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

In 2012, AWFJ launched its festival awards program, presenting EDA Awards to women filmmakers in partnership with select film festivals and organizations.

In 2012, AWFJ launched a new program to present EDA Awards to women filmmakers in partnership with select film festivals.

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

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.

In 2012, AWFJ launched a new program to present EDA Awards to women filmmakers in partnership with select film festivals and organizations.

Not exact matches

Five women accused the comedian, filmmaker, and Emmy winner Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct in a report in The New York Times on Thursday.

«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.»

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.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmarin 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and WalmarIn lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

«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.

# 36 on Gourmet's list of 50 Women Game - Changers in Food is Severine von Tscharner Fleming — farmer, activist, and filmmaker...

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.

None of these courageous women has ever spoken on the record in such compelling detail, and, on this DVD, the filmmakers weave together their passionate narratives as a celebration of the journey to motherhood that will leave viewers with a renewed sense of amazement about the power of women.

Janel is a woman of rare vision, a passionate filmmaker, and dauntless advocate for giving babies the best possible start in life.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightIn Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrightin film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

It may be interesting to watch the film «Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York» by filmmaker Elena Beloff, a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years.

A battered woman finds her soul mate in a most unusual manner in this drama from Korean filmmaker Kim Ki - Duk.

Better, the filmmakers have surrounded Black Panther with women who are not just worthy of him but frequently leave him in the dust.

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».

Born in Sweden and currently based in New York, Jordenö, like Livingston, is a white cis queer woman, but she preempts the charges that have bedeviled the Paris director; Kiki is much more of a collaboration between filmmaker and subjects than its predecessor.

When I see Almodóvar's pictures, I come into a new perception of life, a fantastic world in which the Spanish filmmaker shows us a new concept of women's feelings and demonstrates he is a master, a genius.

Class friction has been a major subject in recent South American cinema, whether in the movies of the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel («The Headless Woman») or those of the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva («The Maid»).

Through extraordinary access and exclusive interviews, Oscar ® nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus chronicles the tenacious men and women in the trenches who are fighting for the freedom of the press and America's right to know.

Synopsis: Filmmakers Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus shed light on Florida's amateur porn industry through the experiences of five young women in the business.

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.»

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct.

In a special conversation with The Mary Sue, he broke down what it means to shoot on film versus digital and also highlighted a number of women and POC filmmakers whose work excited him.

WFF, is a significant player within the Canadian film fest circuit, i known for its intimate, casual environment, set by Mishaw's loyal and tireless admin team, consisting mostly of women, most of whom have been with the festival for years, setting the stage for high - quality film - centric hospitality through which filmmakers and industry honchos mingle, and deals are made not only via scheduled one - on - one meetings, but also in the hot tub or on the ski slopes.

Jennifer Merin: In her first narrative feature, filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite does a beautiful job of bringing the true story of a heroic woman to the screen.

First up (in the UK) is Nocturnal Animals, designer - turned - filmmaker Tom Ford's three - sided drama about a woman facing the fall - out from a failed relationship.

Filmmaker Brett Ratner has sued a woman in federal court in Hawaii, alleging she defamed him with a Facebook post that claimed he raped her about 12 years ago.

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.

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 directorin 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 directorIn 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.

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.

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

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

From filmmaker and activist Crystal Emery, Black Women In Medicine highlights the experiences of a number of successful black women in the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers tWomen In Medicine highlights the experiences of a number of successful black women in the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers todaIn Medicine highlights the experiences of a number of successful black women in the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers twomen in the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers todain the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers twomen entering medical careers today.

The global success of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, simultaneously giving us an opportunity to...

The recent global success of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, and simultaneously gave voice to...

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.

The Archer Film Festival strives to bridge that divide by empowering and highlighting young filmmakers who share the goal of increasing the number of women in the film and television industry, and to participate in the conversation about women's representation onscreen.

In a striking rally, 82 women — the same number of female filmmakers to ever be selected to Cannes competition lineup — stood on the Palais red - carpet steps, as Cate Blanchett said, «a symbol of our determination to change and progress.»

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story.

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's juicy documentary about expert suspense filmmaker Brian De Palma doubles down on its subject's famous obsessions with Alfred Hitchcock, curvy women in peril and coke - snorting gangsters, reclaiming a peevish Hollywood giant in the process.