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Writer to Watch: “Derry Girls” Creator Lisa McGee
Derry-born stage and screenwriter Lisa McGee never originally set out to write about the late 20th century period of conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Yet when...
Sundance 2018 Women Directors: Meet Crystal Moselle — “Skate Kitchen”
Crystal Moselle is best known for her Sundance Grand Jury Prize award-winning documentary “The Wolfpack.” She served as producer on “Excavating Taylor Mead,” and in the last decade she has...
Sundance 2018 Women Directors: Meet Augustine Frizzell — “Never Goin’ Back”
Augustine Frizzell is the director of “I Was A Teenage Girl” and “Minor Setback,” both of which premiered at SXSW and screened at many other festivals worldwide. “Never Goin’ Back” is...
TIFF 2017 Women Directors: Meet Ingrid Veninger — “Porcupine Lake”
Ingrid Veninger is a writer, producer, and director whose work has premiered at numerous festivals around the world. Previous feature films include “He Hated Pigeons,” “I am a Good Person/I am...
Venice Trailer Watch: A Radical “Team Hurricane” Will Hit Critics’ Week
The trailer for Danish filmmaker Annika Berg’s directorial debut, “Team Hurricane,” begins with one seemingly overwhelming mantra: “Don’t be so hard on yourself.” This idea is...
Trailer Watch: “The Edge of Seventeen” Captures How Impostor Syndrome Feels
Do you remember growing up? A lot of it sucked, right? Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig’s film “The Edge of Seventeen” captures that feeling of thinking that everyone around you has it all...
A Problematic TV Trend This Fall: Pregnant and Engaged Teenagers
By any measure, this hasn’t been an encouraging fall network television season. The dramas are soggy, the jokes in many of the comedies aren’t landing — or worse, they’re racism trying...