#Women Directors
Guest Post: Secrets to Success in Hollywood (For Women)
When I first came to Hollywood and started taking meetings, I was sure it was my high-pitched voice and curvy figure that were placing obstacles in my path to success as a film director. I had a lot...
Hipster Hijabis and the Dark Side of Yoga: December 2015’s VOD and Web Series Picks
This month’s picks are about geographical transitions and cultural clashes. In “Namaste, Bitches,” a yoga teacher moves from New York to L.A. and finds the sunny town’s yogis awfully cold and...
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Masculinity Comedy ‘Chevalier’ to Be Released by Strand
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s latest film, "Chevalier," will be released in the U.S. next spring. That announcement comes from Strand Releasing, the masculinity comedy’s...
Amazon Orders Three New Female-Centric Shows
Amazon has ordered to series a trio of shows about women: a semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring comedian Tig Notaro, a Zelda Fitzgerald bio-series with Christina Ricci in the lead and a...
Jennifer Cho Suhr to Write/Direct Estranged Korean-American Sisters Tale ‘You & Me Both’
Jennifer Cho Suhr will make her directorial debut with "You & Me Both," a road-trip movie about two estranged Korean-American sisters in search of their birth mother. After the death of...
July 2015’s New & Noteworthy Women-Created VOD/Webseries: Black Actresses, Desperate Delivery Girls
Both of our VOD picks of the week happen to skew dramatic, focusing on the importance of relationships, be it with your community or your family. Filmmaker Monika Truet’s coming-of-age...
Reese Witherspoon/Sofia Vergara Unnamed Film Directed by Anne Fletcher Targets Mother’s Day 2015 Release
Reese Witherpoon and Sofia Vergara will co-star in an unnamed buddy comedy directed by Anne Fletcher (The Guilt Trip, The Proposal, 27 Dresses). New Line Cinema/Warner Brothers will co-produce with...
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,...
Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said Dominates the Specialty Box Office
Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini, opened in limited release this past weekend to critical praise. That praise paid off because...
2013 Emmy Wrap-up
When did watching the Emmy’s become so painful? It wasn’t that I was offended like I was at the last Oscar telecast, but I found the whole thing a bit of a bore. I hate that...
TIFF: Cinedigm Acquires Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
Out of Toronto, Cinedigm has acquired the rights to Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. This is the third women directed film to...
AFI Announces Guest Artistic Director Agnes Varda’s Films
Iconic “Mother of the French New Wave” director Agnes Varda is the Guest Artistic Director for this year’s upcoming 2013 AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles. The festival will screen...
Weekly Update for September 20: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Enough Said – Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcener You don’t go to a Nicole Holofcener movie to see superheroes save the...
Cate Blanchett to Make Directorial Debut with The Dinner
Cate Blanchett is set to make her directorial debut with an adaptation of Herman Koch’s The Dinner. Oren Moverman will be writing the script which is a psychological thriller about two...
Interview with Nicole Holofcener – Writer and Director of Enough Said
Women and Hollywood: How long does it take you to write a script like this? Nicole Holofcener: 6 months, maybe. WaH: One of the best definitions of your characters, for me, is...
Guest Post: Director Kandeyce Jorden’s Journey Through the World of Female DJs
When director Kandeyce Jorden found herself at a personal crossroads, she went looking for a creative project that would open her eyes to a new way of life–and she found it in the...
Women Director News: Andrea Arnold Filmmaker in Residence and Catherine Hardwicke to Direct MTV Pilot
Two great women directors have recently been in the news. Andrea Arnold has been named the Filmmaker in Residence for the 51st New York Film Festival and Catherine Hardwicke will be directing a...
TIFF: IFC Films Acquires Liza Johnson’s Hateship Loveship
Out of Toronto, IFC Films is acquiring the U.S. rights for Liza Johnson’s Hateship Loveship starring Kristen Wiig. Based on a short story by Alice Munro and adapted by Mark Poirier,...
Trailer Watch: Concussion – Directed by Stacie Passon
Concussion, hands down one of the sexiest movies of the year, premiered at Sundance and later screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Outfest to critical praise. Written and directed by...
Guest Post: My Adventures of Filming in China
This film was the hardest thing I have done in my career but ultimately the most rewarding. I was asked to develop My Lucky Star as an adventure-comedy for the biggest female star in China,...
Trailer Watch: The Selfish Giant – Directed by Clio Barnard
Clio Barnard’s latest, The Selfish Giant, has just released a UK trailer. The film, based on Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name, premiered at Cannes earlier this year and recently...
Tribeca Film Acquired Marion Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead
Tribeca Film has acquired the rights for Marion Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last week. As far as we can tell, this is the first female...
Wadjda to be Saudi Arabia’s Oscar Entry
Wadjda, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour, the first film directed by a woman from Saudi Arabia opened in limited release this past weekend. The film made $40,419 after screening in just three theaters...
Women Win Top Doc Awards at TIFF
Women directors took home the top audience awards in the documentary area at TIFF this year. Jehane Noujaim’s The Square took home the top audience prize. The film looks at the Egyptian...
Weekly Update for September 13: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Wadjda – Haifaa Al-Mansour What Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) wants to do is simple – ride a bike. That shouldn’t be so...
TV News Roundup for September 13th: Lauren Iungerich’s New Comedy, Katherine Heigl as CIA Officer and Tina Gordon Chism to HBO
Here’s some of the most notable TV news from the past week including Katherine Heigl’s return to television, Tina Gordon Chism developing a comedy series at HBO, Awkward’s Lauren...
Tribeca Rerun: Wadjda – Written and Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
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...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Vivian Qu
Vivian Qu was born in China. She has produced the features Night Train (07), Knitting (08), which screened at the Festival, and Longing for the Rain (13). Trap Street (13) is her directorial...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin was born in New Hampshire and was raised near the Odanak Reserve at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. She has produced over thirty documentaries on Aboriginal rights issues for the...
TIFF 13 Departure Thoughts
As I get ready to make my departure from Toronto after a whirlwind week there are a couple of things to mention as the festival winds down. First, even though there were a great many women directed...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Iram Haq
Iram Haq studied art direction at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. She has acted in the features Import-Export (05), Fallen Angels (08), and Tomme tonner (10). She wrote and directed...
Guest Post: The Pregnant Director
During the filming of my second feature film And While We Were Here, which hits theaters on September 13th, I was eight months pregnant with my second child. Despite my girth, my collapsed...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Dana Rotberg
Dana Rotberg was born in Mexico City and graduated from Mexico’s Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica. She has won numerous awards for her films, including Best Documentary from the...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Lara Zizic
Lara Zizic received her master’s degree in filmmaking at Columbia University. She directed the short film The Isabel Fish (06) and co-directed the feature Mission Congo (13). ...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Allison Berg
Allison Berg was born in New York City. She received the Special Jury Award at SXSW for her debut feature documentary Witches in Exile (04). The Dog (13) is her latest film. The Dog is playing...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Dyana Gaye
Dyana Gaye is a Franco-Senegalese filmmaker who graduated with a master’s degree in film studies from the University of Paris 8. She directed the short films Une femme pour Souleymane...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Claire Blanchet
Claire Blanchet studied animation at Concordia University. She has co-directed Trash and No Star! (08) and The Wobble Incident (09). The End of Pinky (13) is her latest short film. The End...
Salon Pictures Announces Slate of Women Directed Films
Just months after they opened their doors for business, Salon Pictures has announced a slate of films including three features to be directed by women: Eva Sorhaug (90 Minutes) helms Lenny,...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Marion Vernoux
Marion Vernoux was born in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. She wrote the screenplay for Bernard Schmitt’s Pacific Palisades (90). Her directorial credits include Personne ne m’aime...
Emma Watson to Star in Francesca Gregorini’s Your Voice in My Head
Emma Watson is set to star in Francesca Gregorini’s Your Voice in My Head adapted from Emma Forrest’s memoir of the same title. The film, adapted by Forrest, follows a young woman who is...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Gita Pullapilly
Gita Pullapilly was born in South Bend, Indiana. She studied finance at University of Notre Dame and journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School. She produced all of Aron...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Sarah Spillane
Sarah Spillane has been writing and directing film and television for the past decade. Among her work is the documentary short The Apology (08) and the fiction short This Life (09). Around...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Anne Weil
Anne Weil has worked as an editor on such films as Seaside (02), Toi et moi (06), Actrices (07), and A Castle in Italy (12). She has directed the short film Une cuilleree pour papa (92) and...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Megan Griffiths
Megan Griffiths was born in Athens, Ohio and received her MFA in film from Ohio University. She has written and directed the short films Moving (08), and Eros (09), and the features First...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Honkasalo was born in Helsinki, Finland. She co-directed several features with Pekka Lehto, including Flame Top (80). Her documentary directorial credits include Mysterion (91),...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron was born in London. She studied at the National Film and Television School and co-founded the educational charity FILMCLUB. Her directing credits include the fiction features Used...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Judy Kibinge
Judy Kibinge was born in Nairobi and studied at Manchester Polytechnic. She is the founder of DOCUBOX, a documentary film fund for East Africa. She has directed the features Dangerous...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Liza Johnson
Liza Johnson holds a Masters in visual art from the University of California, San Diego and has had her artwork exhibited in such galleries as MoMA and the National Gallery of Art. Her...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Caroline Link
Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany. She studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Her films include Beyond Silence (96), Punktchen und Anton (99), Nowhere in...
Weekly Update for September 6: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Touchy Feely – Lynn Shelton Touchy Feely is about about a brother a sister, one who touches for a living and one who makes a point of...
Interview with Anne Fontaine – Director of Adore
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Anne Fontaine about her new film, Adore, which she directed. Adore hits theaters today. Women and Hollywood: You say in the press notes...