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SUNDANCE 2020 PREVIEW: #METOO STORIES, A GLORIA STEINEM The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday and its slate is packed with titles by and about women. Women and Hollywood has put together a rundown of some of the buzziest films screening in Park City, Utah, over the next couple weeks. Since it is APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New EXCLUSIVE: EMILY LEVINE USES PHYSICS & COMEDY TO MAKE A major meltdown leads Emily Levine towards a paradigm shift in “Emily @ The Edge of Chaos.” “I’ve been going through a personal transformation,” the late “Designing Women” writer and stand-up comic reveals in an exclusive trailer for the film. A tumor in Levine’s pituitary gland sparked her “upgrade from Emily 2.0 toEmily 3.0,”
GUEST POST: WHAT “ROMA” GETS RIGHT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD Guest Post by Cristina Escobar “Roma” became the first film from Mexico to win the “foreign” language category at the Oscars on Sunday, and also nabbed best director and cinematography statues for Alfonso Cuarón. The story centers on Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a domestic worker based on the woman who helped raise Cuarón. The filmfollows her the
STUDY: THE NUMBER OF WOMEN SCREENWRITERS IN THE UK HAS In 2017 women represented 11 percent of the writers on the United States’ top 250 films. They accounted for 33 percent of television writers during the States’ 2016-17 season. Obviously, there’s a severe gender gap among screenwriters — but it’s not just a U.S. problem. Trade union Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) hasreleased an
APPLY NOW: 2020 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER 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 or older, the Lab consists of one-on-one meetings and panels with female filmmakers and industry figures, as well as peer groups and discussionsessions.
WOMEN AND HOLLYWOODNEWSRESOURCESABOUTACTIVITIESCONSULTINGSTATISTICS Study: Just Six of 2007-2019’s Top 1,300 Films Featured an Asian/Pacific Islander Woman Lead or Co-Lead. This year, Chloé Zhao became the most decorated filmmaker in a single awards season and made history as the first Asian woman to win the Best Director Oscar. AGEISM | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by Radha Blank, the black and white comedy tells the story of Radha (Blank), a New Yorker grieving the loss of her mother, an artist, and determined to have a creative PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
SUNDANCE 2020 PREVIEW: #METOO STORIES, A GLORIA STEINEM The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday and its slate is packed with titles by and about women. Women and Hollywood has put together a rundown of some of the buzziest films screening in Park City, Utah, over the next couple weeks. Since it is APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New EXCLUSIVE: EMILY LEVINE USES PHYSICS & COMEDY TO MAKE A major meltdown leads Emily Levine towards a paradigm shift in “Emily @ The Edge of Chaos.” “I’ve been going through a personal transformation,” the late “Designing Women” writer and stand-up comic reveals in an exclusive trailer for the film. A tumor in Levine’s pituitary gland sparked her “upgrade from Emily 2.0 toEmily 3.0,”
GUEST POST: WHAT “ROMA” GETS RIGHT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD Guest Post by Cristina Escobar “Roma” became the first film from Mexico to win the “foreign” language category at the Oscars on Sunday, and also nabbed best director and cinematography statues for Alfonso Cuarón. The story centers on Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a domestic worker based on the woman who helped raise Cuarón. The filmfollows her the
STUDY: THE NUMBER OF WOMEN SCREENWRITERS IN THE UK HAS In 2017 women represented 11 percent of the writers on the United States’ top 250 films. They accounted for 33 percent of television writers during the States’ 2016-17 season. Obviously, there’s a severe gender gap among screenwriters — but it’s not just a U.S. problem. Trade union Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) hasreleased an
APPLY NOW: 2020 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER 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 or older, the Lab consists of one-on-one meetings and panels with female filmmakers and industry figures, as well as peer groups and discussionsessions.
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Study: Just Six of 2007-2019’s Top 1,300 Films Featured an Asian/Pacific Islander Woman Lead or Co-Lead. This year, Chloé Zhao became the most decorated filmmaker in a single awards season and made history as the first Asian woman to win the Best Director Oscar. TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET CHANEL JAMES AND TAYLOR 22 hours ago · Chanel James, also known as Dinosaur Hawk, is a director, writer, editor, and pop archivist who aims to create stories that highlight gradients of the human experience, encourage understanding, and above all, illuminate the relationship between music and mental health. James has worked on the festival circuit at Brooklyn Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET NANA MENSAH 1 day ago · Nana Mensah is a Ghanaian-American actor, writer, and director. This summer, she will appear in a series regular role opposite Sandra Oh and Bob Balaban in Netflix’s “The Chair” and this fall, she will reprise her role in the Off-Broadway play “Nollywood Dreams.” Most recently, Mensah was a staff writer on season two of “Random TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET SUZANNE JOE KAI 1 day ago · Suzanne Joe Kai received two Emmy Award nominations and was named Best Woman News Reporter while a broadcast journalist at San Francisco’s NBC affiliate KRON-TV. She worked at KCBS Radio (CBS) and television stations KTVU (FOX), KGO (ABC), KGUN (ABC), and RottenTomatoes.com. Kai holds a master’s in documentary film from Stanford University. “Like a Rolling TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LAUREN HADAWAY 1 day ago · Lauren Hadaway is an LGBTQ+ writer and director with a background in sound editing and mixing. She briefly worked as a Dallas-based reality TV editor before moving to Los Angeles in 2012 to pursue a career in post-production sound. She built a career as an ADR supervisor on films including “Justice League,” “The Conjuring2,” and
PICK OF THE DAY: “TUCA & BERTIE” 1 day ago · Praise be: “Tuca & Bertie” has risen from the dead, and its resurrection is everything you’d hope and more. Adult Swim revived Lisa Hanawalt’s critically acclaimed animated series following its cancellation at Netflix, and the move has done nothing to slow down the narrative’s delightfully demented momentum. Season 2 doesn’t skip a beat in reuniting STÉPHANIE LAMORRÉ TALKS “BEING THUNDER,” HER PORTRAIT OF A 21 hours ago · Stéphanie Lamorré is a French documentary filmmaker working as an international independent writer, director, and producer. She’s shot documentaries in Iraq, Africa, South America, and Central America covering subjects such as modern slavery and illegal immigration. She began her career working in Africa as a writer for GEO magazine. “Being Thunder” will have its U.S. MANJARI MAKIJANY ON TELLING AN EMPOWERING STORY ABOUT 1 day ago · Manjari Makijany is Los Angeles-based writer, director, and producer with diverse film experience in India and the United States. Her journey as a director took off with her critically acclaimed short film “The Last Marble,” which won Best of Fest at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, followed by “The Corner Table and “I See SANAA LATHAN WILL MAKE HER FEATURE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH 23 hours ago · After more than two decades in front of the camera, Sanaa Lathan is stepping behind it. The “Affair” alumna is set to make her feature directorial debut with Paramount Players’ “On The Come Up,” an adaptation of Angie Thomas’ New York Times Bestseller. Deadline broke the news. Published in 2019, “On the ComeUp” tells
QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING “IN Writer-producer Quiara Alegría Hudes is a big believer in weaving in parts of her Latino heritage and culture into her storylines for a greater sense of reality. So when she was asked to join director Jon M. Chu and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda in the painstaking process of adapting the musical “In the Heights,” she decided WOMEN AND HOLLYWOODNEWSRESOURCESABOUTACTIVITIESCONSULTINGSTATISTICS Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 13 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 13 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a STATISTICS | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD Back to Resources » TV Statistics | Women Critics | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 Facts to Know About Women in Hollywood 1) Women account for 50% of moviegoers. (MPA 2019) 2) On the top 100 grossing films of 2019, women represented: 10.7% of directors 19.4% of writers 24.3% of producers 70.4% of editors (Inclusion Initiative) 3) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
APPLY NOW: REESE WITHERSPOON’S LITUP FELLOWSHIP FOR Reese Witherspoon is broadening her support for women writers. The Reese’s Book Club founder and star-producer of “Little Fires Everywhere,” “Wild,” “Gone Girl,” and “Big Little Lies” — all of which were adapted from books penned by women — has unveiled LitUp, a fellowship for underrepresented women writers. LitUp will offer five emerging scribes an APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New TRAILER WATCH: “IN OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS” CELEBRATES THECLICK TOVIEW
“Like most Black women, I would say that the women in my family are complicated,” says one of the characters featured in “In Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Set to premiere May 6 on Netflix, Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary celebrates Black women and Black families by exploring the complicated WOMEN AND HOLLYWOODNEWSRESOURCESABOUTACTIVITIESCONSULTINGSTATISTICS Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 13 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 13 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a STATISTICS | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD Back to Resources » TV Statistics | Women Critics | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 Facts to Know About Women in Hollywood 1) Women account for 50% of moviegoers. (MPA 2019) 2) On the top 100 grossing films of 2019, women represented: 10.7% of directors 19.4% of writers 24.3% of producers 70.4% of editors (Inclusion Initiative) 3) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
APPLY NOW: REESE WITHERSPOON’S LITUP FELLOWSHIP FOR Reese Witherspoon is broadening her support for women writers. The Reese’s Book Club founder and star-producer of “Little Fires Everywhere,” “Wild,” “Gone Girl,” and “Big Little Lies” — all of which were adapted from books penned by women — has unveiled LitUp, a fellowship for underrepresented women writers. LitUp will offer five emerging scribes an APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New TRAILER WATCH: “IN OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS” CELEBRATES THECLICK TOVIEW
“Like most Black women, I would say that the women in my family are complicated,” says one of the characters featured in “In Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Set to premiere May 6 on Netflix, Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary celebrates Black women and Black families by exploring the complicatedWOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LAURA FAIRRIE 11 hours ago · Laura Fairrie previously directed “The Battle for Barking,” an observational feature documentary about the far-right in Britain that screened at The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. “Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story” is screening at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, which is taking place June 9-20. W&H: Describe the film for us in your TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET HEATHER O’NEILL 15 hours ago · Heather O’Neill is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She produced “Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi,” which screened at the Hot Docs International Film Festival and other festivals around the world. O’Neill directed and produced over twenty documentaries with the “CNN Presents” series. She also directed and produced CNN’s “Planet in Peril” KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 13 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 13 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET GEETA MALIK 14 hours ago · Geeta Malik is an award-winning writer and director whose accolades include the inaugural Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Her short film “Beast” played at Method Fest and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, and her first feature “Troublemaker” premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival, later distributed by Asian Crush. JANE CAMPION’S “THE POWER OF THE DOG” WILL MAKE ITS WORLD 14 hours ago · Jane Campion will unveil her first new feature in over a decade at this year’s Venice Film Festival. “The Power of the Dog,” a Netflix Original, is set to make its world premiere in competition at the fest. Variety broke the news. Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of LE BALLON ROUGE WILL ONCE AGAIN OFFER CHILDCARE AT CANNES 16 hours ago · The Cannes Marché du Film (Cannes Film Market) and Parenting at Film Festivals are re-teaming for Le Ballon Rouge. First introduced in 2019, the initiative is designed to support Marché du Film participants traveling with a kids. A press release announced that services will include COVID-safe and professional childcare in Cannes; priority access to enter MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE “MISSING AND MALIGNED” IN POPULAR 10 hours ago · The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has released its first-ever study on Muslim representation. Dr. Stacy L. Smith and Co. investigated the prevalence and portrayals of Muslim characters across 200 top-grossing films released between 2017 and 2019, across an international sample. “The research showed that Muslim characters were erased in popular movies, that portrayals QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING “IN 12 hours ago · Writer-producer Quiara Alegría Hudes is a big believer in weaving in parts of her Latino heritage and culture into her storylines for a greater sense of reality. So when she was asked to join director Jon M. Chu and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda in the painstaking process of adapting the musical “In the Heights,” shedecided
WOMEN AND HOLLYWOODNEWSRESOURCESABOUTACTIVITIESCONSULTINGSTATISTICS Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 8 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 8 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a STATISTICS | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD Back to Resources » TV Statistics | Women Critics | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 Facts to Know About Women in Hollywood 1) Women account for 50% of moviegoers. (MPA 2019) 2) On the top 100 grossing films of 2019, women represented: 10.7% of directors 19.4% of writers 24.3% of producers 70.4% of editors (Inclusion Initiative) 3) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
APPLY NOW: REESE WITHERSPOON’S LITUP FELLOWSHIP FOR Reese Witherspoon is broadening her support for women writers. The Reese’s Book Club founder and star-producer of “Little Fires Everywhere,” “Wild,” “Gone Girl,” and “Big Little Lies” — all of which were adapted from books penned by women — has unveiled LitUp, a fellowship for underrepresented women writers. LitUp will offer five emerging scribes an APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New TRAILER WATCH: “IN OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS” CELEBRATES THECLICK TOVIEW
“Like most Black women, I would say that the women in my family are complicated,” says one of the characters featured in “In Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Set to premiere May 6 on Netflix, Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary celebrates Black women and Black families by exploring the complicated WOMEN AND HOLLYWOODNEWSRESOURCESABOUTACTIVITIESCONSULTINGSTATISTICS Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 8 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 8 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a STATISTICS | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD Back to Resources » TV Statistics | Women Critics | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 Facts to Know About Women in Hollywood 1) Women account for 50% of moviegoers. (MPA 2019) 2) On the top 100 grossing films of 2019, women represented: 10.7% of directors 19.4% of writers 24.3% of producers 70.4% of editors (Inclusion Initiative) 3) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
APPLY NOW: REESE WITHERSPOON’S LITUP FELLOWSHIP FOR Reese Witherspoon is broadening her support for women writers. The Reese’s Book Club founder and star-producer of “Little Fires Everywhere,” “Wild,” “Gone Girl,” and “Big Little Lies” — all of which were adapted from books penned by women — has unveiled LitUp, a fellowship for underrepresented women writers. LitUp will offer five emerging scribes an APPLY NOW: 2021 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER The Writers Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2021 edition. Each year, the program offers mentorship, feedback, networking, panels, and workshops to a group of women screenwriters aged 40 or older. At this point, the seventh annual Writers Lab has been planned as an in-person retreat, to be held October 9-12 outside of New TRAILER WATCH: “IN OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS” CELEBRATES THECLICK TOVIEW
“Like most Black women, I would say that the women in my family are complicated,” says one of the characters featured in “In Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Set to premiere May 6 on Netflix, Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary celebrates Black women and Black families by exploring the complicatedWOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Women in Animation Launches Talent Database, Platform Currently Boasts Over 5,000 Candidates. Women in Animation’s (WIA) latest step in its 50/50 by 2025 gender equality campaign is the WIA Talent Database. According to a press release, the new system is “designed to be an By Rachel Montpelier May 24, 2021. TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LAURA FAIRRIE 6 hours ago · Laura Fairrie previously directed “The Battle for Barking,” an observational feature documentary about the far-right in Britain that screened at The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. “Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story” is screening at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, which is taking place June 9-20. W&H: Describe the film for us in your TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET HEATHER O’NEILL 10 hours ago · Heather O’Neill is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She produced “Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi,” which screened at the Hot Docs International Film Festival and other festivals around the world. O’Neill directed and produced over twenty documentaries with the “CNN Presents” series. She also directed and produced CNN’s “Planet in Peril” KERRY WASHINGTON, LENA WAITHE, & MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN 8 hours ago · Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take place September 27 in Los Angeles, the event, now in its 46th edition, “honors women working in television, radioand digital
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET JESSICA KINGDON 8 hours ago · New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director and producer. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her award-winning documentary short “Commodity City,” about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China, was shortlisted for a TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET GEETA MALIK 9 hours ago · Geeta Malik is an award-winning writer and director whose accolades include the inaugural Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Her short film “Beast” played at Method Fest and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, and her first feature “Troublemaker” premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival, later distributed by Asian Crush. JANE CAMPION’S “THE POWER OF THE DOG” WILL MAKE ITS WORLD 9 hours ago · Jane Campion will unveil her first new feature in over a decade at this year’s Venice Film Festival. “The Power of the Dog,” a Netflix Original, is set to make its world premiere in competition at the fest. Variety broke the news. Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of LE BALLON ROUGE WILL ONCE AGAIN OFFER CHILDCARE AT CANNES 11 hours ago · The Cannes Marché du Film (Cannes Film Market) and Parenting at Film Festivals are re-teaming for Le Ballon Rouge. First introduced in 2019, the initiative is designed to support Marché du Film participants traveling with a kids. A press release announced that services will include COVID-safe and professional childcare in Cannes; priority access to enter MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE “MISSING AND MALIGNED” IN POPULAR 5 hours ago · The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has released its first-ever study on Muslim representation. Dr. Stacy L. Smith and Co. investigated the prevalence and portrayals of Muslim characters across 200 top-grossing films released between 2017 and 2019, across an international sample. “The research showed that Muslim characters were erased in popular movies, that portrayals QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TAKING “IN 7 hours ago · Writer-producer Quiara Alegría Hudes is a big believer in weaving in parts of her Latino heritage and culture into her storylines for a greater sense of reality. So when she was asked to join director Jon M. Chu and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda in the painstaking process of adapting the musical “In the Heights,” shedecided
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
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AGEISM | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by Radha Blank, the black and white comedy tells the story of Radha (Blank), a New Yorker grieving the loss of her mother, an artist, and determined to have a creative HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” SUNDANCE 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET BETSY WEST AND JULIE Betsy West is the Academy Award-nominated director and producer of “RBG” along with Julie Cohen. She is a 21-time Emmy Award winner for her work as an ABC News producer and executive producer of the documentary series “Turning Point.” As vice president at CBS News from 1998 to 2005, she oversaw “60 Minutes” and “48 SUBMIT NOW: BREAKING THROUGH THE LENS FINANCING PROGRAM If you are a woman or non-binary director in late-stage development on a feature, this is for you. Breaking Through The Lens (BTTL) has opened its 2021 application cycle. The program will give 10 filmmakers the opportunity to “pitch their film projects in front of a select group of investors, financiers, and sales agents at APPLY NOW: 2020 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER 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 or older, the Lab consists of one-on-one meetings and panels with female filmmakers GUEST POST: WHAT “ROMA” GETS RIGHT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD Guest Post by Cristina Escobar “Roma” became the first film from Mexico to win the “foreign” language category at the Oscars on Sunday, and also nabbed best director and cinematography statues for Alfonso Cuarón. The story centers on Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a domestic worker based on the woman who helped raise Cuarón. The filmfollows her the
LARA JEAN GALLAGHER DISCUSSES “CLEMENTINE,” HER Interview by Gabriela Rico Lara Jean Gallagher is a writer and director. Her shorts and music videos have screened at SXSW, Palm Springs Shortfest, Mill Valley, Portland International, DC Shorts, as well as online via Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone, and NPR, among others. She was named one of IFP’s Emerging Storytellers in 2015.“Clementine” is
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FEST 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEETCLICK TO VIEW Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD, and ZDF. After studying journalism in Leipzig and directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded Schramm Matthes Film. Many of their films have been screened on international festivals andwon prizes, such
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AGEISM | WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by Radha Blank, the black and white comedy tells the story of Radha (Blank), a New Yorker grieving the loss of her mother, an artist, and determined to have a creative HOT DOCS 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET LOUISE DETLEFSEN Hot Docs 2021 Women Directors: Meet Louise Detlefsen – “It Is Not Over Yet”. Louise Detlefsen’s latest documentary feature film, “Fat Front,” had its international premiere at IDFA 2019. Her films have been shown on both television and at festivals all over Europe, and her debut film “From Barbie to Babe” premiered atIDFA.
PICK OF THE DAY: “TOGETHER TOGETHER” A platonic love story, Nikole Beckwith’s follow-up to 2015 Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” sees two strangers forming an intimate bond under unusual circumstances. Anna (Patti Harrison, “Shrill”), a 20-something loner, and Matt (Ed Helms, “The Office”), a high-strung single man in his 40s, team up to bring a baby into the world in “Together Together.” SUNDANCE 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET BETSY WEST AND JULIE Betsy West is the Academy Award-nominated director and producer of “RBG” along with Julie Cohen. She is a 21-time Emmy Award winner for her work as an ABC News producer and executive producer of the documentary series “Turning Point.” As vice president at CBS News from 1998 to 2005, she oversaw “60 Minutes” and “48 SUBMIT NOW: BREAKING THROUGH THE LENS FINANCING PROGRAM If you are a woman or non-binary director in late-stage development on a feature, this is for you. Breaking Through The Lens (BTTL) has opened its 2021 application cycle. The program will give 10 filmmakers the opportunity to “pitch their film projects in front of a select group of investors, financiers, and sales agents at APPLY NOW: 2020 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVER 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 or older, the Lab consists of one-on-one meetings and panels with female filmmakers GUEST POST: WHAT “ROMA” GETS RIGHT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD Guest Post by Cristina Escobar “Roma” became the first film from Mexico to win the “foreign” language category at the Oscars on Sunday, and also nabbed best director and cinematography statues for Alfonso Cuarón. The story centers on Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a domestic worker based on the woman who helped raise Cuarón. The filmfollows her the
LARA JEAN GALLAGHER DISCUSSES “CLEMENTINE,” HER Interview by Gabriela Rico Lara Jean Gallagher is a writer and director. Her shorts and music videos have screened at SXSW, Palm Springs Shortfest, Mill Valley, Portland International, DC Shorts, as well as online via Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone, and NPR, among others. She was named one of IFP’s Emerging Storytellers in 2015.“Clementine” is
TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET SAMANTHA ALDANA 2 hours ago · Samantha Aldana is a New Orleans-based director and writer. Her work is heavily influenced by the storytelling traditions of her multicultural upbringing in the American South and the Caribbean. Aldana is the recipient of the Belize Film Commissioner’s Emerging Storyteller Feature Film Award for her in-development feature “Little Lying Wild.” Her short film “The Melancholy TRIBECA 2021 PREVIEW: SISTERS RACING THEIR WAY INTO 1 day ago · Slated to run from June 9-20 with a mix of online screenings and live in-person events at outdoor venues, Tribeca Film Festival is celebrating its 20th edition with a feature lineup that is 60 percent women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ directed. We’ve assembled some of the titles we’re most looking forward to, including a doc about MEET TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: AMBER SEALEY 1 day ago · Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker. She is attached to direct “The Education of Shelby Knox” and a comedy pilot she wrote called “Sistered.” She has written scripts for Duplass Brothers/Donut Productions, and is excited to be partnering with them again on the TV series “Bastards.” She has been supported by Sundance, Film Independent, Women TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET GAYSORN THAVAT 4 hours ago · Gaysorn Thavat began her film career in 1995 working in the camera department. Starting as a clapper loader, she worked her way up to 1st AC before making the switch to directing with television commercials in 2004. Along with commercials, Thavat has also directed episodic television. In 2009 Thavat directed her first short film,“Brave
HAVE PRIDE: CROWDFUNDING PICKS Being able to relate to and see ourselves in the characters from our favorite films is not a privilege everyone can enjoy. For a long time, authentic LGBTQ+ stories were not being told in meaningful ways in theaters. As time has gone on, more and more of these stories are being told on the big TRIBECA 2021 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET HANNAH MARKS 1 day ago · Hannah Marks made her feature co-directorial debut with the independent film “After Everything,” which she also co-wrote. The film premiered in competition at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. Her acting credits include “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” and “Daniel Isn’t Real.” She starred in “Banana Split,” which she also co-wrote and produced. Marks will direct TRAILER WATCH: JESSICA CHASTAIN TRANSFORMS INTO TAMMY FAYE 3 hours ago · “You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind,” Jessica Chastain is told in a new trailer for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” The biopic sees the two-time Oscar nominee portraying late televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, charting her rise, fall, and redemption. Along with her husband, Jim (Andrew Garfield), Tammybelieves it’s her
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD TO DIRECT SCI-FI “EXOPLANET” Gina Prince-Bythewood has yet another project in the works. In the wake of her latest pic, “The Old Guard’s,” smash success, the writer and director has signed on to a slew of projects, including a limited series about Mamie Till Mobley, Viola Davis-led African warrior pic “The Woman King,” and an adaptation of the bestselling LIST OF DATABASES FOR WOMEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY List of Databases for Women in the Film Industry. U.S. A-Doc — Asian American Documentary Network. A-Doc is a national network that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field. Features a film database, and a crew database. Akuarel — A database people of color and individuals frommarginalized
PICK OF THE DAY: “LITTLE BIRDS” Situated at the intersection of sexual liberation and colonialism, “Little Birds” is a reimagining of Anaïs Nin’s 1979 erotic story collection of the same name. The Starz miniseries, which aired on the U.K.’s Sky Atlantic last summer, is set in Tangier in 1955 — a year before Morocco became independent. Created and written bySophia
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A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by Radha Blank, the black and white comedy tells the story of Radha (Blank), a New Yorker grieving the loss of her mother, an artist, and determined to have a creative LIST OF DATABASES FOR WOMEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY List of Databases for Women in the Film Industry. U.S. A-Doc — Asian American Documentary Network. A-Doc is a national network that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field. Features a film database, and a crew database. Akuarel — A database people of color and individuals frommarginalized
SUNDANCE 2020 PREVIEW: #METOO STORIES, A GLORIA STEINEM The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday and its slate is packed with titles by and about women. Women and Hollywood has put together a rundown of some of the buzziest films screening in Park City, Utah, over the next couple weeks. Since it is EXCLUSIVE: EMILY LEVINE USES PHYSICS & COMEDY TO MAKE A major meltdown leads Emily Levine towards a paradigm shift in “Emily @ The Edge of Chaos.” “I’ve been going through a personal transformation,” the late “Designing Women” writer and stand-up comic reveals in an exclusive trailer for the film. A tumor in Levine’s pituitary gland sparked her “upgrade from Emily 2.0 toEmily 3.0,”
APPLY NOW: REESE WITHERSPOON’S LITUP FELLOWSHIP FOR Reese Witherspoon is broadening her support for women writers. The Reese’s Book Club founder and star-producer of “Little Fires Everywhere,” “Wild,” “Gone Girl,” and “Big Little Lies” — all of which were adapted from books penned by women — has unveiled LitUp, a fellowship for underrepresented women writers. LitUp will offer five emerging scribes an APPLY NOW: 2020 WRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN SCREENWRITERS OVERNYWIFT WRITERS LABTHE WRITERS LABWRITERS LAB NYC 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 or older, the Lab consists of one-on-one meetings and panels with female filmmakers STUDY: THE NUMBER OF WOMEN SCREENWRITERS IN THE UK HAS In 2017 women represented 11 percent of the writers on the United States’ top 250 films. They accounted for 33 percent of television writers during the States’ 2016-17 season. Obviously, there’s a severe gender gap among screenwriters — but it’s not just a U.S. problem. Trade union Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) hasreleased an
GUEST POST: WHAT “ROMA” GETS RIGHT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD Guest Post by Cristina Escobar “Roma” became the first film from Mexico to win the “foreign” language category at the Oscars on Sunday, and also nabbed best director and cinematography statues for Alfonso Cuarón. The story centers on Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a domestic worker based on the woman who helped raise Cuarón. The filmfollows her the
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A struggling playwright decides to reinvent herself as a rapper in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” this year’s winner of Sundance’s Directing Prize. Written and directed by Radha Blank, the black and white comedy tells the story of Radha (Blank), a New Yorker grieving the loss of her mother, an artist, and determined to have a creative LIST OF DATABASES FOR WOMEN IN THE FILM INDUSTRY List of Databases for Women in the Film Industry. U.S. A-Doc — Asian American Documentary Network. A-Doc is a national network that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field. Features a film database, and a crew database. Akuarel — A database people of color and individuals frommarginalized
SUNDANCE 2020 PREVIEW: #METOO STORIES, A GLORIA STEINEM The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday and its slate is packed with titles by and about women. Women and Hollywood has put together a rundown of some of the buzziest films screening in Park City, Utah, over the next couple weeks. Since it is EXCLUSIVE: EMILY LEVINE USES PHYSICS & COMEDY TO MAKE A major meltdown leads Emily Levine towards a paradigm shift in “Emily @ The Edge of Chaos.” “I’ve been going through a personal transformation,” the late “Designing Women” writer and stand-up comic reveals in an exclusive trailer for the film. A tumor in Levine’s pituitary gland sparked her “upgrade from Emily 2.0 toEmily 3.0,”
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WEEKLY UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 25: WOMEN CENTRIC, DIRECTED, AND WRITTENFILMS OPENING
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OF 2019'S TOP 100 FILMS FEATURED A FEMALE LEAD OR CO-LEAD4
OF 113 DIRECTORS FOR THE TOP 100 FILMS IN 2019 WERE WOMEN OF COLOR4.8%
OF DIRECTORS ON THE TOP 1,300 FILMS 2007-2019 WERE WOMEN We need to change this narrative TRAILER WATCH: A MOTHER INVESTIGATES HER SON’S DISAPPEARANCE IN BORDER DRAMA “IDENTIFYING FEATURES” A woman searches for her missing son in a new trailer for Fernanda Valadez’s “Identifying Features.” Set in Mexico, the Spanish-language drama sees Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández)...By Laura Berger
November 25, 2020
JOIN THE GIRLS CLUB FOR A CONVERSATION WITH “I’M YOUR WOMAN” WRITER-DIRECTOR JULIA HART Julia Hart, co-writer and director of “I’m Your Woman,” will join the Girls Club for a conversation on Wednesday, December 2, at 3 p.m. EST. The event is open to the public. Be... By Women and HollywoodNovember 25,
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PICK OF THE DAY: “HAPPIEST SEASON” Hark! The Herald Drag Queens Sing: Clea DuVall’s “Happiest Season” has finally arrived. Eagerly anticipated since it was first announced, the gay rom-com sees Kristen Stewart and...By Laura Berger
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Writer to Watch: Akilah Green of “A Black Lady Sketch Show”*
Loira Limbal, Ekwa Msangi, & Shalini Kantayya Among Sundance Institute’s 2021 Momentum Fellows*
IDA Documentary Award Nominations: “Crip Camp,” “Time,” &More
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“Preparations to Be Together” Named as Hungary’s Pick for Oscars’ International Film Category*
A Message to the Women and Hollywood CommunityNEWS
LOIRA LIMBAL, EKWA MSANGI, & SHALINI KANTAYYA AMONG SUNDANCE INSTITUTE’S 2021 MOMENTUM FELLOWS By Rachel MontpelierNovember 24, 2020
THE DISABILITY LIST ANNOUNCES 2020 SELECTIONS The Disability List, an annual collection of the best unproduced scripts featuring at least one lead character with a disability, has selected eight screenplays for its second edition. The 2020 list... By Rachel MontpelierNovember 20, 2020
APPLY NOW: THE HORIZON AWARD FOR EMERGING WOMEN FILMMAKERS The Horizon Award, a prize recognizing emerging female-identifying filmmakers who are currently in school or have recently graduated, is accepting applications for its 2021 edition. Two winners will... By Rachel MontpelierNovember 18, 2020
FILMS
ALEJANDRA MÁRQUEZ ABELLA IN NEGOTIATIONS TO DIRECT “A MILLION MILESAWAY”
Alejandra Márquez Abella may be heading for the stars. The filmmaker is in talks to direct “A Million Miles Away,” a biopic of a Mexican American astronaut that’s set up at...By Laura Berger
November 24, 2020
MAYA DA-RIN’S “THE FEVER” ACQUIRED BY KIMSTIM Maya Da-Rin’s feature debut has secured distribution. Variety reports that KimStim snagged North American rights to “The Fever.” Co-written by Da-Rin, “The Fever” follows...By Laura Berger
November 20, 2020
ANGELINA JOLIE WILL DIRECT BIOPIC ABOUT WAR PHOTOGRAPHER DON MCCULLINBy Laura Berger
November 19, 2020
TRAILERS
TRAILER WATCH: MIRA NAIR TELLS A COMING-OF-AGE STORY IN 1950S INDIA IN “A SUITABLE BOY”By Laura Berger
November 24, 2020
TRAILER WATCH: A TEEN GRIEVES THE LOSS OF HER BFF & LIVES OUT THEIR SHARED DREAMS IN “THE NEVER LIST” An overachieving highschooler struggling to come to terms with her best friend’s death finds a creative way to honor her in “The Never List.” When they were kids, Eva (Fivel...By Laura Berger
November 20, 2020
TRAILER WATCH: “AUDREY” PAYS TRIBUTE TO AUDREY HEPBURN A new trailer for “Audrey” suggests that there was a “real” side to the Audrey Hepburn “that people didn’t know.” Describedas both...
By Laura Berger
November 19, 2020
INTERVIEWS
RYANN LIEBL ON CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP AND FINDING YOUR WAY IN “MAGS AND JULIE GO ON A ROAD TRIP”By Laura Berger
November 23, 2020
DOC NYC 2020 WOMEN DIRECTORS: MEET KATRINE PHILP – “BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND” Katrine Philp’s first film, “Book of Miri,” was awarded the President’s Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, nominated at IDFA, and won the European Young CIVIS...By Meghan Gheron
November 16, 2020
SACHA POLAK ON CONFRONTING FEELINGS OF EXTERNAL BEAUTY VERSUS INTERNAL DIGNITY IN “DIRTY GOD” Interview by Gabriela Rico Sacha Polak is an award-winning director and screenwriter. Her feature films “Hemel” and “Zurich” were both screened ata range of international film festivals.... By Women and HollywoodNovember 13,
2020
FEATURES
WRITER TO WATCH: AKILAH GREEN OF “A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW” “It made sense at the time,” Akilah Green notes about abandoning her law career to pursue comedy full time. As a lawyer, she represented huge corporations like Starbucks and Delta Airlines,and...
By Tatiana McInnis
November 25, 2020
WEEKLY UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 20: WOMEN CENTRIC, DIRECTED, AND WRITTENFILMS OPENING
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD Run Mommie Dearest does her best impression of Marmee in “Run.” Picture-perfect, warm, and loving on the surface, Diane (SarahPaulson) is a...
By Women and HollywoodNovember 20,
2020
PICK OF THE DAY: “RUN”By Laura Berger
November 20, 2020
FESTIVALS
“NOMADLAND” TAKES HOME BEST FILM HONOR AT ENERGACAMERIMAGE FILMFESTIVAL
“Nomadland” continues to pick up festival honors as we enter awards season. Variety reports that Chloé Zhao’s Frances McDormand-starrer won the Golden Frog and FIPRESCI jury honors at...By Laura Berger
November 23, 2020
“LA MADRINA: THE LIFE OF LORINE PADILLA” WINS DOC NYC’SAUDIENCE AWARD
“La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla” has been named the 2020 winner of DOC NYC’s Audience Award, which sees audiences casting votes for their favorite feature film. Directed...By Laura Berger
November 23, 2020
DOC NYC ANNOUNCES JURY AWARDS, “LANDFALL” WINS VIEWFINDERS GRANDJURY PRIZE
DOC NYC has announced the winners of its 2020 Jury Awards. “Landfall,” Cecilia Aldarondo’s portrait of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, took home the Viewfinders Grand...By Laura Berger
November 18, 2020
TELEVISION
GABRIELLE UNION DEVELOPING “NEW MONEY” COMEDY SERIES AT SHOWTIME Gabrielle Union isn’t letting “L.A.’s Finest’s” cancellation slow her down. The actress and producer just added another project to her packed slate. Variety reports that...By Laura Berger
November 24, 2020
ALFRE WOODARD WILL PLAY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FANNIE LOU HAMER INLIMITED SERIES
Alfre Woodard is switching gears from futuristic sci-fi to a drama rooted in very real history. The star of “See” has signed on to headline and exec produce a limited series about civil...By Laura Berger
November 20, 2020
ANTHOLOGY ABOUT REMARKABLE WOMEN IN HISTORY LINED UP AT STARZ, ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE TO BE FIRST SUBJECT Eleanor of Aquitaine is the latest female historical figure to get the television treatment at Starz. The cabler, home of “The Spanish Princess” and the upcoming “Becoming Elizabeth”... By Rachel MontpelierNovember 19, 2020
AWARDS
CINEMA EYE HONORS ANNOUNCES FIRST NOMS: “HILLARY,” “I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK,” AND MORE Cinema Eye Honors has announced its first wave of nominees. The awards, which recognize nonfiction and documentary filmmaking, will announce “higher-profile feature film nominations”...By Laura Berger
November 24, 2020
IDA DOCUMENTARY AWARD NOMINATIONS: “CRIP CAMP,” “TIME,” & MORE The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced nominees for the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards. Of 10 titles competing for Best Feature, three are directed or co-directed by women:...By Laura Berger
November 24, 2020
“PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER” NAMED AS HUNGARY’S PICK FOR OSCARS’ INTERNATIONAL FILM CATEGORY Hungary has selected “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” as its entry for Best International Film at the 2021 Academy Awards. Variety broke the news. Written and directed...By Laura Berger
November 23, 2020
GUEST POSTS
GUEST POST: HOW “GILMORE GIRLS” RESCUED MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MYMOTHER
By Alexandra Hidalgo On October 5, “Gilmore Girls” fans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the show’s premiere. For two decades, women around the world have seen themselves reflected in single... By Women and HollywoodOctober 13,
2020
GUEST POST: HOW 2020 CHANGED OUR DISTRIBUTION PLANS FOR OUR DOC ABOUT LESBIAN ICON FRANCO STEVENS By Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow Shivering at 4 a.m. in an empty drive-in theater parking lot was not how we expected to spend the day before our film “Ahead of the Curve’s” world... By Women and HollywoodOctober 6,
2020
GUEST POST: WE MADE A MOVIE DURING THE PANDEMIC. HERE’S HOW. By Alexandra Boylan and Meredith Riley Stewart After two years, we were all systems go. The endless meetings, courting of investors, and flying from Los Angeles to Georgia for scouting trips had... By Women and HollywoodSeptember 8,
2020
RESEARCH
STUDY: THE NUMBER OF WOMEN WRITERS & DIRECTORS SCREENING INDIE FILMS AT FESTS CONTINUES TO RISE Women keep reaching new historic highs as writers and directors of indie films screening at major festivals. A new study from Dr. Martha M. Lauzen, of the Center for the Study of Women in Television... By Women and HollywoodOctober 15,
2020
WOMEN REPRESENT ONLY 35 PERCENT OF NON-ACTING EMMY NOMINEES, NEW WMCREPORT FINDS
The good news: more women received non-acting Emmy nominations in 2020 than in 2019. The bad news: gender parity is still a long way off. According to a new report from the Women’s Media Center... By Rachel MontpelierSeptember 14, 2020
“BOXED IN” REPORT: STREAMING PROGRAMS FEATURE MORE FEMALE PROTAGONISTS THAN CABLE OR BROADCAST Streamers such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon outstrip the likes of CBS, NBC, ABC, and HBO when it comes to the representation of women. According to the new “Boxed In” television report,... By Rachel MontpelierSeptember 11, 2020
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