#Women Directors
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley
Leanne Pooley was born and raised in Canada, and now lives in New Zealand. She has directed over twenty features, including the documentaries Haunting Douglas (03), The Promise (05), Try...
SXSW Rerun: Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher
Originally published on April 9. A Teacher is in theaters in New York and Los Angeles today and is available on VOD. A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
The second trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming remake of the horror classic, Carrie, gives a larger glimpse at how Peirce will interpret the classic scenes from the original. Based on...
TIFF Women Directors and Producers: Meet Sabine Emiliani and Stephanie Levy
Sabine Emiliani’s documentary editing has garnered accolades from Sundance to Cannes to the Academy Awards. Ms. Emiliani’s 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, March of the Penguins...
Sundance Rerun: Interview with Lynn Shelton – Director of Touchy Feely
Originally published on on February 5. Touchy Feely is open in limited release today. It is also available on VOD. I had never met Lynn Shelton before last month but I already felt like I knew...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Lisa Langseth
Lisa Langseth was born in Stockholm, Sweden and studied at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a playwright and director of theatre. Her film directing credits include the short...
September Film Preview
As we head out of a strong August for women directed and centric films, we go straight into a September filled with varied and interesting projects from new and veteran women filmmakers. Films this...
Guest Post: Filming the Unimaginable
I remember feeling scared of entering the room Neil was in, of approaching him. Maybe part of this was fear of seeing his suffering, but it was also disquiet about the ethics of filming...
TIFF Women Directors: Meet Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw, Poland. Her first feature film, Provincial Actors (79), won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Her last film, In Darkness, was nominated for an Academy Award for...
Trailer Watch: Palo Alto – Directed by Gia Coppola
There’s another Coppola getting into directing. Gia Coppola’s feature debut (which she wrote and directed) Palo Alto, premiered at Telluride and will screen at Toronto the next...
Women in Film Announces 28th Annual Film Finishing Fund Recipients
Women in Film announced the winners of their 28th annual Film Finishing Fund. The Film Finishing Fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that are by or about...
Sarah Siegel-Magness to Direct Castro’s Daughter
Sarah Siegel-Magness will direct Castro’s Daughter, based on the memoir written by Alina Fernandez. She will be replacing Michael Radford on the project. Fernandez was born in 1956,...
Women and Hollywood Events in Toronto 2013
I’m heading up to the Toronto Film Festival for the third time and again the anxiety of creating a decent schedule has set in. We will have a new feature on the site this year –...
You Can Decide – The European Film Awards People’s Choice Award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for its People’s Choice Award, the winners of which will be feted at the EFA ceremony on 7th December in Berlin. Academy Award winning...
Dakota Johnson to Star in Fifty Shades of Grey
The highly anticipated casting news of who will play Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation was announced yesterday. Dakota Johnson, of Fox’s...
Weekly Update for August 23 & 30: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Check out the women centric, directed and written films playing near you in the next two weeks. Films About Women Opening This Weekend August 23: Short Term 12 ...
Interview with Jill Soloway – Writer and Director of Afternoon Delight
Women and Hollywood got the chance to interview Jill Soloway about her film Afternoon Delight, which she wrote and directed. Afternoon Delight opens in theaters on August 30th. Women...
Listless Women and Life Realizations in The Lifeguard and Afternoon Delight
Entering into the late twenties–one becomes increasingly accustomed to seeing life’s so-called major plot points swelling around them–high school reunions, careers,...
SXSW Rerun: Interview with Brie Larson – Star of Short Term 12
Originally published on March 26. Short Term 12 is in theaters today. Short Term 12 , written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was hands down one of my favorite films I saw at SXSW....
Interview with Liz W. Garcia – Writer and Director of The Lifeguard
Women and Hollywood got the chance to speak to Liz W. Garcia, writer and director of The Lifeguard, which opens in theaters on August 30th. The film is also available on ITunes now. Women and...
Trailer Watch: Plush – Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
As of late, there hasn’t been much news about Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming, Plush, her first film since 2011’s Red Riding Hood. This week, a trailer and stills for the film...
Guest Post: For Life
In my country, a female director is a rare exception (but fortunately not for long). In the Middle-East, some consider that a miracle and others a heresy. On the set of Inch’Allah,...
Up and Comer to Watch: MJ Delaney
MJ Delaney came to our attention as the precocious directing talent behind a parody of Alicia Key’s New York State of Mind – the young filmmaker (25) scored over 2 million hits...
Patricia Clarkson as Katha Pollitt in Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive
Patricia Clarkson will play writer Katha Pollitt in Learning to Drive, a film based on Pollitt’s 2002 essay in The New Yorker. The film directed by Isabel Coixet and adapted by Sarah...
Cross Post: Legendary Passed On Red Reaper Because It Has a Female Action Hero
When Tara Cardinal’s labor of love and sweat and tears, the fantasy/action feature Legend of the Red Reaper, was written, it was shopped at various distributors and production...
Watch This: Say Yes – Directed by Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay has had a huge year so far–winning awards for Middle of Nowhere and being invited to join the Academy. That doesn’t even touch upon DuVernay’s increasingly prolific...
The 99ers Premieres Tonight on ESPN
I am a product of Title IX. I grew up playing soccer. It was the late 70s and early 80s and pretty much everyone I knew played soccer so I thought all girls did. It wasn’t...
Trailer Watch: Una Noche – Written and Directed by Lucy Mulloy
Lucy Mulloy’s feature debut (she previously directed the short documentary This Morning) is Una Noche. The film centers on Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) who is desperate to leave Havana to go and...
The Women Directed Films at 2013 New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival announced their 2013 main lineup. New films from Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland are in the line up. Of the 32 films in the lineup (not including...
Director Laura Poitras Is at the Center of the Biggest Political Story of the Year
Unless you live under a rock you know that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, political stories this year is the release of classified documents by Edward Snowden about the US government and...
Weekly Update for August 16: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Austenland – Written and Directed by Jerusha Hess, Adapted for the Screen by Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale Keri Russell plays unlucky in love Jane Hayes,...
Interview with Jerusha Hess – Writer and Director of Austenland
Women and Hollywood: Can you talk a little bit about what drew you to this project? Jerusha Hess: I got the book from the author. I had no idea about the book. I was interested in another project...
Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires Anita Hill Documentary
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Anita, the documentary about Anita Hill. Directed by Freida Mock, Anita follows the life of Anita Hill–looking at her experiences...
Susanne Bier and Julie Delpy Line Up New Gigs
Susanne Bier and Julie Delpy are in talks for two exciting and high-profile projects. Bier is getting set up to direct Saoirse Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots. Penelope Skinner alongside Michael Hirst...
Trailer Watch: Inch’Allah – Directed and Written by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s Inch’Allah follows Chloe (Evelyne Brochu) a young Canadian obstetrician working in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Chloe is face to face with...
Toronto 2013 Adds Films to Galas, Special Presentations and World Cinema
This year’s Toronto Film Festival has added more films to their Gala, Special Presentation and World Cinema programs. There are now 19 Galas with only one woman directed film out of that. The...
Fall 2013 Preview – The Women
Entertainment Weekly released its annual Fall Preview issue and so we thought it was time to do an overview of the women directed and women centric movies coming out over the next several months....
Cross Post: Heroines of Cinema: 15 Female Directors Who Made Their First Feature After Turning 40
Two weeks ago, this column profiled ten female directors aged 40 or younger . My reasons for imposing an age limit were clearly stated, but it had the unfortunate side...
Weekly Update for August 9: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Currently Playing Lovelace The only thing I knew about Linda Lovelace was that she was a porn star from the infamous porn movie Deep Throat. Sadly, I think...
Lake Bell’s Directorial Debut, In A World…, Smartly Examines Industry Sexism
Lake Bell’s directorial debut, In A World…, is a hilarious and uncomfortable look into how deeply sexism can plague an industry. She stars as Carol Solomon, a struggling...
Mira Nair to Direct Bengali Detective
Mira Nair is set to helm Bengali Detective as her next project. The film, which is based on a 2011 documentary by Phil Cox, follows a Calcutta based detective who while navigating the crime...
Women Created Pilot News Roundup
In the past week, there’s been a ton of notable women created pilot news. Writers like Marti Noxon, Jill Soloway and Rashida Jones (the soon to be dearly departed Ann Perkins from Parks and...
Tangerine Entertainment’s Juice Fund to Support Women Directors
Tangerine Entertainment, a production company and community builder for female filmmakers, has launched the Juice Fund. It will provide community involvement and a direct way to support women...
Trailer Watch: Enough Said – Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener’s latest Enough Said will premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival before hitting theaters. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva, a divorced, single parent and...
Trailer Watch: Paradise – Written and Directed by Diablo Cody
We’ve been reporting a lot about Diablo Cody’s directorial debut in the last couple weeks–first about the film’s initial October release alongside Kimberly Peirce’s...
Film and TV News Round Up for August 2nd: Lake Bell’s Next Project, SXSW Short to Lifetime and Sarah Hyland to Produce
Here’s a news round up of some of the most notable television and film news from the past couple days. Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland is going to star in and produce the indie...
Weekly Update for August 2nd: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
This week there are no new women centric, directed or written films opening. Here’s the list of what’s currently playing in theaters near you. Films About Women Currently Playing ...
Diablo Cody’s Paradise to Premiere on Direct TV Next Week
As we previously reported, Diablo Cody’s directorial debut was hitting theaters on October 18th, the same day that Kimberly Peirce’s remake of horror classic Carrie drops as...
Guest Post: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Gender Equality?
This piece is in response to a piece published on FilmInk that listed the 20 Most Powerful People in Australian Film As an Australian I’ve long believed that my home country’s industry...
Headline of the Week: Where Are All the Women Directors?
A story from the UK Telegraph entitled Where are All the Women Directors by David Gritten has been making its way around the internet over the last couple of days. On the surface the story...
Trailer Watch: A Teacher – Written and Directed by Hannah Fidell
Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher was a favorite at SXSW where Fidell won the Emergent Narrative Women Director Award at the festival. A new trailer for Fidell’s taut and unflinching film,...