Held in NYC from April xx to xx, this year» / TriBeCa Film Festival program came close to gender parity with 46 percent of
its feature films directed by women.
Gamechanger provides equity financing to narrative
feature films directed by women.
Not exact matches
Belvedere and Monáe
feature three talented
women filmmakers — Janicza Bravo, Lacey Duke and Kirsten Lepore — who will
direct and produce short
films inspired
by the question: What does a beautiful future look like to you?
Hell, Still Alice — the absolutely shattering
film that
features Julianne Moore's career - best performance as a
woman struggling to maintain her dignity as Alzheimer's deteriorates her brain — was
directed by two men!
Hosted
by the Gene Siskel Film Center, the month - long Chicago European Union Film Festival (CEUFF)
featured 15
films directed by women (15 out of 62 = ~ 25 % = a record high for this event).
a no doubt incomplete list of 77
films (24
directed by women)
featuring some of the most anticipated female performances in 2017 (and beyond).
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FILM: «A Fantastic
Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT
FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED
FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST
FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me
by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST
DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Joanna Hogg, the
woman who
directed Tom Hiddleston in his
feature film debut, is helming «The Souvenir: Part One,» which will be executive produced
by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert Pattinson, a recent snub for «Good Time.»
The fest is something of an international sampler platter of
feature films, documentaries, and shorts
directed by and focused on
women.
My favorite piece of the
film happens to be the last,
directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt), which
features a middle - aged American
woman traveling alone, with a voiceover done entirely in French with a thick American accent, commenting from her humble - but - naive American perspective on Parisian life.
Confidently
directed by Rees from a script she co-wrote with Virgil Williams, the
film features vivid character portrayals
by Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell and Carey Mulligan along with solid contributions to the
film's excellent production values
by a number of talented
women.
For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122
feature films premiering are
directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all
films were helmed
by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with
women debuting
films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,»
featuring four shorts
directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.
And how wonderful is it that the top awards in all five
feature film categories were
directed by women.»
The 6th Annual Chicago Film Critics Association Film Festival, taking place from May 4 - 10 at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, will present 24
feature films, nine of which are written or
directed by women.