...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Abigail Disney and Kathleen Hughes – “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales”
Abigail Disney is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, and co-founder of Fork Films, a nonfiction media production company which produces the podcast “All Ears.” She is the...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Shalini Kantayya – “TikTok, Boom.”
Shalini Kantayya is a filmmaker whose film “Coded Bias” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix. The film won a Social Impact Media Award for Best...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Sophie Hyde – “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande”
Sophie Hyde is a director, producer, writer, and founding member of the film collective Closer Productions. She lives and works on the lands of the Kaurna people in South Australia. Her debut...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Abi Damaris Corbin – “892”
Abi Damaris Corbin is a Boston-bred writer and director based in Los Angeles. Corbin’s BAFTA shortlisted live-action short “The Suitcase” had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Eva Longoria Bastón – “La Guerra Civil”
As an award-winning actress, director, producer, entrepreneur, and activist, Eva Longoria Bastón has become one the most significant trailblazers behind the camera. For over a decade, she has been...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes – “The Janes”
Tia Lessin was nominated for an Academy Award for her work as a director and producer of the Hurricane Katrina survival story “Trouble the Water,” winner of the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Rachel Lears – “To the End”
Rachel Lears is a documentary director, producer, and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel’s most recent feature documentary, Netflix’s “Knock Down the House,” won...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Isabel Castro – “Mija”
Isabel Castro is a four-time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker who combines a practice in journalism and art to tell stories about immigration, civil rights, and identity. She splits her...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Jamie Dack – “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Jamie Dack is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her short film “Palm Trees and Power Lines” premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival as a Cinéfondation selection. Her debut feature...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Julie Ha – “Free Chol Soo Lee”
Julie Ha’s storytelling career spans more than two decades, with a specialized focus on Asian American stories. She worked as an editor for 10 years at KoreAm Journal, a national Korean American...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Sara Dosa -“Fire of Love”
Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated documentary director and Peabody award-winning producer. Her first feature as a director, “The Last Season,” won a Golden Gate Award at its...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Amy Poehler – “Lucy and Desi”
Perhaps best known for her Emmy-nominated series “Parks and Recreation,” Amy Poehler currently serves as co-creator, executive producer, and the lead voice of Fox’s animated series...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Ondi Timoner – “Last Flight Home”
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...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Rita Baghdadi – “Sirens”
Rita Baghdadi is an award-winning Moroccan-American documentary filmmaker whose work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, Film Independent, and the International Documentary...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Tania Anderson– “The Mission”
Tania Anderson is a British, American, and Swiss filmmaker based in Helsinki, Finland. She has worked as a writer and journalist, most recently as a writer for National Geographic, where she...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing – “Midwives”
Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing has worked as a freelance filmmaker in Myanmar since 2006, acting as director, producer, editor, and sound recordist. Her short “Burmese Butterfly” played festivals in...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Maria Loohufvud – “Calendar Girls”
Maria Loohufvud is an art director with a background in music and dance. Her feminist engagement has led to projects on many platforms, such as the equality game Komma Lika. Together with Love...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Monia Chokri – “Babysitter”
Monia Chokri is a Canadian stage and television actor, as well as an award-winning director. Her first feature film, ”A Brother’s Love,” won the Un Certain Regard jury’s Coup de Coeur at the...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Anna Nemes – “Gentle”
Anna Nemes is a visual artist whose paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Europe since 2010. “Beauty of the Beast,” her essay-documentary about female...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Nina Menkes – “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power”
Nina Menkes is a filmmaker whose works synthesize inner dream worlds with brutal, outer realities. Her work has been shown widely in major international film festivals, including Sundance, the...
Sujata Day Talks “Definition Please,” Normalizing South Asian American Stories, & Being Inspired by Issa Rae
Pittsburgh native Sujata Day is a performer, creator, writer, and director. She regularly performs in Upright Citizens Brigade’s hit “Asian AF” show. Day is known for her starring...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Martika Ramirez Escobar – “Leonor Will Never Die”
Martika Ramirez Escobar is a filmmaker-cinematographer based in Manila. Her thesis film from the University of the Philippines competed at the 19th Busan International Film Festival. Her latest work,...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Mariama Diallo – “Master”
Mariama Diallo is a Brooklyn based writer-director. Her short film “Hair Wolf” premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won The Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction....
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Krystin Ver Linden – “Alice”
Krystin Ver Linden is a director and screenwriter. Her script “Ride” sold to Lionsgate with Jill Solloway attached to direct. Her pitch “Love in Vain,” an unconventional...
Agam Darshi on Centering “Donkeyhead” Around a South Asian Family & Processing Trauma Through Art
Agam Darshi is an award-winning actress, writer, and director. Born in England and raised all over Canada, she currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She recently wrapped on Ava DuVernay’s...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Francisca Alegría – “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future”
Francisca Alegría is Chilean filmmaker whose short film “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye” received the award for Best International Fiction Short Film at the 2017...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Chloe Okuno – “Watcher”
Chloe Okuno is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her recent work includes writing a remake of “Audrey Rose” for Orion Pictures and writing and directing a segment of the anthology series...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Hanna Bergholm – “Hatching”
Hanna Bergholm is a Finnish film director who has helmed several internationally-awarded short films and TV drama series. Her latest short horror film, “Puppet Master,” was selected to...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Audrey Diwan – “Happening”
Audrey Diwan is a filmmaker, author, and screenwriter who has collaborated with Valérie Donzelli, Cédric Jimenez, and Gilles Lellouche among others. She made her feature film directing debut with...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Adamma Ebo – “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.”
Adamma Ebo is a Nigerian-American writer, director, and producer who works alongside her identical twin, Adanne Ebo. Both wrote on “Mrs. & Mrs. Smith,” an upcoming Amazon series. They...
Trailer Watch: A Teenage Girl Faces Her Fears and Steps into the Limelight in “Tall Girl 2”
Jodi (Ava Michelle) faces her greatest enemy in “Tall Girl 2.” Directed by Emily Ting, the sequel sees the teenager battling her nasty inner voice after booking the lead in her...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Violet Columbus – “The Exiles”
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...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Alli Haapasalo – “Girl Picture”
Alli Haapasalo is a Finnish director and writer with passion for telling strong female-driven stories. Haapasalo’s feature debut, 2016’s “Love and Fury,” followed a writer finding...