#South By Southwest Film Conference And Festival (SXSW) 2

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SXSW Rerun: Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher

Originally published on April 9. A Teacher is in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today and is available on VOD. A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your...

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Inspirational Woman of the Day: Diana Nyad

There is no better way to start the fall off than with a dose of some serious inspiration.  Diana Nyad, on her fifth attempt (the first one was in 1978), accomplished a lifelong dream —...

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SXSW Rerun: Interview with Brie Larson – Star of Short Term 12

Originally published on March 26. Short Term 12 is in theaters today. Short Term 12 , written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was hands down one of my favorite films I saw at SXSW....

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Trailer Watch: Short Term 12 – Starring Brie Larson

Short Term 12, starring Brie Larson, is about Grace, a twentysomething, working at a foster care facility, alongside her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr.). Grace is excellent at her job but...

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SXSW Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher

A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your skin and refuses to let go. It’s the tightly drawn portrait of Diana (Lindsay Burdge), a young high school teacher who is...

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SXSW Interview with Sini Anderson, Tamra Davis and Kathleen Hanna of The Punk Singer

I can’t write about Sini Anderson’s great documentary The Punk Singer without mentioning that Kathleen Hanna has been one of my life-long heroes. When I was sixteen a friend gave me...

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SXSW Review: Women-Directed Shorts including Sequin Raze and Ellen Is Leaving

At SXSW I was able to catch some excellent short films. There were a bunch of great women-centric ones  including: Dotty a funny and touching look at an elderly woman struggling to send a...

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SXSW Interview with Brie Larson – Star of Short Term 12

Short Term 12, written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was hands down one of my favorite films I saw at SXSW. The film follows Grace (Brie Larson), a young staffer at a group home who...

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SXSW Announces Film Festival Winners

I’ve been here on the ground at SXSW for Women and Hollywood and have had the opportunity to see some incredible films, many of which I’m so pleased to say won awards. Destin Daniel...

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SXSW Watch: Improvement Club – Directed by Dayna Hanson

This year Women and Hollywood will be at SXSW. One of the films we are excited to catch is Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club which is competing in Narrative. Hanson wrote, directed and stars in...

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SXSW Adds More Women Directed Films to Schedule

SXSW has announced another round of films to their lineup, adding more films directed by women. They have also added many films written by women, such as Sundance favorite The East, co-written and...

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SXSW Line Up: Not Great for Women Directors

Fresh on the heels of Sundance is SXSW’s film line up. While there are some awesome women-directed films featured such as Sini Anderson's documentary, The Punk Singer, about Kathleen Hanna,...

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