#Women Writers
Jennifer Lawrence to Produce/Star in Susanne Bier’s Rules of Inheritance
Jennifer Lawrence is taking it to the next level. She is set to star in and produce The Rules of Inheritance based on Claire Bidwell Smith’s memoir of the same title. The story centers...
Women in View Releases Report on the Status of Women Working in TV in Canada
Women in View, a national non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing the Canadian media industry by strengthening gender and cultural diversity both on screen and behind the scenes...
Women’s Prize for Fiction Snags New Sponsor
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has just snagged a major sponsorship deal with liquor company Baileys. Starting in 2014, the prize will be known as the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction....
WGA Announces 101 Best Written TV Series – See the Women Written Shows on List
The Writers Guild of America just announced their 101 Best Written TV Series list. There are few women written shows on the list and none within the top ten. (To clarify- we have listed the...
Lois Smith, Jessica Hecht and Paula Vogel Among the Honorees at The 4th Annual Lilly Awards
The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre along with Julia Jordan, Theresa Rebeck, Marsha Norman, and Tim Sanford have announced the honorees for the 4th annual Lilly Awards. The...
Weekly Update May 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Hannah Arendt – Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Hannah Arendt was a complicated woman and director Margarethe von Trotta has made a complicated film...
Guest Post Rerun: American Mary Sets Out to Modify the Way You Think About Women in Horror
Originally published on October 30th. American Mary opens in limited release today and is available on VOD. In short, our film American Mary proclaims that she is the story of medical student Mary...
Book Excerpt: Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Treva Silverman is an Emmy winning television writer known for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. You can find more information on Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted here and here. Excerpt from MARY...
Trailer Watch: Paloma – Written and Directed by Julia Stiles on WIGS
As we’ve previously reported, Julia Stiles has made herself a force on the hit YouTube channel, WIGS that does scripted dramas and features with female leads. Stiles is currently starring in...
New Clip from Mara Brock Akil’s Being Mary Jane – Starring Gabrielle Union
We reported back in September that powerhouse Mara Brock Akil with husband/development partner Salim Akil were creating a new show for BET, Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union. The show...
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to Star in ‘Carol’
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in Carol–an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay and Todd Haynes is set to...
Weekly Update May 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Fill The Void – Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein I saw Fill the Void back in September at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s been making its...
Females Make Up Only 22% of Top Film Critics
In a new study released today by the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film, the stats about female critics at the top sites, newspapers and outlets shows that the business is still very...
The Importance of Changing Perspective
Since I write on the web, I spend a lot of time, as you can imagine, in front of my computer. Most days all day (except for a couple of dog walking breaks.) But this spring due to the...
Interview with Tassie Cameron – Creator and Executive Producer of Rookie Blue
The summer used to be a void of new TV shows. No more. Now summer has a bunch of series — many that star women like Rizzoli & Isles and Covert Affairs. Another one of those...
Tribeca: Interview with Jane Weinstock – Co-Writer/Director of The Moment
I was traveling a lot during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but thanks to technology I was able to catch some of the movies that I really wanted to see. One of those was the Jennifer...
Quote of the Day: Michelle Rodriguez on Female Writers
Fast and the Furious star Michelle Rodriguez is known for playing tough, take charge, bad ass women for much of her career in films like Girl Fight, Avatar, Resident Evil and on television in...
Weekly Update May 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Black Rock – Directed by Katie Aselton Black Rock is every woman’s worst nightmare. You go out on an adventure with friends and then things go...
Odes to Female Friendships Rule The Weekend with Katie Aselton’s Black Rock and Frances Ha
This weekend, two very different films that explore the intricacies of female friendships are hitting theaters (and VOD) near you: Katie Aselton’s thriller Black Rock and Noah Baumbach’s...
Trailer Roundup: Women Created Fall TV Shows
We’ve been reporting quite a bit about the Fall TV pick ups recently. Only 8 women created shows were picked up among all the networks which is a really depressing number. However, at least we...
Women Created Shows That Have Been Canceled
The last couple weeks have been a bloodbath when it’s come to television cancellations. Great women created shows like Ann Biderman’s Southland on TNT didn’t make it. Here are...
Guest Post: Bold Broads and Daring Dames: An Interview with Kim Krizan
Kim Krizan is an Academy Award-nominated writer of the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. She appeared as an actress in the films Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life. She wrote the...
First Trailer: FX’s The Bridge – Created by Meredith Stiehm
Earlier this year, FX announced the 13 episode pick up of Meredith Stiehm’s The Bridge, an adaptation of Bron about the Denmark/Sweden border. Steihm’s adaptation focuses on the...
Pilot Update: ABC Picks Up 3 Women Created Pilots, CBS Picks Up 1
As the upfronts continue, the television news keeps coming out. ABC has picked up 3 women created pilots, including Super Fun Night from the hilarious Rebel Wilson and Trophy Wife from Emily Halpern...
Women Directed and Written Projects Chosen for Sundance Institute’s June Directors and Screenwriters Labs
The Sundance Institute announced the 13 projects chosen for their prestigious June Director and Screenwriter Labs which take place from May 27-June 27. The program has fellows work with...
Weekly Update May 10: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Venus and Serena – Directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major (doc) Venus and Serena takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest...
Pilot Watch: The CW Is Clear Early Winner for Women, NBC and Fox Order No Women Written Shows
This is crunch week in TV land where current shows either get picked up for next season or cancelled and some happy pilot writers get a series pickup. As of this morning, NBC, Fox and The...
Novelist Claire Messud Schools Publishers Weekly
Claire Messud’s latest novel, The Woman Upstairs, has been getting a ton of great critical buzz (and was also in the recent women’s fiction satire video Ron Charles released). In an...
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...
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...
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...
Guest Post: Marilyn Monroe Comic Book Tribute
I had written one comic book for the publisher, Bluewater Productions, which was about Elizabeth Taylor and they asked me to take on Marilyn. I said yes because I loved writing the first one so much,...
Trailer Watch: Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes – Starring Willa Holland
Teenagers of many generations have connected to Judy Blume’s iconic novels that focus on their interior lives. It’s actually pretty surprising that none of Blume’s work hasn’t...
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...
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...
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,...
Zadie Smith on Granta and Women’s Prize for Fiction Lists
The truly great Zadie Smith is up for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her most recent novel, NW. Smith is also on Granta’s 2013 list of the 20 most promising British authors under...
Trailer Watch: The English Teacher – Co-Written by Stacy Chariton
The English Teacher, co-written by Stacy Chariton and starring Julianne Moore follows an English teacher in a small town who gets involved with a former student. Here’s a description from the...
2013 Lucille Lortel Awards Nominations Announced
This year’s Lucille Lortel Awards nominees have been announced and it’s great news for women writers. 3 of the 5 plays nominated for Outstanding Play are written by women. The Lucille...
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...
Guerrilla Girls Call for Girlcott of The Alley Theatre
Houston’s Alley Theatre announced its 2013-14 season with 9 plays that examine the “American character.” Not one of the plays is written by a female playwright. All 9 plays are...
Heroine of the Day: Deborah Copaken Kogan
Yesterday a shit bomb was dropped on the internet in the form of an essay by photographer/TV producer/novelist Deborah Copaken Kogan entitled My So-Called Post Feminist Life in Arts and Letters which...
Talking Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal on Melissa Harris-Perry
On this last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show she devoted a whole segment to Shonda Rhimes’ show Scandal. In the segment she is joined by Andrea Plaid, Heather McGee, Joy-Ann...
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...
Interview with Karen Struck and Amanda Johns – Writers on Monday Mornings
For the last couple of months I have been enjoying the new series Monday Mornings created by David E. Kelley. It’s a hospital drama that focuses on the surgeons and the meeting each week...
Katie Dippold Signs 7-Figure Deal With Chernin Entertainment
Katie Dippold’s writing future just got a little brighter. Her film The Heat, directed by Bridemaids‘ Paul Feig and starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy hasn’t...