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It all sounds fine and good and so very Cannes, except there is just one teensy weeny detail that is really stuck in my craw: out of those twenty-one films in competition, only one is directed by a woman. One: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s A Castle in Italy. Cannes, I can’t help but ask — what’s up with that? More
Prepare yourself to meet a couple that just oozes artistry: Jacob Krupnick and Youngna Park are both crazy-talented photogs who co-created a mesmerizing feature-length music video (more on that below). Oh, and they also made this mini Of a Kind film about the talented and articulate sisters behind Lizzie Fortunato. Basically: RENAISSANCE TWOSOME. More
The Hollywood Reporter put out its annual ‘Most Powerful Women in Hollywood’ issue this week. Most of the most powerful women are heads of studios (Anne Sweeney, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks came in at number one) but by the time we were in the 40′s we got to Tina Fey and blockbuster queens Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep came in at 50. But when a number of these powerful women (and a few men) were asked what it would be like if women really did run Hollywood, their answers were surprising. More
Last month we wrote that though it has been a strong year for women in television both in front of and behind the camera, the number of women working as directors in prime time has stayed flat over the last year at 11%. Women are still not getting to call the shots behind the camera enough. But a woman named Melina Matsoukas may change that. More
At a recent panel for Emmy nominated writers, Lena Dunham, creator and star of Girls, said there are still a lot of things women seem not “allowed” to do in the media, namely be unlikable. “I don’t hear anyone complaining that Larry David is an asshole,” she said. With him, “Everyone’s just laughing and having a good time.”And she is right. Yes, there are female TV characters on television who are unlikeable but it is usually because they are larger than life, over the top b*tches like Amanda on Melrose Place, Wilhemina Slater on Ugly Betty and Regina Mills on Once Upon A Time (who actually is the evil queen from the fairytales.) But when we are presented with a protagonist who is majorly flawed we criticize, even though we are constantly complaining that most female TV characters are too perfect and therefore hard to relate to.
When Matrix co-director Larry Wachowski became Lana Wachowski, she became the first major Hollywood director to publicly identify as transgender. After undergoing sex-change surgery and undergoing a thorough gender reassignment, Lana recently made a rare appearance in a promotional spot for her hotly anticipated upcoming movie, Cloud Atlas. “Hi, I’m Lana,” she says at the beginning of the charming video, sporting pink dreadlocks and a cute semi-sheer black top with a bra visible underneath. Wachowski’s public embrace of her feminine identity makes her an important figure in the transgender community. But her transition makes her notable for a reason that has been much less widely reported on: She is now the top-grossing female director of all time. More
Oh the Cannes Film Festival. The glamor, the beauty, the blatant sexism? In very disappointing news, the famous French film festival forgot to include female directors on its list of 23 nominees. More
Just as they did this summer and at Sundance this past winter, women will now dominate The Tribeca Film Festival, which starts tonight in New York City. Many of the 90 films being screened at the festival center on female protagonists but were directed by women as well.
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There have only been four women nominated for the Oscar for best director in the history of the Academy Awards and the first one didn’t win until 2010 (Kathyrn Bigelow.) Four women! In the span of 84 years! That is not a lot. Of course, when you hear about statistics for women working in Hollywood, that number makes perfect sense. Behind all the glitz, glamor and fashion of films it is still a male dominated industry. Only 7%of the top 250 top-grossing films released in 2010 were directed by women, 10% were written by women and 24% were produced by women. More
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>Women ruled at The Sundance Film Festival this year. There is absolutely no doubt about it. We ruled in the documentaries, for directing and for being frickin’ funny. This is especially great to hear considering only 7% of the top 250 top-grossing films released in 2010 were directed by women, 10% were written by women and 24% were produced by women. Only 7% of the 3,879 feature films in both narrative and documentary categories submitted to the 2012 Sundance Film Festival were directed by women. While the number of films made by women as directors and producers is higher in the independent film world, and particularly among documentary films, there remains a marked disparity between the numbers of feature length films completed by male versus female filmmakers. More
Courtney Cox will be putting on her director hat for an upcoming episode of the ABC series Cougar Town which she stars in and also serves as executive producer. This would be the 47 year old’s first time directing for television. Previously, Cox directed a short film called The Monday Before Thanksgiving in 2008, which she also appeared in, starring Laura Dern. More
