Sentences with phrase «women filmmakers won»

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.

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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.»

Jennifer Phang is the 2015 recipient of the inaugural San Francisco Film Society Women's Filmmaker Fellowship, which provides a grant of $ 40,000, office, networking and development support toward a genre project.At Sundance 2015, Jennifer Phang's sophomore feature Advantageous won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize.

«Lady Bird» filmmaker Greta Gerwig was named Best Women Director and Screenwriter, while «Mudbound» casting directors Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram won the Best Ensemble award.

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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles, CA (September 13, 2017)-- Filmmaker Angela Robinson («Professor Marston and the Wonder Women») is partnering with award - winning cartoonist Terry Moore to adapt his long - running graphic novel «Strangers in Paradise» for film, it was announced today.

Valentina, a day - walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is brought around her estranged twin daughters.Nikyatu Jusu is an award - winning Sierra Leonean - American filmmaker.

His subsequent demise sets in motion the triangular quandary of Disobedience, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio's adaptation of Naomi Alderman's 2006 novel and anticipated follow - up to his Oscar - winning A Fantastic Woman.

This, combined with the women's march last week in which the female members of the jury were joined on the red carpet to recognize that only 82 women have ever walked the red carpet as directors of an in competition film compared to 1,645 men, underlined that while two of the three female directors in competition (out of 21) won prizes but the Palme still eludes a solo win by a woman filmmaker.

Ramsay was the only other woman to win a top non-acting award, earning Best Screenplay for her film, You Were Never Really Here; she shared the prize with Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for their movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

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.

In many quarters, 2009 was dubbed «the year of the woman» as a string of successes for female filmmakers culminated in Kathryn Bigelow's history - making Oscar win.

The Oscar - winning star was announcing the winner of Best Director alongside director Ron Howard when she highlighted that fact the five nominees were all male after the surprising snub for Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig and Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins.

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

Brooklyn - based filmmaker Sophia Takal won a Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award on Tuesday night here at South by Southwest, and, for the most part, her debut feature Green bears out that honor.

Ahead of its Christmas day release in the US, a new poster and trailer have arrived online for 20th Century Women, which is written and directed by Mike Mills and stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup; take a look below... With 20th Century Women, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills (the Academy Award ® - winning Beginners) brings -LSB-...]

This time around, Coppola is the filmmaker being feted, by winning the top Director award on Sunday — making her the first woman in 56 years to take the prize.

A BAFTA and multi-award winning filmmaker and Human Rights Campaigner, Leslee's documentary «India's Daughter», has been critically acclaimed around the globe, won 32 awards (including the Peabody Award and the Amnesty International Media Award for Best Documentary 2016) and sparked a global movement to end violence against women and girls.