News about film, tv, web, etc. directed by women. Giving Hollywood more options for their director lists -- 1k+ female director database! Q: @DestriMartino
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Toni was a dear friend. I am therefore both delighted and honoured to contribute to this issue of TAR BABY, the magazine of the Toni Morrison Foundation, led by Ford Morrison, the magazine’s editor and eldest son of our great lady.
tarbaby.com/issue-4
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An enthusiastic standing ovation in excess of 11 minutes for Andrea Arnold’s film ‘Bird’ starring Barry Keoghan at the #CannesFilmFestival
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Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) will write & direct the film adaptation of dark thriller ‘FOLLOW ME’ for Amazon MGM.
Described as ‘Heathers’ meets ‘The Stepford Wives’ at a mommy influencer retreat in Northern California, with “the scary social-commentary edge of ‘Black Mirror’.”
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DIRECTED BY KINUYO TANAKA 💙 Now playing!
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Tanaka was already one of Japan’s greatest actors—collaborating with auteurs like Mizoguchi, Ozu, & Naruse—when she began her unprecedented directing career in a studio system that discouraged female filmmakers.
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Cecile Starr wrote, “If women are to maintain their roles as full-fledged filmmakers today and in the future, it seems to me we must restore the real pioneers to their deserved places in film history.” Read more about pioneer women in documentary filmmaking at #DocumentaryMag #Archives.
Full article here: documentary.org/feature/wome…
ALT Women on the Verge: Pioneer Documentary Filmmakers that History Ignored BY CECILE STARR #DocumentaryMag #Archives.
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#AnatomyofaFall Director Justine Triet breaks open the fight scene at the heart of her Oscar-nominated film on this episode of #SceneStudy. "Fall" is nominated for five Academy Awards including #BestPicture. @neonrated
Watch more on #TheEnvelope Directors Roundtable: bit.ly/48zAgAP
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Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song wins Best Feature and Best Director at the @filmindependent Spirit Awards 🏆
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On this Date in 1984 we starting filming the Video for "Borderline".
It changed our lives forever...
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Let me see if I understand this: the Academy nominated "Barbie" for Best Picture (eight nominations total) -- a film about women being sidelined and rendered invisible in patriarchal structures -- but not the woman who directed the film.
Okay then.
For the first time in #Oscars history, three of the 10 movies nominated for best picture - #AnatomyOfAFall, #PastLives and #Barbie - were helmed by a woman thr.cm/VHyU74E
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Dear @AvaDuVernay, keep your head held high. That #ORIGIN did not receive a single Oscar nomination, in any category, is much, more than a snub. It confirms my theory, posted years ago. Once you ventured 'too deeply' into world history...a comfort level was ruptured. Keep it up!
Barbie is the first-ever winner of Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the #GoldenGlobes! Congratulations 🫶
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Cate Blanchett Launching Program at USC to Empower Female Filmmakers: 'Really Exciting' (Exclusive) people.com/cate-blanchett-dr…
What a lovely surprise— Agnes Varda captured in all her greatness for today’s #GoogleDoodle! #womendirect #godmotherofFrenchNewWave #femalefilmmaker
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates the woman who was known for her New Wave films — and her iconic bob: Agnès Varda.
Learn more about this Belgian-born French photographer, director, and artist —> goo.gle/48eOpUa
ALT Illustration of two Agnes Varda's of different ages looking towards each other. She's a young version of herself on the left in a beach setting and an older version of herself on the right with a purple background. She holds cameras in both. The Google letters surround the scene with the women's heads replacing both Os.
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Nia DaCosta’s #TheMarvels grossed over $110M during its worldwide box office opening weekend.
The highest grossing theatrical release of all time by a Black woman director.
(via @Forbes)
