Sentences with phrase «women directors coming»

«We have the Queens of Cinema, not just three, [but] six women directors coming to the festival...» including Ava DuVernay (13th), Amma Asante (Belle), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), Shari Springer (American Splendor), Catherine Bainbridge (Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World), and Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose).

«We have the Queens of Cinema, not just three, [but] six women directors coming to the festival...» including Ava DuVernay (13th).

Not exact matches

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

«Wonder Woman» changed the game when it came out, impressing audiences, giving young girls a new superheroine to look up to, and earning director Patty Jenkins praise.

«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

Six women have come forward to the LA Times to accuse Hollywood director Brett Ratner of some very serious sexual harassment, including Olivia Munn and Species actress Natasha Henstridge.

On the other hand, GFI has been very successful when it comes to gender equality; seven of the eight directors recruited to date are women.»

On the other hand, when Korn / Ferry was asked to find someone to head the Women's International Professional Tennis Council, a body created two years ago to provide a neutral meeting ground for the various factions in women's tennis — the ITF, the WITA and the tournament directors — it came up with Jane Brown, a woman of great experience in several areas of tennis administraWomen's International Professional Tennis Council, a body created two years ago to provide a neutral meeting ground for the various factions in women's tennis — the ITF, the WITA and the tournament directors — it came up with Jane Brown, a woman of great experience in several areas of tennis administrawomen's tennis — the ITF, the WITA and the tournament directors — it came up with Jane Brown, a woman of great experience in several areas of tennis administration.

In October, three U.S. senators entered the fray, writing to USGA executive director Mike Davis to request a change of venue for the tournament after a 2005 video, in which Trump boasted about groping women without their consent, came to light.

I'm starting as the Online Outreach Director at the National Women's Law Center this coming Friday, leading a six - person commando strike team to parachute deep behind enemy lines and do whatever it is we need to do to further the...

«It might come as a surprise to some that Palin does better than Huckabee among GOP men but that Huckabee beats Palin among Republican women,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

«There was a noticeable slip in support from the first night to the second night of the survey, after more damaging news came out and the National Organization for Women called for the Governor to step down,» says Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Barbara Bartoletti, the legislative director at the New York State League of Women Voters, said the latest package of voter reforms have been a long time coming.

It said, «On the 10th of January, 2017 men and women of good conscience around the world should come and watch the court proceedings between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Director, Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, against Justice Binta Nyako and her brother, the President of Nigeria, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

«Dan Lipinski is way out of step with his constituents and with Democratic party principles when it comes to women's rights, LGBT equality, and the basic freedoms that Americans hold dear,» Mitchell Stille, NARAL's National Campaign Director, said in a statement.

On the 10th of January 2017 men and women of good conscience around the world should come and watch the court proceedings between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Director Radio and Biafra Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu against Justice Binta Nyako and her fellow Fulani brother the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.

Alving, 65, is a hematologist who served as deputy and acting director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and also headed the Women's Health Initiative before she came to NCRR, first as acting director.

The new study comes out at an ideal time — January, said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist and director of Women's Heart Health at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

It's caused one to issue this caution to the woman on the street: «We don't want the 38 - year - old woman deferring childbearing to take this as proof that they can easily conceive naturally in years to come,» says Joshua U. Klein, MD, medical director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York - Brooklyn.

But Michael Krychman, MD, executive director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine in Newport Beach, Calif., finds that 10 % to 15 % of women who come in for low libido have untreated thyroid problems that can be handled quite effectively with medication.

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.

Writer / director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy and struggles to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore.

In her debut feature as writer - director, Karen Gillan stars as a woman trying (and failing) to come to grips with the suicide of her friend.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Director Jason Reitman (Men, Women & Children, Labor Day)-- teaming up with Cody and Theron again after 2011's Young Adult — is deeply, intimately sympathetic to Marlo in a way that I have never seen onscreen before when it comes to a female protagonist.

This week, there's a substantial list of watch - worthy openers that illuminate women's stories and / or are the work of women directors and writers: Marguerite, Lolo, Hello, My Name is Doris, Eye in The Sky, River of Grass, About Scout, 10 Cloverfield Lane, City of Gold, Here Come the Videofreex!

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.»

WHY: Director John Crowley's coming - of - age tale about a young Irish woman immigrating to America in the 1950s is a beautiful little movie that shines in its simplicity.

On November 25, 2014, I came from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Vancouver, British Columbia to join a group of eight carefully - selected female filmmakers from across Canada to participate in the nineteenth annual Women In the Director's Chair program, an internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to advance the skills, careers and screen projects of women direcWomen In the Director's Chair program, an internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to advance the skills, careers and screen projects of women direcwomen directors.

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You wouldn't know this from media fallout following the L.A. Times» Sunday story headlined «38 Women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment.»

Last week it was reported Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters) was in talks to star in Wonder Woman 2 as Diana's nemesis, the Cheetah, but now director Patty Jenkins has come out and fully confirmed Wiig is the first new addition to the film.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman nominated in the best director category for bringing «Lady Bird,» a tender coming - of - age story, to the screen, while «Get Out» s» Jordan Peele became the fifth black man nominated in the best director category.

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.

Screenwriters Elizabeth Hannah and Josh Singer recount how their Pentagon Papers drama came to fruition with director Steven Spielberg and how women in front of and behind the camera came together to tell Katharine Graham's historic story.

Adapted from the 1933 bestselling memoir by Vera Brittain — who Vikander portrays with such spirited vim and vigour — by Juliette Towhidi (TV's Death Comes to Pemberley) and helmed by TV director James Kent (Marchlands, The Thirteenth Tale), the film gives us an all - too - rare look at how war also affects the lives of women.

As hundreds of women have come forward in recent weeks with allegations of sexual misconduct at the hands of producer Harvey Weinstein, director James Toback and numerous other powerful men, Henstridge decided she would no longer remain silent.

The studio was banking on a cast of up - and - coming actors like Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller and a wunderkind director in the form of «Chronicle's» Josh Trank to push the Human Torch, the Thing, Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic into the modern era, but production difficulties may have doomed the project.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rwomen regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rwomen directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rWomen» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a supernatural mystery When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood - red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever.

From Chinese writer - director Vivian Qu comes a searing drama about sexual violence, corruption, and the seemingly inescapable wrongs done to women by men with the slightest amount of power.

Director Rob Marshall said at the premiere in Leicester Square that he «was overwhelmed by the turnout of women that came and auditioned for NINE.

It comes on the heels of media focus being on women, women directors and sexual harassment, etc..

LGBT Interest Gawker Rich Juzwiak is brilliant as usual - a must read on Lance Bass's «masculine» Reality TV wedding Women in Hollywood Lionsgate won the bidding war for Julianne Moore and Ellen Page drama Freeheld In Contention redemption might be coming for the much maligned 54 (1998) with Mark Christopher's directors cut?

Earlier this month, director Mike Mills paid a visit to New York in support of his third narrative feature, 20th Century Women, a deeply personal coming - of - age tale about a teenage boy growing up in Carter - era Southern California with his single moth...

Some other notable films from female directors include the Telluride breakout «Lady Bird» by Greta Gerwig, a semi-autobiographical coming - of - age movie about women and female familial relationships; Brie Larson's magical realist directorial debut «Unicorn Store»; and «Battle of the Sexes,» a chronicling of the run - up to the landmark 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, directed by Valerie Faris and her husband, Jonathan Dayton.

Otherwise, the soft golden hues are, well, soft and golden, and Nelson's evil, pre-Sara existence comes through in green and blue suffusions that director O'Connor overuses as symbols of the sterility of life without any woman yearning to sleep with you for being an asshole who happens to resemble Charlize Theron.

But Lady Bird's importance comes from the fact that it's a woman writer and director — we all know that will mean a lot right now.

Last month it was announced that Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright is set to helm an adaptation of A.J. Finn's bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, and now comes word from Variety that Amy Adams (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals) has been cast in the lead role.