Sentences with phrase «american women filmmakers»

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Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies.

Class friction has been a major subject in recent South American cinema, whether in the movies of the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel («The Headless Woman») or those of the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva («The Maid»).

Should the film be a success — and it has all the markings of one so far — the film landscape will change dramatically for African - American creative forces — an event that would be as significant as the spotlighting of superheroines, women - led movies and women filmmakers by «Wonder Woman.»

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has made herself into a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood, so it is only fitting that she be the first African American woman to direct a movie with a budget of over $ 100 million with «A Wrinkle in Time.»

Valentina, a day - walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is brought around her estranged twin daughters.Nikyatu Jusu is an award - winning Sierra Leonean - American filmmaker.

Chanel will partner with Tribeca Enterprises for the third annual «Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative film.

-- Emily Tetherow (played by Michelle Williams) Go West, young ma'am «Oregon Territory, 1845» reads a rough - hewn hand - drawn title card that opens Meek's Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52 - year - old, Miami - born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later this year).

IndieWire On Demand: With «Certain Women,» Kelly Reichardt proves she's one of the best American filmmakers.

«Oregon Territory, 1845» reads a rough - hewn hand - drawn title card that opens Meek's Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52 - year - old, Miami - born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later this year).

After Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, mercurial filmmaker David O. Russell reunites with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro for an offbeat biopic about the woman who invented the Miracle Mop.

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

In the Shadow of Women — Philippe Garrel, France North American Premiere A Parisian documentary filmmaker becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle in this luminous love story from the great director Philippe Garrel (Frontier of Dawn, Regular Lovers).

It comes from a dream team of women — filmmaker Sarah Polley, novelist Margret Atwood and Mary Harron of American Psycho fame handled the directing — and reaffirms the ability of a downtrodden female to reclaim her own life.

In his film Shirley: Visions of Reality, Austrian filmmaker, architect and experimental artist Gustav Deutsch recreates 13 of Edward Hopper's paintings, bringing them to life by telling the story of a woman whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations give us a glimpse of a fascinating era in American history.

AFIA NATHANIEL Dukhtar, Netflix Premiere, North America, Sept 1, 2016 Dukhtar, Japanese Premiere, Aichi International Women's Film Festival 2016, Nagoya, Japan, Sept 8, 2016 Screening and discussion with filmmaker Motherhood and Filmmaking, Film Fatales panel, SoHo House, New York, Oct 3, 2016, 7 — 9 pm Filmmaking, Featured Speaker, Asian American Arts Alliance, New York, Oct 18, 7 — 9 pm Dukhtar, Screening and discussion on forced and child marriages, Unchained At Last, Short Hills, New Jersey, Oct 30, 2016, 5 - 9 pm

MCASD also will screen the San Diego premiere of celebrated Iranian - American visual artist / filmmaker Shirin Neshat's first feature - length film, Women Without Men, on Thursday, June 18 at 7 pm in La Jolla.