#Military
Trailer Watch: “Father Soldier Son” Offers an Intimate Look at the Effects of Military Service
Ten years in the making, “Father Soldier Son” explores the long-term effects of military service on one American family. The Netflix documentary follows Brian Eisch, a former platoon...
Trailer Watch: Melanie Lynskey Raises an Ornery Teenage Daughter in “Sadie”
“I wrote a paper for class where I tried to imagine my life as a soldier with you,” teenager Sadie (Sophia Mitri Schloss) writes in the most recent letter to her deployed father....
Trailer Watch: A Female Sergeant Comes Home and Faces PTSD in “Blood Stripe”
The trailer for “Blood Stripe” plays out much like the film’s main protagonist: quietly. Viewers are guided not by dialogue, but rather by action and accompanying music. Our protagonist cannot...
“Finding Dory” Co-Writer Victoria Strouse to Adapt Book About Female Aviators
Victoria Strouse is shifting her focus from under the sea to the skies above. The “Finding Dory” co-writer has been hired by Fox 2000 to adapt Katherine Sharp Landdeck’s upcoming nonfiction...
Lysa Heslov’s Female Veteran Doc “Served Like a Girl” Finds a Home
If you’re interested in seeing a film about facing adversity and coming out stronger on the other side— and who isn’t right now? — you’re in luck. According to Deadline, Entertainment...
Trailer Watch: Female Vets Confront the Aftermath of War in “After Fire”
A trailer has landed for “After Fire,” Brittany Huckabee’s new documentary examining the fastest-growing group of American veterans: women. “In the military, the focus is the mission,”...
LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Delphine and Muriel Coulin— “The Stopover”
Sisters and directing-duo Delphine and Muriel Coulin made their feature film debut in 2011 with “17 Girls.” The film, which is based on the true story of a group of American teenage girls who...
Trailer Watch: Michelle Monaghan Returns Home After Afghanistan in Fort Bliss
Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Source Code) takes on the leading writer-director Claudia Myers’ Fort Bliss, a career-versus-family drama about an Army medic who prefers the landmine-ridden...
SXSW Women Directors: Meet Sandrine Orabona
Sandrine Orabona has worked professionally for over two decades as a director, producer, editor and shooter to enhance her storytelling skills in the non-fiction genre. She is the co-director of the...