- 1. Annabelle Attanasio's Directorial Debut "Mickey and the Bear" Proves She's One To Wa
- (Movies)
- Earlier this year, Mickey and the Bear, a film written and directed by actress Annabelle Attanasio, received a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival. Since it premiered at SXSW, the film and Attanasio ...
- Created on 19 November 2019
- 2. Woody Allen Says He's The "Poster Boy" For The #MeToo Movement: Link Round
- (Entertainment)
- ... a big achievement to go 50 years without sexual assault accusations from women you’ve worked with. Female directors seem to do it all the time. And don't forget the sexual abuse accusations from Allen' ...
- Created on 05 June 2018
- 3. The Black Women Of Marvel's "Black Panther" Are Slaying The Sce
- (Movies)
- ... former lover. Danai Gurira (who slays as Michonne in The Walking Dead) also slays in Black Panther as Okoye, the head of the Dora Milaje - an all-female special soldiers unit (hell yeah) that protects ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 4. Sally El Hosaini Captures Queer Narratives And Masculinity In Egypt: 52 Weeks Of Directors
- (Movies)
- ... female filmmakers who deal with the masculine, El Hosaini was frequently asked why a woman would explore such male territory. “You look at Almodóvar – he makes films about women and people don’t blink ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 5. From "Kissing Jessica Stein" To "Friends With Kids," Jennifer Westfeldt Fights For Her Films: 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- ... despite her struggles. “We’re making progress, slow and steady in this world.” All three of Westfeldt’s movies are attempts to rearrange adult life in a new way. In Kissing Jessica Stein, two female friends ...
- Created on 18 March 2016
- 6. Zoe Cassavetes On Exploring Hollywood's Ageism And Sexism In 'Day Out of Days': BUST Intervi
- (Movies)
- ... their own material, and how she and Alexia Landau pooled their experiences to write an authentic female character. The conversation about ageism and women in Hollywood has been amped up recently. Was ...
- Created on 22 February 2016
- 7. Today in Shocking News: Hollywood Is Still Sexist
- (Feminism)
- ... amount of films, too: 93 percent of the 250 films had no female directors, 79 percent had no female writers and 78 percent had no female editors. Despite an increase in balanced casts, women still are ...
- Created on 07 June 2015
- 8. 5 Feminist News Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
- (Feminism)
- ... is taking yet another step on the path of being absolutely amazing by funding a screenwriters lab for female writers over 40. And since Hollywood needs to work on its gender balance, we think this is a ...
- Created on 24 April 2015
- 9. Meryl Streep Just Started A Screenwriting Lab For Hollywood Lepers (Women Over 40)
- (TV)
- ... and Television and organized by Iris, a collective of female filmmakers. It will be called, plainly and perfectly, Writers Lab. Streep announced her involvement during a Sunday panel at Tribeca Film Festival. ...
- Created on 21 April 2015
- 10. Movie Review: "Zero Motivation" Best Narrative Prize Winner at Tribeca Film Festival ...
- (TV)
- ... new approach to the very male-dominated genre of war films, namely a military movie from a female perspective that is also written and directed by a woman. The film is broken into three chapters and ...
- Created on 02 December 2014
- 11. K-Stew Helps Female Filmmakers Develop New Twilight-Inspired Shorts
- (Arts)
- ... stories must be canonical and from the time before Edward met Bella (if you can even imagine), but other than those caveats, the style, setting and action are all up in the air. Female writers can submit ...
- Created on 18 November 2014
- 12. Aubrey Plaza Shuts Down Slut-Shaming in The To Do List
- (TV)
- ... whether intentionally or unintentionally, was the most female positive, dare I say, feminist (gasp!), comedy I have seen in quite a while. Aubrey Plaza plays the overachieving, goody-two-shoes, Brandy ...
- Created on 15 July 2014
- 13. Geena Davis Offers Screenwriters Two Steps To Make Hollywood Less Sexist
- (Movies)
- ... she offers two simple and smart pieces of advice on how to make any script more female-friendly: Step 1: Go through the projects you’re already working on and change a bunch of the characters’ first names ...
- Created on 11 December 2013
- 14. New Study Reveals Gender Inequality in Film Isn't Just Onscree
- (Movies)
- ... women are much more likely than men to be shown onscreen partially naked or in revealing clothing. Less than a third of speaking characters in movies are female, and only 10 percent of films feature a ...
- Created on 27 November 2013
- 15. 5 Movies from 2013 That Shouldn’t Have Passed the Bechdel Test
- (Movies)
- ... is obvious: there are many male Smurfs and only one female Smurf, Smurfette, whose defining quality is that she’s female. (Also a kids’ movie!) 3. Only God Forgives source: Flavor Wire Despite it’s ...
- Created on 19 November 2013
- 16. The Athena Film Festival in NYC: February 9-12
- (Movies)
- You won't see this at the Oscars: an award for "The Fempire" -- Diablo Cody, Dana Fox, Liz Meriwether, and Lorene Scafaria -- to celebrate their creativity and panache as screenwriters. These female filmmakers ...
- Created on 01 February 2012
- 17. Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
- (Eat Me)
- ... from? The title "No Country for Young Women" came to me during the 2008 Oscar season, when the two most highly acclaimed films –"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" – hardly had any female characters ...
- Created on 22 July 2010
