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    Cross Post: Women Writing Pilots – Nice Work if You Can Get It

    Last week the networks announced the pilots they are picking up to series from among the ninety or so that were produced this year for ABC, CBS, CW, FOX and NBC. Certainly the relative success that CBS had with its schedule and the more limited slots FOX has available influenced their rationale for ...

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    Lightning in a Bottle? Teaming Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy

    Could this be the successor to Bridesmaids? 

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    New TV Shows Created by Women for 2012-2013

    It's that tme of the year again.  When your favorite shows get cancelled, and shows that you have no idea why they exist get renewed again for another  year.

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    Guest Post: What It Feels Like for a Girl

    The drama Hick has been generating controversy for its depiction of young teen Luli McMullen’s journey into adolescence. Andrea Portes, who wrote the screenplay adaptation of her novel, responds to this criticism with insights into the female teen character played by Chloë Grace Moretz.

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    Trailer Watch: Forbidden Voices - Directed by Barbara Miller

    An incredibly moving story of three women bloggers fighting to keep telling the truth.  As First Lady Michelle Obama says: "courage can actually be contagious." 

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    Tribeca Watch: Speaking With Writer/Director Jenny Deller and Producer Kristin Fairweather of Future Weather

    I didn't get to see many Tribeca Fest films in the theatre this year due to my travel schedule at the beginning of the festival, but I was so glad to be able to catch the film and post screening discussion of Future Weather.

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    Interview with Anne Renton - Director of The Perfect Family

    The Perfect Family written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Reily and directed by Anne Renton and produced by Cora Olson and Jen Dubin hits theatres and VOD today.  It tells the story of Eileen Cleary played by Kathleen Turner, a very religious Catholic woman whose life falls apart when she gets...

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    Nancy Meyers to Direct Her Daughter Haille's Screenplay

    Sorry for being a little late on this but I love this story so I wanted to make sure I shared it.

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    Tony Nominations: Good for Female Directors, Horrible for Female Writers

    Last June after a season where not a single female playwright was produced on Broadway it was announced that there would be at least five women with plays in the just ended 2011-2012 season.  Four of the expected plays opened: The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond, Relat...

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