Sentences with phrase «for women in film»

It's the second straight weekend with historic news for women in film.

Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d'Or - winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film who gathered on the red carpet at the Lumière Theater to protest the 71 year old festival's exceptionally poor record on inclusion of women in all areas of festival programming, and demand greater equality for women in the film industry.

This was an outrageously good year for women in film, with career defining performances for Saoirse Ronan and Brie Larson, and a metric ton of other considerations, be they the women from

This was an outrageously good year for women in film, with career defining performances for Saoirse Ronan and Brie Larson, and a metric ton of other considerations, be they the women from Tangerine or The Duke of Burgundy or Mistress America or Clouds of Sils Maria and so on and so forth.

Recently, when asked about the on - going debate surrounding opportunities for women in film, Meyers responded saying, «There was some research that just came out that showed there were more opportunities for women in 1998 than today.

Find out what Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson said about growing up, saying goodbye and making strides for women in film.

By writing and casting strong roles in films ranging from dark comedies to crime thrillers, Campion has paved the way for women in the film industry and provided audiences with new points of view.

In other words, this was a positive year for women in film, cool, «Cool,» or otherwise.

While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot — or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be — of complex on - screen mothers.

Froehle has and continues to do for women in film what Redford has done for the independent filmmaker... provide opportunities for great storytellers.

What a great year for women in film.

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.»

Here's Sandra Bullock, walking the event carpet at the 2015 Crystal + Lucy Awards for women in film in LA.

Félix starred in more than 47 movies and defied stereotypical roles for women in film.

This work explores the femme fatale, one of the first strong character types for women in films.

Not exact matches

Certainly that difference doesn't work for everyone, the film pointed out in its profile of two other women.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Fifor the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & FiFor the Study of Women in Television & Women in Television & Film.

Before she turned actress Natalie Portman into a ballerina for the film Black Swan, dancer Mary Helen Bowers was already training women all over New York City through her fitness company, Ballet Beautiful, which she founded in 2008.

But with one exception the women in the film come off relatively well: The cause of divorce and related relational meltdowns seems to be mainly narcissistic men (and so we feel for the women who make the mistake of trying to humor them).

«22 - A particularly graphic illustration of this point was the made - for - TV movie Playing for Time (1980), a film which raised a touchy question: How could Jewish women musicians play far Nazis in the concentration camps?

Two years previously, he arranged and paid for, with what I guess counts as bohemian chivalry, a woman he impregnated to get an abortion (then illegal) from a competent doctor, and in the film we see him do the same for Jean.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wWomen in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by wwomen directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by womenwomen.

Still, the findings are an unfortunate reality and according to the report the odds are even worse for women as, «only 22.3 percent of senior characters in these acclaimed films were female.»

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

One would never know, watching this film, of Christianity's elevation of women, its care for the poor, challenge to slavery, advances in science and medicine, educational system, wondrous art, extraordinary religious orders.

We're sitting in the pub post Star Wars, discussing the film in minute detail as we are wont to do... AND THE WOMAN FROM THE NEXT TABLE TURNS TO US AND SAYS «OH HI, I»M ROSE FROM THE FILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.&rafilm in minute detail as we are wont to do... AND THE WOMAN FROM THE NEXT TABLE TURNS TO US AND SAYS «OH HI, I»M ROSE FROM THE FILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.&raFILM AND I»VE LOVED LISTENING TO YOUR CONVERSATION FOR THE LAST HOUR.»

Home Delivery — This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to go up against social trends and take the birth of their children into their own handsâ $ ¦ and homes.

The recent release of the movie Professor Marston and the Wonder Women has been heralded as «a trailblazer for polyamory in film» for depicting a polyamorous arrangement in a positive light.

On Thursday, «Donor Milk: The Documentary,» a film that explores the health benefits of donor milk for premature babies like Jayden through the stories of women who donate it, will be shown at the York Theatre in Elmhurst.

They are so «modest» they won't even let the women wear pants but their births can be filmed for TLC in exchange for a tidy profit.

Many of the women who appear in the film discuss issues that, while not gone entirely, were more widespread 30 years ago — the denial of assisted reproduction to lesbians or single women; the lack of legal recognition for non-biological parents; creating then - untested contracts between a known donor and a female couple; a mother being denied entrance to the hospital where her partner has just given birth to their severely premature child.

This one was from Kate, who identified herself as an API member from New Hampshire, USA, and the woman about whom the article featured in the film for maybe a couple seconds is about.

For situations like this, it is important that a woman's birthing partner knows exactly where the woman stands with extra people in the delivery room, visitors, pictures, and filming.

I got to know Laurel when she was involved in filming the Time Out For Women video that I got to be part of.

The documentary film, Lost in Living from film - maker, Mary Trunk follows four women artists over seven years as they combine motherhood with their art careers and it will be streaming for free over this Mother's Day weekend (9 - 11 May).

Laptops are allowed in the Italian Parliament, where MPs have recently been filmed variously surfing scantily - clad young women, and, on another occasion, making bookings for an upcoming holiday.

Lawmakers want to create $ 5 million in new tax credits for TV and film directors and producers who work in New York — but only if they're minorities or women.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightIn Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightin film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

A former politics lecturer is in hot water for being caught on film appearing to don an orange bra with a studded leather jacket, smoking a cigarette in his underwear, snorting white powder from a woman's breasts and allegedly making rude comments about the prime minister.

A woman in Beavercreek, Ohio was arrested by police for allegedly filming herself while raping a child under 10 years...

«As in any society, the best goals emerge from the dreams of men and women together,» Wertheim concludes, asking, among other things, for more role models of scientific women in film and TV.

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Betty White, credited as the first woman to produce a sitcom, has been in the film and television industry for more than 75 years.

Actress, producer, champion for diversity and women's rights, and one of the stars of the upcoming Black Panther film, Lupita Nyong» o manages to prioritize her health and wellness while making movies in Hollywood and beyond.

Every time I said yes, amazing people who believed in me and who've had a bigger vision of what I could do in this world stepped forward — from my mom who went vegan with me after my fourth recurrence of bone cancer, to the yoga teachers who insisted I could become a yoga teacher too, to the talented woman who designed my website, to the director who brought together the crew for this film and made an idea a reality.

The actress, who is serving as a jury panelist for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, spoke publicly about her disappointment at the depiction of women in this year's films, saying, «I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day - to - day life.