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Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Signe Baumane – “My Love Affair with Marriage”
Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 17 award-winning animated shorts but is best known for her first animated feature,...
Comfortable in Her Own Skin: VOD, Web Series, and Podcast Picks
The burden to live up to social expectations is omnipresent. As such, the struggle to be free of modern society’s demands — from unattainable body standards propagated through social...
Pick of the Day: “A Suitable Boy”
“A Suitable Boy” hit quite a few milestones on its way to Acorn TV. The miniseries adaptation of Vikram Seth’s bestseller is the first TV show Mira Nair has directed; it’s the...
Sonia Sebastián to Direct “The Virgin of Highland Park”
Sonia Sebastián has lined up her next feature. The Spanish filmmaker is set to direct “The Virgin of Highland Park,” Deadline reports. Penelope Ann Miller (“American Crime,”...
Hot Docs 2019 Women Directors: Meet Tülin Özdemir – “Red Moon”
Tülin Özdemir’s work asks the question, “Who is today’s modern woman?” The filmmaker made her first short documentary, “Our Wedding,” in 2008 and expanded on its...
Trailer Watch: Gemma Arterton Leaves Her Family Behind in “The Escape”
Gemma Arterton plays a stay-at-home mom pushed to the brink in “The Escape.” When Tara finds herself dealing with depression, she’s told it’s just “a phase” and her self-absorbed husband...
Trailer Watch: Blake Lively Regains Her Vision in “All I See Is You”
Blake Lively plays a woman who regains her vision and gets a new perspective on her relationship in “All I See Is You.” A trailer for the Marc Forster (“World War Z,” “Finding...
Trailer Watch: A Newly Single Woman Learns to Like Herself in “Year by the Sea”
“Men may want out,” Liz (S. Epatha Merkerson, “Law & Order”) tells her newly single friend Joan (Karen Allen, “Indiana Jones” franchise). “But I think they usually set it up so...
Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s “Love Is ___” Lands at OWN
Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil are joining forces with OWN. The wife-and-husband team are working on “Love Is ___,” a new hourlong series for Oprah Winfrey’s TV network, The Hollywood Reporter...
Trailer Watch: Lake Bell Explores Whether Love Is Sustainable in “I Do… Until I Don’t”
“My new project will propose that love is not sustainable,” a filmmaker (Dolly Wells, “Doll & Em”) tells an audience in the first trailer for “I Do… Until I Don’t.” “Will you...
Tribeca 2017 Women Directors: Meet Smriti Mundhra and Sarita Khurana— “A Suitable Girl”
Smriti Mundhra has been working in the film and television industry for over ten years. With partner Ben Rekhi, she produced “Bomb the System,” a 2004 Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best...
Trailer Watch: Sharon & Rob Duke it Out in “Catastrophe” Season 3
Last season of “Catastrophe” saw everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed couple in a pretty depressing state. Rob’s (Rob Delaney) workplace flirtation took a vicious turn and he ended up losing his...