Sentences with phrase «give women directors»

This will give women directors a fighting chance, one they really didn't have previously when the branch was pretty much all men.»

Not exact matches

«When you just look at single men and single women, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy InstiWomen's Philanthropy Institute.

«Wonder Woman» changed the game when it came out, impressing audiences, giving young girls a new superheroine to look up to, and earning director Patty Jenkins praise.

1920 Rev. Curtis Lee Laws first uses term «fundamentalist» 1920 Prohibition 1920 19th Amendment gives women right to vote 1921 Latin American Mission (Harry and Susan Strachan) 1923 J. Gresham Machen publishes Christianity and Liberalism 1924 Evangelical Theological College, later called Dallas Theological Seminary 1925 Scopes «Monkey» Trial 1927 First «talking» motion picture 1928 Henrietta Mears becomes Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood 1929 Stock market crash begins Great Depression 1929 Fundamentalists leave Princeton to form Westminster Theological Seminary

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But «Many modern birthing choices take the power away from the woman and give it to the medical professionals,» says Barbara Harper, R.N., founder and director of Waterbirth International.

In Russia, around 80 - 90 % of women start to breastfeed at the maternity clinic, but many give up quite soon, according to Elena Baibarina, Director of the Child and Maternal Health Department at the Russian Ministry of Health.

Samantha Meltzer - Brody, M.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program, UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders, thinks there's still a stigma attached to admitting that you're feeling sad after you've just given birth to a beautiful baby.

«There are two incredible progressive women in the race and New Yorkers would be lucky to have either as attorney general,» said Bill Lipton, director of the New York Working Families Party, which he said gave James and Teachout their start running for office.

«Research has shown that when survivors are given proper information and support their case is more likely to end in the criminal conviction of the perpetrator of sexual violence,» Emma Scott, director of Rights of Women said.

The political director of Emily's List, Jonathon Parker, noted in his endorsement statement on February 16, 2012, that Rosenblum's edge in the Democratic primary was that she gave voters the chance to elect the «first woman attorney general of Oregon.»

Antonia Clemente, executive director and co-founder of the Healing Center NY, said that it is alarming that the Trump administration would refer to funding VAWA as «government waste» given that one in three women are sexual assault or domestic violence victims as well as one in four men.

One question these studies bring up is whether women are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madwomen are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in MadWomen's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

«Our study gives further insight into the ways that the clinic closures due to Texas's restrictive law resulted in an undue burden on women seeking access to abortion care in Texas,» said Daniel Grossman, MD, an investigator with TxPEP and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco.

Dr. Cheryl Bushnell, a neurologist and director of the Stroke Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, applauded researchers for looking at the connection between inflammation and stroke among women giving birth.

Given how programmed and scheduled children are nowadays, it's no surprise that women feel extra pressure to be their kids» cruise directors — and guilty that we aren't doing more.

Discerning moviegoers attracted by the sheer novelty of a woman director at the helm of such a big movie and willing to give Clooney the benefit of the doubt will ultimately be satisfied by the final product, but it remains to be seen if an average multiplex crowd can be wowed by a movie that sacrifices cheap thrills in favor of global relevance.

Writer / director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy and struggles to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore.

Someone please give this woman a best director prize already!

Director Coogler has given the women just as much credence as the men, and the film is all the better for it.

and the stream of activism demanding fair treatment for women, topped off by Barbara Streisand giving a mini speech about no women directors, and there is zero chance Gerwig will be left off the list because they're filling out their ballots RIGHT NOW.

«Something's Got ta Give» (Columbia) Writer - director Nancy Meyers («What Women Want») crafted this story about an aging playboy specifically for Jack Nicholson.

Director Coogler has given the women just as much credibility as the men, and the film is all the better for it.

While many speculated that the jury might award only the second Palme d'Or to a film directed by a woman, the most likely contender — Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum — was instead given Cannes» jury prize.

The disc is packed with extras, including some deleted scenes that add very little, a blooper reel and a featurette detailing how Wonder Woman fits in with Batman and Superman as a DC flagship character that are all fairly throwaway, but there are a few neat production featurettes that detail how director Patty Jenkins approached making what could have been a potential disaster given the negativity towards the DCEU's previous movies, and also interesting effects details about the lighting, costumes and the chosen colour palette that may not sound like much but actually prove to be quite enlightening about the whole filming process.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Adapted from the 1933 bestselling memoir by Vera Brittain — who Vikander portrays with such spirited vim and vigour — by Juliette Towhidi (TV's Death Comes to Pemberley) and helmed by TV director James Kent (Marchlands, The Thirteenth Tale), the film gives us an all - too - rare look at how war also affects the lives of women.

«For the first few years, (Dr. Lauzen) was really looking at Hollywood and giving the statistics about the numbers of women directors and Hollywood,» she says.

Given the prestigious imprimatur of the 55th New York Film Festival of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (which ran through September and October 2017) the features by the women directors were a diverse and challenging slate.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

On the face of it, the Bafta nomination list appears to have given us a different emphasis from the Golden Globes result — but perhaps not so very different, and it's a list which appears to have repeated the Globes» groanworthy missteps on women directors.

It's not just the veteran director's presence that gives it the feel of a Woody Allen premise — there's clearly a fond, romanced view of New York throughout; it's a largely Jewish setting; and it features a cavalcade of improbably attractive women lining up as Turturro's clients — Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis among others.

Intelligent and sober, the movie gives way to a grand passion, in a brilliant English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastian Lelio («Gloria,» «A Fantastic Woman»).

It's pretty inexplicable, given all the complaints around women directors for years, that some major names weren't already at the table.

Hopefully, Banks and fellow producers Paul Brooks and Scott Niemyer of Gold Circle Films will look to give a promising woman director a shot with the latest tale of the female singing group the Barden Bellas.

Okja is a creature feature (an exciting prospect given the director's previous work on 2006's The Host) that finds a young woman named Mija (Seo - Hyeon Ahn) befriending the titular giant animal and trying to prevent a powerful, multi-national corporation from getting its ruthless paws on her pal.

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.

But to a one, as far as I am aware, they've all been by male writers and male directors projecting their insecurities about women's ability — power, even — to give birth and their squickiness at the idea of where babies come from.

Still, this is a telling clarification of the best - actress discrepancy — the best directors simply aren't making many movies starring women, probably because historically, Hollywood has proven itself to be uninterested in telling stories about women, or even, in many cases giving them speaking roles.

Universal Pictures has released the movie trailer for It's Complicated, the new movie from Nancy Meyers writer / producer of The Father of the Bride, director of the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something's Got ta Give, and The Holiday.

We've got our first look at Meryl Streep in what will presumably be her next Oscar - nominated role as a hard - rocking front - woman in director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy Ricki and the Flash... In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything -LSB-...]

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

You can always rely on mainstream comedy from writer / director Nancy Meyers («It's Complicated,» «Something's Got ta Give,» «What Women Want,» «The Holiday»).

Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman team up for the third time with Tully, the story of a woman whose life seems out of her own control as she prepares to give birth to her third child.

In the 69 - year history of the festival, no woman has been the sole recipient of the Palme d'Or, the award traditionally given to the director of the year's top film.

A spiritual break gives way to sexual awakening in the beautifully sensual scoring of Matthew Herbert, who reteams with his «Fantastic Woman» director Sebastian Lelio for another transgressive portrait of empowerment.

Ana Asensio gives an assured debut as writer and director with this haunting story about a migrant woman in the Big Apple.

Acclaimed Wellington - born New Zealand filmmaker Dame Jane Campion once stated that she «would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world...

Intelligent and sober, the movie gives way into a grand passion, in a brilliant English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastian Lelio («Gloria,» «A Fantastic Woman»).