#Women Directors
Trailer Watch: Venus and Serena – Directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major
Check out the trailer for Venus and Serena, directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major. The documentary gives us a look into the lives of bad-ass, iconic tennis powerhouses Venus and Serena Williams...
Weekly Update March 29: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend The Host From Stephenie Meyer (author of the Twilight Saga) comes “The Host,” a love story set in the future, where earth is occupied by a species...
SXSW Interview with Sini Anderson, Tamra Davis and Kathleen Hanna of The Punk Singer
I can’t write about Sini Anderson’s great documentary The Punk Singer without mentioning that Kathleen Hanna has been one of my life-long heroes. When I was sixteen a friend gave me...
SXSW Review: Women-Directed Shorts including Sequin Raze and Ellen Is Leaving
At SXSW I was able to catch some excellent short films. There were a bunch of great women-centric ones including: Dotty a funny and touching look at an elderly woman struggling to send a...
Peabody Award Winners Include Switched At Birth, Girls, Southland
The Peabody Awards announced the winners for their 72nd annual awards. The Peabody Awards recognize “distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable and Webcasters,...
Bring Shola Lynch’s Free Angela & All Political Prisoners to Your Local Theater
Shola Lynch’s Free Angela & All Political Prisoners focuses on the remarkable life of the incomparable Angela Davis, a professor, a member of the Communist party and influential social...
Details Emerge on Lynne Ramsay’s Exit
We’ve been talking a lot about Lynne Ramsay here at Women and Hollywood since her departure from Jane Got a Gun last week. Confirmed details are still scarce, but rumors and commentary have...
SXSW Interview with Brie Larson – Star of Short Term 12
Short Term 12, written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, was hands down one of my favorite films I saw at SXSW. The film follows Grace (Brie Larson), a young staffer at a group home who...
Helen Mirren Stands Up For a Future Full of Women Directors
On Sunday evening, Helen Mirren who has always been wonderfully outspoken in calling out sexism in Hollywood, used the occasion of being awarded the Legend award from Empire magazine to...
Sundance 2013 Roundup: Women Directed Films Received Distribution
If you remember, the Sundance lineup in US features and US documentarues documentaries evenly divided between female and male directors. Since it’s been a couple of...
Weekly Update March 22: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Admission – Written by Karen Croner Comedies today seem to always go for the broadest, raunchiest laughs. The audience is not trusted to get the...
More Lynne Ramsay News
As expected, the initial reports of the Lynne Ramsay departure from Jane Got a Gun were very sketchy. More details are coming out, among them the important detail that Ramsay did not just NOT...
6 of 8 Film Independent DocuLab Fellows Are Women Directors
Film Independent has chosen eight projects for their 2013 Documentary Lab — six of those projects are directed by women. Each filmmaker will participate in an eight week program that helps...
Director Lynne Ramsay Leaves Jane Got a Gun Just As Production Was to Begin
Deadline reported yesterday that director Lynne Ramsay had quit Jane Got a Gun which is to star Natalie Portman the morning production was to have begun — Tuesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This...
movieScope Launches Women in Film Issue
In super cool news, movieScope, a magazine looking at the film industry, has launched their inaugural Women in Film issue. The 64 page, March/April 2013 issue will look at women working in all...
Directors UK and BBC Studying Lack of Women Directors
Directors UK and the BBC are working together to investigate the lack of women directors in television. Talent executive, Jo Hatley, will lead the research working with internal commissioners,...
Interview with Jennifer Fox, Director, Producer and Subject of Flying: Confessions of a Free Women
Originally published on May 12, 2008. Fox’s series Confessions of a Free Woman follows Fox’s personal journey around the globe to discover what it means to be a woman today. While...
Weekly Update March 15: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Ginger and Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter After the dust settles, Ginger and Rosa is going to turn out to be one of my the highlights of...
SXSW Announces Film Festival Winners
I’ve been here on the ground at SXSW for Women and Hollywood and have had the opportunity to see some incredible films, many of which I’m so pleased to say won awards. Destin Daniel...
Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the world-wide distribution rights to Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely. Premiering at Sundance, the film, directed and written by Shelton, follows Abby...
Come Join Women and Hollywood at Events This Week in NYC
I’ll be participating in two events in NYC this week that people can attend. Both events are free. The first is Thursday evening March 14th at 7pm sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild...
Trailer Watch: Top of the Lake – a Mini-Series Directed by Jane Campion
It’s always important to note when something by Jane Campion is about to be released. Next week starts a seven part mini series Top of the Lake written and directed by Campion....
Nancy Meyers New Film To Be At Sony
There are not a lot of women who direct at the studio level. I can count them on two hands. The loss of Nora Ephron took one big name off the list, so it is always important to note when...
Trailer Watch: Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley
Actress and now very talented director, Sarah Polley has a new documentary that premiered last fall in Toronto. Stories We Tell received a good deal of critical praise as it made its way around...
Hot Docs and Full Frame Announce 2013 Line Ups: The Women
Last week, the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival announced their special presentations line up. The festival runs from April 25-May 5 in Toronto. They are set to announce...
Watch This: The Bling Ring Teaser Trailer – Directed by Sofia Coppola
The teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring has finally dropped. The film, based on true events, follows a group of teens obsesses by celebrity and the power it has in our culture who...
Women In Film 2013 Finishing Fund Taking Applications
Applications are now being accepted for Women In Film’s 2013 Finishing Fund grants. Each winning project will receive up to $15,000 in cash — in-kind and consultation grants. All...
Weekly Update March 8: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Electrick Children – Written and Directed by Rebecca Thomas Rachel is a rambunctious teenager from a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah. On...
Interview With Ramona S. Diaz Director of Don’t Stop Believin
Don’t Stop Believin‘ is a terrific crowd pleasing documentary of the rags to riches story of Arnel Pineda who took over as the lead singer of the rock band Journey after he was spotted on...
Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup: Women Directors
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival announcement is fantastic for both films directed by women and written by. The festival, in its 12th year, will be hosted in locations around New York City...
Guest Post: DGA Women Directors Foment a Rebellion
This past Saturday, March 2, 2013, became an historic day as the DGA Women’s Steering Committee hosted the DGA Women of Action Summit in LA bringing together 150 female American directors for a...
Interview With Kristi Jacobson And Lori Silverbush, Directors of A Place At The Table
A Place At the Table is a riveting new documentary by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush that illustrates the mounting hunger crisis in the U.S. The film is not only one of the most gripping...
Trailer Watch: Eden – Directed by Megan Griffiths
Eden, directed by Megan Griffiths, is based on the true-story of Chong Kim in the 90s, who was kidnapped at 18 and held as a sex slave for two years. It shows how human trafficking happens not only...
Weekly Update March 1: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Movies Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Stoker – Starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman Director Park Chan-Wook’s first English language film (fitting in well with his revenge trilogy...
Senate Drops Zero Dark Thirty Investigation
A day after the Academy Awards and the essential shut out of Zero Dark Thirty (except for an award for Sound Editing), the Senate Intelligence Committee announced that they were dropping the...
Women In Film International Committee Co-Sponsors Tri-City Showcase of Films by Cuban Women
The Women In Film International Committee, the Cuban Women Filmmakers Mediatheque, the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC) and the American Cinematheque are taking on a...
SXSW Watch: Improvement Club – Directed by Dayna Hanson
This year Women and Hollywood will be at SXSW. One of the films we are excited to catch is Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club which is competing in Narrative. Hanson wrote, directed and stars in...
Women-Directed Films Announced for 42nd New Directors/New Films Series
The 42nd New Directors/New Films has announced their lineup. Co-hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art the series takes place from March 20-31. Here are the women...
Middle of Nowhere and The Invisible War Win at Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards were also held this weekend. Some of our favorite films of the past year, Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and The Invisible War were recognized. Here are the...
Women Deserved Better at the 2013 Oscars
With Seth McFarlane hosting the Oscars, we here at Women and Hollywood weren’t expecting much. But the sexist, racist, homophobic and completely unfunny spree that McFarlane hosted was even...
Lake Bell’s In A World Gets Post-Sundance Pick Up
Lake Bell’s directorial debut In A World finally got a post-Sundance pick up by Roadside Attractions and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. This was one of our favorite movies at...
Trailer Watch: Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey – Directed by Ramona S. Diaz
Ramona S. Diaz's documentary Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey follows the story of Arnel Pineda, a Filipino man who through being discovered on YouTube became the new lead...
Weekly Update February 22: Women-Centric, Directed, Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Currently Playing Beautiful Creatures Lore – Directed by Cate Shortland Side Effects Mama Zero Dark Thirty – Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Rust and...
Bloomberg Story On Why Women in Hollywood Can’t Get Financing
Yesterday, Bloomberg published a great article 'Why Women in Hollywood Can't Get Film Financing?' by Lauren Sandler. Sandler discusses the dismal statistics, the research out of Sundance...
Trailer Watch: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Here's the latest trailer of Ginger & Rosa from Sally Potter. It premiered in Toronto last September and has played the festival circuit last year to good reviews. The film focuses on the...
Trailer Watch: Nine for IX
This totally made my day. As a big women's sports fan here are NINE short films about women's sports directed by women. Executive producer Robin Roberts (who returned to Good Morning America...
Cross Post: This Is What Directors Look Like (Or at Least 9% of Them)
I attended the launch of Melissa Silverstein's book, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talking at the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. This is a collection of interviews with over-40 female...
IFP’s Independent Filmmakers Lab Seeking New Filmmakers
IFP’s Independent Filmmakers Lab is on the lookout for new voices in film. It’s a year-long fellowship supporting new, independent filmmakers through completion, marketing and...
To the Academy: Consider the Women Directors
It's Academy Awards week and the ballots are closed. While we don't know the winners yet, one thing we know for sure is that no women have again been nominated for best director. This...
Trailer Watch: Two Mothers – Directed by Anne Fontaine
Anne Fontaine's Two Mothers premiered at Sundance to mixed reviews. The film follows the friendship of two mothers (Robin Wright and Naomi Watts) who both sleep with each other's extremely...
Cross Post: A Female Tarantino
As a recently decided film major midway through the fall of my sophomore year, I was sitting in the back of 511 Dodge Hall at Columbia University, idly doodling in the minutes before my Script...