Category: Women In Film & TV
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Director Rachel Feldman on LILLY, Patricia Clarkson, Netflix debut
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Imagine you’re a rookie film director, you land Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson with her unmistakable New Orleans guile plus a very fine cast including actors John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski for a movie about one of America’s unsung, true-life, gutsy working women? Director Rachel Feldman did just…
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Get Out the Vote for YUDIE to Join National Film Registry at the Library of Congress
NEW YORK, NY: The NYWIFT Community encourages everyone to vote for Mirra Bank’s YUDIE short film, so it can join The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Screenmancer, the female-run film site in Hollywood since 1997, endorses NYWIFT’s support for this pathfinder among 1970’s feminist documentaries. Vote here and read on… Based on…
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AMPAS’ Chang says ACES system to join ASWF
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) today announced that the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), the global standard for color management, is joining the ASWF, a home for open source software developers in the motion picture and broader industries. “ACES has become a…
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Cree filmmaker WaaPaKe scores theater premiere for Angela’s Shadow
TORONTO, ON: ANGELA’S SHADOW from award-winning Cree filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin (WaaPaKe) has launched in theatres across Canada after a successful festival run. The theatrical run started in Vancouver, then Winnipeg and will have its Ontario premiere at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto on Friday, July 25th with Koostachin in attendance for a post-screening…
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Top 10 Summer Watchlist for a Post-Choice Reality
LOS ANGELES, CA: Screenmancer presents a Top 10 list for women and girls of all ages in a post-Roe v Wade reality now that the landmark Jan. 22, 1973 legislation has fallen. Norma McCarvey, who died in 2017, was that real-life Jane Roe who stood for all her contemporaries on a cold day in January…
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Top 10 Queer and Queer-Adjacent Summer Picks
Curated by Panta Mosleh for Screenmancer So this summer isn’t just about blockbusters with capes, it’s about stories with soul! From queer coming-of-age dramas to chaotic anime royals, this list is a love letter to the films and shows that made me laugh, cry, scream “OMG YAAAAS,” and enthusiastically recommend them to strangers. Some are…
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HONEY BOY Director Alma Har’el gets green light for MOCKINGBIRD
by Screenmancer Staff Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis’ seminal science fiction novel, MOCKINGBIRD, for Searchlight Pictures. Academy Award® winner J. Miles Dale (Nightmare Alley, The Shape of Water) and Robert Schwartz (Iron Will, Blizzard) are producing along with Har’el and her partner Christopher Leggett. Alejandro Laguette and Rafael…
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One to Watch: WME just signed Multitalented Miranda Kwok
NEWS: Multitalented Miranda Kwok (Fox Network’s “The Cleaning Lady,” The CW Network’s “The 100” and Starz Network’s “Spartacus: Blood & Sand”) has just signed with WME. Kwok is best known as the creator/series developer and executive producer of the 2022 hit U.S. television series “The Cleaning Lady,” based on the Argentine series “La Chica Que Limpia.” Produced by Warner Bros Television and Fox Entertainment, she wrote the pilot script and season finale and developed…
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THE LOST DAUGHTER’s Gotham Awards sweep ignites Award Season lift-off
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Most popularly known for that face-off with the Joker in smash hit THE DARK KNIGHT as “Batman’s girlfriend,” Maggie Gyllenhaal has come so very far from the bat cave. While Gyllenhaal’s first feature THE LOST DAUGHTER just swept the Gotham Awards, including top gongs for best screenplay and director…
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Screenmancer SpaceX Falcon 9 VIP rocket launch invite sends us over the moon
LOS ANGELES, CA: Can there be anything better than rockets? How about an invite to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch. Or more specifically, Screenmancer CEO will attend the Fall VIP viewing of “the historic Inspiration4 mission!” Quoting from the SpaceX invitation received today, “This mission marks the world’s first all-civilian astronaut mission to orbit,…
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GreenLight Women want you to get fired up for New Hollywood
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: GreenLight Women, a 501(c) (3) organization with a mission to engage, support, and champion accomplished creative and business professionals over the age of 40, announces an upcoming event on July 28, NETWORK WITH THE PROS, a night of energetic panel discussions exploring the subject of widespread ageism in entertainment and media, and how to navigate what’s coming next. The panels…
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Mark Andrew Allen’s art kicks off Screenmancer’s 25th party
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Screenmancer has unveiled major key art for the 25th anniversary. For the quarter century celebration, fine artist and second-generation font designer Mark Andrew Allen crafted a look based on the current iteration of the site. Allen’s work as a graphic designer in Hollywood saw him take part in roll-out…
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THE BODY FIGHTS BACK takes on lockdown weight gain, pow!
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Unless you’ve been part of an anti-dieting rally in London, you may not have known that the pounds (or stones) quietly gained in lockdown for COVID19 reasons are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is to rank diet as the biggest priority, so says THE BODY FIGHTS BACK,…
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CBSN takes BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE from Lucy Walker, Topic Studios
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: CBSN today announced the acquisition of “Bring Your Own Brigade” from two-time Oscar® nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker and Topic Studios. Walker takes the audience on an illuminating eyewitness journey into the very heart of a raging inferno in “Bring Your Own Brigade,” a character-driven exposé that answers a question…
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Welcome to Stories Matter, Leslie Zemeckis’ Cure for Lockdown
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Leslie Zemeckis is a filmmaker known for bringing lost voices of burlesque into the world with her film BEHIND THE BURLY Q, but she is also a champion of women who tell stories not just with their bodies in dance. Based in Santa Barbara, she’s a multi-hyphenate actor, writer, mentor,…
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