Sentences with phrase «generation of women directors»

A federal initiative to cultivate the next generation of women directors is floundering because leaders won't step up

Not exact matches

«A generation of women has missed out on effective treatment because of misinformation,» says JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a gynecologist who specializes in menopause at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.

Between this and the balanced approach Tsui gives to the woman's point of view in many of his romantic films (Working Class, The Lovers, Love in the Time of Twilight, Green Snake, etc) as well as the brilliant job he and Carina Lau do in re-envisioning the notorious Empress Wu in the Detective Dee films, I wonder if Tsui should be getting more credit for progressiveness in his depictions of women, especially relative to such macho directors as Woo, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Ringo Lam, Wong Kar - wai and others of that generation.

From the creator of «Valentine's Day», «New Year's Eve», and «Pretty Woman», director Gary Marshall brings us «Mother's Day», a family fun film for all generations.

I'm astonished by the perceptiveness of both directors, but I'm middle - aged myself and that obviously inflects my opinion: I'm grateful that Ozon takes the trouble to empathize with a woman who's 20 years older than himself, and I might be partial to Zwigoff's view of adolescence because we're from the same generation.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, the Media Molecule studio director said that it takes women working on games for games to change, and was hopeful that current initiatives focused at teaching children programming and game jams would encourage a new generation of women developers.

As perhaps the preeminent international feminist director and curator of her generation, Catherine de Zegher has made some of the most significant exhibitions of women artists of the past 25 years, most famously the groundbreaking and seminal exhibition Inside the Visible (1996).

«Women joining the work force has had, over the past generation or so, a huge effect,» said Steven Polzin, director of mobility policy research at the University of South Florida's Center for Urban Transportation Research.