Category: Women In Film & TV
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Center for Asian American Media with MTV presents virtual Q&A Jan. 29
by Screenmancer Staff On Fri. Jan. 29, at 6 pm, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) in association with MTV Documentary Films presents a special virtual event. They invite you to a Q & A for the film FINDING YINGYING directed by Jiayan “Jenny” Shi. RSVP here. # # #
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Screenmancer celebrates 25 years, and how long did Quibi last?
by Screenmancer Staff Yeah, we’re not Quibi with a billion and a half reasons to quit… Screenmancer was founded out of UCLA Film School in 1996 by two women, including Emeritus Robinson Rea, and continued for 25 years by Founder Quendrith Johnson. The concept originated on a kitchen table in Venice Beach, now Silicon Beach.…
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OMG, TCM & 13th District’s O’Farrell declare Dec. 1 TCM WOMEN MAKE FILM DAY
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When is news about Hollywood not hyped enough? Even in bold italic caps, COUNCILMEMBER O’FARRELL INTRODUCES RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING DECEMBER 1 AS “TCM WOMEN MAKE FILM DAY” IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, it still doesn’t sink in right away. “Since its very beginnings, cinema has been blessed with the…
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Swan song to MUSIC GOT ME HERE, watch it on Laemmle Virtual Dec. 4
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent During the holidays, how many of us know our loved ones are finding new ways to get their adrenaline rush? In the great un-lockdown outdoors, a lot of rugged adventures can go sideways. Life is about risk, but not without a mask lately. In MUSIC GOT ME HERE, an…
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What about Chinese Americans who vote in 2020: FIRST VOTE from Yi Chen
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Did you know that “until 1952, federal law prohibited immigrants of Asian descent from becoming U.S. citizens and voting? Today, Asian Americans are the fastest growing population in the United States.” FIRST VOTE, from director Yi Chen, is about “what it means to be American through personal stories of America’s fastest growing political constituency’s diverse…
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Chao Bella: Rosalind Chao was inspired by MISERY for AFI Movie Club
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s a certain frequency on a cellular level that Kathy Bates hits among all women, and men too, but especially for anyone under-represented, discounted, or written-off. Bates own story, which is mostly unknown to viewers, is about how a feisty manager named Susan Smith literally forced her from stage…
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Pluto Film shows LAS MIL Y UNA at SSIFF as part of Horizontes Latinos
Curated by Screenmancer Staff We received a letter from Pluto Film in Germany about their latest entry into the SSIFF. That’s the San Sebastian International Film Festival which is ongoing this week through Sept. 26 in the Basque region of Spain. Woody Allen’s newest is the hot-button screen gem, but this should not overshadow the many independent films on…
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URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN is pandemic comfort via wood art
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Once in a generation an artist comes along who can speak to the human condition in an unexpected way, specifically with large-scale wooden sculpture for Ursula von Rydingsvard. Her extraordinary journey is chronicled in documentary film URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN from director Daniel Traub, available on Sept.…
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Natalie Krinsky’s THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY arrives from SONY on 9/11
By Screenmancer Staff Natalie Krinsky, the writer/director of THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY certainly has interesting timing with a Sept. 11 (911) release of this upbeat artsy movie about Lucy, the Gallery Assistant and her entourage of enablers. Okay, not enablers, just other members of this urban fable about a pop-up space for debris from your…
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Watch Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander both as Gloria Steinem in THE GLORIAS from her memoir
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent What can you say about Gloria Steinem that the (women’s) world doesn’t already know? One thing is her quote that echoes all through the hills, including the Hollywood Hills: “The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” Steinem is now the subject of a…
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Naughty-nice P*SS OFF, I LOVE YOU airs at Dances With Films & is funny
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Has anyone else ever had the thought that only Australians want to make, or star in, or direct, American TV shows and movies these days? Add your own el-oh-el to that one, but P*SS OFF, I LOVE YOU is a semi-zany series from an American who sounds like an Aussie,…
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No Fossil on Fire in AMMONITE: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan Do it Differently
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent With Céline Sciamma’s French movie PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE in 2019, some felt the stark same-sex love story, a period piece, was too ‘powerful’ for mainstream audiences. Thus, the film was passed over for worldwide competition even by home country France. Now there is another costume drama…
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Mama Needs a GIF: Maya Rudolph bags VP Nom Kamala Harris
by Screenmancer Staff from Funny or Die Yes, the Upbraidy Bunch strikes again over at Funny or Die with curated SNL and other videos for the General Election coming up. You’ve got Woody Harrelson as Biden; Larry David as Bernie Sanders. But the key clip includes the multitalented Maya Rudolph as the Democrat’s new nominee for Vice…
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Russo Bros pick Screenwriter Marina Kato to score $25,000 grant from AFI & AGBO
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: The American Film Institute (AFI), in partnership with AGBO, has announced Marina Kato (Screenwriting, AFI Class of 2019) as this year’s recipient of the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant. “Marina spotlights injustice and inequality through a remarkable lens that brings both beauty and joy to her examinations of the struggles…
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Rooftop tennis in lockdown: Unfettered Federer & Fans who become champions
by Screenmancer Staff We’re running this one as pasta lovers, not just of brand Barilla, but for all makers of this comfort food at home and in factories, as well as for all tennis/fans worldwide. Turns out tennis Ace Roger Federer saw the rooftop long-distance amazing game video made by two sport hopefuls Carola and Vittoria in…
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