Sentences with phrase «directed by a female»

Join HUB seventeen and Rooftop Films for an evening of short films directed by female directors to celebrate our March month long celebration of women!

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

Not only is Wonder Woman going to be the first female - led superhero movie of this post-MCU comic book movie boom, but it's also the first one directed by a female filmmaker, with Patty Jenkins at the helm.

Haifaa Al Mansour («Wadjda») «Wadjda» was always going to get a certain amount of attention on the festival circuit: it was the first ever film made in Saudi Arabia, and directed by a female filmmaker, no less.

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.

In 2013, only two of the year's top 100 grossing films were directed by females: the Carrie remake was directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) and Frozen was co-directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck.

«There were eight other films in the top 100, which were directed by females,» she said.

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

Also directed by a female (Jen McGowan), everything here feels authentic.

Not exact matches

While the show has always been female - driven, this season went even further by having women direct all 13 episodes of the series.

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.

«Things are so bad right now, there are so many women just desperately trying to figure out how to be empowered by me, and the best they can say is I'm a female director,» she said, and Jost asked if she also directed porn.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

The biblical biopic, directed by Garth Davis, who Mara worked with on epic drama Lion, recounts the life and death of Jesus Christ from a female perspective.

project, directed by Mason, the first female dean of the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, found that women who had children within five years of receiving their doctorates were far less likely than men who had done so to acquire tenured professorships.

This unique conception is achieved by the direct determination of the female principle by God himself (i.e., the Holy Spirit overshadowing the wombof the virgin Mary) and by Mary's free cooperation with this act of God.

Out of all of the movies, only 13 percent were directed by women, and 9 percent featured female cinematographers.

He is asked some pretty loaded and direct questions by a female reporter, a very uncomfortable watch!!

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

The movie is the first female superhero film since 2005's box office dud «Elektra,» and the first to be directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.

Moreover, estrogen can exert direct effects on fat tissue by enhancing proliferation of preadipocytes, especially in females (232), and by up - regulating sc α2A - adrenergic receptors promoting SAT accumulation, notably in premenopausal women (233).

This film is directed by Jennifer Aniston and Hudson plays the role of a female veteran struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Carpenter recently completed production on the psychological thriller THE FACTORY as the female lead opposite John Cusack in the Warner Bros. and Dark Castle Entertainment film directed by Morgan O'Neil, and produced by Joel Silver, David Gambino, and Robert Zemeckis.

It's an engaging and entertaining adventure story, refreshingly centered around a group of distinct female characters and even directed by a woman to boot.

Out on the street, as Ethan had predicted, three white - coated men and a female Czech agent (undercover IMF agents) from a pollution control van emerged and climbed the stairs, where they were directed by trench - coated Kittridge to assault the apartment with guns drawn.

In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.

We present the AWFJ EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature to Before The Streets, directed by Chloe Leriche.»

We present the AWFJ EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Documentary to the very compelling and well - crafted Sled Dogs, directed by Fern Levitt.

I've been enjoying a lot of the Trailblazing Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.

With a female - directed film this small bringing to life a female - driven script by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo and Tim Lovestedt, criticizing it feels a little like beating a baby seal.

«The Fight» features two female MMA rookies who rent the motel room in order to choreograph a better fight scene — directed by up - and - comer Megan Griffiths, the episode is a physical romp, limbs akimbo everywhere.

A Journey through Spanish Horror, 2013) directs this tale set in a stately English manor inhabited by two older female vampires and with their only cohabitant being a man imprisoned in the basement.

Do you feel that with «Lady Bird» — a movie written and directed by a woman, focused on a female - centered story about a mother and a daughter — this year in particular has had extra power?

The first, «It Felt Like Love,» directed by Eliza Hittman, paints a vibrantly honest and authentic portrait of adolescent female sexuality that is anchored by two stunning performances by newcomer actors Gina Piesanti and Ronen Rubinstein.

The 42nd Toronto film festival was notable for its strong showing of female talent — not least an endearing coming - of - age comedy directed by Greta Gerwig

Tate Taylor (The Help) is directing the film based on the novel by Paula Hawkins, and Ferguson will take on one of three main female roles -LSB-...]

Sandra Bullock will play the lead in an upcoming remake of «Ocean's Eleven» with an all - female cast, directed by Gary Ross («the Hunger Games») from a script by Olivia Milch («Little Women»), continuing her streak of stepping into roles originally conceived for men — as she does currently in «Our Brand Is Crisis.»

Female critics award the highest average scores to films directed and written exclusively by males (67 %), followed closely by films directed by a woman and / or employing at least one woman writer (64 %).

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is pleased to announce that the winner of our juried EDA Award for the Best Female - Directed Film at the 2012 Salem Film Fest is WISH ME AWAY, directed by Bobbie Birleffi & Beverly Kopf.

In addition, neither male nor female critics award substantially higher ratings to films directed and / or written by those of their same sex.

Xavier Giannoli, who directs and co-wrote «Marguerite,» is well qualified having directed «The Singer,» known by the French title as Quand j' étais chanteur, which deals with one Alain Moreau, the idol of a female audience, who is aware that with his advancing years the audience and his voice are diminishing.

On the way out of the theatre a displeased female audience member quipped, «That HAD to be directed by a man.

Based on the iconic DC Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide, set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based film.

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

Love Beats Rhymes (Dec. 1): Azealia Banks is a female rapper, in a music - fueled drama directed by Wu - Tang Clan member RZA.

While the pair speaks big for their future projects (including the strong desire to make a musical), they are currently attached to direct a screenplay by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and Dean Cavanagh, a female lead heist movie set in Leith.

These films are all stories centered on the lives of women; each written by women (with one directed by a woman); and all starring cinematic female powerhouses like Blanchett, Streep, Mulligan, Lawrence, Mara, and Bonham Carter.

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Re-imagining the 1984 classic with female leads (especially one made up of today's funniest women: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones), directed by a man who not only makes hilarious films but seems to innately understand the unique humor women afford to film, Paul Feig, is not only a great indicator that Hollywood might finally be wising up that we need less Get Hard and more Spy and Bridesmaids.

About women, starring two female leads and written and directed by a woman, Expecting is a rare, but a much welcome anomaly that proves there are stories out there for these actresses starved for work.