#Women Directors
Agam Darshi on Centering “Donkeyhead” Around a South Asian Family & Processing Trauma Through Art
Agam Darshi is an award-winning actress, writer, and director. Born in England and raised all over Canada, she currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She recently wrapped on Ava DuVernay’s...
Lana Barić to Make Feature Directorial Debut with “Eve After the Fall”
Lana Barić is stepping behind the camera. After writing and starring in “Tereza37,” Croatia’s submission in the International Feature Film category at last year’s Oscars,...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Chloe Okuno – “Watcher”
Chloe Okuno is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her recent work includes writing a remake of “Audrey Rose” for Orion Pictures and writing and directing a segment of the anthology series...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Hanna Bergholm – “Hatching”
Hanna Bergholm is a Finnish film director who has helmed several internationally-awarded short films and TV drama series. Her latest short horror film, “Puppet Master,” was selected to...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Audrey Diwan – “Happening”
Audrey Diwan is a filmmaker, author, and screenwriter who has collaborated with Valérie Donzelli, Cédric Jimenez, and Gilles Lellouche among others. She made her feature film directing debut with...
Tina Mabry to Direct Dance Pic “Pretty Big” for Warner Bros. and HBO Max
Fans of “Big Ballet” and “The Big Leap,” take note: another project about a plus-size dancer is on the way. Tina Mabry has signed on to co-write and direct “Pretty...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Adamma Ebo – “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.”
Adamma Ebo is a Nigerian-American writer, director, and producer who works alongside her identical twin, Adanne Ebo. Both wrote on “Mrs. & Mrs. Smith,” an upcoming Amazon series. They...
Trailer Watch: A Teenage Girl Faces Her Fears and Steps into the Limelight in “Tall Girl 2”
Jodi (Ava Michelle) faces her greatest enemy in “Tall Girl 2.” Directed by Emily Ting, the sequel sees the teenager battling her nasty inner voice after booking the lead in her...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Violet Columbus – “The Exiles”
Violet Columbus is a writer-director currently living in New York City. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts in 2016. “The Exiles” is her debut feature film. “The Exiles...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Alli Haapasalo – “Girl Picture”
Alli Haapasalo is a Finnish director and writer with passion for telling strong female-driven stories. Haapasalo’s feature debut, 2016’s “Love and Fury,” followed a writer finding...
Trailer Watch: “The Fallout” Follows Jenna Ortega in the Aftermath of a School Shooting
“No one should have to go through what you went through,” Jenna Ortega is told in a new trailer for “The Fallout.” From writer-director Megan Park, the SXSW winner sees the...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Carlota Pereda – “Piggy”
Carlota Pereda is a film and series director from Madrid. Pereda started her career in television and was nominated for the Television Academy’s Iris Award for “Águila Roja”...
Agnieszka Holland’s Film Inspired by the Life of Franz Kafka to Screen at Berlinale Co-Production Market
Agnieszka Holland is paying tribute to the mind behind “The Metamorphosis.” The celebrated Polish filmmaker’s latest offering, “Kafka,” inspired by the life of writer...
Audrey Diwan’s “Happening” Wins Big at France’s Lumière Awards
“Happening,” Audrey Diwan’s drama about a student seeking an illegal abortion in ’60s France, took home the top prize at Monday’s Lumière Awards, presented by the...
Doc About WNBA Star Sue Bird in the Works from Sarah Dowland
One of the greatest players in WNBA history is getting the doc treatment. Now underway, “Sue Bird: In the Clutch” follows “the final chapter” of the Seattle Storm...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Phyllis Nagy – “Call Jane”
Phyllis Nagy earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations and won the NY Film Critics Circle award for “Carol,” her adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel “The Price of...
Sundance 2022 Preview: A Racist History Haunts a College, Activists Fight for the Right to Choose, & More
COVID-19 isn’t putting the brakes on Sundance 2022. The fest has gone digital once again this year due to the pandemic, but we’re thankful the show will go on — online, where...
Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava” Acquired by Greenwich Entertainment
Clio Barnard’s latest is coming stateside. “Ali & Ava,” the BAFTA-nominated writer-director’s follow-up to 2017 Ruth Wilson-starrer “Dark River,” has been...
Laura Karpman Enlisted as Composer for “The Marvels,” Nia DaCosta’s “Captain Marvel” Sequel
Laura Karpman is joining Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Nia DaCosta for “The Marvels,” the sequel to 2019’s “Captain Marvel.” Variety announced that Karpman, a...
Trailer Watch: “Hatching” Is a Twisted Coming-of-Age Story About a Young Gymnast and an Egg
Overwhelmed by the demands of her image-obsessed mother, a 12-year old girl channels the motherly love she’s not receiving into nurturing a strange egg she discovers in the woods in...
Mimi Cave’s “Fresh” Lands Distribution Ahead of Sundance, Daisy Edgar-Jones Stars
Daisy Edgar-Jones says goodbye to Connell and hello to a lover who has been “hiding some unusual appetites” in “Fresh.” Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to...
Trailer Watch: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Moves into a Haunted House Designed by a Creepy Architect in “The Girl Before”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw crosses paths with another predator in “The Girl Before.” The “Morning Show” star toplines the four-part HBO Max series about a woman offered the opportunity...
Sundance Adds Docs from Abigail E. Disney, Kathleen Hughes, and Amy Berg to Lineup
Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes’ “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” and Amy Berg’s “Phoenix Rising” will screen at Sundance 2022. The documentaries...
Rachel Carey’s Comedy “Deadly Cuts” Secures North American Distribution
Irish comedy “Deadly Cuts” is making its way to North America. According to Deadline, Rachel Carey’s film about a group of hair stylists who unwittingly stumble into vigilantism...
Sundance Doc “Calendar Girls” Sells to Juno Films
“Calendar Girls” has secured North American distribution ahead of its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival later this month. Juno Films landed rights to the film, which is screening...
ARRAY Releasing Acquires Agam Darshi’s “Donkeyhead” and Sujata Day’s “Definition Please”
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has acquired distribution rights for two films from emerging South Asian multi-hyphenates: Agam Darshi’s “Donkeyhead” and Sujata Day’s...
Female-Led Reboot of “The Honeymooners” from Lindsey Shockley & Kelly Park in Dev at CBS
One of the most influential shows in TV history is getting a woman-driven reboot. A new take on “The Honeymooners” is in development at CBS, Deadline reports. From writer Lindsey Shockley...
Trailer Watch: Sundance Pic “Girl Picture” Follows Three Young Women Coming of Age
BFFs navigate the murky waters of love and lust in “Girl Picture,” set to premiere at Sundance Film Festival later this month. From Finnish filmmaker Alli Haapasalo, the pic tells the...
Julia Garner Will Topline Natalie Erika James’ “Apartment 7A”
Julia Garner is saying goodbye to “Ozark” and returning to the big screen. The two-time Emmy winner is following up her last film, Kitty Green’s Harvey Weinstein-inspired 2019 drama...
Anna Nicole Smith Doc in the Works at Netflix, Ursula Macfarlane Directing
Ursula Macfarlane is expanding her diverse filmography. With titles such as “Untouchable,” an investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, and “The Life and Loss...
Trailer Watch: A Teenage Girl Has a Dangerous Spiritual Awakening in Horror Pic “A Banquet”
“I can feel something inside of me. I’ve been chosen,” a teenage girl insists in a new trailer for “A Banquet.” Ruth Paxton’s psychological horror pic tells the...
Trailer Watch: Mika Abdalla Wants to Master Her Sexuality in “Sex Appeal”
A teenage girl vows to “master sexual excellence” in a new trailer for “Sex Appeal.” The Hulu comedy follows Avery (Mika Abdalla, “Project Mc²”), an overachieving...
Jessica Chastain and Jude Weng Are Bringing “The School for Good Mothers” to TV
Jessica Chastain is following up HBO’s updated take on “Scenes from a Marriage” with another adaptation. The two-time Oscar nominee has optioned the TV rights to “The School...
January 2022 Film Preview
“The 355” is finally making its way to cinemas. Long delayed due to COVID-19, the star-studded spy movie kicks off 2022 right. Featuring Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Lupita...
January 2022 Television Preview
As we welcome 2022 and make plans for the upcoming months, we have new shows to match our moods, grab our attention, and guide us through the first 31 days of the year. The TV premieres this month...
Oscars Shortlists: “The Rescue,” “Prayers for the Stolen,” & More
Oscar nominations won’t drop until February 8, but we’re one big step closer to knowing which titles will be up for honors on Hollywood’s biggest night: shortlists for 10...
Julie Pacino’s “I Live Here Now” to Be Produced and Distributed by Utopia
“I Live Here Now” is heading to the big screen. Julie Pacino is set to helm a feature inspired by her NFT photography series of the same title. Deadline reports that Utopia has signed on...
2021’s Best Documentaries By and About Women
Some of the most notable 2021 docs by and about women introduced us to a legal trailblazer, showed us a different side of music royalty we thought we knew, and followed activists from around the...
Waad Al-Kateab & Kelley Kali Named 2021 Recipients of Academy Gold Fellowship for Women
Filmmakers Waad Al-Kateab and Kelley Kali are the recipients of the 2021 Academy Gold Fellowship for Women. According to Screen Daily, the respective “For Sama” and “I’m Fine...
Jane Campion Named Best Director by L.A. Film Critics for “The Power of the Dog”
Jane Campion’s chances of receiving her second Oscar nomination for Best Director are looking better and better. She’s collected yet another honor for “The Power of the Dog,”...
Entering the Unknown: Crowdfunding Picks
As the end of the year nears, the desire to examine and confront the unknown or the unfamiliar parts of our lives creeps to the front of our minds. When it comes to moving into a new point in time,...
A Donna Summer Documentary Is in the Works
A documentary about the chart-topping singer behind iconic hits including “Last Dance,” “Love to Love You Baby,” and “She Works Hard for the Money” is on the way....
Krystin Ver Linden’s “Alice” Acquired Ahead of Sundance Premiere, Keke Palmer Stars
“Alice” has found a home ahead of its world premiere at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. A press release announced that Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions acquired...
Halle Berry to Receive SeeHer Award from Critics Choice Association
Halle Berry has been named this year’s recipient of the Critics Choice Association’s SeeHer Award, “which honors a woman who advocates for gender equality, portrays characters with...
2021’s Best Films By and About Women
Whether you braved movie theaters or stayed at home and enjoyed viewing experiences from the comfort of your couch, there were plenty of films by and about women to check out this year, including a...
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Noms: Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and More
Women account for three of five helmers in the running for Director of the Year at this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Nominations just dropped, and Jane Campion (“The...
“The Power of the Dog” Leads Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
“The Power of the Dog” is as strong as ever. The AFI Awards honoree leads the Chicago Film Critics Association 2021 Awards. Jane Campion’s Western psychodrama took in a total of...
Daisy Ridley and Rachel Lambert Team Up for “Sometimes I Think About Dying”
Daisy Ridley’s getting in touch with her morbid side. The “Star Wars” actress toplines and produces “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” an indie drama that recently wrapped...
Trailer Watch: Valérie Lemercier Brings Celine Dion’s Story to the Screen with “Aline”
Described as “a fiction freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion,” “Aline” tells the story of the best-selling Canadian musical artist of all-time. In addition to co-writing...
Stephanie Laing’s “Family Squares” Acquired by Screen Media
Stephanie Laing’s sophomore feature has found a home. Screen Media acquired worldwide rights to “Family Squares,” the two-time Emmy winner’s follow-up to 2018 Gugu...
“The Watermelon Woman” & “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” Among Titles Added to National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has announced its annual selection of 25 titles to be inducted into the National Film Registry. “Selected for their cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance to...