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Cannes Film Festival Slammed By Feminist Group La Barbe For Excluding Women Directors
The French feminist group La Barbe which was started several years ago in response to the sexist media treatment of Segolene Royal in her race against Nicholas Sarkozy, has taken on one of the most sexist film establishments, the Cannes Film Festival for its exclusion of female directors from this y...
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The Sundance Institute and Women in Film Team Up to Get More Women Filmmakers Working in Hollywood
Finally some organizations have stepped up and stood up and committed resources to work towards improving the amount of female filmmakers working in the business. Women in Film and the Sundance Institute are going to track female filmmakers who show their films at Sundance to get a sense of th...
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Sundance Trailer Watch: Finding North Directed By Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush
49 million people in the U.S. -- one in four children -- don't know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people for who a...
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Women and Hollywood Joins the National Domestic Workers Alliance #BeTheHelp Campaign
I have always believed that culture can help make change. I believe that you can use film and TV to move people about issues -- if you do it right. The smart folks with the National Domestic Workers Aliiance are using a cultural opportunity with the film The Help and have created the #BeTheHelp campaign to raise awareness of the real situations for domestic workers. These mostly women are part of an underground economy many times paid in cash and not given the same rights as other workers. Yet they are the life blood of families enabling parents to go to work each and every day knowing that their children are being cared ...
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Watch: An Exclusive Look at "NEWSREELS: Reports from Occupy Wall Street by Jem Cohen"
"I'm frantically making these," says Jem Cohen. "I'm just figuring out in my mind what these are."
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Prepare For the Next Leap in the Occupy Movement: #OccupyCinema
Are you ready for #OccupyCinema?
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Guest Post: Women War & Peace: Bosnian Women Testify for Change By Pamela Hogan
For eight years as a founding producer of PBS’s award-winning international documentary series WIDE ANGLE, I made it my mission to expand coverage of under-reported global women’s issues. I’m proud of the ground-breaking films we made, tackling stories almost no one else was talking about from maternal mortality in Africa to the worldwide crisis in access to education, especially for girls in developing countries. But I began to feel that overall we were paying too much attention to a “narrow angle” of war. There was plenty of press reflecting a masculine narrative: warlords, generals and border conflict. There was bountiful footage of men...
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And They Say Occupy Wall Street Has No Message: 10 Docs That Spell It Out
When the occupation of Wall Street began a few weeks ago, any acknowledgment in the mainstream media was plagued with refrains designed to suggest that they were a motley crew of 21st-century hippies: What's the message? What are they fighting for? Do they not know that the computers and mobile phon...
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Women's Rights Advocates Win Nobel Peace Prize
What amazing news. I am beyond inspired and excited.
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Variety's Women's Impact Report - 2011
Variety had a luncheon last week where they honored over 30 women for their impact on the business and included two pieces on how Sweden and Norway are working on getting more women directors (they implemented a mandate) and a report on the great work that Geena Davis does through Geena Davis Instit...
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