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Sheryl Lee Ralph, Gina Prince-Bythewood, & Danielle Deadwyler Among Essence Black Women in Hollywood Honorees
As the shameful all-white BAFTA winners list continues to make waves, Essence is spotlighting women of color “making their undeniable mark in film and television and forging forward their own...
Book Excerpt: The Future of Feminist Film
The following is excerpted from Sophie Mayer’s “Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema,” published in December 2015. Just over a year ago, the 2014 European Film Awards might have thought...
Gina Prince-Bythewood & Sanna Lathan’s Police-Shooting Drama ‘Shots Fired’ Picked Up to Series
“Shots Fired,” the racially flipped police-shooting drama that’ll reunite “Love and Basketball” writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood and actress Sanaa Lathan, has been picked up to series....
Gina Prince-Bythewood Developing Racially Flipped Police-Shooting Drama for Fox
Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood is re-teaming with her “Love and Basketball” star Sanaa Lathan on a Fox drama about a black cop who kills a white teen. Lathan will play an investigator...
Quote of the Day: Gina Prince-Bythewood Supports ACLU Action, Declares “Talent Has No Gender”
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Beyond the Lights,” “The Secret Life of Bees”) has released a statement voicing her support of the ACLU’s request for the government to investigate sexist...
SXSW Lineup Announced: 5 of 20 Films in Competition Directed By Women; DuVernay To Give Keynote
Few of South by Southwest 2015’s highest-profile films will be directed by women. The Austin festival, which will take place on March 13–21, will showcase only two narrative features in...
Spotlight on Women of Color in 2014
Women and Hollywood’s end-of-year coverage includes our “Best Women-Directed Documentaries of 2014 (That We Managed to See),” “Best Women-Directed Films of 2014,” “Best Films About Women...
Athena Film Festival to Honor Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sheila Nevins, and Cathy Schulman
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood, HBO documentary president Sheila Nevins, and Oscar-winning producer and Women in Film president Cathy Shulman will be feted at the 2015 Athena Film Festival for their...
‘Beyond the Lights’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood on Being Inspired by Alicia Keyes and the Search for Her Birth Mother
Given the central role that overt sexuality plays in female pop and hip-hop stardom, I’m sure we’ve all wondered what the performers are thinking as they parade down the red carpet, on stage, or...
Trailer Watch: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a Troubled Pop Star in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights
After starring in Amma Asante’s Austenesque romance Belle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw will next be seen as a troubled pop star in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights. At the Los Angeles Film...
Only One Female Filmmaker Invited to Join the Academy as a Director; Only 28% of Invitees Are Women
Only 75 74 of the 271 invitees announced yesterday to join the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences were women. That constitutes a paltry 27% of invitees. It’s not just the numbers that paint a...
Two African American Female Directors Book New Films
I was excited to report that one African American female director got a new gig, but two puts me close to over the moon. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Gina Price-Bythewood who directed Love...