#Tribeca 2015
Meryl Streep Launches Fund for Women Screenwriters Over 40
One of the highlights of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is the announcement of a new program funded by Meryl Streep to provide support and development opportunities for women screenwriters over...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Vanessa Hope — “All Eyes and Ears”
Vanessa Hope started her film career in China while teaching a graduate course at People’s University. Fluent in Chinese, she’s produced multiple films in China, with civil rights as a common...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Lisa Immordino Vreeland — ‘Peggy Guggenheim — Art Addict’
Long immersed in the world of fashion, Italian director Lisa Immordino Vreeland adapted her book “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” into her first documentary. It won the Silver Hugo at the...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Natalia Leite — ‘Bare’
Natalia Leite is from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since moving to New York, she has directed music videos, documentaries and short films. She is a recipient of the Kodak Grant Award, a Sundance Screenwriters...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Leslye Headland — ‘Sleeping with Other People’
Leslye Headland started her writing career in theater, with such plays as “Bachelorette” (Second Stage), “Assistance” (Playwrights Horizons), and the rest of the “Seven Deadly Plays”...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Hélène Zimmer — ‘Being 14’
Hélène Zimmer studied literature before directing “Being 14,” her first movie. In 2013, she co-wrote an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel “The Diary Of A Chambermaid.” (Tribeca Film...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Laura Bispuri — ‘Sworn Virgin’
Laura Bispuri was an attendee of the Fandango Lab Workshop. She won the David Donatello Award (Italian Oscars) for Best Short Film in 2010 with “Passing Time.” “Sworn Virgin” is her first...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Jeanie Finlay — ‘Orion: The Man Who Would Be King’
Jeanie Finlay is an acclaimedBritish artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personaldocumentary films and artworks. Her focus is on creating compelling portraits, and she is obsessed...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Anna Sandilands — ‘Uncertain’
Anna Sandilands and her co-director Ewan McNicol are the directing and producing team behind and the co-owners and creative directors of the documentary studio Lucid Inc. Both are named in Filmmaker...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Melanie Shaw — ‘Shut Up and Drive’
Melanie Shaw was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her short films have been featured in the LA Film Festival, NYU’s New Visions and Voices (2010 Best Director), and more. In 2011, Shaw directed a...
Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Pamela Romanowsky — ‘The Adderall Diaries’
Pamela Romanowsky studied behavioral psychology at Macalester College, verité documentary filmmaking with Barbara Kopple, and narrative filmmaking at New York University’s MFA program. “The...
Yogis, Sworn Virgins and Coders: 10 Most Anticipated Films By and About Women at Tribeca 2015
There’s much to look forward to at the 2015 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, which begins this week. For starters, 33% of the feature filmmakers screening at this year’s festival are...
Women Directors Well Represented in Tribeca Fest’s First Round of Announced Films
The lineups of two international categories at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced, and female directors are well represented in both competition lineups. Eight of the 12 World...