#Women Cinematographers
Mandy Walker Becomes the First Woman to Win Cinematography Honor at Australia’s AACTA Awards
Mandy Walker made history at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Industry Awards. A press release announced that she’s become the first woman to win the award...
Jacquelyn Mills‘ “Geographies Of Solitude” Acquired by Cinema Guild
Jacquelyn Mills will transport audiences to Sable Island. Deadline reports that U.S. rights to her documentary about the “rich ecosystem” of the “remote sliver of land in the...
WIF Releases #VoteForWomen Film Ballot to Raise Awareness About Awards Contenders
Awards season is heating up and Women in Film (WIF) is working to ensure that voters remember that the industry doesn’t just consist of men. WIF has released its fourth annual #VoteForWomen...
Cinematographer to Watch: Charlotte Hornsby
New York-based cinematographer Charlotte Hornsby has been making a name for herself on the festival circuit, working on titles such as Mariama Diallo’s “Master,” a horror pic...
Apply Now: WIF Programs for Writers, Directors, & Cinematographers
Listen up, writers, directors, and cinematographers! Women in Film (WIF) is now accepting applicants to four of its filmmaking programs uplifting women and non-binary industry newcomers. The...
ReFrame Rise Expands to Support Women DPs Along With Directors, Announces 2022-24 Class
ReFrame Rise, a program launched in 2019 to nurture established women filmmakers, is growing. From Women In Film Los Angeles (WIF) and Sundance Institute’s ReFrame Project and supported by...
Pick of the Day: “Murina”
When we spoke to Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović about her feature directorial debut during its run at Cannes last year, she told us, “It was important for me to portray both the [evolution] and...
Cinematographer to Watch: Kira Kelly of “13th” and “Queen Sugar”
Kira Kelly isn’t new to the cinematography game — not by a long shot. Having worked in the industry for more than 20 years, her film and TV credits include a versatile mix of documentary and...
Ellen Kuras Will Make History as First Woman to Receive ASC’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) is paying tribute to Ellen Kuras. The Hollywood Reporter confirms the cinematographer and director will be presented with ASC’s Lifetime...
Cinematographer to Watch: Ana M. Amortegui of “Twenties” and “Black Lightning”
From Colombia, Ana M Amortegui got her start studying electrical engineering and dancing professionally; she discovered cinematography while transitioning from stage performance to television...
Joan Churchill Will Receive DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Joan Churchill has been named as the 2021 recipient of DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A press release announced the news. The first documentary-focused director of photography to be...
AFI Establishes Halyna Hutchins Memorial Scholarship Fund, Donations Now Being Accepted
The American Film Institute (AFI) is pledging “to see that Halyna Hutchins will live on in the spirit of all who strive to see their dreams realized in stories well told.” The nonprofit...
Jessica Chastain, Céline Sciamma, Alina Grigore, & More Women Sweep San Sebastian Film Fest Awards
Women dominated the 69th annual San Sebastian Film Festival. With the exception of one male winner, prizes for individuals in every major category went to women, per Reuters. Romanian director Alina...
Niav Conty’s Feature Debut “Small Time” Acquired by Film Arcade
Niav Conty’s feature debut “Small Time” has found a home. Deadline confirms North American rights to the drama have been picked up by indie distributor The Film Arcade. Written,...
“Zola” Cinematographer Ari Wegner to Be Honored with TIFF Variety Artisan Award
The 20201 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced another TIFF Tribute Award honoree. Ari Wegner, the cinematographer of “Zola” and TIFF 2021 title “The Power of...
Agnès Godard and Pamela Albarrán to Receive Angénieux Cinematographer Awards at Cannes
Agnès Godard and Pamela Albarrán are set to be honored at Cannes for the impact of their work as directors of photography on world cinema by the festival’s official partner, Angénieux, according...
Cinematographer to Watch: Eunsoo Cho of “August at Akiko’s,” “I Was a Simple Man,” & “Victim(s)”
Capturing physical and emotional beauty is one of the many jobs of a cinematographer. This is a skill Eunsoo Cho has developed throughout her years in the industry. She was born and raised in Korea,...
Cinematographer to Watch: Nanu Segal of “Marvelous and the Black Hole” & “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn”
Well-crafted films can grab you by the shoulders and sink you into a new reality, a skill cinematographer Nanu Segal has mastered through her years in the business. Segal has an impressive resume of...
Cinematographer to Watch: Ava Benjamin Shorr of “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen” and “Equal”
Director of Photography Ava Benjamin Shorr is already well-versed in framing icons. In 2020, Shorr’s camera focused on dozens of trailblazing interviewees for Sam Feder’s “Disclosure: Trans...
Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Lulu Wei – “There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace”
Lulu Wei is a Toronto based filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores themes of urbanization and cultural identity. Wei’s short films and installations have been screened and exhibited...
Cinematographer to Watch: Katelin Arizmendi of “Swallow” and “Cam”
It’s incredibly difficult to balance the visual aesthetics of fantasy and reality in a film — but cinematographer Katelin Arizmendi seems to have perfected the craft, making it her signature...
Apply Now: AFI Cinematography Intensive for Women
The American Film Institute (AFI) is now accepting applications for its second annual Cinematography Intensive for Women. The tuition-free program will take place June 28-July 1, 2019 at the AFI...
Lifetime Network’s Hiring of Women Directors Far Surpasses Industry Averages
Lifetime Network is leaving its competition in the dust when it comes to enlisting women behind the camera. Rob Sharenow, president of programming at A+E Network, kicked off a recent TCA presentation...
2019 Indie Spirit Award Noms: Women Outnumber Men in Best Director Category
Women directors have been largely absent from the Best Director conversation in Oscar forecasts, but female filmmakers made a major impression on voters for the 34th annual Film Independent Spirit...
Inaugural Class of Female Cinematographers Announced for Fox’s DP Lab
The industry and mainstream media are — at long last — starting to address the dearth of opportunities for women directors, but the conversation hasn’t shifted as much when it comes...
Reed Morano Signs Overall Deal with Amazon Studios
Reed Morano is taking her considerable talents to Amazon. Variety reports the director-cinematographer-producer has inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios that will see her creating original...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Program Celebrating Female Cinematographers
Women accounted for just four percent of cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films of 2017. As depressing as that number is, it’s important to note that one of those films was...
WMC Study: Women Get Fewer Than 1 in 5 Oscar Nominations in Non-Acting Categories
When the Oscars take place on Sunday, February 28, just 22% of the non-acting award hopefuls at Dolby Theatre will be female. Depressingly, that’s actually an above-average rate for women...
Study: Women Directors’ Ranks Increased in 2015, But Only to 1998 Rates
Female filmmakers enjoyed a slight bump last year in their representation in the film industry, with women directors and those in other key roles (writers, producers, executive producers, editors and...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Ryan Coogler
Although the issue of Hollywood’s egregious lack of women directors has gone mainstream, we still don’t have very many prominent male filmmakers willing to speak out on behalf of their...
Guest Post: How London’s Underwire Festival is Supporting the Next Generation of Female Filmmakers
In March 2010, over a caramel latte in aShoreditch café in London, the idea for the Underwire Festival was born. Since setting it up with Gemma Mitchell, I am co-producing Underwire, now in its...
New Canadian Research Reveals a Cold Shoulder to Women in Film and TV Up North
Blame Canada. Or, at the very least, hold Canada accountable. A report released this week reveals that, like the American entertainment industry, women are still incredibly underrepresented behind...
Guest Post: How ‘Mad Women’ Helped Me Appreciate My Female Perspective as A Cinematographer
Since I started my cinematography career, I am often asked “what it means to be a woman cinematographer.” After rephrasing the question as “what it means to be a cinematographer” I simply...
New Study Charts the “Post-Festival Chasm” for Women Directors
After becoming the first black woman filmmaker to win the Best Director prize at the Sundance Film Festival (for her second narrative feature “Middle of Nowhere”), Ava DuVernay waited for people...
First Winners of Women Cinematographers Grant Announced
Five female DPs have been selected as the first recipients of the Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers. The grant is the first of its kind, offering more than $10,000 in camera gear and...
Study: Fewer Women Directing and Writing Movies Than 17 Years Ago
If Hollywood were graded on how well it excluded women directors from making films, it’d receive an A. The newest Celluloid Ceiling Report from Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego State finds that men...
Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers Now Receiving Applications
Cinematography is one of the film industry’s least equal fields. In the last five years, women accounted for just 3% of all cinematographers among the 250 top-grossing films. In what might be the...
Women Directors Fare Much Better in the Indie World — But It’s Still Not Good Enough
Here’s my latest column on Forbes If you follow the issue of women directors working in Hollywood you will know that that this is a very complicated issue. Getting more women directors working at...
Infographic: Women and Hollywood — Better Luck Next Year…Or Next Decade
Change is the keyword in Hollywood these days. A globalizing marketplace, the exportation of work from Los Angeles to every other corner of the world, the replacement of celluloid by digital, and the...
Infographic: Women and Hollywood – Better Luck Next Year…Or Next Decade
Change is the keyword in Hollywood these days. A globalizing marketplace, the exportation of work from Los Angeles to every other corner of the world, the replacement of celluloid by digital,...
Where are the Women Recipients of the American Society of Cinematography Outstanding Achievement Awards?
The American Society of Cinematographers announced the recipients of their 27th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards. The awards will take place on February 10. No women were honored of the...