- 41. 5 Women-Directed Films To Know From AFI Fest 2017
- (Movies)
- ... films, including Dee Rees’s Mudbound, A Fantastic Woman starring Daniela Vega, Aaron Katz’s thriller Gemini, and the five female directed films listed below. 1. What Will People Say, directed by Iram ...
- Created on 22 November 2017
- 42. 8 Up-And-Coming Women Directors To Watch
- (Movies)
- Bushwick Film Festival marked its 10th year this past weekend, showing feature films, documentaries, and short films over the course of four days. Founded by Liberian-born New Yorker Kweighbaye Kotee, ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 43. Kevin Smith Refuses Future Money From Weinstein, Donates It To Women In Film Instead
- (Feminism)
- ... which is recorded in front of a live audience, that he would donate future residuals from all his Weinstein-linked projects to Women in Film, a nonprofit that supports female filmmakers. This is especially ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 44. These Women Want You To Have A Better Death
- (Feminism)
- ... became impossible to ignore was that most of the events’ featured speakers and the majority of the audience members were female. This was no isolated phenomenon. In the U.S., talk about death and dying ...
- Created on 02 August 2017
- 45. Why We Need To See More Films About Women In Sports – And How We Can See Them
- (Movies)
- Sports movies that star women allow us to see the joys and tribulations female athletes face on a daily basis. Well-known movies, such as A League of Their Own (1992), Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and ...
- Created on 13 July 2017
- 46. Smash The Film Patriarchy At The Light Leaks' "Lens Flare" Showcas
- (Movies)
- ... disrupting the mundane and often exclusionary film industry by creating a space to spotlight, educate, and provide support for female identifying and non-binary filmmakers. “Light leaks are usually seen ...
- Created on 11 July 2017
- 47. "The Mummy" Is As Mindless As Its Female Characters: BUST Review ...
- (Movies)
- ... Jessica Chastain voiced at Cannes - the female characters lack self-sufficiency, and their actions are primarily reactions to the dudes. This common occurrence at the box-office has a powerful implication: ...
- Created on 08 June 2017
- 48. Sofia Coppola Interviewed By Kim Gordon: From The BUST Archives
- (Movies)
- ... L.A. Story Good-natured, grounded, and always inspiring, Sofia Coppola is one of the few female filmmakers writing and directing her own projects. Here she catches up with her friend, Sonic Youth ...
- Created on 01 June 2017
- 49. This Feminist Horror Director Puts People Of Color In The Spotlight: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- The viral and creepy phenomena of Two Sentence Horror Stories is transcending to the big (short film) screen. Director Vera Miao says she was inspired by the popular Reddit thread to create a series ...
- Created on 28 April 2017
- 50. Feminist documentarians with their own production company
- (Movies)
- ... out in having a plethora of female mentors and working with mainly female filmmakers after graduate school. Before teaming up, the two made their mark in the documentary world with shorter films, still ...
- Created on 26 April 2017
- 51. 30 Years Of Abortion In Film, From "Dirty Dancing" To "Obvious Chil
- (Movies)
- ... Knocked Up is particularly surreal in how it paints the female protagonist’s decision not to have an abortion. Successful, recently-promoted TV personality Alison (Katherine Heigl) cries repeatedly upon ...
- Created on 31 March 2017
- 52. The New York International Children’s Film Festival Puts Girls And Women In Front Of — And Behind — The Camera
- (Movies)
- ... Having women behind the camera often translates into female stories being represented on the screen in interesting and complicated and multifaceted ways. From that perspective we thought it was important ...
- Created on 22 February 2017
- 53. Kathryn Bigelow, From "The Hurt Locker" To "Detroit": 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- After her history-making Oscar win in 2010, the media appointed Kathryn Bigelow as the “symbol” of all female filmmakers. As such, her influence and work is often diminished. Despite becoming a symbol, ...
- Created on 02 February 2017
- 54. The Center for Investigative Reporting is Trying to Level the Media Playing Field
- (Entertainment)
- ... Films initiative will bring together five female filmmakers to produce a documentary series centered around women. The filmmakers chosen are: Penny Lane, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, ...
- Created on 13 January 2017
- 55. How GRRL HAUS CINEMA Is Advocating For Women In Film, One Indie Short At A Time
- (Movies)
- ... and flair. In 2015, word of mouth brought curiosity toward the festival, and the GRRL HAUS roster grew to include more shorts by female artists who weren't former classmates, acquaintances, or friends ...
- Created on 11 January 2017
