#Liz Garbus
Liz Garbus to Direct Hulu Limited Series Led by Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo is bidding farewell to “Grey’s Anatomy” in less than a month and now she’s sto a new project. Deadline reports that she’ll lead the Untitled Orphan Project,...
Trailer Watch: “Harry & Meghan: Volume II” Exposes “Institutional Gaslighting”
“I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves, I was being fed to the wolves,” Meghan Markle explains in the trailer for “Harry & Meghan: Volume II,” the Liz Garbus-directed docuseries following...
Trailer Watch: Liz Garbus Takes Us Behind the Scenes with “Harry & Meghan”
“No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth,” says Prince Harry in a new trailer for “Harry & Meghan.” From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus, the Netflix...
Critics Choice Doc Award Nominees Include “Ascension,” “Becoming Cousteau,” & “The Rescue”
“Ascension” continues to ascend. Already the recipient of honors at Tribeca Film Festival and Hamptons International Film Festival, Jessica Kingdon’s exploration of the contemporary...
“True Things,” “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” & “Becoming Cousteau” Among BFI London Film Fest Winners
Harry Wootliff landed “one of the biggest financial prizes in the UK independent film industry” at the BFI London Film Festival. The “True Things” helmer won the £50,000...
Anthony Fauci Doc on the Way from Co-Director Janet Tobias, EP Liz Garbus, and National Geographic
Dr. Anthony Fauci, aka the person who helped America navigate the apocalyptic intersection of COVID-19 and Trump, is getting his own documentary. National Geographic Documentary Films announced the...
Trailer Watch: Stacey Abrams Stands Up for Voting Rights in “All In: The Fight for Democracy”
“If the power of the right to vote was truly made available to everyone in America, it would change the future of this nation,” Stacey Abrams says in the trailer for “All In: The...
Liz Garbus & Lisa Cortés’ Voter Suppression Doc “All In: The Fight for Democracy” Gets Release Date
Today in much-needed good news: Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a documentary investigating voter suppression in the United States, will be released...
Pick of the Day: “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”
True crime’s got a bad reputation for exploiting victims, and rightfully so. The genre has made a habit of dehumanizing those affected by violent crime in its glamorization of rapists and...
Voting Rights Doc from Stacey Abrams, Liz Garbus, and Lisa Cortés Acquired by Amazon Studios
Worldwide rights to an untitled voting rights documentary from Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés have been acquired by Amazon Studios. A press release announced the news. Prominently featuring insights...
Trailer Watch: Michelle McNamara Investigates the Golden State Killer in “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”
“The story of the victims — it has to be told,” says Michelle McNamara in a new trailer for “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.” The HBO docuseries is based on the late author’s 2018...
Penny Lane to Direct Quibi Docuseries “What We Keep,” Cynthia Erivo Exec Producing
Cynthia Erivo and Penny Lane are making their way to Quibi. According to a press release, the latter is directing “What We Keep,” a docuseries about people’s most prized...
Teaser Watch: Michelle McNamara Hunts the Golden State Killer in “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”
“What drives me is the need to put a face on an unknown killer,” says Michelle McNamara in a new teaser for “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.” The upcoming HBO docuseries is...
Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Liz Garbus – “Lost Girls”
Liz Garbus is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker whose film “What Happened, Miss Simone?” opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, received a Peabody Award, and was nominated for an...
Trailer Watch: Amy Ryan Leads the Search for Her Missing Daughter in Liz Garbus’ “Lost Girls”
A trailer has arrived for Liz Garbus’ first narrative feature. “Lost Girls” is inspired by true events and sees the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker telling the story of a...
Liz Garbus to Receive San Francisco Jewish Film Fest’s Freedom of Expression Award
The Jewish Film Institute (JFI) will present Liz Garbus with the 2018 Freedom of Expression Award. The Academy Award-nominated documentarian is set to accept the prize at the 38th San Francisco...
Liz Garbus on Her Mother Son Doc ‘Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper’
Liz Garbus’ films have been acclaimed worldwide and have garnered multiple Academy Award nominations and Emmy Award wins. Her previous film, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” was the Opening Night...
Listen: Women & Hollywood Podcast #22: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ Director Liz Garbus
Liz Garbus’s “What Happened, Miss Simone?” is the sole woman-helmed documentary in the running for this year’s Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards. The Netflix doc, which features...
Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Liz Garbus – ‘Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper’
Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus is one of the most celebrated American documentary filmmakers working today. Her films have been acclaimed worldwide and have garnered multiple Academy...
2016 Oscar Noms Announced; ‘Brooklyn,’ ‘Room,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ to Compete For Best Picture
2016 won’t go down as the most homogeneous (i.e., exclusionary) year in recent Oscar history. Three female-centric films ("Brooklyn," "Room" and...
Sundance Announces Its 2016 Premieres
Sundance has revealed the lineups for its narrative and nonfiction Premieres sections. Seventeen narrative films will be making their world premieres at Sundance next year. Only three (or 18% of the...
IDA Documentary Awards Nominations Announced; Liz Garbus Up for Best Feature Award
The nominations for the 31st IDA Documentary Awards have been revealed, and disappointingly, only one of the six docs competing for the Best Feature Award is helmed by a woman: Liz Garbus’s...
Female Teenage BFF Inmates From Liz Garbus’ Doc ‘Girlhood’ to Get Movie Treatment
A narrative feature based on the two subjects of Liz Garbus’ 2003 documentary “Girlhood,” young female inmates Shanae Watkins and Megan Stahl, is in the works. The project, titled “Hood...
“There Aren’t Any Civil Rights”: The Sad, Topical “What Happened, Miss Simone?”
Watch: Sundance’s Inspiring ‘She is a Best Director’ Celebrates Women
A new video released by the Sundance Film Festival makes a powerful case for the importance of female voices in film and television, including inspiring bits of wisdom from women spanning...
Watch: First Clip from Liz Garbus’ Nina Simone Documentary
Interview with Liz Garbus – Director of Love, Marilyn
Liz Garbus takes a well worn subject — Marilyn Monroe — and brings a whole new substance and understanding to this woman through her own words. Using material that has never before...
2012 Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Women Directors
The Houston Cinema Arts Society recently announced their lineup for the 2012 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. This year in honor of the 40th anniversary of Women Make Movies, the festival is...
More Women-Directed Films Nab Deals Out of TIFF
While the whirlwind of the Toronto International Film Festival is now behind us, the deals from TIFF are continuing. Over the weekend, many women-created, women-focused films were picked up by major...
Link Roundup: TIFF Edition
Here are some stories out of TIFF that we didn’t get the chance to report on or things we liked from there. We are going to have a lot more content from Toronto over the the next couple weeks...
TIFF Preview: The Female Directing Masters Playing at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival
The Toronto Film Festival opens tonight. Over the next 10 days there will be a couple of hundred movies to be seen. This is one festival where you can make a decision to see films by women and see...
First Toronto 2012 Lineup News — Women Directors
Unlike the folks at Cannes, Toronto seems to understand that there are many great women directors, making films that can play at the highest level and this year is no different. The first wave of...