#Women Screenwriters
January 2023 Film Preview
The 2022 winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear hits finally hits theaters this month. Carla Simón’s “Alcarràs,” a portrait of a family of peach farmers in a small village in...
Nicole Holofcener, Lynn Novick, & Jenny Han Among 2023 Nantucket Film Fest Honorees
Women will dominate the tribute awards at the upcoming Nantucket Film Festival. A press release announced that Nicole Holofcener, Lynn Novick, and Jenny Han will each be honored at the 2023 festival,...
Writer to Watch: Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence of “Twenties”
Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence uses writing as a means of world-building. Raised in both Washington, D.C. and Honolulu, Hawai’i in “a family of activists, critical race theorists, and freedom...
Catherine Schetina’s “Pure” Tops the 2022 Black List
A woman-penned script tops the 2022 Black List. Catherine Schetina, best known for writing on acclaimed Hulu kitchen drama “The Bear,” received the most votes on the annual list of...
Trailer Watch: Sheila Francisco Is a Screenwriter in a Coma in Martika Ramirez Escobar’s “Leonor Will Never Die”
“Do you think Ma will wake up if we make her movie?” the son of a retired cinema legend, now comatose, asks in the newest trailer for Martika Ramirez Escobar’s “Leonor Will Never Die. The...
Scripts About Riot Grrrls, LGBTQ+ Divorce, & Women Filmmakers Selected for 2022 Athena Writers Lab
This year, the Athena Writers Lab is offering virtual mentorship, networking opportunities, and peer-to-peer review sessions to the scribes of an adventure pic about an all-women expedition across...
Rewriting Heroes: Crowdfunding Picks
Everybody thinks they could use a hero now and again. However, the enshrined out-of-this-world idol dreamed up to cure all that ails often fizzles away in the face of reality. Super humans...
Marina Kato Receives AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant
Marina Kato will develop a feature-length screenplay as this year’s recipient of the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant. According to a press release, the grant will support the...
Apply Now: 2020 Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40
The Writers Lab is gearing up for its 2020 edition. Applications for the program will be accepted beginning January 27. An intensive screenplay development retreat for women screenwriters who are 40...
“Wild Rose” Screenwriter Nicole Taylor on Country Music & Crafting Mother-Daughter Stories
Screenwriter Nicole Taylor hails from Glasgow, where her new film “Wild Rose” takes place. A huge fan of country music, her film, directed by Tom Harper, is about a burgeoning country singer...
Writer to Watch: Katie Silberman of “Booksmart” and “Set It Up”
Katie Silberman has an affinity for romantic comedies. She penned 2018’s Netflix hit “Set It Up,” a story about two assistants falling in love while plotting to get their terrible...
Apply Now: CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition
CinemaStreet Pictures is hosting a contest for short scripts from female screenwriters. The CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition is accepting women-penned scripts of 20 pages or...
2019 Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab Participants Announced
The Athena Film Festival has selected this year’s Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab cohort. Eight women-written projects have made the cut. Their scribes will attend the Lab, a script development...
Writer to Watch: “The Little Drummer Girl’s” Claire Wilson
Persistence and playing the long game have been the secrets to UK screenwriter Claire Wilson’s success. The co-writer of new AMC/BBC One miniseries “The Little Drummer Girl” was in...
Submit Your Script to the 2019 Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab
The Athena IRIS Screenwriting Lab is accepting scripts for its 2019 edition. If you’re a female-identifying writer with a feature-length screenplay centering on at least one woman in a...
Submissions Are Open for the 2019 Athena Film Festival
Attention filmmakers with a short or screenplay depicting a female leader: The Athena Film Festival is now accepting submissions. Co-founded by Women and Hollywood founder and publisher Melissa...
Tangerine Fellowship for Outstanding Female Screenwriter Now Accepting Applications
Stowe Story Labs and Tangerine Entertainment have announced that the application period for the second annual Tangerine Fellowship for an Outstanding Female Screenwriter is now open. The goal of the...
Trailer Watch: Salma Hayek-Pinault Revolts in “Septembers of Shiraz”
While Ben Affleck’s “Argo” may have offered a comedic take on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Septembers of Shiraz” appears, from the looks of the new trailer, to make a more serious...