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Originally published on April 26. Wadjda is in theaters today. What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so difficult, but when you...
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I was traveling a lot during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but thanks to technology I was able to catch some of the movies that I really wanted to see. One of those was the Jennifer...
What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so difficult, but when you live in Saudia Arabia, a place where women can’t drive, a girl...
As we previously reported, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival established a new award in honor of the late, great Nora Ephron that would be given to a new emerging female filmmaker....
In honor of the late, great Nora Ephron, the Tribeca Film Festival has created a new award after the writer/director, The Nora Ephron Prize. The $25,000 prize supported by Vogue.com will recognize a...
Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month is Meera Menon’s Farah Goes Bang. Here’s the synopsis: Farah hits the road with her buddies to stump for John Kerry in the 2004...
We previously focused on women-directed films in the Tribeca Film Festival lineup. There are also a huge number of women-written or co-written scripts at the festival, so we wanted to highlight their...
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival announcement is fantastic for both films directed by women and written by. The festival, in its 12th year, will be hosted in locations around New York City...
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