#Women Writers
Pick of the Day: “The Half of It”
I remember going to see Alice Wu’s directorial debut, “Saving Face” — probably at the Angelika in NYC. It was the first movie I saw with queer Asian women. It was a great jolt....
Pick of the Day: “Betty”
Impossibly cool while remaining relatable, the young women at the center of “Betty” are amazing athletes and seem like they’d make equally amazing company. An adaptation of Crystal...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Michèle Stephenson – “Stateless”
As co-founder of Rada Studio, Michèle Stephenson pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots and experience as a human rights attorney to tell provocative stories that speak to personal and systemic...
The Director & Stars of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” Consider the Film a Classical Hero’s Journey
For her third feature, Eliza Hittman took on the painful, infuriating realities of seeking a legal abortion in the United States. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” tells the story of Autumn, a...
May 2020 Film Preview
This May offers a wide selection of women-made and centric films of all genres to check out on VOD and streaming platforms. Starting off the month is “The Half of It,” which hits Netflix...
Romola Garai’s “Amulet” Lands at Magnet Releasing
Romola Garai’s feature directorial debut has secured distribution. Variety reports that Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet Releasing scored North American rights to “Amulet,” with plans to...
Pick of the Day: “Normal People”
An adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel, “Normal People” tells the story of an on again/off-again couple in Ireland who keep finding their way back to one another. At...
Teaser Watch: A Night Out Becomes a Nightmare in Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You”
“How’d you smash your phone?” a friend asks Arabella Essiuedu in the teaser for “I May Destroy You.” This question makes Arabella (Michaela Coel) freeze in her tracks....
TV Adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s “Adults” in the Works
“Animals” author and screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth is set to adapt another of her own novels, this time for the small screen. She’ll pen and exec produce a series adaptation of...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Dea Gjinovci – “Wake Up on Mars”
Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director and producer. She is a 2019 Sundance Talent Forum alum and 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her award-winning documentary short “Sans le Kosovo”...
Breaking Barriers: Crowdfunding Picks
We all eventually face barriers of some kind. These barriers can be personal or professional, and often concern both ourselves and the families and communities we come from. Our latest crowdfunding...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume V)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Nora Fingscheidt’s “System Crasher” Dominates German Film Awards
“System Crasher” stole the show at the 2020 German Film Awards. Nora Fingscheidt’s feature debut snagged eight Lolas, including best birector and best feature. This year’s...
Weekly Update for April 24: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Brea Grant – “12 Hour Shift”
Brea Grant is a multi-hyphenate from Texas best known for acting in “Heroes” and “Dexter” and for writing and directing the apocalyptic feature “Best Friends...
Pick of the Day: “To the Stars”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. When we spoke to Martha...
Nancy Kelly on the Re-Release of “Thousand Pieces of Gold” and the Drama’s Continued Relevance
Nancy Kelly is a self-taught filmmaker who, having fallen in love with filmmaking, quit her job and moved from Massachusetts to the high desert on the California/Nevada border in the 1980s. Though...
Connie Britton Developing HBO Max Docuseries Based on Rebecca Traister’s “All the Single Ladies”
Connie Britton and her producing partner, Elyse Klaits, are bringing a project about the role, treatment, and influence of unmarried women in the U.S to HBO Max. The Hollywood Reporter confirms they...
“Russian Doll” Co-Creator Leslye Headland Has a “Star Wars” Series in the Works at Disney+
After exploring a glitch in the time-space continuum in “Russian Doll,” an unexpected romance between a serial cheater and a womanizer in “Sleeping with Other People,” and the...
Pick of the Day: “Marcy Learns Something New”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. In “Marcy Learns...
Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, and More Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning “Girl, Woman, Other” and Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, “The Mirror & the Light,” are...
Jessica Swale’s “Summerland” Goes to IFC Films, Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw Star
Jessica Swale’s feature directorial debut has secured distribution. IFC Films snagged U.S. rights to “Summerland,” a period drama led by Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, The...
Natasha Rothwell, Abbi Jacobson, & Ilana Glazer Team Up for Animated Comedy Central Pilot “Malltown”
An “Insecure” actress and writer is joining forces with “Broad City’s” stars and creators on an animated project. Natasha Rothwell, who plays Kelly on HBO’s...
Dakota Fanning-Starrer “Sweetness in the Belly” Goes to Gravitas Ventures
Dakota Fanning’s latest has secured distribution. Gravitas Ventures landed U.S. rights to Fanning-starrer “Sweetness in the Belly,” an adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s 2005 novel...
Trailer Watch: Nancy Kelly’s Feminist Western “Thousand Pieces of Gold” Gets a 4K Restoration
In honor of its new 4K restoration, “Thousand Pieces of Gold,” Nancy Kelly’s 1990 feminist Western, is coming to virtual theaters. According to a press release, the Rosalind...
Trailer Watch: Ruth Bradley Solves a Mystery in “Agatha and the Truth of Murder”
“I’m a writer, not a detective,” says Agatha Christie (Ruth Bradley) in a new trailer for “Agatha and the Truth of Murder.” Enlisted by a fan to help solve a murder, the...
Weekly Update for April 17: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Kasi Lemmons Will Write and Direct Adaptation of Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King”
Kasi Lemmons will follow up “Harriet,” her biopic of abolitionist and civil rights activist Harriet Tubman, by paying tribute to other brave and rebellious women. She’s signed on to...
Reed Morano in Talks to Direct Jennifer Lopez Drug Lord Pic “The Godmother”
Jennifer Lopez is teaming up with another female director. The multi-hyphenate scored her biggest live-action opening of all-time and career-best reviews in Lorene Scafaria’s...
Pick of the Day: “Selah and The Spades”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. Meet your new favorite...
Trailer Watch: Alicia Silverstone and Jessica Rothe Revisit “Valley Girl”
After being forced to re-live her brutal death day after day in “Happy Death Day” and “Happy Death Day 2U,” Jessica Rothe is once again traveling back in time in “Valley...
Trailer Watch: Mindy Kaling Takes on High School in “Never Have I Ever”
“High school’s a dick,” says Devi Vishwakumar (newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) in a new trailer for “Never Have I Ever.” Created by Mindy Kaling and based on the...
Lorena Bobbitt to Tell Her Story in “Ripped from the Headlines” Lifetime Feature
With its next “Ripped from the Headlines” feature, Lifetime is giving Lorena Bobbitt the opportunity to tell her own story. On Memorial Day, May 25, the network is airing TV movie...
“Miss Juneteenth” Lands at Vertical Entertainment
“Miss Juneteenth” has secured distribution. Vertical Entertainment scored North American rights to Channing Godfrey Peoples’ award-winning feature directorial debut, Deadline...
Annabel Oakes Will Write and Exec Produce HBO Max’s “Grease” Spinoff
“Transparent” alumna Annabel Oakes will offer a fresh spin on the “Summer Nights” of yore. She’s been tapped to write the pilot for “Grease: Rydell High,”...
Katia Lewkowicz’s “Ballsy Girl” Heading to Amazon Prime in France
Amazon Prime Video has acquired its first French film. Per Cineuropa, the streaming platform has picked up Katia Lewkowicz’s “Ballsy Girl,” a comedy that was originally supposed to...
Weekly Update for April 10: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films You Can Watch from Home
Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent restrictions, Women and Hollywood is shifting its focus to online content. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. (Please keep in mind that...
Sonejuhi Sinha on Telling a Story About Outsiders in America in “Stray Dolls”
Sonejuhi Sinha has worked as a director and editor on acclaimed feature films, documentaries, and commercials. Her first narrative short, “Love Comes Later,” premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film...
Teaser Watch: Christina Applegate & Linda Cardellini Are Partners in Crime in “Dead to Me” Season 2
“We are not in ‘Snow White.’ We are in fucking ‘Scarface!'” says Christina Applegate in a new teaser for “Dead to Me.” The dark comedy’s second season...
These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume IV)
It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...
Nun Thriller “Mercy House” in the Works at CBS Access from Corinne Brinkerhoff & Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer is working on a thriller. The Peabody and Emmy-winning stand-up, actress, screenwriter, director, and producer has boarded a project about renegade nuns. She’s signed on to exec...
Elizabeth Chomko Will Helm “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me,” Story of Four Generations of Women
Elizabeth Chomko will follow up her 2018 feature directorial debut “What They Had” with another intergenerational story. She’s locked in to helm an adaptation of Bess Kalb’s...
Sally Potter Discusses “The Roads Not Taken” at the Inaugural Girls Club Event
Sally Potter is one of the world’s most interesting filmmakers. She’s made films with shoestring budgets, and some bigger movies as well — no matter their size, they are always intriguing....
Pick of the Day: “Killing Eve”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. I love a lot about...
Debra Eisenstadt on Tackling Motherhood, Identity, and Addiction in “Blush”
Debra Eisenstadt works as a writer, director, producer, and editor. She began her career as an actress, most notably starring in the theater and film versions of David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”...
Family Legacies: Crowdfunding Picks
Family can come with a lot of baggage, good and bad. Our latest crowdfunding picks examine all the complications of our familial relationships — the ones we choose and the ones we don’t...
Exec Tara Duncan Inks Deal with Hulu, Lines Up Adaptation of “The Other Black Girl”
Former Netflix executive Tara Duncan is going into business with Hulu. Deadline confirms the “She’s Gotta Have It” exec producer has signed an overall deal with the streamer —...
Trailer Watch: Alice Wu’s “The Half of It” Is a Different Kind of Teen Rom-Com
Sparks fly between a jock and a shy nerd in a new trailer for “The Half of It.” We’ve seen this story hundreds of times, but never quite like this. Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer,...
A Female-Led “Doogie Howser” Reboot Is Being Developed at Disney+
A teenage girl will step into Doogie Howser’s scrubs. A female-led reboot of “Doogie Howser, M.D.” is in the works at Disney+, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Hailing from Kourtney...
“Sea Fever’s” Neasa Hardiman on Transforming a Female Scientist into a “Quasi-Mythological Hero”
Neasa Hardiman is a BAFTA-winning director and writer whose work spans film and television drama. Her short films have won numerous international prizes. Her recent credits include BBC’s...
Watch: Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, & Missy Elliott on “The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel”
Some of hip-hop’s biggest icons have teamed up for a biopic celebrating other trailblazing women in music. Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, and Missy Elliott joined forces with Holly Carter to...