Sentences with phrase «director of women writers»

Laurie Garrison, Ph.D. is the director of Women Writers School, a blog and course provider that works mainly with female authors.

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Daniels — an Oscar - nominated writer and director, as well as the co-creator of Empire, a hit series that airs on Fox — reportedly accused Penn of domestic violence while discussing Empire star Terrence Howard's history of physical abuse toward women.

A week after The New York Times and The New Yorker ran back - to - back reports cataloguing Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual harassment of women in Hollywood, actress Selma Blair saw a story on HuffPost about writer and director James Toback's new film that made her blood run cold.

Part of that clearly has to do with the fact that Daniels is a woman, and a porn actress (and director, and writer) at that, making allegations that have to do with sex.

Writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) composes these artful scenes in an effort to shed immediate light on the subconscious of this young, newly selected Pope, with cuts to a young Lenny staring a topless woman, a mundane water cooler appearing in the middle of the room, cardinals positioned as wide - eyed dolls and an evil grin crossing the young pope's face as the title credits appear.

The study shows that in film, women made up only 3 percent of film directors, and 10 percent of film writers.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«It's in the interest of everybody to really assist a woman in that situation to rebuild her life and create a healthy home for her child,» Diana Claitor, director of the Texas Jail Project, told the Texas Observer in this week's Editor's pick, «Bonding Behind Bars» by health writer Alexis Garcia - Ditta.

«This important tax credit will help women and minority writers and directors break into the film industry here in New York City, one of the most diverse places in the world.»

Writer and director James Toback, who received an Oscar nomination for writing «Bugsy,» has been accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a report published in The Los Angeles Times.

She works full - time as a technical writer in Chicago, and serves on the board of directors and blogs for Girls With Guts, a non-profit organization to support women with IBD and / or ostomies.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Melissa's past work as a photographer, freelance writer, and style director prepared her for the juggling act of running the women's editorial division of the Gilt Group.

Unlike many women of color before her, Mindy actually wakes up as a the blonde - haired, blue - eyed Michael Lancaster (Ryan Hansen) and knows who writer - director Whit Stillman is.

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood star as the ne'er - do - well son of a wealthy Southern family and the sheltered young woman he begins to fall for in Barefoot, a romantic comedy from director Andrew Fleming (Dick, Hamlet 2) and writer Stephen Zotnowski.

Writer / director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy and struggles to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore.

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

A handful of men and women «of a certain age» pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer - director Susan Seidelman.

In her debut feature as writer - director, Karen Gillan stars as a woman trying (and failing) to come to grips with the suicide of her friend.

Kang goes on to write, «[Director and writer Martin] McDonagh says he created Mildred in part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.»

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

This week, there's a substantial list of watch - worthy openers that illuminate women's stories and / or are the work of women directors and writers: Marguerite, Lolo, Hello, My Name is Doris, Eye in The Sky, River of Grass, About Scout, 10 Cloverfield Lane, City of Gold, Here Come the Videofreex!

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez follows up 2009's Women in Trouble with Elektra Luxx, which continues the further adventures of a retired porn star (Carla Gugino), pregnant with a recently deceased rock star's child, who makes ends meet by teaching a community college sexual education class.

The power of women has been the theme this season and only three films have female writers — Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), The Shape of Water (Vanessa Taylor is the co-writer with director Guillermo del Toro) and The Big Sick «s Emily V. Gordon (co-writer with husband Kumail Nanjiani).

As if it's not enough that Mamoudou Athie played Grandmaster Flash in The Get Down, he was also a very dreamy romantic lead in a little movie called Jean Of The Joneses, from writer - director Stella Meghie, which follows a young woman (Taylour Paige) with a sprawling matriarchal Brooklyn family.

According to a 2017 report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing fWomen in Television and Film, women comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing fwomen comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films.

«Molly Bloom is a very strong woman who navigates a world of very powerful and kinda creepy men,» writer - director Aaron Sorkin shares with ET.

«If Beale Street Could Talk» «Moonlight» director Barry Jenkins is bringing James Baldwin to the big screen; his next directorial effort will be an adaptation of the prolific writer's novel of the same name, which follows a young pregnant woman from Harlem as she fights to prove her fiancé's innocence in a crime he didn't commit.

Marking the feature - length debut of writer - director Pearce, it stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James and centers on a small island community where a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family.

Writer / director Bernard Rose takes a very short list of facts and weaves a story of mystery, intrigue and of a tortured artist who sells his soul to the devil, enjoys everything the world has to offer — from women to drugs — and eventually suffers for it.

Writer / director James Toback, best known for movies like Bugsy, Two Girls and A Guy, and Black & White, is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over a 22 year period.

A team of women writers and producers, as well as directors including Nicole Holofcener, Allison Anders and Susan Seidelman, helped ensure that the female point of view was presented accurately and with a sense of fun.

ACE Eddie = ACE Eddie Awards (Jan. 26, 2018) ADG = Art Directors Guild Awards (Jan. 27, 2018) AFI = American Film Institute Awards (Dec. 7, 2017) African American = African American Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 12, 2017) Alliance of Women = Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards (Jan. 9, 2018) Atlanta = Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Annie = Annie Awards (Feb. 3, 2018) ASC = American Society of Cinematographers Awards (Feb. 17, 2018) Austin = Austin Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 8, 2018) Australia = Australian Academy Awards (Jan. 5, 2018) BAFTA = BAFTA Awards (Feb. 18, 2018) Black = Black Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Black Reel = Black Reel Awards (Feb. 22, 2018) Boston = Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Boston Online = Boston Online Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) CAS = Cinema Audio Society Awards (Feb. 24, 2018) CDG = Costume Designers Guild Awards (Feb. 20, 2018) Chicago = Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Chicago Indie = Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 30, 2017) Columbus = Columbus Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 4, 2018) Critics» Choice = Critics» Choice Awards (Jan. 11, 2018) Critics» Choice Doc = Critics» Choice Documentary Awards (Nov. 2, 2017) Dallas - Fort Worth = Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 13, 2017) Denver = Denver Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 16, 2018) Detroit = Detroit Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 7, 2017) DGA = Directors Guild of America Awards (Feb. 3, 2018) Dublin = Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 14, 2017) European Film = European Film Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) Florida = Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 23, 2017) Georgia = Georgia Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 12, 2018) Golden Globe = Golden Globe Awards (Jan. 7, 2018) Gotham = Gotham Independent Film Awards (Nov. 27, 2017) Grammy = Grammy Awards (Jan. 28, 2018) Hawaii = Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 12, 2018) HMMA = Hollywood Music in Media Awards (Nov. 17, 2017) Hollywood = Hollywood Film Awards (Nov. 5, 2017) Houston = Houston Film Critics Society Awards (Jan. 6, 2018) IDA Doc = International Documentary Association Awards (Dec. 9, 2017) Independent Spirit = Film Independent Spirit Awards (March 3, 2018) Indiana = Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Iowa = Iowa Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 9, 2018) Las Vegas = Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Kansas City = Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) LGBTQ = Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (a.k.a. GALECA)'s Dorian Awards (Jan. 31, 2018) London = London Film Critics Circle Awards (Jan. 28, 2018) Los Angeles = Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 3, 2017) Los Angeles Online = Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 19, 2017) Memphis Online = Memphis Online Film Critics Awards (Dec. 11, 2017) MPSE = Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (Feb. 18, 2018) MUHS = Make - Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (Feb. 24, 2018) Music Critics = International Film Music Critics Association Awards (Feb. 22, 2018) Music Supervisors = Guild of Music Supervisors Awards (Feb. 8, 2018) NAACP = NAACP Image Awards (Jan. 15, 2018) NBR = National Board of Review (Nov. 28, 2017) Nevada = Nevada Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 22, 2017) New Mexico = New Mexico Film Critics Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) New York = New York Film Critics Circle Awards (Nov. 30, 2017) New York Online = New York Film Critics Online Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) North Carolina = North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards (Jan. 2, 2018) North Texas = North Texas Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) NSFC = National Society of Film Critics Awards (Jan. 6, 2018) Oklahoma = Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards (Jan. 2, 2018) Online = Online Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 28, 2017) PGA = Producers Guild of America Awards (Jan. 20, 2018) Philadelphia = Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Phoenix = Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 19, 2017) Phoenix Critic = Phoenix Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 16, 2017) SAG = Screen Actors Guild Awards (Jan. 21, 2018) San Diego = San Diego Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 11, 2017) San Francisco = San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) Satellite = Satellite Awards (Feb. 11, 2018) Seattle = Seattle Film Critics Society Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) Southeast = Southeast Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) St. Louis = St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Toronto = Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 10, 2017) USC Scripter = USC Scripter Awards (Feb. 10, 2018) Utah = Utah Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 17, 2017) Vancouver = Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 18, 2017) VES = Visual Effects Society Awards (Feb. 13, 2018) Washington D.C. = Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards (Dec. 8, 2017) WGA = Writers Guild of America Awards (Feb. 11, 2018) Women = Women Film Critics Circle Awards (Dec. 22, 2017)

The actress» debut as a writer - director, «In A World...,» was a movie about Hollywood voiceover artists that was both a crackerjack romantic comedy and a subtle critique of how women are treated in the workplace.

Writer / director Michael Pearce, in his debut feature, has crafted a bizarre and intense story of a sheltered 27 - year - old woman, Moll Huntford (Jessie Buckley), and her new - found obsessive love, Pascal Renouf (Johnny Flynn).

With «Before Midnight,» writer - director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy continue one of the most interesting projects in film history: a movie franchise based almost entirely on simple conversations between a woman and man.

The mission of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film is to celebrate the accomplishments of television and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen to be wWomen in Television and Film is to celebrate the accomplishments of television and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen to be womenwomen.

It is not clear whether women chose to write reviews of films with women directors and writers or if editors assigned these films to women writers.

Of the reviews written by men, 14 % were for films with at least one woman director or writer and 86 % were for films with only men as directors and writers.

Serving as both writer and director, Paul Weitz superbly captures the voice of women in everyday life, while honestly portraying what, and HOW, we express our thoughts and feelings to each other.

Overall, the festival highlighted many strong women's roles: Annette Bening in «20th Century Women,» by director Mike Mills Nicole Kidman in «Lion,» by Garth Davis Jessica Chastain in «Miss Sloane,» by John Madden Oulaya Amamra in «Divines» by Houda Benyamina Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux in «It's Only the End of the World,» by Xavier Dolan Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte in «Julieta,» by Pedro Almodovar Kika Magalhaes in «The Eyes of My Mother,» by Nicolas Pesce Alice Lowe (actress, writer and director) of «Prevenge.&rwomen's roles: Annette Bening in «20th Century Women,» by director Mike Mills Nicole Kidman in «Lion,» by Garth Davis Jessica Chastain in «Miss Sloane,» by John Madden Oulaya Amamra in «Divines» by Houda Benyamina Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux in «It's Only the End of the World,» by Xavier Dolan Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte in «Julieta,» by Pedro Almodovar Kika Magalhaes in «The Eyes of My Mother,» by Nicolas Pesce Alice Lowe (actress, writer and director) of «Prevenge.&rWomen,» by director Mike Mills Nicole Kidman in «Lion,» by Garth Davis Jessica Chastain in «Miss Sloane,» by John Madden Oulaya Amamra in «Divines» by Houda Benyamina Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux in «It's Only the End of the World,» by Xavier Dolan Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte in «Julieta,» by Pedro Almodovar Kika Magalhaes in «The Eyes of My Mother,» by Nicolas Pesce Alice Lowe (actress, writer and director) of «Prevenge.»

One of the many films to premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival was writer - director Jonathan Kasdan «s (In the Land of Women) The First Time.

As much as these women were eager to appear on the behalf of their beloved writer - director, they were also there to promote the words Ntozake Shange who wrote the play upon which their film is based, For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Of the reviews written by women, 22 % were for films with at least one woman director or writer and 78 % were for films with only men as directors and writers.

Writer - director Noah Baumbach did some obvious studying of French New Wave and early Woody Allen films in preparation for Frances Ha, his jumpy and charming new film that deals with the life of a 27 - year - old woman named Frances.

According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling report, women comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauwomen comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. LauWomen on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauzen).

«Novitiate»: This movie from debut writer / director Margaret Betts concerns a young woman training to be a nun in the 1960s, and along with the audaciousness of the concept I'm excited about the cast; there's bound to be a breakout performance from this group.