#Women Writers
New Trailer: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Sally Potter's gorgeous Ginger & Rosa was one of my favorite films from last year's AFI Film Festival. A coming of age story, set during the Cold War, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning)...
Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty Win Big at EDA Awards
Zero Dark Thirty has swept, yet again, another awards ceremony, this time around at the EDA Awards, from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Bigelow received the award for best director, Mark...
Athena Film Festival Announces 2013 Line Up
I am so very proud to be sharing with you the line-up for the 3rd Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership, which will take place this upcoming February 7-10 on the campus on...
Watch This: Best of 2012: Women in Film
Check out this extremely cool trailer mashup of women in film from 2012 from Pawn Takes Queen Productions. It features both performances and behind the scenes from some of the best moments women...
Two Women Nominated for 2013 Writers Guild Awards
Last week, the Writers Guild of America announced the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards. Out of all the categories, original, adapted and documentary screenplay—only two...
Women Severely Underrepresented in British Theatre
Last month the Guardian, building on earlier research of Elizabeth Freestone, artistic director of Pentabus theatre, took a look at the status of women in British Theatre and found some disturbing...
Cross Post: Heroines of Cinema: An A-Z of Women in Film in 2012
Since this column began in August, it has profiled a wide variety of women – fictional and real, contemporary and historic – whose achievements in film have been considered worthy of...
Trailer Watch: The Heat Red-Band Trailer – Written by Katie Dippold
We previously posted the trailer for the Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock cop comedy, The Heat. The recently released red-band trailer (NSFW) gives you a better look at what to expect of the Katie...
Cross Post: Breaking Into the Film Business
So, recently I've been gaining a little modest traction in this oh-so-fickle business. And as I try to figure out what the next phase of my career will hold, I've been finding myself...
Cross Post: Too Old?
DC playwrights are watching their "in" boxes this week, awaiting word about whether they've been accepted into Arena Stage's playwrights' group. Six locals will be invited to...
6 of 12 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab Project Picks Written by Women
The Sundance Institute has picked 12 projects to participate in their January Screenwriters Lab. The workshop provides writers the opportunity to find financing and other resources for their films....
Angelina Jolie Wields Power over Salt 2 Script
Sony is reportedly negotiating with Becky Johnston to take over writing duties for Salt 2. Jolie has been in talks to reprise her role as a CIA agent turned Russian sleeper cell agent. In 2011,...
Variety Announces 10 Directors and Screenwriters to Watch, 4 are Women
Variety announced 10 directors and screenwriters to watch for the upcoming year. Out of the 20, 4 women were included, 2 for each. The directors will be profiled in the January 3rd issue of...
UK’s Women in Film and Television Awards Honors 15 Women
At the U.K.’s 22nd annual Women in Film and Television Awards, fifteen women were honored from all aspects of television and film. Amongst the winners were Clare Balding, a sports presenter,...
9 Women Included on The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Most Powerful Authors
The Hollywood Reporter announced their inaugural list of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. They based the selection of living authors on how successful they’ve been in getting their...
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...
Link Roundup: TV Edition- November 2012
There has been a ton of women centric TV news, some of which we haven't had the chance to cover. Here's a round up of some recent women in TV news. Diablo Cody Developing Romantic Comedy...
A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series
I had the opportunity to speak with the hugely successful and very interesting screenwriter and TV writer Melissa Rosenberg last week while she was on the set of her new show Red Widow. Women...
Trailer Watch: Admission Written by Karen Croner, Starring Tina Fey
Tina Fey stars in Admission, adapted by Karen Croner from a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, a film that looks to be more of a dramatic foray for Fey. She plays a college admissions officer who receives...
Sexism Watch: The Hollywood Reporter Writer’s Roundtable 2012
I’m a scriptwriter who writes scripts that tell stories about women. Scriptwriting’s a solitary activity most of the time and it’s arduous, but the voices of other scriptwriters...
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...
Guest Post: Backwards: Can Women Have It All? A Filmmaker’s Perspective
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial article, “Why Women Can’t Have it All,” discusses the challenges facing working women and moms. While I do not yet have children, having...
A New Post Twilight Hollywood
We have finally reached the end of an important moment in film history. I know that many people dismiss the Twilight saga for a multitude of reasons – it's about vampires, it is...
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...
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...