Sentences with phrase «by female directors»

-- ranking of the best films by female directors.

Just 4.1 % of the 100 top - grossing films (2002 - 2014) are made by female directors.

The choice in opening night film was notable because it was only the second film directed by a female director to open the festival.

The concept will consist of seven short films, each of which will be led by a female director and a prominent female actor.

About 2 percent of the 2013's top 250 top - grossing films were shot by female directors of photography.

Three of the movies from female filmmakers of color that made our «Best Films About Women in 2014» list — Amma Asante's Belle, Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay's Selma — are happily among the 17 films helmed by female directors to crack the top 250 list.

We present EDA Awards at select festivals to recognize outstanding work by female directors / filmmakers.

Shockingly, Jenkins did not direct another feature in the 14 years between Monster and Wonder Woman — a gap that speaks volumes about the barriers faced by female directors in Hollywood.

by Walter Chaw Susanne Bier's first Dogme 95 film Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) is the Danish movement's twenty - eighth and the second by a female director after last year's Italian for Beginners.

And I admired the authentic feeling of girlfriends created by a female director (Hardwicke) and female writer (Morwenna Banks).

Though Unbroken made it in, the NBR threw a polite but very insulting bone to the other film by a female director who is on the rise, Ava DuVernay's powerful film Selma.

Festivals screen an average of 14 films by female directors compared to 29 directed by men, according to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film

There is phenomenal work being done by female directors.»

Wadjda, al - Mansour's feature debut, is the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first by a female director.

Now, with XX, it's showcasing this highly anticipated horror anthology helmed entirely by female directors.

A female superhero movie helmed by a female director... was that really so difficult?

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Observer to be broadcast tonight on the Variety Live@Cannes internet TV show, Jacob said the festival set a tough precedent in picking four films by female directors in 2011, including Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin.

This is the third consecutive year of the partnership between Whistler Film Festival and AWFJ to recognize and honor excellent work by female directors.

Tangerine Entertainment produces narrative feature films by female directors, consults on various aspects of the filmmaking process, and works to create audience and community for work by women.

She serves as the series» showrunner and, true to her feminist roots, each episode is directed by a female director.

Audiences got a sense of what an essential superhero movie looks like last year with DC's Wonder Woman, the first stand - alone, female - led superhero movie since 2005's far from electrifying Elektra, and the first superhero movie from a major studio made by a female director (Patty Jenkins).

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

Critics» Week also announced 10 short films in competition, three of them helmed by female directors.

At a time when women make up 50.8 % of the U.S. population, just 4.2 % of the 100 top - grossing American films are made by female directors; and that statistic hasn't changed over the last decade.

With Joanna Hogg's third film, Exhibition, confirming her as among our best new filmmakers, we look back at some of the greatest British films by female directors.

In the official selection are three films by female directors: Eva Husson's French drama, «Girls of the Sun,» Lebanese actress Nadine Labaki's politically charged «Capernaum» and Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher's follow - up to «The Wonders,» «Happy as Lazzaro.»

This September, TIFF welcomes 117 films by female directors.

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