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A Chick’s Guide to Summer Music Festivals
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It’s that time again. The flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and the music’s a boomin’.
Every year, like magnificent, melodic clockwork, music festivals kick off around the world. Poland, South Korea, Germany, Turkey - anywhere you can t...[Read on] |
The London Film Festival Announces Its Lineup
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The fall festivals are finalizing their lineups and what has become clear to me as I track the films and the presence of women directors is that the festivals usually have a core list of films that go from festival to festival as they make their runs to...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
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File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[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] |
Newsflash: Women can direct movies
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Lone Scherfig
The NY Times takes a look at some of the films generating buzz at Toronto and lo and behold women directors are really making a mark this season. In general, women directors have a higher presence at film festivals. Festivals try and ge...[Read on] |
Women at the Toronto Film Festival
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Toronto is one of the places where many films with year end award ambitions debut in North America. It is always one of the most interesting festivals of the year and helps kick off the awards season. Festival runs from September 10-19.
Women directed ...[Read on] |
Lunafest Coming to the NY Area on May 23rd
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For those uninitiated, Lunafest is a short film festival by and about women founded in 2000 by the folks that bring you Luna bars.
It’s a traveling festivals and appears in communities across the country hosted by different organizations. You can fin...[Read on] |
Equality Watch: Girls in the Band
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Baskery
I’m no musical expert (my taste tend to run to folky girl singers), but I found this post (that came through a bunch of different women’s sites including feministing,) where one woman counted how many female musical groups were included in th...[Read on] |
Women’s stories dominate Venice Film Festival
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Michelle Williams in Meek's Cutoff
In a very interesting piece in Variety writer Justin Chang says that it is the Year of the Woman at the Venice Film Festival. He starts off talking about the stark sexuality that he has seen in some movies. Films ...[Read on] |
Women’s Summer Box Office Recap
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The weather is changing here in NYC, the kids are getting ready to go back to school and the fall film festivals are upon us, so before too much time passes let’s take a look at how women fared this summer at the box office.
We all know that in gener...[Read on] |
WNBA and 2010 Lilith Tour unite to celebrate female artists and athletes all summer long
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The WNBA has finally done something right on the marketing side and we’re excited to share the following news:
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the 2010 Lilith Tour — one of the highest-grossing touring festivals in the world ...[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] |
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] |
ChickSpeak hearts The xx
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If you visit the official site for the up and coming British band The xx, you will find yourself in for a bit of a treat.
Much like the band itself, the site is a rather unique expression of creativity. Glowing brilliantly on a black screen plays the vid...[Read on] |
Have an Idea to Green Your Community? Ford & Green Festival Could Make it Happen.
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If you've been thinking green lately, you're in good company here on the AskPatty Blog, but your thinking could pay off for you to the tune of $5000. Ford and the Green Festival have teamed up to help improve five US cities, and they're asking you for yo...[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] |
The 13th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival kicks off September 16
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If you are in the SF area…
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is the longest running experimental women’s film festival in the United States. Known for it’s inventive programming that highlights avant-garde works, lush experimental fi...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Sarah Warren: Bellydancer and Inspiration
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You’ve seen them in movies, in plays, and perhaps at an outdoor festival shimmying and fluttering their entire bodies to the beat of a gimbe. You’ve seen them juggle swords and balance baskets on their heads all while contorting their bare midriffs. B...[Read on] |
The Politics of Peeing: Test-driving a Go-Girl
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The instant I found out about the newly rebranded female urination device (FUD), Go-Girl, I jumpe...[Read on] |
Interview with Sally Potter, director of Rage
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Sally Potter is a filmmaking icon. She is an outspoken, visionary, feminist director who has been on the cutting edge of the indie world since she started making films. That being said, Potter’s work is an acquired taste, and her new film Rage she i...[Read on] |
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