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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ), a membership organization of leading women film journalists and critics from across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., has announced the winners of its 7th Annual EDA Awards.

AWFJ is a professional association of 90 leading women film critics and commentators based in the US, Canada, and the UK.

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Noel's findings led to a revamping of the trustee system, and the knowledge provided by one of the inmates even led to the arrest of a woman who tried to sneak drugs into the jail shortly after filming ended.

In the film Wonder Woman, a band led by the eponymous hero fight and win a battle at a place called No Man's Land.

Each therapy session consisted of participants viewing a film with themes of alcohol dependence, such as Leaving Las Vegas and When a Man Loves a Woman, followed by a one - hour discussion led by a psychologist.

The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science shows how leading women paleontologists, including collaborator and the film's main subject, Ellen Currano, dealt with gender bias — intentional and unintentional — to achieve professional success.

The researchers were able to demonstrate, for instance, that factors responsible for hypertrophy — enlargement of cardiac cells for instance in athletes and pregnant women — also led to a growth in volume in the cardiac cells that had been cultured on a film of eADF4 (κ16).

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Foley's film suggests that any semblance of capitulation on Christian's part is a win for Ana and women at large, even if that momentary triumph leads to a further sacrifice of Ana's independence.

The will of this woman to perservere is astonishing, and the film does a nice job of showing you what would have happened if she had taken the offered plea bargain - a felony record that would prohibit her from receiving any kind of government assistance; from food stamps to housing - and, having a criminal record would severly hamper her attempts at finding a job, which of course could possibly lead to child protective services taking her children.

And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).

As interpreted by Jessie Buckley, who once played Miranda in Jeremy Herrin's 2014 film «The Tempest,» she brings fire and fury into her role as a woman determined to break the chain of her snobbish and repressive mother, willing to take her bond with Pascal wherever it leads and damn the possibility that she could be one of his victims.

Recently, she hosted the third season of «Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner» for the Si TV Network.New York Newsday raved over her performance in the indie hit «Woman Thou Art Loosed» calling her portrayal of an ex-con recovering addict «Haunting «Six Page Pictorial in the new Las Vegas National Magazine «Player» released Jan 2006Studied Shakespeare at «The Actors Circle Theatre» in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation for her portrayal of «Miss Alma» in Tennesee William's «Summer and Smoke «Running Scared, the film she had a supporting lead in with Paul Walker, is the Top Ten DVD Rental of the month.

Rarely are female leads given anything of substance to do in action films, so I applaud Besson for writing this role for a woman.

Hank takes a gig rewriting dialogue on a zombie sequel but threatens his job when he hooks up with a sexy woman with close ties to the film's female lead; Marcy tells Stu she's pregnant but not that the baby may be Charlie's.

The Homesman is written, directed and produced by Tommy Lee Jones, who also leads the film as a claim - jumping rascal of a man saved from a hanging by a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who has a unique request in return.

In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.

The film runs for a taut 83 minutes, and part of what's impressive about it is how economically, in a wholly unobtrusive way, it sets up the conflict between the two leading characters, an executive and a woman roughly half her age.

After appearing in a number of short films, Turner made the move to television by landing the lead role in the 2012 British miniseries Leaving, playing a young man caught in a relationship with a married woman nearly twice his age.

While sexual harrassment exposed depressing truths about the state of women in the industry, it was also a banner year for female - led films.

Witness the first public screening of this all - new film, then stay for an entertaining panel led by executive producer Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series); Tamara Taylor (Bones), voice of Wonder Woman; C. Thomas Howell (E.T., Southland), voice of Dr. Will Magnus; Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), voice of Lois Lane, director Sam Liu; co - producer / screenwriter Alan Burnett; dialogue directorAndrea Romano; and members of the voice cast.

The women - led film is being «affectionately» referred to as Ocean's Ocho, which presumably means there will be three fewer thieves this time around, or that there will be some kind of Dodgeball tie - in.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at year's end and at select film festivals.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moWomen Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the mowomen — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the mowomen in the movies.

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It is easy to blame prevailing wisdom: that releasing a film with a senior citizen woman who isn't Meryl Streep in the lead is commercial suicide.

However, in the film's opening scene we learn that someone, in fact, has made it out alive: Lena (Natalie Portman), a woman who appears battered and is being interviewed by a team of researchers clad in hazmat suits led by Lomax (Benedict Wong), whose many questions are eerily answered with «I don't know.»

This identity disorder — Sofia is one of contemporary cinema's most filmed cities, yet rarely plays itself — is personified by the lead character (Elika Portnoy), a Bulgarian woman with multiple personalities, each one belonging to a different genre: a bespectacled, blonde educator with a controlling husband (domestic drama), a redheaded belly dancer (romance à la Zalman King), and jet - black - haired professional assassin (thriller).

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

Sundance Institute and The Harnisch Foundation joined forces to launch Catalyst Women, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led film projWomen, a groundbreaking new program offering creative investors the opportunity to directly support women - led film projwomen - led film projects!

In the mid-century, «the problem that has no name» described by Betty Friedan had not yet led to the women's movement, and women in film and in real life often felt invisible, as though all women cared about was keeping the house clean and the children happy.

Summary: It is a strong and important story, but as a film the execution is stagy, convoluted for the first hour, and it doesn't pay enough attention to its leading woman's narrative.

Appearing in films as varied as Mistress America, Damsels In Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Frances Ha and last year's 20th Century Women, Gerwig is every bit a leading lady.

Commenting on the dearth of women directors and lead characters in films released during the summer of 2008, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis opined, «Welcome to the new, post-female American cinema» («Is There a Real Woman in this Multiplex?»

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

Then again, he also says of Swept Away, «It's very fresh — they don't make films about slapping women anymore,» leading the viewer to wonder if he's really got his finger on the pulse.

Latino talent triumphed again when the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, starring trans actor Daniela Vega in the lead, won best foreign film.

The five films includings includes re-mastered editions of «Rain or Shine» (1930), and four early collaborations with his legendary leading lady Barbara Stanwyck: «Ladies of Leisure» (1930), «The Miracle Woman» (1931), «Forbidden» (1932) and «The Bitter Tea of General Yen» (1933).

A game cast quite literally gives the film their all but it's hard to ignore the ugly treatment its leading lady receives, coupled with a story that — though open to multiple interpretations — never rises above a pretentious and scummy tale of male exploitation of women, both on and off - screen.

While Robinson's film isn't always a successful combination (the repeated return to an inquisition led by Connie Britton to frame the timeline of the Marstons nearly suffocates an otherwise fascinating, but fragile spell), and is clearly not trying to be as transgressive in form as its subjects were in reality, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is still a formidable recuperation.

The film features a fierce group of Wakandan women, including Nakia (Academy Award ® winner Lupita Nyong» o), a War Dog and Wakandan spy; Shuri (Letitia Wright), T'Challa's little sister and tech wizard; and the Dora Milaje, the all - female Wakandan Special Forces led by Okoye (Danai Gurira).

«FIRE MAY BE SUBTLE» Three leads, two male and one female, are being cast in this short film about a woman whose psyche suffers a major break after the death of her boyfriend.

Much of the work women find in film these days isn't in lead, but in supporting, certainly in the movies that are most often considered for Best Picture.

Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta GeWomen, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gewomen Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.

As we enter into the second half of 2016, the half of the year where the releases tend to be richer, let's take a look at the top ten most highly anticipated films with women in leading and co-leading roles.

Swank as Mary proves once again her ability to lead a film; Mary's solid, masculine outer appearance contrasts her inner instability and yearning for a family, the underpinning of any 19th century woman.

Not content to bring just one award - winning film («A Fantastic Woman «-RRB- to TIFF 2017, Sebastián Lelio doubles up this year with another engrossing female - led drama.

The Outstanding Achievement by A Woman in The Film Industry honored «Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and all who spoke out against sexual harassment,» while the AWFJ Hall of Shame Award went to «sexual tormentors Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, et al.» Louis CK earned a mention for his shelved film, «I Love You, Daddy,» which won the Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Lead and The Love Interest Award for its pairing of 64 - year - old John Malkovich and 20 - year - old Chloe Grace Moretz.

There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.

As the film heads into awards season following a summer release, talk will presumably build about which of the women leads the film, but any such debate should be nipped in the bud: Moore and Bening are as democratic a partnership as the characters they play, each performance informing the other to an equal extent as they intricately map out their roles in the parenting game.