IndieWire’s annual female filmmaker dinner at the Sundance Film Festival, presented by Canada Goose, celebrated women directors the night of January 27 such as Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Kent, Lulu Wang, Nisha Ganatra, and Penny Lane. The event took place at the Canada Goose Basecamp on Main Street in the heart of Park City, Utah.
At Sundance 2019, 45 percent of this year’s films were directed by women. A festival programmer walks us through some favorites.
The Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary categories offer a touch more hope, with four female directors making the nomination cut.
The limp excuse that there just aren’t enough good films made by women to crack the upper echelons of awards contention hasn’t held water for a long time, but 2018 beat it into oblivion.
Despite a radical shift in attitudes surrounding gender inequality in Hollywood, the latest Celluloid Ceiling study reveals a disheartening trend.
From indie filmmakers making their first jump into the studio world to reliable stars getting on the franchise train, the numbers are on the rise.
From much-hyped blockbusters, indies from rising talents, lauded filmmakers trying something new, and everything in between.
The only female director to earn a major nod was “Capernaum” filmmaker Nadine Labaki in the Best Foreign-Language Film category.
After the seismic changes of 2017, it seemed inevitable that 2018 would mark some sort of downswing in thought, conversation, and action. It didn’t.
The second “season” of TNT and Refinery29’s female-focused shorts program includes a fresh take on “The Red Balloon,” a timely story about immigration, and much more.
More than 35 percent of the films on the TIFF 2018 slate were directed by women, but the outreach extends beyond festival math.
The latest study from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative finds that little has changed, even with an uptick in conversation.
