Sentences with phrase «woman filmmakers»

There were 19 feature films presented by women filmmakers in 2016 and this year is no different with 18 feature films.

Through our support for women filmmakers, we can redefine what consumers everywhere get to see on their movie screens.

Looking for a movie marathon to scare your socks off while supporting women filmmakers at the same time?

Can we have 50 percent women filmmakers at the festival?

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

In other words, films with women filmmakers constituted a larger portion of the films reviewed by women than by men.

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

An examination of recent movies by prominent women filmmakers reveals that they share the problems of their male counterparts.

We have joined forces to combat one of the major obstacles to gender parity in independent film: a lack of access to capital among women filmmakers.

A number of these critics have noted the incredibly low numbers of women filmmakers and female protagonists in major studio films.

Similarly, the 2016 festival had two out of 15 feature films represented by women filmmakers — a total of 13 percent.

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

In addition, larger proportions of the films reviewed by women are for films with romantic themes, and those with women filmmakers and women protagonists or ensemble casts.

Straight from Tribeca Film Festival, Lee Jutton two films; both are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.

What accounts for the lack of movies by women filmmakers in your multiplex?

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.

Contemporary Australian women filmmakers rework the romantic comedy genre to incorporate women and their experiences.

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

Returning to Whistler Film Festival for the second year running, AWFJ honored women filmmakers whose works were screened in the 2014 program.

Aside from paying tribute to iconic women in the industry such as Olivia de Havilland and Isabelle Huppert, Women in Motion has also been turning the spotlight on emerging women filmmakers, including Jiji.

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Grady: It seems like every film festival this year is touting this as the year of the woman and programming more women filmmakers.

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.

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Not only is an upcoming documentary on Wilma Mankiller telling an inspirational true story of a trailblazing woman, but it is also showing how women filmmakers can use their influence to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

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.

Once settled into her new home, Jan quickly realized that she was unable to cover all the wonderful films by women filmmakers which open in NYC every week by herself, so she began adding interns to help improve her coverage.

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.

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

The truth is that horror cinema is one of the few genres where women filmmakers are making impressive inroads and their groundbreaking work is well worth seeking out this month or any month.

This is the third year of the ongoing study, with each year focusing on a different aspect of American women filmmakers and the work they show at Sundance, both in documentary and feature films categories.

Read about these inspiring women filmmakers here.

The Citizen Jane Film Festival takes place each fall beginning with the CJ Summit, a conference challenging the inequities facing women filmmakers, followed by three days of workshops, community, a nature hike,...

Additionally, CONCUSSION received the Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant and the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers Live the Dream Grant at the Gotham Awards.

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.

There are lots of beautiful women filmmakers.

Her cinema is inspired by the works of cinema's great women filmmakers, who searched inward for meaning and towards matriarchal figures for intimate revelations.

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.

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.

recently sat down with FF2 Media Senior Contributor Stephanie A. Taylor to talk about her new film, how she entered the entertainment industry and advice for aspiring women filmmakers.

Tribeca And Chanel Support Women Filmmakers Through The 3rd Annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program