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Trailers

Trailer Watch: Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon Are Journalists Investigating the “Boston Strangler”

“How many women have to die before it’s a story?” Keira Knightley asks in a new trailer for “Boston Strangler.” Inspired by a true story, the thriller sees the two-time...

Interviews

Sundance 2023 Women Directors: Meet Rebecca Landsberry-Baker – “Bad Press”

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, Ford Foundation JustFilms grantee, and a 2022 NBC Original Voices Fellow. She is a 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature...

Television

Sam Bee & Soledad O’Brien Have Comedic Docuseries About Women’s Healthcare Crisis in the Works

If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. That seems to be Samantha Bee and Soledad O’Brien’s take on the dumpster fire that is U.S. women’s healthcare. Bee and O’Brien are...

Festivals

Journalist Emily Maitlis to Deliver James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh TV Fest

Emily Maitlis, the journalist who made headlines for questioning Prince Andrew about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein in a jaw-dropping “Newsnight” interview, has been tapped to deliver...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Carey Mulligan & Zoe Kazan Portray the Journalists Who Brought Down Weinstein in “She Said”

The trailer for a movie we’ve been looking forward to for nearly three years is finally here: “She Said” tells the story of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan...

Interviews

Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady – “Endangered”

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady are the directors of the Academy Award-nominated “Jesus Camp,” Peabody Award winners “The Boys of Baraka” and “12th & Delaware,”...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing Fight for Freedom of the Press in “Endangered”

“As journalists, we can’t let the truth down. We are moderators of fact,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Endangered.” From directors Rachel Grady and Heidi...

News

Trailer Watch: Erin Lee Carr Revisits the Submarine Murder in “Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall”

Erin Lee Carr is peeling back the layers of yet another jaw-dropping crime. With credits such as “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “I Love You, Now Die: The...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Julia Garner Gets Caught “Inventing Anna” in Shonda Rhimes’ New Netflix Show

“Her name is Anna Delvey, or Anna Sorokin — no one’s sure,” a journalist says in the trailer for “Inventing Anna.” “She’s either a rich German heiress...

Television

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi Teaming Up with “Killing Eve’s” Gina Mingacci for D.C. Satire at AMC

Olivia Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, will attempt to lampoon the already-bonkers world of American politics for television. Deadline reports the journalist and...

Features

Pick of the Day: “Writing with Fire”

“I believe that journalism is the essence of democracy,” announces Meera Devi, the central protagonist of Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s “Writing with Fire.” Devi is...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Léa Seydoux Is a Superstar Journalist in “France”

Léa Seydoux is following up her supporting roles in “No Time to Die” and “The French Dispatch” by taking the lead in “France,” a dark comedy that sees her playing...

Films

Keira Knightley to Portray Loretta McLaughlin, Journalist Who Broke the “Boston Strangler” Story

Keira Knightley is set to portray yet another influential writer. Two of her most recent offerings, 2018’s “Colette” and 2020’s “Misbehaviour,” saw her playing...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Sundance Winner “Writing with Fire” Spotlights an Indian Newspaper Run by Women

“In our region a Dalit woman journalist was unimaginable. Over the last 14 years, we’ve changed that perception,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Writing with...

Interviews

Tribeca 2021 Women Directors: Meet Heather O’Neill – “No Ordinary Life”

Heather O’Neill is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She produced “Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi,” which screened at the Hot Docs International Film Festival...

Interviews

Sundance 2021 Women Directors: Meet Rintu Thomas – “Writing with Fire”

Rintu Thomas is an independent documentary director-producer based in New Delhi, India. She is a 2018 Sundance Institute, Bertha Foundation Fellow, and a 2019 Sundance Stories of Change Fellow. A...

Films

Taffy Brodesser-Akner to Pen Adaptation of GQ Article “The Orthodox Hit Squad” for Sister

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s next screen project will take on Rabbi Mendel Epstein and the radical methods he employed to help ultra-orthodox Jewish women seeking divorces. The “Fleishman Is...

News

Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “A Thousand Cuts'” Ramona S. Diaz and Maria Ressa

Ramona S. Diaz and Maria Ressa, the respective writer-director-producer and subject of the new documentary “A Thousand Cuts,” will sit down with the Girls Club this Thursday, August 13,...

Features

Pick of the Day: “A Thousand Cuts”

“A Thousand Cuts” is a powerful portrait of an indomitable journalist and an impassioned call to arms. Described by director Ramona S. Diaz as a film about “the erosion of democracy,...

News

Doc About Women Journalists Covering 2020 Primaries Coming to HBO Max

HBO Max and CNN Films will introduce viewers to some of the journalists behind the 2020 primary elections. A press release announced that “On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries” will...

Films

Nicole Kassell to Direct “Silver Seas,” Story of Women Reporters Exposing Slavery in Fishing Industry

Nicole Kassell is following up her DGA Award-winning “Watchmen” gig with a feature film about real-life heroes. Screen Daily confirms she is directing “Silver Seas,” the story...

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News

Oprah Winfrey and Nikole Hannah-Jones Bringing “The 1619 Project” to Film and TV

The “1619 Project” is getting an adaptation — several of them, in fact. Nikole Hannah-Jones’ groundbreaking New York Times magazine issue, which considers American history via...

Interviews

Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Diana Neille – “Influence”

Diana Neille is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. Neille co-founded two media startups with the intention of fostering long-form investigative storytelling...

Festivals

Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, & More Will Earmark Portion of Press Credentials for Time’s Up Critical

Several fests including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF, and Athena Film Festival will ensure more women, people of color, and other marginalized communities receive press credentials. According to...

Films

Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady Team Up with Ronan Farrow for HBO Doc About Threats Against Journalists

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady will examine the threats, intimidation, and violence used to silence journalists with Ronan Farrow for their next project. Deadline confirms...

Films

Susanna Fogel’s Next Film Will Take on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election

Susanna Fogel will follow up “The Spy Who Dumped Me” with another outrageous tale of espionage, geopolitics, and women caught up in messes created by powerful, ridiculous men — only...

News

Rotten Tomatoes Added Over 600 Critics in Past Year, 55% Are Women

Last summer Rotten Tomatoes overhauled its critics criteria in an effort to be more inclusive, and added more than 200 writers to its ranks. It seems that forward momentum has not slowed down over...

News

Patricia Heaton to Produce Project Based on Julie K. Brown’s Jeffery Epstein Articles

As we previously reported, Lifetime is following up their four-part series “Surviving R. Kelly” with an in-depth look at Jeffery Epstein directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern. Now,...

Television

Kristina Lauren Anderson Will Adapt Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity” for TV

Eliza Griswold’s exposé on fracking’s devastating effects on the community of Amity, Pennsylvania is coming to television. According to Deadline, Film 44 is producing a limited series based...

Research

New Study From 5050×2020 Finds Significant Gender Gap in French Film Criticism

It’s been a year since 5050×2020 introduced the Gender Parity Pledge at Cannes, but the equality collective’s work is far from over. Since Cannes 2018, 5050×2020 has...

News

For the First Time in History, Women Are Running All Three Network Morning Shows

Yesterday Diana Miller was promoted to executive producer of “CBS This Morning,” succeeding Ryan Kadro, who stepped down three months ago. But Miller’s new position is much more...

Guest Posts

Guest Post: The Enduring Legacy of Joan Micklin Silver’s “Between the Lines”

Guest Post by Maya Montañez Smukler Joan Micklin Silver’s 1977 film “Between the Lines” captures a precious moment when 1960s social idealism struggled against 1970s careerist...

Festivals

Sundance Unveils New Inclusion and Transparency Efforts Ahead of 2019 Fest

The Sundance Film Festival has received more than 14,200 submissions for its upcoming 2019 edition — a record high. According to a press release, the fest is ramping up its inclusion and...

News

Apply Now: New York Film Festival’s Critics Academy

If you’re hoping to break into the film criticism field, this workshop is for you. The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and Film Comment magazine are now accepting applications for the...

Research

Study: Male Film Reviewers Outnumber Females Two to One

Last month a headline-making study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative revealed just how overrepresented white male film critics were among the reviews of 2017’s top movies. (Spoiler...

Films

Margot Robbie to Produce Female Firefighters Pic Based on NYT Article

Margot Robbie has lined up yet another producing project. The “I, Tonya” actress will produce “Firefighters,” a film about the real-life female inmates who took on California...

News

Meryl Streep to Star in Panama Papers Drama “The Laundromat”

Meryl Streep will continue to fight for the truth in her next film. Coming off her Oscar-nominated role in Pentagon Papers drama “The Post,” Streep has signed on for a thriller about...

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