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Newcomer Rebecca Thomas to Direct Adaptation of John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’
It’s not often that a fledgling female filmmaker is given the reins to even a mid-budget studio pic, so news that up-and-comer Rebecca Thomas will helm “The Fault in Our Stars” author John...
Sarah Polley, Amy Pascal to Team Up for ‘Little Women’ Remake
“Little Women” is headed back to theaters, this time with a script from Sarah Polley and the producing might of Amy Pascal. Two decades after director Gillian Armstrong’s retelling of Louisa...
Sarah Polley to Direct John Green’s Looking for Alaska
Now that The Fault in Our Stars has grossed $166 million on a $12 million production budget — thanks to the irrationally underestimated loyalty of fangirls — Hollywood is looking to...
Sarah Polley, Nicole Holofcener, Sandra Bullock Big Winners of AWFJ Awards
We previously wrote about the Alliance of Women Film Journalist (AWFJ) nominations, about which the big takeaway was that “female critics have more or less the same tastes as their male...
IDA Documentary Awards Announces 2013 Nominations
IDA has announced their 2013 Documentary Awards nominations. Among them are some of the most talked about female directed documentaries of the year including Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish,...
Cross Post: Heroines of Cinema: The 10 Most Exciting Young Female Directors in the World Today
This week, the British Film Institute released statistics revealing that a mere 14 feature films were directed by women in the UK last year, compared to 164 by men....
The Academy Sends Out 276 Invites
Last week, the Academy sent out 276 new invitations to join its ranks, the highest amount in recent years. (178 were invited in 2011; 135 in 2010; 134 in 2009; and 105 in 2008.) What you...
Trailer Watch: Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley
Actress and now very talented director, Sarah Polley has a new documentary that premiered last fall in Toronto. Stories We Tell received a good deal of critical praise as it made its way around...
Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta, Nisha Pahuja Named to the Top 10 Films of Canada
Canada’s 12th Annual Top 10 Film list was announced this week. Films by Sarah Polley, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja were included on the list. TIFF will screen the films in Toronto from...
TIFF Review: The Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley’s Effective New Documentary
Toronto loves Sarah Polley. The display of that love was evident last week at the premiere of her first documentary Stories We Tell which held its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film...
Roadside Attractions Picks up Stories We Tell and Imogene
Roadside Attractions has been on a buying binge here in Toronto and has picked up two women directed and written films from TIFF. The first is Sarah Polley’s documentary, Stories We Tell, which...
Cross Post: La Femme Telluride
William Blake once wrote that exuberance is beauty. Despite the success of Ben Affleck’s Argo here, this fest seems to be driven by women filmmakers. This is most surprising, since we just came...
TIFF Trailer Watch: The Stories We Tell Written and Directed by Sarah Polley
This first documentary by the incredibly talented Sarah Polley is getting great reviews out of Venice and Telluride.
Trailer Watch: Sarah Polley Directs a Documentary — Stories We Tell
This is a busy year for Sarah Polley. Her film Take This Waltz is now in release in the US and now she has a documentary premiering at Venice and Toronto. Here’s the opaque description from the...
Guest Post: Take This Waltz and Female-Centric Love Triangles
On the heels of Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister comes another indie dramedy about a love triangle, writer-director Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz. Waltz is Polley’s follow-up to her...
Trailer Watch: Take The Waltz — Co-written and Directed by Sarah Polley
This is the sophomore effort from Sarah Polley after the fantabulous Away From Her.