#Women Directors
The Directing Workshop for Women 2013 Showcase
On Monday night I stepped into the Directors Guild Building for the first time to attend the annual showcase for the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women My feelings about that place are...
Watch This: Rose Troche’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Elliot King is Third’
Director Rose Troche has directed a short film for Futurestates, an online series of sci-fi shorts that explore the future of American society through a variety of topics. Troche’s short,...
Women Win Big at Australian Directors Guild Awards
Women won the majority of the major awards at last week’s Australian Directors Guild Awards. Cate Shortland won the Best Director award for her film Lore and Rachel Perkins won Best Director...
Olive Kitteridge Gets HBO Miniseries Treatment with Lisa Cholodenko and Frances McDormand
Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitizer winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, is set for a four-hour miniseries at HBO. Adapted by Jane Anderson, Olive Kitteridge tells the story of a small New England town...
Trailer Watch: Girl Most Likely – Written by Michelle Morgan and Co-Directed by Shari Springer Berman
This is Kristen Wiig’s first leading role onscreen since Bridesmaids. I hope people are not expecting Bridesmaids 2 because this looks a bit more intense. Formerly titled Imogene,...
Weekly Update May 3: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Kiss of the Damned – Written and Directed by Xan Cassavetes If you are a fan of horror films, especially not the torture porn crap of late, you’ll...
Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy to Take on 2014 Independence Day Box Office
As we anxiously countdown the days until The Heat is released on June 28th, we are always excited to hear any news about the lovely Melissa McCarthy. As we had previously reported, McCarthy was...
Guest Post: Aroused
I never thought I would ever make a documentary film, let alone one where my leading cast would be some of the biggest names in the Porn industry. I am a photographer, and yes, I have always felt...
Trailer Watch: Crazy Kind of Love – Directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness, Written by Karen McCullah Lutz
Crazy Kind of Love, directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness and written by Karen McCullah Lutz, focuses on a broken family helmed by Augusta (Virginia Madsen). However their relationships to one another...
TIFF Rerun: Interview with Susanne Bier – Director of Love Is All You Need
Originally published on September 19. Love Is All You Need opens in limited release on Friday. At the Toronto Film Festival you see a lot of heavy movies really early in the morning. Love is...
Jessica Chastain to Star in The Zookeeper’s Wife
Jessica Chastain has just signed on to star in The Zookeeper’s Wife, an adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s novel, that will be directed by Whale Rider director Niki Caro. With a...
AFI Holds Directing Workshop for Women Showcase
AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women program will be holding a screening of eight short films all directed by women. The films are a result of a year-long fellowship with AFI, honoring those in...
Nora Ephron, Cyndi Lauper Among Tony Award Nominees
Earlier this week, the 2013 Tony awards nominations were announced. Nora Ephron received a posthumous nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. Iconic pop star, Cyndi Lauper, was nominated for...
Guest Post: The Appearing Female Magician – Desperate Acts of Magic
When I was seven, my parents took me to a magic shop at Pier 39 in San Francisco. I bought my first magic trick, the Imp Bottle. I loved playing with it. Not long after that, my parents bought me a...
Women In Film, Los Angeles Announces Crystal + Lucy Awards Honorees
Women In Film, Los Angeles has announced their Crystal + Lucy Awards Honorees for 2013. It’s an extremely impressive lineup. The awards, established in 1977, celebrate women and men in the...
Guest Post: Can Major League Dreams Defy Martial Law?
In the face of daunting odds of gender, geography and living under the gun, women and girls are the power players in my new documentary – The Only Real Game. This is the first nonfiction...
Marianne Elliott and Helen Mirren Win at Olivier Awards
This year’s Olivier Awards winners, Britian’s prestigious awards for excellence in theatre, were announced on Sunday in London. Some new changes for the awards this year included a new...
LACMA Holds Special Film Series Highlighting Young Women Filmmakers from Mexico
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is holding a special film series featuring the work of young female filmmakers from Mexico on May 10-11. The series was organized with AMBULANTE, a non-profit...
Weekly Update April 26: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Sun Don’t Shine – Directed and Written by Amy Seimetz Written and directed by actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz (Tiny Furniture, Upstream Color and Pit...
Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi Directing New Films
Writer/Directors Tina Gordon Chism and Leila Djansi have some new projects that are currently being developed. Gordon Chism, whose directorial debut Peeples starring Kerry Washington hits theaters...
Cannes Adds 2 More Women Directed Films to Un Certain Regard, None to Competition
Today the Cannes Film Festival announced additions to their Competition and Un Certain Regard line ups. Two films directed by women were added to Un Certain Regard. Katrin Gebbe’s directorial...
Meera Menon Receives Inaugural Nora Ephron Prize
As we previously reported, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival established a new award in honor of the late, great Nora Ephron that would be given to a new emerging female filmmaker....
Hot Docs Preview: Interview with Liz Marshall – Director of The Ghost in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine is an extremely upsetting yet moving film about how we treat animals. It tells the story of Jo-Ann McArthur, a photographer, who has dedicated her life to showing the...
Cannes Announces Jury Members
Cannes just announced the members of this year’s Steven Spielberg led jury for the festival and to say it is a high profile bunch would be an understatement. Joining the jury is Oscar winning...
New Trailer for The Bling Ring – Directed by Sofia Coppola
As we’ve recently reported, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will be opening up Un Certain Regard at Cannes. On the heels of that announcement here comes another trailer for the film....
Ava DuVernay Wins Inaugural Heineken Affinity Award at Tribeca
One of our favorite women directors, Ava DuVernay has had an incredible year. And the accolades for DuVernay’s work, keep on rightly coming. Heineken, alongside the Tribeca Film...
Cannes Announces Critic Week and Directors Fortnight Line Ups
The Cannes Film Festival continues to roll out more of the lineup. Directors Fortnight: Henri by Yolande Moreau The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard El verano de los peces voladores by Marcela...
Trailer Watch: Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes – Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini
Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes made its debut at Sundance. The film follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who lives with her father (Alfred Molina) and stepmother (Frances...
A Night With Barbra Streisand
Monday evening, Barbra Streisand received the 40th Chaplin Award given by the Film Society at Lincoln Center. As you can guess the award was named after the first recipient Charlie Chaplin....
Infographic: Where are the Women Directors?
Fandor, a streaming movie service with a huge library of global independent films, has put together an infographic on the lack of women directors working within the Hollywood system. It does...
Barbra Streisand to Receive Chaplin Award for Lifetime Achievement
Tonight, Barbra Streisand will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award for her impressive carer. The society specifically mentioned her work in front and behind the camera...
Whose Responsibility Is It To Move The Dial for Women Directors?
So now that the Cannes lineup is in the rear view mirror it’s time for a moment of reflection. I want to thank Mr. Thierry Fremaux the head of the Cannes Film Festival, for inspiring this...
Weekly Update April 19: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Filly Brown A promising hip-hop rhymer from Los Angeles finds herself in a gray area when a record producer offers her a compromising shot at stardom. (From...
Vulture Includes No Women on 20 Essential Documentary List, Thom Powers Counters
Recently, Vulture listed their 20 Essential Documentaries of the century. Documentaries from Michael Moore, Werner Herzog and Morgan Spurlock made the cut, but not a single women-directed documentary...
Cannes Unveils 2013 Line Up With One Female Director in Main Competition
Well I guess there will be no petition or protests this year because the folks at Cannes have picked a single female directed film to compete in the main competition for this year’s festival....
Nora Ephron Prize at Tribeca Film Festival
In honor of the late, great Nora Ephron, the Tribeca Film Festival has created a new award after the writer/director, The Nora Ephron Prize. The $25,000 prize supported by Vogue.com will recognize a...
A Look at the Women’s Films Opening in the Summer of 2013
With the arrival of Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Movie Preview last week, the summer blockbuster season is officially creeping upon us. As always, be prepared for explosions, superheroes,...
Cross Post: Some Depressing Stats about Female Comedy Directors
Last week, I wrote about how rare it is to be a female director especially a female comedy director. Well, we decided to do some research and find out exactly how rare it is – here are the...
San Francisco International Film Festival Unveils Line Up
Last week, the 56th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival announced their line up. This will be the first festival with Ted Hope at the helm since he took over the Executive Director...
Sofia Coppola Talks Her Directing Style for DGA Quarterly
Sofia Coppola is known for an aesthetically gorgeous certain kind of film about people in some sort of life transition, wanting to become something else. As Coppola herself says in the...
Weekly Update April 12: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Currently Playing Free Angela and All Political Prisoners – Directed by Shola Lynch (doc) The Brass Teapot – Written and Directed by Ramaa Mosley 6 Souls The...
Poster Premiere: A River Changes Course – Kalyanee Mam
Kalyanee Mam’s A River Changes Course is a documentary that chronicles the lives of three Cambodian families who are dealing with the struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life while...
Is Barbra Streisand to Direct Film About Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell?
To be honest there is some confusion about this story. 411 is reporting that Barbra Streisand was going to direct Skinny and Cat to star Cate Blanchett about the lives of...
SXSW Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher
A Teacher is a tense, unflinching piece of film that gets under your skin and refuses to let go. It’s the tightly drawn portrait of Diana (Lindsay Burdge), a young high school teacher who is...
Trailer Watch: Farah Goes Bang – Directed by Meera Menon, written by Meera Menon and Laura Goode
Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month is Meera Menon’s Farah Goes Bang. Here’s the synopsis: Farah hits the road with her buddies to stump for John Kerry in the 2004...
Watch This: Full Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
After months of teaser trailers, the full trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie is here. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz as the iconic title character, Peirce’s reinvisioning of the film is...
Weekly Update April 5: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Free Angela and All Political Prisoners – Directed by Shola Lynch (doc) Review from the Toronto Film Festival: Sunday, a bit of history was explored...
Catherine Hardwicke to Direct Age of Miracles
Catherine Hardwicke has signed on to direct the adaptation of Karen Thompson Walker’s bestseller (and one of my favorite books of last year) Age of Miracles. Age of Miracles follows ten...
Cross Post: Women Film Festivals: Do We Need Them?
Recently Ottawa International Animation Festival director and programmer Chris Robinson asked in a private Facebook message to 10 female animators what they felt about gender specific festivals....
New Trailer Watch: Midnight’s Children – Directed by Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, adapted from Salman Rushdie’s novel, follows two children Saleem and Shiva, who are born just at the moment where India regains its freedom from...
Watch This: Jewel as June Carter Cash in Lifetime’s ‘Ring of Fire’
Singer Jewel will be starring as June Carter Cash in Lifetime’s television movie, Ring of Fire. Directed by the great Allison Anders (director of Gas, Food Lodging), the press materials...