#Women Directors
Trailer Watch: A “Vagrant Queen” Is the Last Hope For Her People
A former child queen finds herself an orphaned outcast in a new trailer for “Vagrant Queen.” The upcoming SYFY show is based on the Vault Comics series of the same name. “The...
Hilary Brougher’s “South Mountain” Acquired by Breaking Glass Pictures
“South Mountain” has found a home. Broadway World reports that Breaking Glass Pictures secured U.S. rights to Hiliary Brougher’s award-winning drama. Set in the Catskills,...
Weekly Update for February 14: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Photograph – Written and Directed by Stella Meghie When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton (Issa...
Trailer Watch: Cindy Meehl Turns the Camera on a Polarizing “Dog Doc”
Dismissed as a “charlatan” and “snake oil salesman” by some and celebrated as a “maverick” and “miracle worker” by others, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a...
Olivia Wilde Will Direct “Perfect” Biopic of Olympic Gymnast Kerri Strug
Olivia Wilde has an Independent Spirit Award win and a new gig to celebrate this week. On Saturday the multi-hyphenate picked up the Spirit Award for Best First Feature for “Booksmart,”...
Grandmas, Girlhood, and Growing Up: Crowdfunding Picks
Growing up can be tough — navigating personal identity and self-expression as well as increasingly complicated relationships with family and friends is no easy task, especially when factors...
Oorlagh George Begins Filming IRA-Inspired Drama “Stranger With a Camera,” Ellie Bamber Stars
Oorlagh George has kicked off principal photography on “Stranger With a Camera,” the Oscar-winning producer’s directorial debut. Screen Daily broke the news. Developed via the...
Zoe Saldana Will Play an Olympic Hopeful in Jasmine McGlade’s “Fencer”
Zoe Saldana is eyeing a trip to the Olympics after battling in space, “Avatar,” and everywhere in between. The actress will play a competitive fencer in new drama, a press release...
Sundance Winner Garrett Bradley Directing Netflix Docuseries About Naomi Osaka
Garrett Bradley recently won Sundance’s Directing Award: U.S. Documentary for “Time,” the story of a real-life superheroine fighting to free her incarcerated husband. Her next...
Women and Hollywood’s Picks of the Week for February 13
Picks of the Week offers Women and Hollywood’s top recommendations — women-driven and women-made movies, series, VOD releases, and more — and tells you why they are worth your time and...
Trailer Watch: A Gifted Herbalist Fights the Darkness Within in Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan”
“I would like to learn how to heal like you. I know I have the gift,” says Jan Mikolasek (Josef Trojan) in a new trailer for Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan.” The drama is...
Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson Will Topline Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Adaptation of “The Lost Daughter”
Maggie Gyllenhaal has assembled a star-studded cast for her directorial debut. Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson will topline the Oscar-nominated actress’ adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s...
Sarah Adina Smith Directing Ballet Drama “Birds of Paradise,” Kristine Froseth & Diana Silvers Star
Sarah Adina Smith’s latest will be of special interest to fans of “Black Swan” and “Bunheads”: the writer-director of “Buster’s Mal Heart” is working...
New MAKERS Doc About Feminist Changemakers to Premiere on PBS this Summer
We’ve made gains on the road towards gender equality, but the work is far from over. MAKERS, a media brand dedicated to “accelerating the women’s movement,” has announced a...
Dee Rees Will Write and Direct Big Screen Rendition of “Porgy and Bess” for MGM
It’s wintertime and, thanks to this news, the livin’ is still easy. Dee Rees is writing and directing a big screen adaptation of the Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” for MGM,...
Rachel Chavkin Will Direct Paramount’s Psychological Thriller “Shrew’s Nest”
A Tony-winning director is set to make her feature directorial debut. Rachel Chavkin, who snagged last year’s Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for “Hadestown,” is locked in to...
Ava DuVernay to Direct Nipsey Hussle Documentary for Netflix
Ava DuVernay’s next film will honor late rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle. She’s set to direct a feature-length documentary about him for Netflix, Deadline confirms. “A...
Sharon Choi, Bong Joon-ho’s Interpreter, Is Working on a Film About Awards Season
Sharon Choi has been a staple on the awards circuit in recent months, taking the stage to accept award after award, most notably at Sunday’s Oscars. Choi has been serving as...
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Joins “Thor” Sequel’s Writing Team
“Someone Great” writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is teaming up with a recent Oscar winner on a high-profile project. Variety reports that the “Sweet/Vicious” creator...
Guest Post: Collaborating Taught Me Different Ways of Making Films and Seeing the World
Guest Post by Lynne Sachs Most people imagine the structure for making a film as a pyramid with one person sitting proudly at the top. The industry as we know it endows the director with almost...
Essence Honors Niecy Nash, Melina Matsoukas, Lashana Lynch, Janet Mock, and the Cast of “Pose”
Essence’s recent Black Women in Hollywood event did what the rest of the 2020 awards season wouldn’t: it honored women of color, multiple women of color. The annual awards ceremony and...
Josephine Decker’s Sundance Winner “Shirley” Acquired by Neon
“Shirley” is continuing its Sundance hot streak. Following its Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking win and the stigma-shattering portrait taken of breastmilk-pumping director...
Spirit Award Winners Include “The Farewell” and “Booksmart”
Unlike the Golden Globes and Oscars, the Independent Spirit Awards recognized the fact that women directed some of 2019’s finest films. The winners at Saturday’s ceremony included Lulu...
Oscars 2020: Female Composers Make History, Natalie Portman Honors Women Directors
Exactly zero women were up for Best Director at last night’s Academy Awards, but Natalie Portman helped ensure that some of 2019’s leading female filmmakers got attention on film’s...
Quote of the Day: Josephine Decker on Pumping at Sundance, Normalizing Everyday Parts of Motherhood
While at Sundance promoting her new film, “Shirley,” director Josephine Decker did something that’s both radical and a part of millions of women’s everyday routines: she...
Weekly Update for February 7: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – Directed by Cathy Yan; Written by Christina Hodson You ever hear the one about the cop, the...
Meryl Streep Is Backing Rachel Feldman’s Lilly Ledbetter Biopic
Meryl Streep has joined Rachel Feldman’s long-in-the-works biopic about fair pay whistleblower and activist Lilly Ledbetter. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three-time Oscar winner is...
“Little Women” Has Grossed Over $100 Million at Domestic Box Office
Greta Gerwig and the March sisters are making a major mark at the box office. “Little Women,” which cost $40 million to make, has surpassed $100 million in North America, Variety...
Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire” Acquired by Focus Features
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Miranda July’s latest hot off its premiere at Sundance Film Festival, where the con-artist comedy was met with positive reviews. A press release...
Frameline Completion Fund Winners Announced
Frameline has announced the awardees of the 2019 Frameline Completion Fund. Culled from 173 applications that included features and shorts in documentary, narrative, and episodic, the seven projects...
Radha Blank’s Sundance Winner “The 40-Year-Old Version” Lands at Netflix
Radha Blank’s banner week continues. Just days ago her feature directorial debut, “The 40-Year-Old Version,” landed her the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival,...
Navigating an Ever-Changing World: VOD and Web Series Picks
Whether we like it or not, technology has changed the world we live in. Our communication has gotten faster, but maybe less personal. And the ways we understand ourselves and the people around us...
Trailer Watch: Andrea Riseborough Returns to “Luxor”
“Don’t you miss how hopeful we were?” asks Andrea Riseborough in a new trailer for “Luxor.” Zeina Durra’s sophomore feature tells the story of Hana (Riseborough),...
Brenda Chapman Will Write and Direct “Ghost Squad”
Brenda Chapman is ready to step behind the camera again. Just weeks after the world premiere of “Come Away,” her “Alice in Wonderland” and “Peter Pan” prequel,...
Trailer Watch: Elle Fanning and Sally Potter Reunite to Explore “The Roads Not Taken”
Elle Fanning struggles to make sense of her dad’s chaotic mind in Sally Potter’s latest. A trailer has landed for “The Roads Not Taken,” which will make its world premiere at...
Trailer Watch: Rosamund Pike Is Marie Curie in Marjane Satrapi’s “Radioactive”
“I have been haunted my entire life trying to understand the impossible,” says Rosamund Pike in a new trailer for Marjane Satrapi’s “Radioactive.” The biopic sees the...
Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s “On the Record” Lands at HBO Max Following Sundance Premiere
After much controversy, Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s “On the Record” has found a new home. The film made headlines weeks ahead of its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival when...
Toni Collette Will Star in Netflix’s “Pieces of Her” Series Adaptation
Toni Collette is joining another Netflix series. She’ll follow up her Golden Globe-nominated role in “Unbelievable” with “Pieces of Her,” an adaptation of Karin...
Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s “The Cloud in Her Room” Wins IFFR’s Tiger Award
“The Cloud in Her Room” has been named as the 2020 winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) Tiger Award. Founded in 1995 with the aim of “discovering, raising...
Trailer Watch: “Black Widow” Has a Choice to Make in Super Bowl Spot
“The Avengers weren’t my first family,” Natasha Romanoff reveals in “Black Widow’s” Super Bowl spot. The upcoming Marvel pic, the first from a solo woman director,...
Sundance: Women Sweep Major Directing Awards
The 2020 edition of Sundance Film Festival has come to a close. An awards ceremony was held Saturday in Park City, and “of the 28 prizes awarded … to 25 films – comprising the work of...
Trailer Watch: “Mulan” Takes the Oath of the Warrior and Goes to Battle
A new trailer for Disney’s live-action take on “Mulan” sees Yifei Liu taking the oath of the warrior, committing to be “loyal,” “brave,” and...
Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Channing Godfrey Peoples – “Miss Juneteenth”
Channing Godfrey Peoples is an MFA graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and one of Filmmaker magazine’s 2018 “25 new faces of independent film.” She wrote two episodes of “Queen...
Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Susanne Regina Meures – “Saudi Runaway”
Susanne Regina Meures is a Swiss-German filmmaker. Her debut film, “Raving Iran,” premiered in 2016 and has been shown at over 130 film festivals worldwide, including Hot Docs and Visions...
Weekly Update for January 31: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING The Rhythm Section – Directed by Reed Morano Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively) is an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed...
Julie Delpy Will Write and Star in Netflix/Canal+ Dramedy Series
Julie Delpy is taking on another medium. The prolific multi-hyphenate is set to write, exec produce, and star in a dramedy series that will air on Canal+ in France and Netflix around the rest of the...
Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Zoé Wittock – “Jumbo”
Originally hailing from Belgium, Zoé Wittock grew up travelling the world. She attended the International Film School of Paris. Her shorts include “A demi-mot,” “Still,” and...
Trailer Watch: Issa Rae Is Afraid to Love in Stella Meghie’s “The Photograph”
“How are you supposed to know if you want to spend forever with someone?” asks Issa Rae in a new trailer for “The Photograph.” Stella Meghie’s romance sees the...
Heather Young’s “Murmur” Wins Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance
“Murmur” has been named as the winner of Slamdance Film Festival’s Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize. The fest’s awards were announced at a ceremony held Thursday, Deadline...
February 2020 Film Preview
From Sundance pics to blockbusters, there are a variety of films made by or about women to check out this February. Starting off the month is the highly anticipated “Birds of Prey (And the...
Trailer Watch: Erica Rivas Loses Touch with Reality in Berlinale Competition Title “The Intruder”
“I just ran into my ex-boyfriend — my dead ex-boyfriend,” says Erica Rivas (“Wild Tales”) in a new trailer for Berlinale Competition title “The Intruder”...