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If you loved Jill Soloway’s forays into academia on “Transparent” (including her on-screen stint as an over-the-top women’s studies lecturer in Season 1), you’re in luck: the...
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WhenI started writing Women and Hollywood almost eight years ago, the two thingsthat shaped my feminist consciousness were Molly Haskell’s “From Reverence to Rape: TheTreatment of Women in the...
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Jeremy Podeswa, Daniel Sackheim, Jack Bender, Mark Mylod and Miguel Sapochnik have been announced as the directors of “Game of Thrones” Season 6, with each helming two episodes each next year....
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Amazon Studios is smartly deciding to do more business with its best creative mind. The up-and-comer in the original-programming arena has signed off on a third season of “Transparent,” as well...
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“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway delivered a powerful keynote address to outgoing and incoming students of the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women, calling for nothing short of a...
“Transparent” creator and “Afternoon Delight” writer-director Jill Soloway will deliver the keynote address at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) Showcase on May 14. Soloway will...
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Actresses Nicole Kidman and Kate Mara, writer-directors Ava DuVernay and Jill Soloway, Warner Bros. marketing chief Sue Kroll, and ICM partner Toni Howard have been named the honorees of this...
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Television once again proved that it’s a female-friendlier medium than film via the 2015 DGA Awards, where women directors took home the three major small-screen categories. Lesli Linka Glatter...
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Jill Soloway is developing a new series for MTV. The Transparent creator is collaborating with UCB alumna Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman on creating an untitled “feminist comedy.” The...
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler set the theme for the 2015 Golden Globes in more ways than one last night. Perhaps it was Fey or Poehler’s gender-conscious jokes the two years before — or maybe it...
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We often talk about the need for diversity in Hollywood, but we rarely talk about how to do it. This leaves us with the clumsy approach in practice today, as writer Beejoli Shah discovered last...
Director Jill Soloway gave a wonderfully insightful interview to Flavorwire yesterday about the crude double standards at work at the MPAA. Soloway directed this year’s Afternoon Delight, a story...
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Jill Soloway about her film Afternoon Delight, which she wrote and directed. Afternoon Delight opens in theaters on August 30th. Women...
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Entering into the late twenties–one becomes increasingly accustomed to seeing life’s so-called major plot points swelling around them–high school reunions, careers,...
It’s been a depressing summer for women at the box office but things are looking up…heading into August, there are a several great women centric, directed and written films to look...
Jill Soloway’s directorial debut, Afternoon Delight, was a big hit out of Sundance with great reviews and winning the Dramatic Directing Award. The film follows Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) a...
After winning the U.S. Dramatic Directing award for her film Afternoon Delight, Jill Soloway’s Sundance film has finally got picked up by Film Arcade and Cinedigm. In a statement, The Film...
Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight, premiered the other day at Sundance. The film centers around a thirtysomething couple (the hilarious Kathryn Hahn and Josh Radnor) living in the Los Angeles...
I am heading to Sundance for the first time. I am looking forward to seeing a bunch of women directed movies over the next couple of days. There are also several women's events...
The happy glow has still not worn off the news that women directors have achieved gender parity in the US dramatic and documentary competitions. (But we must also remember that women are still...
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