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Production began Wednesday on a new documentary about female athletes who are traveling the world to raise awareness about gender inequality in sports.

Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix's documentary about a female Muslim preacher offers no straightforward heroes or villains

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

Urban and street art is a key focus, including a screening of «Street Heroines,» a documentary about female graffiti and street artists, and in a public conversation about the legacy of 5Pointz.

It's a really awkward 40 minute documentary about the female punk pioneer.

Not exact matches

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The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Featurdocumentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary FeaturDocumentary Feature category.

«20 Feet From Stardom» — Morgan Neville's documentary about relatively unheralded female back - up singers (Lisa Fischer, Merry Clayton, Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Tata Vega, and others) is a signal contribution to American pop culture and, even better, an ecstatic jamboree.

Another entry in the popular documentary subgenre about performers and performances (exemplified by «Searching for Sugar Man» last year), this again focuses on a figure of modest fame (1990s female punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill).

We Women Warriors (Unrated) Pacifist documentary about the non-violent resistance movement spearheaded by a trio of aborigine females fed - up with the bloody, Colombian civil war which has left over a hundred native tribes on the brink of extinction.

Another film, «The Eagle Huntress,» is a documentary about a «13 - year - old nomadic Mongolian girl as she battles to become the first female to hunt with a golden eagle in 2,000 years of male - dominated history.»

Bravery in the face of adversity is also a key theme in first time director Nanfu Wang's startling documentary, «Hooligan Sparrow,» a film about female activism and dissent in China and the systematic sexual abuse of children.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Sweet Dreams (Unrated) Rwandan reconciliation documentary about a remarkable, all - female drumming troupe comprised of both Tutsi and Hutu survivors of the country's 1994 genocide.

«Talya Lavie's Zero Motivation, a dark comedy about the life of Israel's female soldiers, took the jury prize for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, the account of a young American caught up in the Libyan Revolution, was named best documentary feature.

But for all the talk about story development the producers and directors rattle off on the disc's supplemental documentary featurettes, there is no disguising that this is one long exercise in wheel - spinning, as there is really nowhere left to go with the titular female soldier (again spoken by Ming - Na, sung by Lea Salonga) once she's won the nation's respect and true love with General Shang (B.D. Wong).

This documentary about all - female mid-90s grunge band L7 tells a story that unintentionally become timeless to different generations.

Releasing to DVD and Blu - ray, The Women invite fans to look at The Legacy (a documentary about the 1936 stage play of The Women that became the classic 1939 movie, and this 2008 remake), and to see The Women Behind the Women (as the cast and crew explore female empowerment, body image and self - esteem for girls).

The best thing about the film is that it heralds the arrival of a young and powerful new female director, the formidable Ana Lily Amirpour (featured on our Best Of 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debut.

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Indeed, a recent Netflix documentary about Herrera titled The 100 Years Show saw the Cuban - American abstract painter recall how she was told by gallery owners — female themselves — that she couldn't exhibit her work at their venues because she was a woman.

Filmed between 1993 and 2007, this intimate documentary features one of the most important female artists of he 20th century, Louise Bourgeois, as she works in her studio and speaks about her influential work.

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