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 magazineโs editor and eldest son of our great lady.
tarbaby.com/issue-4
Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) will write & direct the film adaptation of dark thriller โFOLLOW MEโ for Amazon MGM.
Described as โHeathersโ meetsย โThe Stepford Wivesโ at a mommy influencer retreat in Northern California, with โthe scary social-commentary edge ofย โBlack Mirrorโ.โ
DIRECTED BY KINUYO TANAKA ๐ Now playing!
criterionchannel.com/directeโฆ
Tanaka was already one of Japanโs greatest actorsโcollaborating with auteurs like Mizoguchi, Ozu, & Naruseโwhen she began her unprecedented directing career in a studio system that discouraged female filmmakers.
Cecile Starr wrote, โIf 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.โ Read more about pioneer women in documentary filmmaking at #DocumentaryMag#Archives.
Full article here: documentary.org/feature/womeโฆ
ALT Women on the Verge: Pioneer Documentary Filmmakers that History Ignored BY CECILE STARR #DocumentaryMag #Archives.
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.
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!
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates the woman who was known for her New Wave films โ and her iconic bob: Agnรจs Varda.
Learn more about this Belgian-born French photographer, director, and artist โ> 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.
Nia DaCostaโs #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)