Sentences with phrase «women filmmakers who»

Sundance has spearheaded programs to help women filmmakers who have a breakthrough get their second movies made.

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.

Still, Jane Campion remains the only woman filmmaker who has won the festival's top prize in seven decades.

Not exact matches

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 Walmawho 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 WalmaWho 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 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.

Belvedere and Monáe feature three talented women filmmakers — Janicza Bravo, Lacey Duke and Kirsten Lepore — who will direct and produce short films inspired by the question: What does a beautiful future look like to you?

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 ask for the reason of such an article, maybe you should know that there are plenty of supposed experts who would use such a film, made by filmmakers and promoted by promotional people, as «scientific evidence» to «educate» pregnant women and couples about the risks of medicalized birth.

«Curse of the Crying Woman» and «The Museum of Horror» were shot by Rafael Baledon — one of the great horror filmmakers, who directed a total of 70 films.

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.

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».

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.

That isn't to say this movie doesn't have its share of Sandler irritants; There is the obligatory running joke about a gay singer (Alexis Arquette) who can only perform Culture Club songs, and the filmmakers get maximum mileage from a nice old woman (Ellen Albertini Dow) who enjoys candid talk about penises.

It's an especially glaring issue, since the filmmakers have no issue slow - zooming on a mourning woman who claims her slain children were unarmed or using angry citizens as mostly backdrops to the investigations being conducted.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Coogler is a rare male filmmaker who loves to write powerful women, and his movies are so much stronger for it.

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.

This Year's Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry, presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner — making, record — breaking, industry — changing achievement during any given year: Women Documentary Filmmakers — including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady («Detropia»), Lauren Greenfield («Queen of Versailles»), Alison Klayman («Ai Weiwei Never Sorry») and Sarah Burns («The Central Park Five»).

But this is one filmmaker who writes and directs what she knows: the stories of troubled young women lost in their own worlds.

Four actresses who were students in Franco's acting classes and a filmmaker who considered him a mentor say in the article published on Thursday that Franco asked them to perform sexually inappropriate and coercive scenes, and described him «storming off» a movie set when women refused his demands to appear naked.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

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Backstabbing for Beginners is directed by Danish filmmaker Per Fly, of the films The Bench, Prop and Berta, The Inheritance, Drabet, The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man, and Monica Z previously.

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.»

Susan Wloszczyna: As an ardent admirer of Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio's Gloria, about a mousy 50 - ish divorcee and office worker who yearns for romance but only on her own terms, it was no surprise that his A Fantastic Woman similarly managed to take my breath away while viewing the world through female eyes.

Verdict: Pawel Pawlikowski is an undervalued filmmaker (best known for «My Summer Of Love «-RRB-, who aside from his return with 2012's disappointing «The Woman In The Fifth,» has been away for too long.

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.»

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

Reuniting with filmmaker Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long), Kristin Scott Thomas delivers yet another brittle, understated performance as a woman who isn't always likeable but is hugely sympathetic.

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.

Written, directed by, and starring actress - turned - filmmaker Noël Wells, this indie romantic comedy is about a woman who returns to her hometown of Austin, TX and encounters her ex-boyfriend, who is now living with his new girlfriend in their old house.

In The Shadow Of Women, an unexpectedly funny relationship cautionary tale from the doomy and poetic Philippe Garrel, centers on a hypocritical documentary filmmaker who cheats on his wife, but can't stand the thought of her with another man.

The film is the latest release from acclaimed filmmaker Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who goes to war with local police, as she engages in a quest to avenge her daughter's murder.

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.

Casting Sheen, who has been a human - rights activist since before much the audience was born, and dressing Fields in a union t - shirt that recalls her Oscar ™ - winning turn as a union organizer leaves no doubt about where the filmmakers rank the working man and woman in the grand scheme of things, either.

That's easy for men, harder for women, harder even still for women of color who are almost completely absent this year, either as filmmakers or as celebrities or as leading actresses.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who was recently awarded the Academy Award ® for A Fantastic Woman, brings to life a taboo romantic drama within a cloistered community in his English - language debut.

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.

Few filmmakers could do anything original or vibrant by making yet another film about a creative yet difficult man (who's also in a relationship with a younger woman), but that's what Paul Thomas Anderson does in Phantom Thread.

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.

In his upcoming biography, Otto Preminger — The Man Who Would Be King, renowned film professor Foster Hirsch describes how the demanding Austrian filmmaker cast Kim, who was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard AttenborouWho Would Be King, renowned film professor Foster Hirsch describes how the demanding Austrian filmmaker cast Kim, who was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborouwho was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.

The Orchard has unveiled an official US trailer for Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's new film Thelma, about a young woman who moves to Oslo and begins to fall in love with another woman, discovering that she also has fantastic, terrifying «super» powers.

After Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, mercurial filmmaker David O. Russell reunites with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro for an offbeat biopic about the woman who invented the Miracle Mop.

Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the filmmakers behind mind - bending thrillers like The Sound of My Voice and The East, the show follows a young blind woman named Prairie Johnson (Marling) who returns to her sleepy hometown with her eyesight mysteriously restored after she disappeared for seven years.