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November 18, 2012 (St. Louis, MO) For the third time in 2012, the international Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) has presented awards for women filmmakers at a prominent festival.

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

Not exact matches

«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.»

«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.

They also follow several women's stories — both those who succeed and fail at attempting a VBAC — including that of filmmaker Abby Epstein, whose first c - section delivery was depicted in the dramatic, final moments of The Business of Being Born.

If you're a filmmaker and you can't turn $ 20 million into $ 80 million domestic, you're just not going to get the opportunities of those who can... and a movie like this is not gonna get anywhere * close * to those numbers unless women go and see it in equal numbers to the men who go to see a «Neighbors»... or at least a «Sideways».

This franchise has never been good at plotting — it seems obvious that scenes involving Basinger and a highly billed Jennifer Ehle (who plays Ana's mother, Carla), have been cut here — and this installment's many oversights are evidence of the filmmakers» belated recognition of both Johnson's sly appeal and the folly of the tortured man of privilege who can only be healed by a good woman.

Not only is Wonder Woman going to be the first female - led superhero movie of this post-MCU comic book movie boom, but it's also the first one directed by a female filmmaker, with Patty Jenkins at the helm.

In The Stolen Man (El hombre robado), Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro's 2007 debut feature, a young woman navigates her way through two different schemes: the stealing and subsequent selling of artifacts from the museum she works at and a series of encounters with friends and lovers that she aims to manipulate towards an ambiguous endgame.

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.

Mercedes Cooper ARRAY Mercedes Cooper is the Director of Marketing at ARRAY, an LA - based arts collective dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

Neither the snow nor the possible conflict with Robert Redford's private brunch stopped Sundance filmmakers from participating in the women's march at Park City, Utah.

From «Gigi» to «The Last Detail», from «Star Wars» to «Wall Street», from Training Day to just about any recent Al Pacino vehicle («Scent of a Woman», «Donnie Brasco», «The Devil's Advocate», The Recruit), storylines which involve a young man's initiation at the hands of an older father figure into the ways of the world have proven irresistible to filmmakers, combining elements of Oedipal conflict, the crisis of masculinity and the generational gap in a neat coming - of - age package.

Elements of noirish mystery persist throughout A Fantastic Woman, but the filmmakers prove less interested in their protagonist's psyche than the intolerance she's made to endure at every turn.

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 yeaAt 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 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 women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at the festival for the third consecutive yeaat the festival for the third consecutive year.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

Sundance Institute is delighted to introduce our six new Women at Sundance Fellows, a diverse group of filmmakers working as producers and directors in the documentary and narrative fields.

And I hope that girls or women who want to be filmmakers look at this, and they feel like, «Yeah, I'm going to go make my movie.»

In 2016, Women at Sundance partnered with Refinery29 to recommend emerging and mid-career female filmmakers for their inaugural ShatterBox Anthology, a 12 - part commissioned series of female - helmed short films.

I hope that girls or women who want to be filmmakers... look at this and they feel like, «Yeah, I'm going to go make my movie.»

Every spring, Women at Sundance and Women In Film Los Angeles present a Financing and Strategy Intensive designed to educate a large group of female filmmakers in all aspects of seeking, securing, and managing...

Austin Women in Cinema provides a professional network for student filmmakers at all levels of experience and the greater professional film community in Austin.

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events.

«Smithereens» (Oct. 9 at the Music Box Theatre; www.musicboxtheatre.com) Three years before she directed Madonna in 1985's «Desperately Seeking Susan,» filmmaker Susan Seidelman's debut feature was this raucous look at a young woman in New York with a messy love life and punk rock aspirations.

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.

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.

«Rust and Bone,» filmmaker Jacques Audiard's moving romantic drama based on Craig Davidson's short story collection, boasts a thoroughly complex woman at its core.

Filmmaker Peter Bratt and his actor brother Benjamin Bratt address the crowd at the Women's March in Park City.

At tonight's awards reception, in addition to several prominent, award - winning female filmmakers being honored, including the amazing Amma Asante, J.J. Abrams, will receive the Leading Man award for for his ongoing support and advocacy of women in film.

The actor, who won for La La Land at last year's ceremony, was announcing the winner when she highlighted the fact that four male filmmakers were nominated alongside just one woman.

Julianne Moore and Patricia Clarkson get together for a photograph while attending Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Closing Night Ceremony held at The Smyth Hotel on Wednesday (October 28) in New York City.

Reese Witherspoon stars as a woman starting over, who lets three filmmakers crash at her guest house.

With her 25 years of experience at the San Francisco Film Society, Film Forum, and Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival, Rachel Rosen is in a unique position both as a woman working in the film festival world and as someone who has been in a position to watch the changing landscape for women as festival professionals and as filmmakers.

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

At women's march on the steps of Palais, the venue of the festival, she gave an emotional speech with 82 women, indicating the 82 female filmmakers who have climbed the steps of Palais.

There's a remarkable consistency to the way he's used by filmmakers as disparate as Roger Vadim and Eric Rohmer as a strident sort of dandy, even if Rohmer's My Night at Maud's allows his Catholic mensch more shades than the puppy desperately lapping at Brigitte Bardot's heels in... And God Created Woman.

This latest iteration won its director, Sofia Coppola, the best director prize earlier this year at Cannes and furthers this filmmaker's interest in collectives of dreamy, self - contained women that featured in her breakout movie The Virgin Suicides nearly 20 years ago.

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 select film festivals around the world, and at year's end.

Anger, shock, unity and solidarity: Those were the prevailing emotions on Tuesday at a Manhattan event for women filmmakers, writers and actors, where the Harvey Weinstein scandal wasn't far from anyone's mind.

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As I look at this slate of beautiful work, I could just make a series of simple observations: that these films come from all over the globe; that there is a nice balance of filmmakers known and unknown to many here in New York; that the overall balance between frankness and artistry holds me in awe; that there are two gala selections with the word «wonder» in their titles; and that eight of the 25 films were directed by women.»

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The feature debut from the Palestinian filmmaker looks at three different Arab women living in Tel Aviv and trying to juggle their jobs, romance and faith.

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Eighty - two women are set to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday to highlight the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years.

Thankfully, Blanchett will be accompanied by several more extraordinary women on this year's jury, including Oscar - nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay, our guest at this year's Ebertfest, who received one of the festival's largest ovations for her stunning documentary, «13th.»

The opportunity to attend the intimate Women at Sundance Leadership Dinner, featuring top female filmmakers participating in the Festival as well as industry leaders.

Each year we strive to have several attendees at Catalyst Forum who are interested in investing in women filmmakers.

An invitation to the annual Women at Sundance Brunch, which celebrates female filmmakers presenting their work at the Sundance Film Festival