Sentences with phrase «where women directors»

In an industry where women directors and directors of color are shockingly rare, Gerwig and Peele have broken through and made two of this year's best - reviewed films.

In an industry where women directors and directors of color are shockingly rare, Gerwig and Peele broke through and made two of 2017's best - reviewed films.

Not exact matches

«A lot of investors say they don't know where to find minority and women entrepreneurs,» says Nasir Qadree, Village Capital's director of education.

Haspel, who would be the first woman director in CIA history, reportedly oversaw a secret CIA prison in Thailand where a terrorism suspect was waterboarded.

We look forward to a partnership where UN Women and Uber will drive more access to these types of opportunities around the world,» UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a joint statement.

«The American healthcare system is increasingly dependent upon medical interventions to address what is, most often, a normal and safe physiological process,» said Rebecca Benghiat, executive director of the New Space for Women's Health in New York City, where the Caesarean rate has just hit 31 percent of all births.

Having a CPS worker dedicated to WCHOB will strengthen the relationship between physicians, the healthcare community and CPS by providing for an intense collaborative relationship where critical information can be shared confidentially,» added Dr. Stephen Turkovich, Pediatric Hospitalist, Quality & Patient Safety Medical Officer, & Co-Medical Director Newborn Nursery, Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Buffalo.

«No woman, child or adolescent should face a greater risk of preventable death just because of where they live,» says Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director - General of the World Health Organization.

Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa in Durban, hopes that Truvada might soon be available in his country, where up to one - quarter of women have HIV by the age of 20.

Seidman practices at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she is the founding Director of the BWH Cardiovascular Genetics Center.

Prior to that, she was the Director of Co-Investments at the Nike Foundation's Girl Effect, where she led a $ 210 million partnership between the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women.

«It's not unusual for women — even if they are very excited about and empowered by pregnancy — to be frustrated by a shift in weight,» says Colorado - based psychologist Helen L. Coons, PhD, president and clinical director of Women's Mental Health Associates & Healthy Psychology Solutions, where she specializes in improving body image and sexual health in wwomen — even if they are very excited about and empowered by pregnancy — to be frustrated by a shift in weight,» says Colorado - based psychologist Helen L. Coons, PhD, president and clinical director of Women's Mental Health Associates & Healthy Psychology Solutions, where she specializes in improving body image and sexual health in wWomen's Mental Health Associates & Healthy Psychology Solutions, where she specializes in improving body image and sexual health in womenwomen.

Plus, women often have stronger stress reactions than men, says David Rakel, MD, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin, maybe because the area where emotions are processed in our brains is larger.

She is the founder and Director of Medicine In Balance, LLC in suburban Philadelphia, where she provides integrative holistic women's health services, as well as integrative medicine consultations for women, men and teens.

She is the founder and director of Women of Wisdom store and center in Easton, MA, where empowering programs, holistic treatments, readings and an amazing variety of Schools of Wisdom intensive programs are offered.

Director of Curriculum Development Joel M. Evans, MD is Founder and Director of The Center for Women's Health, where he practices Integrative Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Erin Switalski is the Executive Director for the non-profit Women's Voices for the Earth, where her work has inspired unprecedented policy changes to reduce women's exposure to chemiWomen's Voices for the Earth, where her work has inspired unprecedented policy changes to reduce women's exposure to chemiwomen's exposure to chemicals.

I am the Director of Nutrition Counseling for the Domar Center for Mind / Body Health at Boston IVF, one of the nation's oldest and largest fertility clinics, where I specialize in nutrition and women's health issues (although also provide services for men and children).

It means people can get a ballpark idea of where they are and then follow up with their provider,» says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of NYU Langone's Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

In 1995, Rodriguez became design director of TSE where he presented the first ready to wear collections for men and women in New York.

In 1997, Kors was named the first - ever women's ready - to - wear designer and creative director of Céline, where he helped to turn the French fashion house around with successful accessories and a critically acclaimed ready - to - wear line, before leaving in October 2003 to concentrate on his own brand.

A Few Days of Respite (Quelque Jours de Repit) / Algeria, France (Director and screenwriter: Amor Hakkar)-- A pair of gay men who have escaped from Iran seek safe harbor in a small French village, where a lonely middle - aged woman offers aid.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Marking the feature - length debut of writer - director Pearce, it stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James and centers on a small island community where a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family.

Hello, My Name is Doris (Blu - ray) Details: 2016, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language The lowdown: Sally Field portrays Doris Miller, an older woman, who after a self - help class, sets her sights on John Fremont (Max Greenfield) the new, young art director at the company where she works.

Trained as an engineer and apprenticed to film noir great Maurice Tourneur for seven years, Brown learned his craft in the silent era and brought those visual skills to Universal and MGM, where he became known, along with the far more impressive George Cukor, as a woman's director.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

Her episodic TV work includes Jessica Jones for Marvel / Netflix, Empire, The Good Wife, where she is a regular director (17 episodes, including the 100th), Manhattan, Outsiders, Rake, Elementary, Vegas, Low Winter Sun, Hell on Wheels, and Rescue Me (where she was first woman director in five seasons).

But credit the director (and key collaborator Vangelis, who stirred the synths) for envisioning it all in a glinting, glitzy valley of self - regard, where women in nightclubs wear veils and humanity mourns itself.

Only the male director is constantly objectifying them, to the point where it strikes as an awkward attempt of men telling women how their comedy should be.

To what lengths Hepburn went to do her job properly can be seen in the interesting fact she spent a lot of time training for the role of a blind woman at the Lighthouse for the Blind in New York, where she was accompanied by the director himself, who later claimed «Audrey was miles faster than [him],» «quickly able to find her way, blindfolded, around the Lighthouse rooms and corridors.»

In this visually striking fantasy from Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth, she plays a young mute woman who finds an unlikely soulmate: the strange aquatic creature held in captivity at the laboratory where she works.

Emma recounts a dream to a therapist, walks a few blocks to Red Mullet to see Alex briefly and discuss a planned visit to Tuscany (just in time for earthquake number two), then proceeds to Book Soup, where she meets a blond actress who's just auditioned at Red Mullet with director Lester Moore (Richard Edson) for a part in Bitch From Louisiana; eventually the two women walk to the blond's apartment for some tentative love play.

In his essential book Planet Hong Kong, David Bordwell examines a sequence in the 1986 film Peking Opera Blues where director Tsui Hark deftly coordinates the movements of his actors as they try to remain hidden from an inquisitive father (three of them, two men and a woman, are in his daughter's bed and at least two of them shouldn't be).

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.

And for me I was wanting to comment on this space of work, where there seemed to be this really large body of certain filmmaking that was coming out of comedy and there's not a ton of women directors in comedies or at all.

Violent erotic horror from cult director Jean Rollin, about a young woman who finds herself stranded in a remote village where the population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus.

NEVER LET GO had its world premiere at FrightFest 2015, where it received top reviews from critics, and won Best Independent Feature at the 2016 National Film Awards and Best Director (Ford), Best Actress (Dixon) and Best Film at the 2016 Artemis Women - In - Action Film Festival.

The Beguiled Release Date: June 30 Director: Sofia Coppola Starring: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Ferrell Synopsis: At a girls» school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

In keeping with this view of women's proper role — Sartre, with whom Bay has more in common than one might imagine, would have called it the etre - pour - autrui — the director also supplies us with a pretty Latina who is ushered briefly onscreen to be berated for her «hoochie» outfit, and a hard - nosed National Intelligence Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across director also supplies us with a pretty Latina who is ushered briefly onscreen to be berated for her «hoochie» outfit, and a hard - nosed National Intelligence Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across his lap.

«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.

Gerwig has also made history by becoming only the fifth woman ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, where she was also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Not because she can't do it, because there are brilliant women directors, but if you have a family; it's basically a job where you can't do both.

The movie, the first feature - length project from writer / director Pearce, centers on a small island community where a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family.

That lack of change will be on display Sunday, too, where five men will compete for best director despite several potential nominees in Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman).

Bassett said her children, son Slater and daughter Bronwyn, visited the movie's set as well, where they saw a version of Black Panther's women warriors in the form of writer - director Ryan Coogler's crew, which had an unusual number of women in key roles.

But a selkie, nowâ $» a creature with the capability of transforming from seal to woman and back againâ $» that's another matter entirely, and a fine vehicle for writer - director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Miracle) to once more travel the border where fantasy and scuffed - up reality trade valences.

A Few Days of Respite (Quelque Jours de Repit) / Algeria, France (Director & Screenwriter: Amor Hakkar)-- A pair of gay men who have escaped from Iran seek safe harbor in a small French village, where a lonely middle - aged woman offers aid.

Camp X-Ray (Director & Screenwriter: Peter Sattler)-- A young woman is stationed as a guard in Guantanamo Bay, where she forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees.