Nicole Holofcener

Dakota Fanning and Danielle Macdonald Join Amy Berg's Narrative Debut 'Every Secret Thing'

Women Directors News: Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing and Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves

As we had previously reported, director Amy Berg, whose documentary West of Memphis screened at TIFF, is directing her first narrative feature Every Secret Thing starring Diane Lane with a script adapted by Nicole Holofcener. Over the weekend it was announced that Berg’s new film will be finan...

Catherine Keener, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Toni Collette to Star in Nicole Holofcener's New Film

Nicole Holofcener’s untitled new project began principal photography on Monday in Los Angeles.  The film will be distributed by Fox Searchlight.

Drew Barrymore, Amy Berg Announce New Directing Projects

Two exciting new women-directed projects were announced this week. 

'West Of Memphis' Director Amy Berg Helming 'Every Secret Thing' Penned By Nicole Holofcener, Starring Diane Lane

Earlier this year, documentarian Amy Berg ("Deliver Us From Evil") arrived at the Sundance Film Festival with mild controversy and lots of interest with "West of Memphis," a brand new documentary on the West Memphis Three with some startling new revelations. For better or worse, a lot of the attenti...

Women Director Watch: Debra Granik and Nicole Holofcener

Some news on two of the top tier female directors-

Do You Think There is a Glass Ceiling for Women Directors?

Apparently Columbia University's film school doesn't think so.   They are holding a panel at their 25th anniversary film festival on May 9 entitled: What Glass Ceiling? The Remarkable Success of Columbia’s Women Filmmakers.

Nanette Burstein to Direct Nicole Holofcener Script

The news from the Hollywood Reporter is that Nanette Burstein (Going the Distance) will direct Unforgiving World a remake of a French film with a script written by writer/director Nicole Holofcener for Focus Features.

Post-Award Thoughts

As I watched the Oscars and the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend you could see one clear difference between the two events (aside from the formal dresses and the hosts) -- the presence of female winners. The Oscars followed the usual path and having male winner after male winner, especially i...