- 21. Celebrate Women At The Girl Power Film + Media Summit
- (Entertainment)
- It is officially Women's History Month! And you can celebrate by experiencing the power of women in the film industry this March 23rd at the Girl Power Film + Media Summit curated by @imagineprods. ...
- Created on 01 March 2019
- 22. 8 Short Kids' Films Every Mini-Feminist Should See
- (Entertainment)
- The New York International Children's Film Festival will be running from February 22 to March 17 in various theaters across New York City. The festival, which is now in its 22nd year, is featuring a ...
- Created on 20 February 2019
- 23. Tessa Thompson Announces The 4% Challenge, Asks Actors To Commit To Working With Women Directors
- (Entertainment)
- A panel discussion at The Sundance Film Festival brought forth an exciting initiative which hopes to narrow Hollywood’s pervasive gender gap, Deadline reports. In a speech, Tessa Thompson announced ...
- Created on 29 January 2019
- 24. The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Features Incredible Films, By Woman, That Are A Total Mind F*ck
- (Movies)
- ... one of the darkest films at Sundance. It explores painful themes of how some women protect their abusers. LEVEL 16 Canadian filmmaker, Danishka Esterhazy has created a feminist, dystopian sci-fi ...
- Created on 12 October 2018
- 25. The Documentary "Half The Picture" Investigates The Status Of Women In Fil
- (Movies)
- ... Palme D'Or competition over the festival's 71-year history, compared to 1,645 films directed by men. This writer watched Half the Picture at Sundance London, where the film took home a special #WhatNext ...
- Created on 09 July 2018
- 26. Kevin Smith Refuses Future Money From Weinstein, Donates It To Women In Film Instead
- (Feminism)
- ... indie classic “Clerks” after the producer viewed it at the Sundance Film Festival. Other works linked to the mogul also include Clerks II, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, as well as Jersey ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 27. BUST's Best Bets For October/November 2017: "Star Trek," "Stranger Things," And M
- (Entertainment)
- ... of the Lake: China Girl Photo credit: Lisa Tomasett/See-Saw Films/SundanceTV Elisabeth Moss is reprising her role as Detective Robin Griffin in the second season of the beloved crime drama—landing on ...
- Created on 29 September 2017
- 28. Gina Rodriguez Of "Jane The Virgin" On Her Boyfriend, Her Feminism, And Her Plan To Make TV More Inclusiv
- (Feminism)
- ... that her first big break happened: She played an aspiring rapper in the indie film Filly Brown, which was nominated for a Sundance Grand Jury Prize. The movie got her some attention, and two years later, ...
- Created on 22 September 2017
- 29. Week of Women: September 15-21, 2017
- (Entertainment)
- ... thriller, based on a memoir by Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung. Out Friday, September 15, on Netflix. Strong Island In a documentary that won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, director ...
- Created on 14 September 2017
- 30. 37 Problems Is A Comedy About Adulting And The Pressures Of Fertility: BUST Interview With Lisa Ebersole
- (TV)
- ... trying to get that webseries into Sundance and figure out their love lives, all against the ever-louder tick tick tick tick of their biological clock? Enter award-winning filmmaker and playwright Lisa ...
- Created on 16 May 2017
- 31. Susan Sarandon #Slays in this Interview from BUST's Archiv
- (Entertainment)
- ... out because of her experience, this idea of not settling. There had been many other genre films, but they'd just never been with women, except maybe Jules and Jim. But certainly Butch Cassidy and the Sundance ...
- Created on 24 March 2017
- 32. How "Laggies" Director Lynn Shelton Found A Backdoor Into The Film Industry: 52 Weeks of Director
- (Movies)
- ... The film, which stars the now popular Mark Duplass, got into Sundance and was quickly bought and offered a distribution deal through Magnolia Pictures. “I got people from agents and managers wanting to ...
- Created on 03 March 2017
- 33. From 'River of Grass' To 'Certain Women,' Kelly Reichardt Dominates The Festival Circuit: 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- ... of Grass premiered in 1994. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Reichardt isn’t comfortable with the idea of success, despite ...
- Created on 17 February 2017
- 34. Evanna Lynch Talks Moving Away From Luna Lovegood And Playing Bad Bitches: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... The Sound of People at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and he is now completely paralyzed. He wrote and directed My Name Is Emily and communicated with the cast and crew solely through the movement of ...
- Created on 15 February 2017
- 35. "Frozen River" Director Courtney Hunt Proves Great Films Take Time: 52 Weeks of Director
- (Movies)
- When Courtney Hunt won the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury prize for her debut feature film, Frozen River, she had no idea it was coming. “I didn’t pay close attention to reviews. My job is, ‘Is it reaching ...
- Created on 10 February 2017
- 36. 'The Babadook' Director Jennifer Kent Faces Her Shadow Side: 52 Weeks of Director
- (Movies)
- ... out writing a script based on what happens when a person doesn’t face stuff. The result is The Babadook, a horror film that received rave reviews when it premiered at Sundance in 2014. It’s a far ...
- Created on 06 January 2017
- 37. Ana Lily Amirpour's "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" Is A Western Noir With A Feminist Twist: 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- ... completed production on A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a Western? Noir? — the film could be classified as several genres — vampire film set in Iran. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival ...
- Created on 08 December 2016
- 38. 6 Shows and Movies to Watch During Transgender Awareness Week
- (TV)
- ... played by Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and her story after learning that her boyfriend/pimp has cheated on her. The film was shot in Hollywood on three iPhone 5S smartphones and premiered at the 2015 Sundance ...
- Created on 18 November 2016
- 39. ‘It Was Really Nice To Play A Woman In Charge Of Her Sexuality’: Melanie Lynskey And Linas Phillips On ‘Rainbow Time’
- (Movies)
- ... ago, and we went to Sundance with it, and it was so much talking about it, and we shot that in 15 days, same as this one. I remember I did this movie years ago with this director and he went, “Ugh, I hate ...
- Created on 08 November 2016
- 40. With 'Girlhood' And 'Tomboy,' Celine Sciamma Redefines Coming-Of-A
- (Movies)
- ... International Film Festival. Girlhood premiered at Cannes in 2014 and played both Toronto (2014) and Sundance in 2015. She considers Water Lilies, Tomboy, and Girlhood a trilogy of coming of age films. ...
- Created on 03 November 2016
