"documentary-film" Articles & Blogs:
PBS to air film about women and bullfighting
| The amazing independent documentary program P.O.V. will be showing the film Ella Es El Matador (She Is The Matador) on September 1st. Check out more info on the movie here. I suspect that there will be graphic imagery, but it should definitely...[Read on] |
Lunafest- A Women’s Film Festival Near You
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The folks who bring us the yummy lunabars are also the ones behind Lunafest - a traveling festival of films by and about women - that are happening in communities across the country.
They are looking for submissions for the next festival and the deadline...[Read on] |
Kim Longinotto Retrospective at MOMA May 7-23
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There are many awesome female documentarians but Kim Longinotto is at the top of the field. A retrospective of her 30 year body of work will featured at the Museum of Modern Art this month in NYC. Longinotto is known for documenting untold stories of ...[Read on] |
Girl-Powered Chicago Film Festival
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</object> The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival kicks off today, and this year, organize...[Read on] |
Women’s Weekend Box Office Report June 25-27
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Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone crossed the $1 million dollar mark this past weekend and is now playing on 70 screens including some in the midwest near where the film takes place. The film cost $2 million and it looks promising for it to pay back it...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: Gotham Independent Film Nominations
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It has begun. The crazy awards season. We’re going to keep track of the women creatives (and films about women) on the way to the Oscars.
The good news. Two women directors are up for best feature. The Hurt Locker was expected, but Amreeka is a b...[Read on] |
The Tempest picked as NY Film Festival’s centerpiece
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The pedigree for The Tempest directed by Julie Taymor keeps growing. It will have its world premiere as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival in September, and now it has been tapped as the centerpiece film for this year’s NY Film Festival.
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NYC Kids Make Gender Documentary
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Thanks go to Feministing for bringing this awesome little documentary that a bunch of school-age kids did on gender stereotyping! Way to go mini Judith Butlers— you've restored our faith in future generations. Also, a special thanks to brillia...[Read on] |
Sundance Rocks the Docs
| A still from Catfish, possibly Sundance's most buzzed-about film. The Sundance faithful have been buzzing that the real gems from the first weekend of this year's festival have been the documentaries. Compared to their more high-profile fictional cousins,...[Read on] |
Women filmmakers win big at Tribeca
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Austrian filmmaker Feo Aladag won the Best Narrative Feature award for her debut feature When We Leave. The film’s star Sibel Kikilli was also named best actress.
Here’s what the jury said about the film:
When We Leave examines one woman’s strug...[Read on] |
Cinema Verite takes on An American Family
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Before The Real World, Horrible Housewives or Jersey Shore Jerks, there was An American Family. Back in the early 70’s, the idea of reality TV was born when a documentary filmmaker decided to ask the Loud family from Santa Barbara California, if he ...[Read on] |
A Powerful Noise - The Impact of One Voice
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Take part in an exclusive International Women’s Day event on March 5, 2009, featuring the acclaimed documentary film, A Powerful Noise, followed by a live town hall discussion to 450 movie theatres.
Town hall panelists include former U.S. Secretary of...[Read on] |
TV Alert- Trouble the Water Premieres on HBO
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Trouble the Water, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath premieres tonight on HBO at 8:30pm. It is a must see.
Here’s an excerpt from my write-up from last summer when the film ...[Read on] |
Interview with Beadie Finzi, Director of Only When I Dance
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Only When I Dance is a documentary of two young Brazilian dancers — Isabella and Irlan — and how they try and pursue their dreams of becoming professional dancers. It is by no means a rosy look at the dance world. It shows how hard, and at times...[Read on] |
Telluride Film Fest Lineup: Very Few Women Directors
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I’m getting back up to speed and decided to wade in on some fall film festivals news.
The Telluride Film Festival kicked off today and there are 24 films listed in the main lineup called “the show.” Of the 24 films announced guess how many are ...[Read on] |
New York Film Festival announces lineup with only two female directors (plus two in a group film)
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The New York Film Festival which is the centerpiece of NY’s fall film season announced its lineup today and only two women are on the docket with film’s of their own.
That’s 7.4%.
I took out the film Revolucion which has 10 directors (and two ar...[Read on] |
Curating the Athena Film Festival
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If you could see me now you would see me taking a very deep breath now that we have announced the lineup for the Athena Film Festival. The lineup has something for everyone. There are some films that are a couple of years old but are gems, some that...[Read on] |
Tribeca 2010 – Monica and David
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I was able to take in a couple of films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. I wish I could have seen more, but that’s life. The three films I saw were all female directed: Cairo Time by Ruba Nadda; Monica and David by Ali Codina; and Joan Rivers -...[Read on] |
The Athena Film Festival
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I just wanted to let you all know about an exciting new project I am working on — The Athena Film Festival – It’s a film festival that focuses on women’s leadership and will take place at Barnard College in NYC next February 10-13th.
I am produ...[Read on] |
Kick in Iran: Female sports documentary premieres at Sundance
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The Sundance Film Festival, beginning today in Park City, Utah, is the 26th annual showcase of independent film. While distributors are on the lookout for breakouts like “Paranormal Activity” and “Little Miss Sunshine”, we’ve got our eye...[Read on] |
For Colored Girls – Review
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The actresses who star in the new film For Colored Girls have been saying on the press tour that the film is not just for colored girls. I find it crazy that women have to stand up and say that a film that stars some of our finest African American actr...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Films for the Feminist Classroom
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Check out this great new resource for gender studies professors and feminist facilitators, an online journal called Films for the Feminist Classroom. It's being edited and produced by the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Cultu...[Read on] |
Why is it so strange that male critics like movies about women?
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I read this blog post yesterday What does this say about U.S. manhood: Male critics actually like ‘Eat Pray Love’ by Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times and it didn’t really get to me enough to blog about it. But while I was tossing and turning in...[Read on] |
Eclipse eclipses New Moon’s overnight numbers
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Even though this film seems to be coming in a bit under the radar screen it will have a big weekend and if you needed confirmation of that fact, the numbers from the midnight screenings are a good guidepost.
The film took in $30 million in midnight scr...[Read on] |
'Orgasm Inc.' Debunks Female Sexual Dysfunction
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(WOMENSENEWS)--February is Cupid's time, but Hollywood isn't showing much love for women this month. It's slim pickings when it comes to feature films of particular interest to women.
Though Hollywood isn't delivering our heart's deli...[Read on] |
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