"competition" Articles & Blogs:
Women directors in competition at Venice
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The good news is that there are women in competition.
The roster of competition titles was announced and there are 3 women directed films out of a total of 22. Plus we have Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as the closing film.
That’s 13.6%.
Clearly b...[Read on] |
Venice Film Festival Unveils Lineup: Very Few Women in Competition
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Last week, The Venice Film Festival unveiled its lineup for this year’s festival which will be held from September 2-12 and it is little light on the women directors.
Only 4 women directors are included in the 23 films in competition, and none are fe...[Read on] |
You Cannes not be serious! Speaking out about the lack of women directors
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The rumblings of dismay and dissatisfaction have coalesced and found a voice. Filmdirecting4women, an organization that supports women directors out of England has organized a petition: You Cannes Not Be Serious to show our concerted pissedoffness abo...[Read on] |
Nine-year-old girl wins competition to design coin for London 2012
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A new 50 pence coin to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, designed by nine-year-old Florence Jackson from Bristol, England, will be officially launched this week.
Florence beat more than 17,000 entries to win the contest, which was spon...[Read on] |
Cannes Can’t – Where are the Women Directors?
| So the Cannes lineup in finalized and the abysmal showing for female directors is now set in stone. The festival added two more films to the competition lineup and not surprisingly, both were by men. That’s now 18 films competing for the Palme D’O...[Read on] |
Moms, daughters play ball for cancer research
| Pink will be plentiful at this week’s third annual Susan G. Komen Girls Flag Football Tournament.
The three-day event, which includes two days of competition and a Bigger and Better Family Fun Night, is a fund-raiser for Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
Mor...[Read on] |
Caster Semenya cleared for competition
| After much bumbling, the IAAF has cleared Caster Semenya to compete again. I'm happy for Semenya, and slightly hopeful that the lesson has been learned so that no one else has to go through such tribulation.
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More on Cannes and the Lack of Women Directors
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This week in Paris, women directors and others gathered for the 32nd edition of Films de Femmes where they lamented how hard it is to get distribution nowadays which seems to be a bigger issue than the gender issue. Little did they know that as they wrap...[Read on] |
Cannes news about women directors
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The good news is that as the Cannes Film Festival has started the press is still asking questions about why there are no women in competition.
Here are some pieces that I found that address the topic.
Jury President Tim Burton in an interview with the N...[Read on] |
Will Women Rule the Box Office This Summer?
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One of Variety’s stories today leads with the following headline “Women take center stage at summer B.O.” Psych. It seems that finally people are thinking about how women have box office potential to match the guys.
About fing time.
Warner Broth...[Read on] |
Gymnast Carly Patterson going for gold (again)
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2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Carly Patterson is going for the gold again, only this time in music. Carly’s debut album “Back to the Beginning” was released on 8/25 and includes the singles “Temporary Life” and “Time to Wake Up”. The former gym...[Read on] |
Women & Wine Hosts Press/Bloggers Event to Preview the Winners of the LA International Wine, Spirits & Olive Oil Competition
| As the CEO of Women & Wine, http://womenwine.com, I wear a lot of different hats. So it was a great privilege on Thursday, to help host a press and bloggers tasting event - a sneak peak so to speak - to showcase some of the winners prior to the announceme...[Read on] |
A Woman on the Croisette: Julie Bertuccelli’s Film The Tree to close Cannes
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The Cannes Film Festival has woken up from it’s ridiculousness — they still do not get a pass on the fact that there are no female filmmakers in the competition — and have announced the Australian film The Tree written and directed by Julie Bertucce...[Read on] |
Women at Cannes- Not Enough
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The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on May 13th with actresses Isabelle Huppert as the head of the jury and of the 20 films in the official competition only three are directed by women:
Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold
Bright Star directed by Jane Cam...[Read on] |
An Annotated Guide to Every Harvard Crimson Article Mentioned in The Social Network
| Photo by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan.The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s romp through the infancy of Facebook, did quite well at the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million and handily beating its prime competition, a film about owls whose titl...[Read on] |
Women's Sports: What's wrong with being a cause?
| Almost passed over yet another article about the bad economy and the effects on women's sports. You know, the one that invokes almost immediately the folding of the Houston Comets and the shaky pitch the WPS finds itself on.Though much later in the articl...[Read on] |
Sundance 2010- The Competition Lineup
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The Sundance Film Festival released a good amount of the lineup for the next festival and it looks at first glance to be dark and very boy oriented. Women account for only 4 out of the 16 (25%) of dramatic films in competition. Women are better repres...[Read on] |
Kelly Clark wins Copper Mountain Grand Prix
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Copper Mountain has a longstanding history with the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix tour, having hosted events in 1998, 1999 and last season.
Last week, the Copper halfpipe was stacked with big air and beauty as the best women in the sport hit up the 22-fo...[Read on] |
The ‘New’ Look of Caster Semenya
| Much has been written about the controversy regarding the sex verification testing of Caster Semenya following the IAAF Championships in August 2009 (to read more go here, here, here, & here).
Given all Semenya has endured, I can’t say I wa...[Read on] |
Trailer: Black Swan
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Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis star as competing ballerinas. This film looks at little like The Turning Point meets Single White Female.
Why do women always have to try and kill their competition?
Still, it looks good. One of the better trailers I...[Read on] |
Sundance 2011: Where Are All the Stars?
| Vera Farmiga in Higher Ground. Photo by Molly Hawkey. Those already looking past this awards season to 2012 got their first bit of critical-darling chum yesterday when Sundance announced its 2011 lineup. While we’re pretty sure we know who will dominate...[Read on] |
Trailer for Fair Game
| I’m very interested in this film, one of the only American films in competition at Cannes. It’s about the Valerie Plame affair and stars Naomi Watts as Plame and Sean Penn as her husband Joe Wilson.
Film will be released by Summit later this year.
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More Cannes Lineup - Women Directors
| It’s getting a bit more difficult to determine the exact gender of the lineups coming through from Cannes because the filmmakers are not as experienced and I can’t tell the gender from google searches.
So here is my best guess for the lineup just ann...[Read on] |
The Award for Best Water in the World Goes to…
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This year, the long-running Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting welcomed more than one hundred waters from across the country and around the globe. Held in the historic spa town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, it is the largest water tasting ...[Read on] |
In case you missed the Women's World Baseball Cup...this might be why.
| ...like I did. The Women's World Baseball Cup was held last month in Venezuela. The tournament gained attention (again not mine--I missed this whole thing; though I did read that there was very little media coverage; regular Sports Center watchers might b...[Read on] |
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