«We've got our strongest representation
of films directed by women,» remarked Cameron Bailey, TIFF Artistic Director, whose programming team is comprised of 52 % women.
The number
of films directed by women pales compared to men, so it has been even more daunting for actresses to make the leap.
It boasted impressive stats related to diversity, with 42 percent
of the films directed by women and 40 percent by people of color.
There are a LOT
of films directed by women that have been released by Criterion.
Despite all the attention paid lately to the lack of gender diversity in the role, the portion
of films directed by women declined last year, to just 7 %.
Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the festival and chief executive of Tribeca Enterprises, particularly wanted to launch this year's festival with the premiere
of a film directed by a woman, about a woman.
Not exact matches
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 w
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 w
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 womenwomen.
Join HUB seventeen and Rooftop
Films for an evening
of short
films directed by female directors to celebrate our March month long celebration
of women!
Co-written
by Nick Hornby and Cheryl Strayed, and
directed by Jean - Marc Vallée (
of Dallas Buyers Club fame) this
film is unflinching in it's portrayal
of a
woman wild and, ultimately, freed.
Just 7 %
of 2016's top
films were
directed by women.
«Curse
of the Crying
Woman» and «The Museum
of Horror» were shot
by Rafael Baledon — one
of the great horror filmmakers, who
directed a total
of 70
films.
A Good
Woman - the original title
of Lady Windermere's Fan - adapted
by Howard Himelstein and
directed by Mike Barker, is a much straighter attempt at
filming Wilde.
For his first
film since
directing the final three Hunger Games instalments, Lawrence has once again recruited Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) to play a young
woman forced into a life
of violence
by society.
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.
Those numbers are up from last year, when less than 40 %
films were
directed by women and less than 30 %
by people
of color.
Organizers say that 43 %
of the competition
films in this year's festival were
directed by women and that 38 % were
directed by people
of color.
Rich: The «
films directed by women» part
of your prompt is sadly irrelevant this year — unless Phyllida Lloyd developed serious
directing chops between Mamma Mia and The Iron Lady, or the Academy suddenly takes a shine to the amazing Kelly Reichardt, no
films directed by women will really be in the conversation.
Accepting the World Cinema documentary
directing prize, «Winnie» helmer Pascale Lamche pointedly said her
film was «for those who know that history is not made
by great men» — a sentiment echoed
by one
of the U.S. doc winners, «Step» director Amanda Lipitz, when she said, «These girls show that nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group
of powerful
women.»
For all
of the times the Academy has nominated
films directed by women for Best Picture, the directors have declined except for four times: Lina Wertmuller in 1976, Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2002, and Kathryn Bigelow in 2009.
But watching it is, distilled into a pure essence, watching the
film debut
of one
of our national treasures, Willem Dafoe, in a
film directed by the
woman who would next helm Near Dark, and
of the man who would play the Cowboy in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and serve as producer on Lynch's «Twin Peaks» and Wild at Heart, which reunited him with Dafoe.
Here's a list, in no particular order,
of 20
of the 40
women - centric
films —
films either starring, written or
directed by women — expected to be released sometime this year (as always, release dates are subject to change):
We've discovered a lot
of great
films directed by women at Cannes — just not in the Official Competition.
I've been enjoying a lot
of the Trailblazing
Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female frie
Women programming myself but since we're in the middle
of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some
of my favorite horror
films and thrillers
directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female frie
women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.
It's the kind
of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent
film to boot, except
of course, it's about a black
woman, and
directed by a black
woman, so why would it be nominated?
Three
of this year's 21
films in competition were
directed by women.
A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first
woman of color to
direct a
film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time
films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.
The fact that it's Polanski
directing this movie that derives much
of its horror from the notion
of a
woman who does not have control over her body and the dark things being done to it certainly don't make the
film un-problematic
by modern standards.
Three years later Lupino would go on to
direct The Hitch - Hiker, which has the distinction
of being the first
film noir
directed by a
woman.
The
film,
directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, also focuses on the personal stories
of King (Emma Stone) and Riggs (Steve Carell) while also exploring the event's larger cultural significance regarding relations between men and
women.
Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase
of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller
films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.
Backstabbing for Beginners is
directed by Danish filmmaker Per Fly,
of the
films The Bench, Prop and Berta, The Inheritance, Drabet, The
Woman Who Dreamed
of a Man, and Monica Z previously.
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 filmma
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 filmma
women filmmakers.
Of the 21
films in Competition at Cannes this year, only three are
directed by women.
In
directing «The Space Between Us,» Peter Chelsom, who takes an acting part in the
film as the voice
of a robot, is on a similar wavelength
by dealing with the space between one young man from Mars and one young
woman from Earth.
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.
Also noteworthy: James Gandolfini's final
film, The Drop, which also stars Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace; another Jason Reitman Toronto world premiere, Men,
Women and Children, starring Jennifer Garner and Adam Sandler; the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory
of Everything; and
films directed by Jon Stewart and Chris Rock.
As an intern at FF2 Media, since January
of 2018, I watch
films written and / or
directed by women every week and write reviews about them.
36 %
of the reviews written
by women and 21 %
of reviews written
by men were about
films directed by and / or written
by at least one
woman writer.
After the jump are ten
of the greatest
films directed by women along with some honorable mentions.
Male critics write slightly longer reviews, on average, about
films directed by and / or with at least one
woman writer (average
of 485 words) than about
films directed and / or written
by males (average
of 473 words).
The
Women — Picturehouse — Diane English adapts and
directs this remake
of the 1939
film based on the play
by Clare Boothe Luce.
The 58 % trial was prompted
by the realisation that only 18 per cent
of films screened at the venue were
directed by women.
Wadjda, both the first
film to be shot in Saudi Arabia as well as the first to be
directed by a Saudi
woman, may not be infallible, but it is a sharp commentary that pierces to the heart
of things just as well as its eponymous protagonist pierces our own hearts with her quirky, rebellious ways.
In a series
of firsts for the festival, there were 51 rookie filmmakers represented, and eight
of the 16
films in official competition were
directed by women.
Woman Walks Ahead is
directed by talented English filmmaker Susanna White, director
of the
films Nanny McPhee Returns and Our Kind
of Traitor previously, as well as lots
of TV work.
I think I'm a little behind on my
directed by women and silent
film goals, but I watched some
films I'd been meaning to watch for years and lots
of Oscar nominated and winning
films leading up to the Oscars this Sunday.
For the second year in a row my favorite
film of the year was not
directed by a
woman, but as per tradition it was also a queer romance.
Tully is
directed by Canadian filmmaker Jason Reitman,
of the
films Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Labor Day, and Men,
Women & Children previously.
Take My Nose... Please: The acclaimed
film,
directed by the 89 year - old first time filmmaker Joan Kron (former editor at Allure Magazine for over 25 years and at New York Magazine), is a comedic point
of view on
women and plastic surgery.