Sentences with phrase «year for a woman director»

As Anne Thompson of Indiewire noted about 2017, «It turned out to be a strong year for women directors (five).»

Not exact matches

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Fifor the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & FiFor the Study of Women in Television & Women in Television & Film.

This year's honoree is Dr. Leonard Greenhalgh, Director of Programs for Minorities and Women - Owned Businesses and Director of Native American Business Programs, Dartmouth.

No love for Patty Jenkins, director of the year's biggest movie, Wonder Woman.

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

They have youth directors that tell the youth they have to drop out of school activities to do more work for the church, kick an 86 year old woman from the choir because she doesn't sing well enough any more... and the list goes on and on.

«The most vulnerable children and women in hard - to - reach areas are often missed by existing interventions that can improve vitamin A status, including vitamin A supplementation, food fortification, dietary diversification, and promotion of optimal breast - feeding,» said Ms. Nancy Haselow, HKI vice president and regional director for Asia - Pacific, who has been designing, implementing, and testing vitamin A delivery programs for more than 20 years.

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.

Leonardi, who is also the Women's National ODP Technical Director, has worked with Klass for a little more than a year now.

The guest panel includes former British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion Stephanie Cook MBE, RFU board member and Director Deborah Griffin OBE, former British rower and Olympic bronze medallist Sarah Winckless and Fiona Macklin who rowed for Cambridge University Women's Boat Club in this year's infamous Women's Boat Race.

«We are grateful for the hundreds of women who have donated their time and their life - saving milk to The Mothers» Milk Bank over the last year,» says Kim Updegrove, RN, CNM, MSN, MPH, Executive Director, The Mothers» Milk Bank at Austin.

I kind of made a lot of contacts and so forth, and then just about nine years ago I accepted a position, leaving my practice and becoming a system - wide medical director for women's and initially just women's services but it wound up being a women's and surgical center so that was kind of an interesting switch in my world.

She served on the Women's Sports Foundation Board of Directors for 7 years and was a WSF advocacy consultant for two years, with a focus on Title IX, childhood obesity, and athletes» rights issues.

Deborah Eganhouse, Women's Director and TTS contact Loretta Manriquez, RN, IBCLC, a big THANK YOU for all your hard work and commitment over the years to improving the outcomes of mothers and infants in your community!

She has received numerous awards, including Business Owner Of The Year from the National Association of Women Business Owners and Program Director Of The Year from IDEA, the world's largest fitness association for fitness professionals.

If you ask Marsden Wagner, MD, a perinatologist and perinatal epidemiologist from California and director of Women's and Children's Health in the World Health Organization for 15 years, he will tell you: Doctors.

«For 17 years, Cynthia Nixon has been a leading voice and on - the - ground fighter for public education, women's rights, LGBTQ equality, and protecting New York's environment from corporate polluters,» said the group's executive director, Charles ChamberlaFor 17 years, Cynthia Nixon has been a leading voice and on - the - ground fighter for public education, women's rights, LGBTQ equality, and protecting New York's environment from corporate polluters,» said the group's executive director, Charles Chamberlafor public education, women's rights, LGBTQ equality, and protecting New York's environment from corporate polluters,» said the group's executive director, Charles Chamberlain.

About 15 women enroll each year for the six - month course, meant to take women who are already accomplished and position them to enter the public policy sphere, said director Dina Refki.

Katherine Smith, director of advocacy for the Rochester chapter of the League of Women Voters, says the registration process has been very slow this year.

Cunningham, who thanks to her years of widely respected lobbying and consulting work in state politics is often referred to as the most powerful woman in Albany, first became known as a prominent labor strategist, serving as political director for the 1199 / SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the most politically potent union in the state (and perhaps the entire Northeast).

The club's centennial celebration is honoring state Insurance Department Superintendent James Wrynn as its Man of the Year, state Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D - Ridgewood) as is Legislator of the Year, North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System Director of Government Relations Rosemary Kelly as its Woman of the Year and Freddy Delligatti, business agent for Plumbers Union Local 1 and vice president of the Queens Board of Business Agents, as its Labor Advocate of the Year.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

The 89 - year - old Cutchogue resident, who has volunteered at Eastern Long Island Hospital for more than 15 years, was recently named 2012's «Woman of Distinction» for the 1st Senatorial District in recognition of her efforts as director of the hospital's volunteers.

Patricia Alireza, pictured here with Grita Loebsack (left), managing Director of L'Oréal U.K., is one of four winners of this year's L'Oréal U.K. and Ireland Fellowship for Women in Science.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopWomen's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopwomen from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopwomen for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

«Preeclampsia is a very important health problem for women around the world, but for many years no one has understood why or how it happens,» said Irina A. Buhimschi, MD, director of the Center for Perinatal Research in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's and first author on the paper.

«If 10 percent of these emergency surgeries had been performed electively, the cost difference would have been nearly $ 1 billion over 10 years,» said Adil Haider, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and lead author of the paper.

«Over the past 25 years, a woman's risk of dying from pregnancy - related causes has nearly halved,» said Flavia Bustreo, assistant director - general for family, women's and children's health at the World Health Organization (WHO).

International speaker on anti-aging, frequent lecturer at Canyon Ranch, previous Medical Director of Dermaconcepts USA, founder of GR8SKN products for teens, and Expert Contributor to the women's well - being site, Fit to Inspire, Dr. Janine Ellenberger has worked in anti-aging medicine, women's health and family medicine for the past 20 years.

Dr Hudson has been in practice for 30 years, is the medical director of her clinic, A Woman's Time in Portland, Oregon, and director of product research and education for VITANICA.

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Even though Cannes veteran Hirokazu Kore - eda left with this year's top prize and Spike Lee took home second place (a deserving win but also a good make - up after the director was ignored in 1989 for Do the Right Thing), the strong slate was buoyed by new blood and (a few) more women directors.

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.»

Writer / director James Toback, best known for movies like Bugsy, Two Girls and A Guy, and Black & White, is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over a 22 year period.

Employment statistics for women in the director's chair are as grim as ever: only 9 percent of the top 250 domestic grossing films and 28 percent of supposedly diverse festival films had a female director in 2015; in TV, only 18 percent of first - time episodic directors were women over the five - year period from 2009 to 2014.

Director Garry Marshall has created some memorable films that have stayed with us for years like: Beaches, Pretty Woman, or even The Princess Diaries.

In Step, her joyous, pulsating portrait of the «Lethal Ladies» step dancing team of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, director Amanda Lipitz documents the team's high - stakes senior year of high school in inner - city Baltimore.

Sofia Coppola won the best director prize for her Southern Gothic adaptation «The Beguiled,» becoming the second woman to win that award in the festival's 70 - year history, and the first since Yuliya Solntseva won in 1961.

director Dee Rees will likely be seen as a best director snub, but she is nominated for best adapted screenplay - the only woman in the category this year.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Writer - director Noah Baumbach did some obvious studying of French New Wave and early Woody Allen films in preparation for Frances Ha, his jumpy and charming new film that deals with the life of a 27 - year - old woman named Frances.

Trained as an engineer and apprenticed to film noir great Maurice Tourneur for seven years, Brown learned his craft in the silent era and brought those visual skills to Universal and MGM, where he became known, along with the far more impressive George Cukor, as a woman's director.

«For the first few years, (Dr. Lauzen) was really looking at Hollywood and giving the statistics about the numbers of women directors and Hollywood,» she says.

For his follow - up to the bewitching A Ghost Story, writer - director David Lowery dramatizes the twilight years of this late criminal career, with screen legend Robert Redford cast as the infamous outlaw, Sissy Spacek as the woman who loved him, and Casey Affleck as the detective in hot pursuit.

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.»

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.