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Interviews

Sarah Schenck on Exploring How to Harness the Power of Our Microbes in “The Invisible Extinction”

Sarah Schenck is a writer, director, and producer who is deeply passionate about using filmmaking to advance public health goals for diverse audiences. She makes shorts for nonprofit organizations...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Selena Gomez Opens Up About Mental Health in “My Mind & Me”

“Just be who you are,” Selena Gomez reminds herself in a new trailer for a doc offering a candid look inside her life and struggles with mental health. “No one cares about what...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, & Keke Palmer Expose the Beauty Industry’s Ugliness in “Not So Pretty”

The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmakers behind titles such “Allen v. Farrow,” “On the Record,” “The Hunting Ground,” and “The Invisible War” are...

"MIdwives," directed by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing

Interviews

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...

Features

Pick of the Day: “The Dilemma of Desire”

Described by director Maria Finitzo as “a film about power, and how power is easily taken when the truth is replaced with a lie,” “The Dilemma of Desire” puts the clitoris under a microscope...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: A Secret Romance Is Revealed in France’s Oscar Pick “Two of Us”

A decades-long love affair takes a tragic turn in “Two of Us,” France’s submission for Best International Film at next year’s Oscars. A new trailer for the drama introduces us...

Guest Posts

Guest Post: We Made a Movie During the Pandemic. Here’s How.

By Alexandra Boylan and Meredith Riley Stewart After two years, we were all systems go. The endless meetings, courting of investors, and flying from Los Angeles to Georgia for scouting trips had...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: A Health Crisis Forces Artist Prune Nourry to Look Inward in “Serendipity”

Multi-disciplinary artist Prune Nourry always loved anatomy, and gained an international following for her projects exploring bioethics. “I was working a lot about the body, but I think I lost...

Interviews

Hot Docs 2019 Women Directors: Meet Phyllis Ellis – “Toxic Beauty”

Phyllis Ellis is a creator, writer, director, producer, and performer in factual and scripted television and film. She was honored at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards with the prestigious Donald...

Books, News, Television

Elisabeth Moss to Star in and Produce TV Adaptation of Mary Beth Keane’s “Fever”

Elisabeth Moss is set to topline another TV adaptation of a novel. Deadline reports that the Golden Globe winner will star in and executive produce “Fever,” a limited series based on Mary Beth...

Books, Films, News, Trailers

Trailer Watch: Chloë Grace Moretz Deals with a Medical Mystery in “Brain on Fire”

Susannah Cahalan investigated her own terrifying medical mystery in the New York Times-bestselling memoir “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,” and now Chloë Grace Moretz is depicting the...

Festivals, Films, Interviews, News, Women Directors

DOC NYC 2016 Women Directors: Meet Suki Hawley — “All the Rage”

Filmmaker Suki Hawley recently directed and edited the documentary feature “Who Took Johnny,” which chronicles a mother’s tenacious fight to find out what happened to her son, Johnny Gosch,...

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