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What accounts for the lack of movies by women filmmakers in your multiplex?

There were 19 feature films presented by women filmmakers in 2016 and this year is no different with 18 feature films.

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It may be interesting to watch the film «Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York» by filmmaker Elena Beloff, a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years.

WFF, is a significant player within the Canadian film fest circuit, i known for its intimate, casual environment, set by Mishaw's loyal and tireless admin team, consisting mostly of women, most of whom have been with the festival for years, setting the stage for high - quality film - centric hospitality through which filmmakers and industry honchos mingle, and deals are made not only via scheduled one - on - one meetings, but also in the hot tub or on the ski slopes.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at year's end and at select film festivals.

Mercedes Cooper ARRAY Mercedes Cooper is the Director of Marketing at ARRAY, an LA - based arts collective dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

The Archer Film Festival strives to bridge that divide by empowering and highlighting young filmmakers who share the goal of increasing the number of women in the film and television industry, and to participate in the conversation about women's representation onscreen.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner — making, record — breaking, industry — changing achievement during any given year: Women Documentary Filmmakers — including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady («Detropia»), Lauren Greenfield («Queen of Versailles»), Alison Klayman («Ai Weiwei Never Sorry») and Sarah Burns («The Central Park Five»).

But knowing «More, Or Less» is directed by a woman — in this case, Liza Johnson, the filmmaker behind Hateship, Loveship and last year's Elvis & Nixon — makes the impact felt all - the - same.

This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, celebrates the overall achievements this year by «Women Documentary Filmmakers,» with five named for special mentioBy A Woman In The Film Industry, celebrates the overall achievements this year by «Women Documentary Filmmakers,» with five named for special mentioby «Women Documentary Filmmakers,» with five named for special mention.

Case in point: Saturday's hugely attended «Wonder Women» panel, moderated by director Peter Sellars and boasting a panel that included actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie, lauded chef and restaurateur Alice Waters, tennis champ Billie Jean King (the subject of the Telluride premiere «Battle of the Sexes»), and actress and filmmaker Natalie Portman.

The three day Lady Filmmakers Festival celebrates women filmmakers and the men who collaborate with them by screening films with women in one or more of the following leadership positions: writer, directFilmmakers Festival celebrates women filmmakers and the men who collaborate with them by screening films with women in one or more of the following leadership positions: writer, directfilmmakers and the men who collaborate with them by screening films with women in one or more of the following leadership positions: writer, director, pro...

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

Maven Pictures, co-founded by partners Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler, is a transatlantic development, production, and financing company committed to promoting women filmmakers both behind and in front of the...

New York Women in Film and Television is offering grants of in - kind post-production services to documentary films directed and produced by New York area — based women filmmaWomen in Film and Television is offering grants of in - kind post-production services to documentary films directed and produced by New York area — based women filmmawomen filmmakers.

On Wednesday, November 1st, nestled in the midst of this twelve day celebration of Israeli filmmaking, sits the 6th Annual Films By & About Women, showcasing the work of female filmmakers and films with a narrative focus on the female perspective.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

The highest percentage was interestingly in 2015, when Open Roads: New Italian Cinema had 16 films shown that year and five of them were represented by women filmmakers, a 31 percent representation.

In a series of firsts for the festival, there were 51 rookie filmmakers represented, and eight of the 16 films in official competition were directed by womeIn a series of firsts for the festival, there were 51 rookie filmmakers represented, and eight of the 16 films in official competition were directed by womein official competition were directed by women.

Written, directed by, and starring actress - turned - filmmaker Noël Wells, this indie romantic comedy is about a woman who returns to her hometown of Austin, TX and encounters her ex-boyfriend, who is now living with his new girlfriend in their old house.

This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, celebrates the achievement of Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haafia Al - Mansour for making «Wadjda» and challenging the limitations placed on women in her culturIn The Film Industry, celebrates the achievement of Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haafia Al - Mansour for making «Wadjda» and challenging the limitations placed on women in her culturin her culture.

Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.

Tully is directed by Canadian filmmaker Jason Reitman, of the films Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Labor Day, and Men, Women & Children previously.

Directed by nine Māori women filmmakers, the opening moments of the New Zealand film Waru are as simple as they are devastating, perfectly capturing in mere seconds the tonal and thematic force of what is to come.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

The dearth of opportunities for female filmmakers is one of Hollywood's biggest problems these days, so it's cheering to note that fully half of the films in the U.S. Dramatic Competition were directed by women, including Stacie Passion's Concussion, Lake Bell's In A World..., Jill Solloway's Afternoon Delight, Cherien Dabis's opening - night selection, May in the Summer, and.in the U.S. Dramatic Competition were directed by women, including Stacie Passion's Concussion, Lake Bell's In A World..., Jill Solloway's Afternoon Delight, Cherien Dabis's opening - night selection, May in the Summer, and.In A World..., Jill Solloway's Afternoon Delight, Cherien Dabis's opening - night selection, May in the Summer, and.in the Summer, and...

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.

A.A. Milne is directed by Simon Curtis, the filmmaker best known for helming My Week With Marilyn and The Woman in Gold.

Few filmmakers could do anything original or vibrant by making yet another film about a creative yet difficult man (who's also in a relationship with a younger woman), but that's what Paul Thomas Anderson does in Phantom Thread.

This, combined with the women's march last week in which the female members of the jury were joined on the red carpet to recognize that only 82 women have ever walked the red carpet as directors of an in competition film compared to 1,645 men, underlined that while two of the three female directors in competition (out of 21) won prizes but the Palme still eludes a solo win by a woman filmmaker.

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

Officially hosted by both WIF President Cathy Schulman and Oscar - winner Emma Stone, on Friday night, Women In Film celebrated some of the year's most lauded women nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail NanjWomen In Film celebrated some of the year's most lauded women nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail Nanjwomen nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail Nanjiani.

In his upcoming biography, Otto Preminger — The Man Who Would Be King, renowned film professor Foster Hirsch describes how the demanding Austrian filmmaker cast Kim, who was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard AttenborougIn his upcoming biography, Otto Preminger — The Man Who Would Be King, renowned film professor Foster Hirsch describes how the demanding Austrian filmmaker cast Kim, who was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborougin the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborougin Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.

There's a remarkable consistency to the way he's used by filmmakers as disparate as Roger Vadim and Eric Rohmer as a strident sort of dandy, even if Rohmer's My Night at Maud's allows his Catholic mensch more shades than the puppy desperately lapping at Brigitte Bardot's heels in... And God Created Woman.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at select film festivals around the world, and at year's end.

Filmmaker Michael Haneke has approached the task by depicting the slow decline of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), an elderly woman living in Paris whose husband Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) looks after her as her body and then mind start to fail.

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As I look at this slate of beautiful work, I could just make a series of simple observations: that these films come from all over the globe; that there is a nice balance of filmmakers known and unknown to many here in New York; that the overall balance between frankness and artistry holds me in awe; that there are two gala selections with the word «wonder» in their titles; and that eight of the 25 films were directed by women.»

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I don't think any filmmakers have been greater than Hitchcock, fabulously represented in the Criterion Collection by The Lady Vanishes and a great box set, Wrong Men & Notorious Women; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, represented by many films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (one of their very best, also made during World War II); and of course Mike Leigh.

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Post-Sundance, both filmmakers are continuing on this path by starting work on similarly female - driven, dramedy projects; with Akhavan is «developing a comedic television series about the women in an inpatient rehabilitation center for eating disorders» and Robespierre is working on «a comedy about divorce.»

Directed by Amma Asante, a British filmmaker of West African heritage, A United Kingdom casts the story of an African heir to Botswana's tribal monarchy falling in love with a white British woman in the mold of Hollywood romance, complete w...

Meryl Streep picked up her 21st nomination for her role in The Post, and even though she could probably recycle previous responses, she shouted out the press when reached for comment: «I am honored beyond measure by this nomination for a film I love, a film that stands in defense of press freedom, and inclusion of women's voices in the movement of history - Proud of the film, and all her filmmakers.

But unlike the other ladies on this list, Gerwig, 34, had the benefit of actually having been directed by a woman filmmaker — namely Rebecca Miller, who oversaw the actress's performance in 2015's «Maggie's Plan.»

The documentary, directed by Suh and available on - demand on EPIX, includes interviews with such filmmakers as Catherine Hardwicke, Lake Bell, Anjelica Huston and Julie Delpy, who says: «The next Kubrick, in no one's mind, is a woman.»

Hosted by filmmaker / writer / lifelong comics fan Kevin Smith, with special guest DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns, the special showcases the explosive landscape of DC's greatest heroes, kicking off with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in theaters this March, and with a sneak peek from the upcoming Wonder Woman feature film.