Sundance Channel is making a big move into scripted dramas this year. The network, best known as a home for indie movies and unscripted programming like "Iconoclasts," "Brick City" and "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys," has also screened international co-productions l...
Read More »Sundance announced the films in their Premieres and Documentary Premieres categories. With films directed by Jane Campion and Naomi Foner amongst many women-centric films and a documentary about Anita Hill, this announcement continues the awesome news that half of the previously announced Sund...
Read More »Yesterday, the New York Film Critics Circle, a group of 35 critics (but just 8 women) named Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty the best film of the year.
Read More »There has been a gradual creep of television into film festivals as the worlds have blended and more frustrated filmmakers have found themselves working on TV projects in addition to ones for the big screen.
Read More »Jane Campion is one of many filmmakers turning to TV. New Zealand-set BBC/Sundance Channel mini-series "Top of The Lake" is scheduled for next year. At MIPCOM she declared that her return to TV gave her "a lot of respect" for the people working in the medium, and she's prepared to do more televisio...
Read More »Fueled by the anger of another best of list sorely lacking in women, I would like to put forward the following films (which came from people all over the world through twitter and facebook) for the distinction of the best or greatest films directed by women.
Read More »Yesterday, the twittersphere went a bit wiggy with the once a decade Sight and Sound Top 50 Films of All Time List. Thie list has been published every 10 years year since 1962 and Citizen Kane made number 1 five time.
Read More »So tired of reading these lists that don't include any women. This time it is AMC's film site which offers up a list of the 50 top directors of all time.
Read More »The world has moved on but I’m still obsessing about why, for the second time in three years was there no films directed by a woman in the main competition at Cannes this year. I mean I know it’s only one festival but it’s by far the most prestigious and really that kind of omissio...
Read More »It's been very interesting to watch the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. In light of the fact that there are no women directors in competition and the great work of La Barbe, at the opening press conference the jury as well as the directors of the festival were confronted with a barrag...
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