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Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning Plays Michelle Carter in True Crime Drama “The Girl from Plainville”
Elle Fanning will reprise her role as Russia’s longest-ruling female leader in the upcoming third season of “The Great,” but first she’ll tell a much more timely, tech-heavy...
Jazmin Jones Directing “Seeking Mavis Beacon” Doc, Neon Signs on as Producer
Since the ’80s, Mavis Beacon has helped millions of people learn how to type. She is one of the most prominent Black women in technology. But she isn’t real — or at least the woman...
Trailer Watch: Laura Poitras Explores the Impact of Cyberweapons in “Terror Contagion”
“Surveillance is not only a breach of privacy, but it is violence — it does things to you,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Terror Contagion.” Described as...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Shalini Kantayya – “TikTok, Boom.”
Shalini Kantayya is a filmmaker whose film “Coded Bias” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix. The film won a Social Impact Media Award for Best...
Trailer Watch: Zoë Kravitz Investigates a Murder in “Kimi”
Looks like we won’t have to wait for “The Batman” to see Zoë Kravitz playing a badass vigilante. A new trailer for “Kimi” sees the “Big Little Lies” star...
Bullying & Harassment Reporting App Launches in U.K. Film Industry with Plans to Expand to Hollywood
It just got a little bit easier to call out toxic work environments — and for workplace harassers and bullies to be held accountable — across the pond. A new anonymous reporting app,...
Pick of the Day: “I’m Your Man”
A researcher finds herself serving as an unenthusiastic participant in someone else’s study in “I’m Your Man.” A sci-fi rom-com from Emmy-winning “Unorthodox”...
Rachel Winter Talks “The Space Between,” a Coming-of-Age Dramedy and Love Letter to Music
Rachel Winter is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and producer who is making her feature directorial debut with “The Space Between.” She received an Oscar nomination for producing...
Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Ann Shin – “A.rtificial I.mmortality”
Ann Shin is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her debut novel, “The Last Exiles,” was published earlier this year by Harper Collins. The book is partly based on her experience...
Sundance 2021 Women Directors: Meet Natalia Almada – “Users”
Natalia Almada is the recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Award. Her directing credits include “Al Otro Lado” (2005 Tribeca Film Festival), “El General” (2009 Sundance Film...
SWAN Introduces First Swiss Digital Directory of Women Working in Audiovisual Sector
The Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network (SWAN) will launch a history-making platform on Monday, January 25. The org is set to unveil the first Swiss digital directory of women in the audiovisual...
Teaser Watch: “The Lady and the Dale” Charts the Rise & Fall of Trans Entrepreneur Elizabeth Carmichael
“I don’t want to sound like an egomaniac, but I’m a genius,” says Elizabeth Carmichael in a new trailer for “The Lady and the Dale.” The four-part HBO docuseries...
Pick of the Day: “Coded Bias”
With “Coded Bias,” Shalini Kantayya wanted to explore “the dark underbelly of big tech.” She was following the lead of Joy Buolamwini, an MIT media lab researcher who...
DOC NYC 2020 Women Directors: Meet Abigail Child – “Origin of the Species”
Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than 50 film/video works and installations, and written six books. Her most recent...
Future and Fantasy: VOD and Web Series Picks
Women filmmakers are redefining what intimacy and relationships may look like in the future — not through making tired critiques of dating apps, but rather by offering expansive interpretations...
Human Rights Watch Film Fest 2020 Women Directors: Meet Shalini Kantayya – “Coded Bias”
Shalini Kantayya directed the season finale episode for the National Geographic television series “Breakthrough,” a series profiling trailblazing scientists transforming the future. Her debut...
Geena Davis Institute, Universal, and USC Partner for Tool to Boost Latinx Representation
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, alongside Universal Entertainment Group and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is expanding upon its Spellcheck for Bias software. The organizations...
Navigating an Ever-Changing World: VOD and Web Series Picks
Whether we like it or not, technology has changed the world we live in. Our communication has gotten faster, but maybe less personal. And the ways we understand ourselves and the people around us...
Apply for a Free Ticket to Join the W&H Community at the 2019 Power Women Summit
Women and Hollywood is proud to be on the Advisory Board for TheWrap’s 2019 Power Women Summit, which will be held on October 24 and 25 in Los Angeles. The summit will be the largest gathering of...
Trailer Watch: “The Great Hack” Investigates How Data Is Being Weaponized
“Data rights should be considered fundamental rights,” says one of the characters in “The Great Hack.” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer’s documentary explores the world of...
Kate McKinnon Will Play Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu Limited Series
The story of Elizabeth Holmes and the $9 billion hoax known as her company Theranos is coming to Hulu. Emmy winner Kate McKinnon is set to portray Holmes in a limited series based on ABC News/ABC...
Hammer Museum Hosting Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Focused on Women in Film
UCLA’s Hammer Museum is working to reform Wikipedia’s gender gap. This Sunday, March 10, it is hosting an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon focused on women’s achievements in...
New App Lets Users Rate a Film Based on Its Feminism (or Lack Thereof)
Do you think movies should be evaluated by their portrayal of women? What about their depictions of race or class? Whether they are intersectional? Well, now there’s an app for that. World...
Trailer Watch: HBO Doc “The Inventor” Exposes Elizabeth Holmes’ Fake Medical Revolution
Elizabeth Holmes’ dream is that “less people have to say goodbye too soon to people they love.” She reveals this aspiration in the new trailer for “The Inventor: Out for Blood...
Hope, Solidarity, and Support at TheWrap’s Power Women Summit
No matter the results of today’s election, I have a good feeling about the future of feminism and inclusion thanks to TheWrap’s inaugural Power Women Summit. Held November 1 and 2, the...
Apply for a Free Ticket to Join the Women & Hollywood Community at TheWrap’s Power Women Summit
Women and Hollywood is proud to be on the steering committee for TheWrap’s Power Women Summit, which will be held on November 1 and 2 in Los Angeles. The summit will be the largest gathering of...
Both Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellowships Go to Women Writer-Directors
Erica Liu and So Young Shelly Yo are the 2018 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellows. SFFILM, a Bay Area-based org championing films and filmmakers, announced the news in a press...
IMDbPro’s New App Includes Tap-to-Call WIF Sexual Harassment Hotline Feature
IMDbPro, the movie and TV database’s subscription platform, will make it easier for its members to report sexual harassment or seek other kinds of help. Variety reports the new IMDbPro app...
Trailer Watch: A Hacker Brings Anarchy to Salem in “Assassination Nation”
Eighteen-year-old Lily (Odessa Young, “High Life”) is here to tell a story about how her town “lost its mind.” A new trailer has dropped for “Assassination...
Guest Post: Is Blockchain a Fad or Will It Turn the Entertainment Industry on Its Head?
Guest Post by Heidi Philipsen Picture it: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall semester in 1991. I was an omnipotent-feeling Gen X undergraduate student more interested in my independent...
Equity’s Safe Space Program and Start-Up Callisto Fight Sexual Harassment in Theater
Trade union Equity has introduced a new campaign to fight sexual harassment in the theater industry. Per The Stage, Equity unveiled Safe Space with the help of singer-actress Billie Piper, who is...
#OscarsSoWhite Creator April Reign’s New Database Helps POC Find Work in the Biz
In 2015 April Reign spearheaded the #OscarsSoWhite movement to call out the Academy Awards’ lack of inclusivity among its acting nominees. The hashtag gained even more momentum in 2016, when the...
Anita Hill-Led Commission on Sexual Harassment Considering Tech to ID Abusers
The Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equity in the Workplace might be adopting a technology system to identify sexual predators in the entertainment business. According to...
Elizabeth Banks to Produce Adaptation of Tech Novel “Uncanny Valley”
Multi-hyphenate Elizabeth Banks is adding yet another project to her docket. The actor-producer-director has signed on to produce a film adaptation of “Uncanny Valley” for Universal Pictures,...
Diane Kruger to Topline and Produce Miniseries About Hedy Lamarr
Coming off of the North American premiere of her upcoming drama “In the Fade” at TIFF, Diane Kruger has just signed on to topline another project. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the “Inglourious...
Trailer Watch: Emma Watson Steps Outside of “The Circle”
A trailer has landed for “The Circle,” an upcoming sci-fi film led by Emma Watson. The former “Harry Potter” franchise star plays Mae, a young woman who gets hired for a job at The Circle, a...
New Tool Can Count Female Characters Onscreen
You’ve probably noticed that TV series and films feature a disproportionate number of male characters. The dearth of women onscreen has been proven by study after study. Those studies, and the...