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Awards

GLAAD Media Awards: Christina Aguilera, “A League of Their Own,” and More

“A League of Their Own” hit it out of the park at last night’s GLAAD Media Awards, taking home the honor for Outstanding New TV Series. The updated take on Penny Marshall’s...

Films

Sophie Barthes’ Emilia Clarke-Starrer “The Pod Generation” Lands at Roadside Attractions, Vertical

Emilia Clarke says goodbye to the distant past in King’s Landing and hello to the near future in “The Pod Generation,” a sci-fi story that sees the Emmy-nominated “Game of...

Trailers

Teaser Watch: Mel Eslyn Tells the Story of the Last Men on Earth in “Biosphere”

“Everything is feeling a bit unbelievable,” says Sterling K. Brown in a new teaser for “Biosphere,” Mel Eslyn’s feature debut. Set in the not-too-distant future, the...

Films

“Eileen” Adaptation Lands at Neon, Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Star

Thomasin McKenzie finds herself on another dangerous journey inspired by a glamorous, mysterious woman in “Eileen,” her latest big screen outing following “One Night in Soho.”...

Television

Robin Thede Comedy Series “Disengagement” in Development at HBO

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” returns to HBO for its fourth season next month, but we have even more to look forward to from the sketch comedy’s creator, showrunner, executive...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Explores the Complex Legacy of a Musical Genius

“Little Richard: I Am Everything” pays tribute to the OG rock ‘n roll icon. “He spit on every rule there was in music,” we’re told in a new trailer for the...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Nicole Holofcener Reteam for “You Hurt My Feelings””

Julia Louis-Dreyfus faces an unexpected crisis in a new trailer for “You Hurt My Feelings,” Nicole Holofcener’s latest. The “Veep” alumna plays Beth, a New York novelist...

News

Apply Now: Chicken & Egg Pictures Research & Development Grant

Attention filmmakers: Chicken & Egg Pictures has launched a new Research & Development Grant to support up to 30 directors working on feature-length documentary films in critical R&D...

Television

“Dope Girls” Drama About Soho’s Criminal Underbelly in the Works at BBC

A female-led “spiritual successor” to “Peaky Blinders” is in the works at BBC One. Deadline reports that “Dope Girls” will delve “into the history of...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Tracy Droz Tragos Highlights Efforts to Expand Access to Abortion Pills in “Plan C”

“Mobilizing is really hard when you’re scared and you’re censored,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Plan C.” Tracy Droz Tragos’ latest doc sees a...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: A Cannery Worker Deals with Professional and Personal Crises in “Until Branches Bend”

Now screening at SXSW, Sophie Jarvis’ “Until Branches Bend” tells the story of Robin (Grace Glowicki), a cannery worker who is struggling to get an abortion. She’s also...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jennifer Garner Investigates Her Husband’s Disappearance in “The Last Thing He Told Me”

Jennifer Garner rose to fame and scored four Emmy nominations depicting a spy on “Alias” but her latest project sees her investigating someone else’s secret identity. She leads...

Films

Claire Simon’s Gynecological Ward Doc “Our Body” Acquired by Cinema Guild

“Our Body” has secured North American distribution following its world premiere at last month’s Berlinale. Cinema Guild scored rights to Claire Simon’s look inside a public...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Darkness Follows the “Yellowjackets” Into Season 2

Winter is coming. A trailer for the second season of “Yellowjackets” has dropped, and after barely surviving the summer, the plane crash survivors at the center of the show will have to...

Films

Chinonye Chukwu to Write and Direct “Wolf Hustle” Adaptation

Chinonye Chukwu is heading to Wall Street. The “Till” filmmaker will follow up her acclaimed biopic of Mamie Till-Bradley, an activist fighting for justice following the murder of her...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: “Judy Blume Forever” Celebrates the Trailblazing Author

Sex, masturbation, puberty, bullying, body image, divorce — Judy Blume’s children’s books have earned a special place in the hearts of millions of young readers for taking an...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Kathryn Hahn Is An Advice Columnist in “Tiny Beautiful Things” Series Adaptation

Kathryn Hahn is following in the footsteps of Reese Witherspoon in “Tiny Beautiful Things,” another project based on a Cheryl Strayed book. Witherspoon played the author in 2014’s...

Films

Danielle Nicolet Will Adapt “Black Karen” Short into Feature

Danielle Nicolet is writing and exec producing a feature adaptation of “Black Karen,” “The Flash” star’s 2022 short directed by “Harlem’s” Meagan Good....

Television

Daisy Ridley and Raelle Tucker Team Up for “The Better Liar” Series at Amazon

Daisy Ridley is teaming up with Raelle Tucker, an alumna of “Jessica Jones” and “True Blood,” on her next project. The “Star Wars” actress will topline and exec...

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News

2022 ReFrame Stamp Recipients Include “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “The Woman King,” & “Aftersun”

Twenty-nine of the 100 most popular films of 2022 meet ReFrame Stamp criteria for gender-balanced production. Awarded to features that “hire women or individuals of other underrepresented...

Festivals

Savanah Leaf’s “Earth Mama” to Open New Directors/New Films Fest

Savanah Leaf’s “Earth Mama” will open the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF). Jointly presented by the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center, the fest will take...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Teyana Taylor Fights to Be in Her Son’s Life in “A Thousand and One”

Teyana Taylor insists that she’s willing to “go to war” for her son in a new trailer for A.V. Rockwell’s “A Thousand and One,” the winner of the Grand Jury Prize...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Katie Holmes and Julia Mayorga Bring “Rare Objects” to the Screen

“The wounds of some hearts aren’t always visible to the natural eye,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Rare Objects.” Co-written and directed by...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Daisy May Cooper Questions the Identity of Her New BFF in “Am I Being Unreasonable?”

“The one thing I’m lacking in my life is, like, real connection — possibly because I’m insecure and have got no mates,” says Daisy May Cooper in a new trailer for...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Greta Lee Reunites with Her Childhood Sweetheart in Celine Song’s “Past Lives”

A trailer has arrived for one of the best-reviewed films out of Sundance 2023. Written and directed by Celine Song, “Past Lives” sees Greta Lee reuniting with a childhood sweetheart after...

Television

Hulu Lands U.S. Rights to Daisy May Cooper’s BBC Hit “Am I Being Unreasonable?”

“Am I Being Unreasonable?” is heading stateside thanks to Hulu. The streamer acquired U.S. rights to the BBC comedy-thriller led by BAFTA TV Award winner Daisy May Cooper. Deadline...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon Are Journalists Investigating the “Boston Strangler”

“How many women have to die before it’s a story?” Keira Knightley asks in a new trailer for “Boston Strangler.” Inspired by a true story, the thriller sees the two-time...

Interviews

Berlinale 2023 Women Directors: Meet Malika Musayeva – “The Cage is Looking for a Bird”

Malika Musayeva was born in Grozny, Chechen Republic. During the Second Chehen War in 1999, she fled the Chechen Republic. During her studies at Russia’s Kabardino-Balkarian State University...

News

Apply Now: The Writers Lab for Women and Non-Binary Screenwriters 40+

Attention women and nonbinary screenwriters 40+: applications are now open for The Writers Lab 2023. The Writers Lab is “the only program in the world devoted exclusively to script and career...

Interviews

Berlinale 2023 Women Directors: Meet Frauke Finsterwalder – “Sisi & I”

Frauke Finsterwalder was born in Hamburg and studied film directing at HFF Munich. She previously worked at theaters and as a journalist. Her debut feature film, “Finsterworld,” received...

News

Apply Now: NYWIFT Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant

Applications are open for the NYWIFT (New York Women in Film & Television) Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant. Now in its 15th year, the grant is provided by disability rights advocate...

Films

Noora Niasari’s Sundance Winner “Shayda” Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics

One of our most anticipated titles out of Sundance 2023 has found a home following its world premiere at the fest, where it took home the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Sony...

Films

Laurel Parmet’s “The Starling Girl” Lands at Bleecker Street, Eliza Scanlen Stars

Eliza Scanlen is earning praise for her leading performance in another woman director’s feature debut. She took home an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for...

Films

Maryam Keshavarz’s Sundance Winner “The Persian Version” Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics

With “The Persian Version,” Maryam Keshavarz became the first director to have two films win the Sundance Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition category. The dramedy about Iranian...

Films

Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum to Direct Adaptation of “Mary Jane”

Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum is bringing another woman-penned novel to the screen. The director will follow up 2022 Sofia Carson-starrer “Purple Hearts,” based on the book by Tess Wakefield,...

Features

Exclusive: Noémie Merlant is a New Mom Struggling to Cope in “Baby Ruby” Clip

Noémie Merlant finds herself in another living nightmare in “Baby Ruby.” After escaping the clutches of an egomaniacal boss in ‘Tár,” the French actress plays a new mother...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Reunite and Hatch a Murder Plot in “Moving On”

“Grace and Frankie” ended its seven season run back in 2020, but that hasn’t stopped the sitcom’s stars from sharing the screen together. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin topline...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Teenage Girls Develop the Ability to Electrocute People in “The Power”

“The Power” is finally coming to the small screen. First announced in 2019, the series adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s bestselling novel hits Prime Video next month. A new trailer...

Films

Melissa Barrera-Starrer “All the World Is Sleeping” Acquired by Gravitas Ventures

Melissa Barrera is switching gears from squaring off against Ghostface to fighting personal demons. The “Scream” actress leads “All the World is Sleeping,” an addiction drama...

Television

Liz Garbus to Direct Hulu Limited Series Led by Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo is bidding farewell to “Grey’s Anatomy” in less than a month and now she’s sto a new project. Deadline reports that she’ll lead the Untitled Orphan Project,...

Festivals

Santa Barbara Film Festival to Open with Michelle Danner’s “Miranda’s Victim,” Abigail Breslin Stars

Abigail Breslin’s latest project is set to open the 2023 of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, per Deadline. The “Zombieland” and “Little Miss Sunshine” actress toplines...

Trailers

Teaser Watch: Riley Keough Fronts an Iconic Rock Band in “Daisy Jones & the Six”

“I know that I said that I would tell you everything, but how much of everything do you really want to know?” Riley Keough asks a journalist in a new teaser for “Daisy Jones &...

Interviews

Sundance 2023 Women Directors: Meet Rebecca Landsberry-Baker – “Bad Press”

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, Ford Foundation JustFilms grantee, and a 2022 NBC Original Voices Fellow. She is a 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature...

Festivals

Caroline Monnet Selected by Sundance Institute For the 2023 Merata Mita Fellowship

Caroline Monnet is this year’s recipient of the 2023 Merata Mita Fellowship. A press release announced that the Anishinaabe/French multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec has been...

Interviews

Sundance 2023 Women Directors: Meet Amanda Kim – “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV”

Amanda Kim is a Korean American director and producer. A former creative director at Vice Media, she led U.S. video direction for i-D, Creators, and Garage magazine. Kim also worked on Viceland,...

News

Adrienne Warren to Lead “Room” Broadway Adaptation, Cora Bissett Directing

Adrienne Warren will follow up Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” with another woman-directed project. Deadline reports that the Tony winner will return to the stage with the...

Interviews

Sundance 2023 Women Directors: Meet Michèle Stephenson – “Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”

Michèle Stephenson is a filmmaker, artist, and author who pulls from her Haitian and Panamanian roots to think radically about storytelling and disrupt the imaginary in non-fiction spaces. She tells...

Films

Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play” Sells to Netflix for $20 Million at Sundance, Phoebe Dynevor Stars

Phoebe Dynevor may be adding another smash success to her resume. The “Bridgerton” star toplines “Fair Play,” a psychological thriller exploring gender dynamics that’s...

Films

Lisa Cortés’ “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Acquired by Magnolia Pictures Out of Sundance

You may not have been able to catch the world premiere of “Little Richard: I Am Everything” at Sundance last week, but it looks like we won’t have to wait too long to watch Lisa...

Interviews

Sundance 2023 Women Directors: Meet Chloe Domont – “Fair Play”

Chloe Domont is a writer and director whose short films “Haze” and “All Good Things” have been included in the Official Selection of BAMcinemaFest, AFI FEST, LA Film Festival,...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Tribeca Winner “Huesera: The Bone Woman” Is a Supernatural Horror Story About Pregnancy

“Are you happy?” a pregnant woman is asked in a new trailer for “Huesera: The Bone Woman.” Michelle Garza Cervera’s Tribeca winner tells the story of Valeria (Natalia...

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