#Women Directors
Trailer Watch: Lena Dunham Brings Back Awkwardness to the Bedroom in “Sharp Stick”
Lena Dunham is back with another sexually charged coming-of-age story. It’s been five years since “Girls” concluded, and the multi-hyphenate’s latest project follows another...
Elle Callahan to Co-Write & Direct Adaptation of Horror Graphic Novel “Hotell”
Elle Callahan has another horror pic on the way. The “Witch Hunt” filmmaker is signed on to direct and co-write a feature adaptation of 2020 graphic novel “Hotell,” per...
Trailer Watch: Claire Denis’ “Both Sides of the Blade” Finds Juliette Binoche in a Love Triangle
“When you love someone it never really goes away,” says Juliette Binoche in a new trailer for “Both Sides of the Blade.” Claire Denis’ erotic thriller sees the Oscar...
Lisa Hepner On Investigating a Radical Treatment for Diabetes in “The Human Trial”
Lisa Hepner and her partner Guy Mossman run LA-based Vox Pop Films, a production company specializing in non-fiction content and commercials. For the last 25 years, Hepner has produced a variety of...
Sundance Institute Announces 2022 Women at Sundance Adobe Fellows
Sundance Institute has announced the eight artists chosen for the third inaugural Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellowship. Elizabeth Ai (“A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader...
Anike L. Tourse’s “America’s Family” Lands Top Honors at Dances With Films
Anike L. Tourse’s feature debut made a major splash at the 25th annual Dances with Films festival in LA. “America’s Family,” a drama that depicts a family in crisis after their...
Teaser Watch: Zoey Deutch Is a Social Media Fraud in Quinn Shephard’s “Not Okay”
Zoey Deutch goes viral for all the wrong reasons in “Not Okay.” A new teaser for Quinn Shephard’s second feature introduces us to Danni (Deutch), a friendless aspiring writer who...
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Body Horror Fable “Earwig” Goes to Juno Films
“Earwig,” French director Lucile Hadžihalilović’s English language debut, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last year, where it was nominated for the Platform...
Trailer Watch: Jenna Cato Bass Explores a Haunted House and Domestic Servitude in “Good Madam”
“There’s a bad spirit here,” we’re told in a new trailer for Jenna Cato Bass’ “Good Madam.” The South African horror pic sees Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa), a single...
WORLD Channel Commemorates Juneteenth With Films Honoring Black Freedom, History, & Achievement
This year, for the first time ever, all 50 states will recognize Juneteenth (June 19) as a federal holiday. To honor Black history, freedom, and achievement on the day that commemorates the moment in...
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Lizzie Gottlieb’s Doc “Turn Every Page”
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to Lizzie Gottlieb’s doc “Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” which just had its world...
Stephanie Laing to Direct TV Adaptation of Claire Vaye Watkins’ “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness”
Stephanie Laing is keeping busy. Deadline has just revealed that she is lined up to direct a TV adaptation of Claire Vaye Watkins’ 2021 novel “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness”...
Nicole Kidman to Topline and Produce Mimi Cave Thriller “Holland, Michigan”
Mimi Cave has lined up her follow-up to “Fresh,” and the project’s got major star power attached to it. Deadline reports that Oscar favorite Nicole Kidman will topline and produce...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Erika Alexander – “The Big Payback”
Erika Alexander is known for her acting roles in “Living Single” — garnering two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress and Comedy Series — “Get Out,”...
Pick of the Day: “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
If only we all could have a Leo Grande as we’re exploring our sexuality, in whatever form that may take: experiencing a sexual awakening, hoping to spice things up in the bedroom, simply...
Tribeca: “Good Girl Jane,” “The Cave of Adullam,” & More Women-Directed Offerings Win Major Awards
Women-directed titles have landed the top prizes in the U.S. Narrative Competition and Documentary Competition at the 2022 edition of Tribeca Film Festival. The winner of the Founders’ Award for...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “The Janes” Directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes
“The Janes” directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes will be taking part in a virtual conversation event with the Girls Club about their pre-Roe v. Wade era abortion rights doc on Tuesday,...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Kyra Sedgwick – “Space Oddity”
Kyra Sedgwick is an award-winning actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama “The...
“Hacks” Renewed for Season 3 by HBO Max
Our favorite odd couple is here to stay. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder are returning for a third season of “Hacks.” HBO Max has renewed Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, and Paul Down’s...
Isabel Sandoval’s “Tropical Gothic” To Be Produced by Big Beach
We’re one step closer to seeing Isabel Sandoval’s fourth feature. Deadline reports that Big Beach will produce “Tropical Gothic,” an allegory about Western colonialism that...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Katie Holmes – “Alone Together”
Katie Holmes has appeared in several notable films, ranging from the action blockbuster “Batman Begins,” to critically acclaimed art house pictures such as “The Ice Storm” and...
Lola Quivoron’s Cannes Winner “Rodeo” Lands at Music Box Films
Music Box Films have snapped up the North American rights to Lola Quivoron’s “Rodeo,” which recently premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and won the Coup de Cœur du Jury...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Sarah Elizabeth Mintz – “Good Girl Jane”
Sarah Elizabeth Mintz is a writer-director working in New York and Los Angeles. She received her BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she completed her thesis film...
Under the Radar: Alanna Brown Explores Love & Resilience in Rwandan Genocide Drama “Trees of Peace”
As has been well documented in the decades following the gruesome Rwandan civil war, the Tutsi minority ethnic group and moderate members of the Hutu ethnic group were subjected to unimaginable...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Irene Taylor – “Leave No Trace”
Irene Taylor is a Peabody and Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated director and producer whose documentaries have shown theatrically, at film festivals, and on television worldwide. Her most recent film,...
Maya Forbes & Wally Wolodarsky’s Sigourney Weaver-Starrer “The Good House” Lands Distribution
“The Good House” has secured North American distribution ahead of its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Deadline reports that Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions snagged rights to...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Alex Heller – “The Year Between”
In addition to being selected for the TFI Network, Alex Heller’s “The Year Between” was one of five projects selected for AT&T Presents: Untold Stories, the million-dollar pitch at the...
Pamela Adlon to Make Feature Directorial Debut with Pregnancy Comedy, Ilana Glazer Will Star
After helming every episode of four of “Better Things'” five-season run, Pamela Adlon is set to make her feature directorial debut. The Emmy and Peabody-winning multi-hyphenate is...
Exclusive: Cattlewomen Joke About Their Style and the Kardashians in Exclusive “Bitterbrush” Clip
“Bitterbrush” is heading to theaters and on demand following an acclaimed festival run that included screenings at Telluride, Visions du Réel, and San Francisco International Film...
Trailer Watch: Dakota Johnson Takes on Jane Austen in Carrie Cracknell’s “Persuasion”
From E.L. James to Elena Ferrante and Jane Austen, “50 Shades of Grey” breakout Dakota Johnson, recently seen in “The Lost Daughter,” takes on another literary adaptation in...
Nailah Jefferson to Direct HBO Doc About Pioneering Black Supermodel Donyale Luna
Donyale Luna, the first model of color ever to be featured on the cover of the British edition of Vogue, and one of the first Black models to be featured on the covers of European fashion magazines...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Kristy Guevara-Flanagan – “Body Parts”
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has made award-winning documentary films focusing on gender and representation for two decades, including feature docs “Going on 13,” “Wonder Women! The...
Join the Girls Club for a Conversation with “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s” Director, Sophie Hyde
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” director, Sophie Hyde, will be sitting down with the Girls Club for a virtual conversation about the Emma Thompson-starrer Wednesday, June 15 at 2 p.m. ET....
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Maya Forbes – “The Good House”
Maya Forbes made her directorial debut with “Infinitely Polar Bear” (2014) which she also wrote. She was a writer on HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show” and has since...
Metrograph to Host Film Retrospective Exploring Portrayals of Lesbian Bars
Metrograph is set to host a retrospective exploring filmic representations of the crucial queer space that is the lesbian bar. Fiction and documentary titles from the 1950s to the 2010s feature among...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Becky Hutner – “Fashion Reimagined”
Becky Hutner is a Toronto-born filmmaker living in coastal England. Her filmmaking journey includes five years in London creating short-form work in the fashion and culture space for DUCK...
Peacock Acquires Geeta Gandbhir & Sam Pollard’s “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”
Peacock is expanding its stake in the documentary space. The streamer has just acquired the distribution rights to Geeta Gandbhir’s new documentary, “Lowndes County and the Road to Black...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen – “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks”
Johanna Hamilton is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her previous work includes “1971″, which chronicled the break-in at an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania that revealed the...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Cynthia Lowen – “Battleground”
Cynthia Lowen is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning writer whose work uses the power of story to catalyze meaningful change, confronting timely social issues from bullying to online...
Trailer Watch: A Movie Star Is Haunted By Trauma in Charlotte Colbert’s Locarno Winner “She Will”
A declining movie star heads to a healing retreat and begins to doubt her own identity in “She Will.” A trailer for the psychological horror pic, which landed director Charlotte Colbert...
Coming of Age at Any Age: Crowdfunding Picks
Sometimes it feels like we are always coming of age with each new stage of life. We come of age as young people, sure, but we come of age again when our circumstances change and when we change...
Trailer Watch: “You Can Live Forever” Follows A Forbidden Romance Between Teen Girls
“Do you recognize yourself as a sinner?” a teenage girl is asked in a new trailer for “You Can Live Forever.” Set to debut at Tribeca Film Festival tomorrow, June 11, the...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Nadia Hellgren – “Civil”
Nadia Hallgren is an award-winning filmmaker from The Bronx, New York. She directed “Becoming,” the 2020 Netflix feature documentary about former First Lady Michelle Obama....
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady – “Endangered”
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady are the directors of the Academy Award-nominated “Jesus Camp,” Peabody Award winners “The Boys of Baraka” and “12th & Delaware,”...
Teaser Watch: Katie Holmes Goes Into Lockdown and Finds Love in COVID Comedy “Alone Together”
Katie Holmes is stepping behind the camera again. “We’re so conditioned to achieve things and to find the perfect mate — and then the world shuts down. The only thing that matters...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Natalia Sinelnikova – “We Might As Well Be Dead”
Natalia Sinelnikova is a writer and director based in Berlin. Her short film “Weeping Willows” was screened at various international festivals. In 2016, she was a member of the Debut Film...
Pick of the Day: “Tahara”
Named for the Jewish ritual of preparing a body for burial, and set at a funeral, “Tahara” is an intelligent teen comedy about a close female friendship on the brink. Carrie (Madeline...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Geeta Gandbhir – “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”
Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning director, producer, and editor with over 25 years of experience in the film industry across narrative and documentary. Her documentary short, “Call Center...
Angelina Jolie Will Direct Salma Hayek Pinault in “Without Blood” Adaptation
Angelina Jolie has cast her “Eternals” co-star Salma Hayek Pinault in her latest directorial effort, an adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s best-selling novel “Without...
Tribeca 2022 Women Directors: Meet Ivete Lucas – “Naked Gardens”
Using precise and illustrative cinematic images, Ivete Lucas collaborates with Patrick Bresnan to make verité stories that counter the mythic concepts of America. Their short films have premiered at...
Trailer Watch: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola” Portrays a Woman’s Awakening in Remote Costa Rica
Oscilloscope has released a trailer for Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature, “Clara Sola,” which was up for the Caméra d’Or Award at Cannes last year, and was Costa...