#Gamechanger Films
Doc from Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, & Laurie Polisky Wins Gamechanger-Sandbox Accelerator Award
Director-producers Saelyx Finna, Mia Imani, and Laurie Polisky will make a documentary about dream technology and surveillance with the backing of Gamechanger Films and Sandbox Films. According to a...
“Angry Little Girls” Film and TV Projects in the Works at Gamechanger Films
Get ready to see a bunch of “Angry Little Girls.” Gamechanger Films is developing a TV series and several holiday movies based on Lela Lee’s webcomic. Deadline broke the news. Lee...
Effie Brown Named CEO of Gamechanger, Plans to Make Fund More Inclusive
Gamechanger, the first film fund by and for women, has appointed veteran producer Effie Brown as its new CEO. According to IndieWire, the “Dear White People” producer will work to expand...
Gamechanger Films Announces Next Feature: Sarah Adina Smith’s ‘Buster’s Mal Heart’
Gamechanger Films, the studio devoted to women-directed narrative features, has announced its next project: Sarah Adina Smith’s “Buster’s Mal Heart.” The mystery will feature “Mr....
LFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Karyn Kusama — ‘The Invitation’
Karyn Kusama wrote and directed her first feature film, “Girlfight,” in 1999. The film won the Director’s Prize and shared the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. It went on...
‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Judy Greer’s summer of tiny, thankless roles, in which she plays characters designed to be instantly forgettable in “Tomorrowland,” “Entourage,”...
Jena Malone to Star in So Yong Kim’s Road-Trip Romance ‘Lovesong’
Hunger Games actress and indie darling Jena Malone will reunite with director So Yong Kim in Lovesong, a road-trip movie about the romance that develops between two best friends: Sarah (Malone), the...
‘Kelly & Cal’ Director Jen McGowan on Finding the Perfect Riot Grrrl and the Biggest Challenge for Indie Filmmakers
Delighted at being told sex is back inthe cards during her post-natal check-up, new mom Kelly (Juliette Lewis) hurries home to husbandJosh (Josh Hopkins) — but Josh doesn’t seem so keen on...
Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation is Gamechanger Films’ Next Project
Director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Aeon Flux, Jennifer’s Body) has just completed shooting The Invitation, the second project financed by Gamechanger Films. The thriller finds a man (Logan...
Land Ho! Director Martha Stephens on Her Raunchy Comedy About Two Old Men and Her Unlikely Muse
Land Ho! tells the story of two very different ex-brothers-in-law whotravel to Iceland for a holiday. It’s about life and regrets and coming toterms with the fact that you are getting older....
SXSW’s New Gamechanger Award to Help Fund Women-Directed Films
Men and women may enter film school at the same rate these days, but 90–95% of the directing jobs in Hollywood still go to male filmmakers. Gamechanger Films is one of the many players trying to...
Sundance Women Producers: Meet Mynette Louie
Producer Mynette Louie has worked on the films Children of Invention, Cold Comes the Night, and California Solo. Louie is also the current president of Gamechanger Films, which funds women-directed...
Gamechanger Films to Fund Women Directed Films
A new movie fund, Gamechanger Films, is set to fund women directed films only. It’s the first fund to specifically focus on women directors. Organizers of the fund have said that the idea for it...