Sentences with phrase «many women filmmakers»

«Indiegogo has proven to be the perfect, like - minded partner in this experiential endeavor at Sundance to asset the importance and beauty of filmmakers of color and women filmmakers.»

The fact that both MacLaren and Jenkins off their respective projects is sure to raise the question of whether women filmmakers are welcome in the world of high - stakes, superhero movies.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

Belvedere and Monáe feature three talented women filmmakers — Janicza Bravo, Lacey Duke and Kirsten Lepore — who will direct and produce short films inspired by the question: What does a beautiful future look like to you?

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 playwrights.

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.

If I'm scanning the lists right the competition is now finalized with a single woman filmmaker, in the Un certain regard section.

Tucker was a Sundance Institute Women Filmmakers Initiative fellow.

In 2012, AWFJ launched a new program to present EDA Awards to women filmmakers in partnership with select film festivals and organizations.

The global success of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, simultaneously giving us an opportunity to...

The recent global success of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, and simultaneously gave voice to...

At the Whistler Film Festival Awards Brunch on Sunday, December 6, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) recognized the outstanding achievements by four women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at the festival for the third consecutive year.

The Elevate Grant provides funds to emerging women filmmakers of color directing feature - length documentary films that explore original, contemporary stories and integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.

Members of Film Fatales, a global community of women filmmakers, reflect on the process, challenges and joys unique to directing feature films.

Despite the success of Ben Affleck's Argo here, this fest seems to be driven by women filmmakers.

Louise Heck - Rabi, Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception (Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1984).

For the third year, the IFP is also presenting the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers «Live the Dream» grant, a $ 25,000 cash award for an alumna of the IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs.

Our goal was to help women filmmakers actively seeking financing formulate stronger pitch presentations and actionable, strategic steps to advance their projects.

The three day Lady Filmmakers Festival celebrates women filmmakers and the men who collaborate with them by screening films with women in one or more of the following leadership positions: writer, director, pro...

Maven Pictures, co-founded by partners Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler, is a transatlantic development, production, and financing company committed to promoting women filmmakers both behind and in front of the...

New York Women in Film and Television is offering grants of in - kind post-production services to documentary films directed and produced by New York area — based women filmmakers.

Read about these inspiring women filmmakers here.

Welcome to the Resource Map for Women Filmmakers — a searchable storehouse of opportunities and programs available to U.S. - based women filmmakers.

Film Fatales is a diverse community of women filmmakers who meet regularly to mentor each other, share resources, collaborate on projects and build a supportive environment in which to make their films.

We accomplish this by putting strong, women - directed films on screen, growing the next generation of women filmmakers, and making it easier for women to make films.

Our ground breaking research over the last three years revealed key barriers and opportunities for women filmmakers.

The Fellowship Program matches women filmmakers from Sundance Institute's acclaimed programs with industry leaders and decision makers for a yearlong, individualized fellowship program.

This year, the schedule of 17 films only includes three features by women filmmakers (or 17.6 percent).

The year before, the festival had only two out of 14 films represented by women filmmakers — only 14.2 percent.

The highest percentage was interestingly in 2015, when Open Roads: New Italian Cinema had 16 films shown that year and five of them were represented by women filmmakers, a 31 percent representation.

Similarly premised on a tipping point between synthesis and disarray was the Kiwi anthology Waru, an unprecedented collaboration among eight Maori women filmmakers, each contributing a 10 - minute short film linked in more and less obvious ways to the funeral of the title character, a young boy who died amid dubious circumstances.

Should the film be a success — and it has all the markings of one so far — the film landscape will change dramatically for African - American creative forces — an event that would be as significant as the spotlighting of superheroines, women - led movies and women filmmakers by «Wonder Woman.»

There are lots of beautiful women filmmakers.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Ava DuVernay, Josephine Decker and Mia Hansen - Løve feature in the final part of our celebration of women filmmakers.

Directed by nine Māori women filmmakers, the opening moments of the New Zealand film Waru are as simple as they are devastating, perfectly capturing in mere seconds the tonal and thematic force of what is to come.

The HFPA announced a $ 50,000 grant benefitting the Sundance Institute Women Filmmakers program.

I'm really intrigued because there's a panel on women, and I got this tip sheet from Sundance on how many women filmmakers there were in each competition, and I don't think I've ever gotten that before.

Have you been able to feel the difference of all this awareness and attention on women filmmakers?

Support this film, women filmmakers, black filmmakers, communities of color.»

Wenn Jodie Foster is adamant that Hollywood has a «problem» with women filmmakers.

The Foundation was created the following month with a simple mission: Supporting Women Filmmakers.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

Visser said she was proud that women filmmakers won several of this year's juried awards, including the IDFA Award for Best Feature - Length Documentary, which went to Mila Turajlic for The Other Side of Everything.

Sundance has spearheaded programs to help women filmmakers who have a breakthrough get their second movies made.

TFA Executive Director Marci Hawks is equally enthusiastic about the program, «We look forward to the DoXX Spotlight bringing much warranted attention to women filmmakers from around the globe.»

Are we really becoming more embracing of women filmmakers or is this just this year's issue doomed to fade into the background again?

This, combined with the women's march last week in which the female members of the jury were joined on the red carpet to recognize that only 82 women have ever walked the red carpet as directors of an in competition film compared to 1,645 men, underlined that while two of the three female directors in competition (out of 21) won prizes but the Palme still eludes a solo win by a woman filmmaker.

Women filmmakers are definitely part of the conversation this awards season continue reading...

Women filmmakers are definitely part of the conversation this awards season continue reading... with Patty Jenkins's blockbuster hit WONDER WOMAN, Dee Rees's historical drama MUDBOUND and Greta Gerwig's gem LADY BIRD.