Sentences with phrase «female directed feature»

Not exact matches

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.

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

The alleged ban on these practices, including female ejaculation, spanking and face - sitting, led directly to one of the year's more unusual direct action protests, featuring a media scrum and dozens of protesters graphically demonstrating the latter practice outside parliament.

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

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

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary female - directed films in two EDA Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary Female - Directed Feature Length Documentary and Best Female - Directed Documentary Female - Directed Documentary Short.

«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.

Last month it was announced that Warner Bros. has enlisted up and coming filmmaker Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) to direct Birds of Prey, a «girl gang» movie featuring Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn alongside other prominent female DC characters, thought to include the likes of Batgirl, Black Canary and the Huntress.

As female - directed films slowly, but steadily, trickle into the circulation of independent and mainstream features, it's a worthwhile exercise to celebrate the trailblazers as well as acknowledge those emergent forces following in their path.

Jenkins will be the first female director to ever receive the honor, and the award will celebrate her career, from her award - winning first feature, «Monster,» to her most recent work directing Warner Bros..

• «Lady Bird» screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig's choice of a yellow gown by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy felt especially appropriate: The Mulleavys wrote and directed their first feature film in 2017, the Humboldt - set «Woodshock,» and have been major advocates for female filmmakers.

Best Feature Winner: «Moonrise Kingdom» «Bernie» «The Loneliest Planet» «The Master» «Middle Of Nowhere» Best Documentary Winner: «How To Survive A Plague» «Detropia» «Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present» «Room 237» «The Waiting Room» Best Ensemble Performance Winner: «Your Sister's Sister» «Bernie» «Moonrise Kingdom» «Safety Not Guaranteed» «Silver Linings Playbook» Breakthrough Actor Winner: Emayatzy Corinealdi («Middle Of Nowhere») Mike Birbiglia («Sleepwalk With Me») Thure Lindhardt («Keep The Lights On») Melanie Lynskey («Hello, I Must Be Going») Quvenzhané Wallis («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Breakthrough Director Winner: Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Zal Batmanglij («Sound Of My Voice») Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky («Francine») Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin («Now, Forager») Antonio Méndez Esparza («Aquí y Allá») Calvin Klein Female Filmmaker Award Stacie Passon («Concussion») Bingham Ray Award Benh Zeitlin («Beasts Of The Southern Wild») Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You «An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty» (written and directed by Terence Nance) Gotham Independent Film Audience Award «Artifact»

The film was developed, written, and initially directed by Brenda Chapman, the first female director of a Pixar feature, but she was removed and replaced by Pixar with Mark Andrews.

a no doubt incomplete list of 77 films (24 directed by women) featuring some of the most anticipated female performances in 2017 (and beyond).

by Kam Williams Headline: Kam's Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema 2008 will be remembered as a breakout year for African - American females both in front of and behind the camera, with my # 1 picks for Best Feature (The Secret Life of Bees), Best Independent (I'm Through with White Girls) and Best Documentary (The Souls of Black Girls) all being directed by sisters.

Filed Under: Film Interviews, Interviews with Female Directors Tagged With: Coming - of - age, Directing, Female Directors, Female Sexuality, First Features, horror, Ireland, Unreliable Narrators, Writing

Filed Under: Film Interviews, Interviews with Female Directors Tagged With: Directing, Documentary, Female Directors, First Features, HotDocs, LGBTQ, Romance

At the Glasgow Film Festival, I talked to McArdle about making the leap from music video directing to narrative feature filmmaking, creating the aesthetic of dreams vs. reality, the influence of horror cinema on her film, and depicting female friendship on screen.

Written and directed by «Creed» helmer Ryan Coogler (with co-writer Joe Robert Cole), «Black Panther» also features a strong female presence behind the scenes.

The only other category featuring female nominees is Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program with Elizabeth White (Planet Earth II) and Ava DuVernay (13th) vying for a trophy.

The filmmaker, who directed Warner Bros.» all - bad guy comic book movie Suicide Squad, is reuniting with that film's star, Margot Robbie, for Gotham City Sirens, a feature project that will showcase the top female villains from the DC stable, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The irony is that the festival's first two films, Steel Flower and Paradise, though directed by men, feature a distraught female protagonist in nearly every single scene.

«XX is a new all - female helmed horror anthology featuring four dark tales written and directed by fiercely talented women: Annie Clark (St. Vincent) rocks her directorial debut with THE BIRTHDAY PARTY; Karyn Kusama (THE INVITATION, GIRLFIGHT) exorcises HER ONLY LIVING SON; Roxanne Benjamin (SOUTHBOUND) screams DO N'T FALL; and Jovanka Vuckovic (THE CAPTURED BIRD) dares to open THE BOX.

It would have been great to see one of the female - directed efforts find purchase in the best feature category, though Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Maggie Betts («Novitiate») got some love as breakthrough directors, and Dee Rees» «Mudbound» is set for a special ensemble honor.

From its arresting opening use of direct address to its confounding close, this piercing treatment of female relationships in the spirit of Persona and 3 Women features a mesmerizing performance by Mackenzie Davis.

It's been more than half - a-century since John Ford's last directed feature, but who would have thought that the first film to invoke his spirit of community using a western template would be a female German director?

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.

Best Female - Directed Documentary Feature: Manakamana, directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez.

A year after a program featuring 48 percent of female - directed projects, this year's 246 films and 16 interdisciplinary projects are 50/50 on gender.

In fact, coupled with Marion Cotillard's performance as Mal (I've never seen this woman so terrifying), this would have to be the first Nolan - directed film in years that's featured some strong female characters.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

Al - Mansour became the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia when she directed her first narrative feature «Wadjda» in 2012.

These inductees are Carol Kalish (pioneering direct sales manager for Marvel Comics), and Jackie Ormes (first black female newspaper cartoonist, for the strip Dixie in Harlem featuring the character Torchy Brown).

Features female stereotypes and the male gaze directed at women (as sex symbol, victim, and so on).