#Women Directors
Women Make Movies Up for $1,000,000 Prize from American Giving Awards
Women Make Movies, an incredible New York based non-profit that supports and distributes women directed documentaries from around the world, is one of the 25 finalists for the 2012 American Giving...
Stacie Passon Wins Two Women Directing Awards
Stacie Passon has had a big couple of weeks. First on November 20 she won this year’s IFP Labs/Adrienne Shelly Foundation Director’s Grant for her film Concussion at the...
Women Nominees from 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards
The 28th Annual Film Independent Spirit Award nominees were announced yesterday. And while some of the results are less than stellar (zero women directed films for best feature (seriously!), no women...
Trailer Watch: Love Is All You Need – Directed by Susanne Bier
We saw Susanne Biers' follow-up film to her Academy Award winning In a Better World at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival where we interviewed the director. Here is a new trailer. As of...
Guest Post: Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks: The Parallels between Children’s Brains and the Global Brain of the Internet
We’re constantly striving to push ourselves further. When we couldn’t see far enough, we invented the telescope. When we needed to speak with people who weren’t within shouting...
Bryce Dallas Howard and Ron Howard Launch Short Film Contest
Bryce Dallas Howard is following in her dad's footsteps and getting into directing. The two teamed up when Dallas Howard directed the short film, when you find me based on eight user...
Guest Post: Loaded Questions
I started working on my first feature film Fully Loaded in 2007. It was like climbing a mountain four times as high as it says in the damn guidebook. It was like changing churches. It was...
Interview with Delphine and Muriel Coulin – Co-Directors/Writers of 17 Girls
17 Girls, directed and written by sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, was inspired by the Massachusetts story about a group of teenage girls who all make a pact to get pregnant and raise their...
Interview with Ruba Nadda – Writer/Director of Inescapable
To be considered for TIFF Gala status, your movie has to have two things: major stars and major audience interest. Only two Canadian films are getting the Gala treatment this year, and both of them...
Interview with So Yong Kim – Writer/Director of For Ellen
So Yong Kim's For Ellen stars Paul Dano in a beautiful performance as a young father forced to make a life altering decision about his relationship with his daughter Ellen. Dano plays Joby...
Interview with Aurora Guerrero–Writer/Director of Mosquita y Mari
Mosquita y Mari writer and director Aurora Guerrero answered some questions (by email) fresh from the film recently winning Best Actress (Fenessa Pineda) and the Audience Award for Outstanding First...
Interview with Anne Emond and Catherine de Lean – Writer/Director and Star of Nuit #1
I met Anne last spring in Cologne, Germany at the International Women's Film Festival where her film played. We were able to reconnect when she came to town to promote her provocative...
Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist to Open The Venice Film Festival
Mira Nair's new film The Reluctant Fundamentalist will open the 69th Venice Film Festival on August 29th. It will screen out of competition. Festival director Alberto Barbera said...
Pariah Writer/Director Dee Rees Talks to Lincoln Center’s Richard Pena
Guest Post: Interview with Sophia Takal – Writer/Director of Green by Melissa Silvestri
Actress/writer Sophia Takal’s directorial debut, Green, is a film that is both dark in its themes of jealousy, yet shines with a natural ease depicting the burgeoning friendship of two very...
Circumstance – Written and Directed by Maryam Keshavarz Closes New Directors/New Films
This evening Maryam Keshavarz’ Sundance award winning film will close the New Directors/New Film series in NYC. I spoke with Maryam this week and the full interview will be available when the...
New Directors/New Films – The Women
I always looks at the lineup of New Directors/New Films as a kind of Sundance east because some of the best of Sundance inevitably make it to NYC for this festival. Some highlights from Sundance...