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Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
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(Movies)
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... the lives of several troubled prep-schoolers.
8. Nia DaCosta
DaCosta’s career took off when her first feature film Little Woods (2018) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Starring Tessa Thompson, ...
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Created on 22 April 2021
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A Lady, Liberated: Julia Lindon On Depicting An Honest Coming Out Story In Her New Short Film
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(Movies)
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... partner doesn’t need to be using condoms is perhaps the funniest line of the whole short film. Lindon, who plays the main character, is also the writer and producer of the short, which premiered at Tribeca ...
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Created on 14 October 2020
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Meet The Marvel Cinematic Universe's First Black Woman Director, Nia DaCosta ...
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(Movies)
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... wanted to be a writer-director, and she’s right."
Her directorial debut, Little Woods, was received with much kudos and went on to win the Nora Ephron Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where it ...
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Created on 06 August 2020
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Big Freedia Opens Up About Beyoncé, Bounce, Being Black in New Orleans, and Her Boo: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... paperback. Her documentary film, Freedia Got a Gun—about the death of her brother due to gun violence and her advocacy for getting guns off the streets of New Orleans—was about to premiere at the Tribeca ...
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Created on 23 June 2020
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Director Aly Migliori’s Feminist “Twist” On The Thriller Genre
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(Movies)
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... Migliori’s third short film, the 10-minute thriller Twist, illuminates the unspoken, the unseen, and the uncertain in the female experience. The film, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on April ...
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Created on 25 April 2019
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“Into My Life” Filmmakers Showcase A Mother And Daughter’s Memories Living In Brooklyn’s Largest Affordable Housing Co-Op
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(Arts)
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... and archive with us. We felt very fortunate to collaborate with her throughout the process.
Photo of the directors with Cassandra at the premiere of Into My Life at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. ...
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Created on 21 March 2019
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"Green Book" Director Peter Farrelly Has A History Of Sexual Misconduc
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(Movies)
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At this point, it’s public knowledge that Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer is facing allegations of sexual assault—and his film still won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture. Another Best ...
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Created on 10 January 2019
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Sarah Jessica Parker On Her All-Female Production Company: “We’re Trying To Find The Stories That Haven’t Been Told”
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(TV)
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... Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza, this summer.
In conversation with sportscaster Mary Carillo at Tribeca Film Festival last week, Parker explained that her production company’s staff is all women, ...
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Created on 30 April 2018
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“Mary Shelley” Is Goth, But Not Goth Enough
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(Movies)
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... movie, which premiered at Tribeca Film Fest, focuses on Mary’s life from the time she was sent away from her family for a fateful stay in Scotland—where she met and fell in love with Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
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Created on 30 April 2018
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“Drunk History” Creators: Telling More Inclusive Stories Makes For Better TV
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(TV)
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At a Tribeca Film Festival event, Drunk History co-creators Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner talked about the process of creating the show after showing a series scenes from upcoming episodes (including ...
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Created on 30 April 2018
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“Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie” Gives Mattel A Pat On The Back
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(Movies)
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... Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie —which premiered at Tribeca FIlm Fest and premieres on Hulu today—is a celebratory look at a recent moment in Barbie history: the launch of the 2016 “Barbie Fashionistas” line, ...
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Created on 27 April 2018
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Jemima And Lola Kirke Are The Best Part Of “Untogether”
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(Movies)
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... an accent—Andrea has a British accent, while Tara has an American accent. While writer/director Emma Forrest said in a Tribeca Film Fest Q&A that having the actors keep their original accents were simply ...
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Created on 27 April 2018
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Nancy Meyers Wasn’t Allowed To Be Alone On The First Movie She Produced
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(Movies)
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... on the Price Is Right, the world has changed. In conversation with film critic Carrie Rickey during Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, Meyers—now 68—recalled the ridiculously sexist line in her contract ...
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Created on 26 April 2018
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"Disobedience" Is A Moving Story About Grief, Love And Longin
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(Movies)
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... had its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Fest on April 24 and hits theaters on April 27.
Top photo: Disobedience
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The New Documentary "Love Gilda" Tells Gilda Radner's Story In Her Own ...
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Created on 26 April 2018
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The New Documentary “Love, Gilda” Tells Gilda Radner’s Story In Her Own Words
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(Movies)
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The new documentary Love, Gilda, which premiered at Tribeca Film Fest and hits theaters on September 21, seems to do the impossible by having comedian Gilda Radner herself narrate the documentary, ...
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Created on 25 April 2018
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"Roll Red Roll" Shows How The Steubenville Rape Case Became An International Stor
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(Movies)
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... and premiering at Tribeca Film Festival, revisits the Steubenville rape case, tracing what we know about what happened that night; examining how and why the rape case made international news; and exploring ...
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Created on 24 April 2018
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"Little Woods" Tells A Story Of Two Sisters Living Below The Poverty Lin
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In a Q&A at the end of the Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Little Woods director Nia DaCosta joked that upon hearing the plot, some New Yorkers asked her if the movie took place in the past or in a ...
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Created on 24 April 2018
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“Duck Butter” Is A Creative Sex Comedy That Falls Short Of What It Could Be
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(Movies)
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... catch? They have to have sex once an hour.
Directed by Miguel Arteta, co-written by Arteta and Shawkat, and filmed in just 24 hours, Duck Butter—which premiered at Tribeca Film Fest on April 20—is sometimes ...
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Created on 23 April 2018
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Tess Sweet Was Addicted To Heroin, And She Wants You To Laugh About It
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(TV)
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... writer and producer of Cleaner Daze, a web series about a youth rehab facility that’s now screening on YouTube and Vimeo after a sn appearance at the Tribeca TV Festival.
Her appearance, now, is just ...
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Created on 23 April 2018
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In "Blowin' Up," Women Work To Change The Way We Prosecute Arrested Sex Worker
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(Movies)
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Blowin’ Up, which premiered April 21st at Tribeca FIlm Festival, divulges the everyday realities of an experimental courtroom in New York City working to change the way that women who have been arrested ...
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Created on 11 April 2018
