“A man dreams to conquer the world / Does a woman dream any less?” a Nüshu poem asks.Centuries ago, in a rural pocket of China called Jiangyong County, at a time when women and girls were held captive in...
“Some of us have to actually live the future that you all are setting on fire,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns the fossil fuel execs testifying before Congress in Rachel Lears’ “To the End.” Filmed over four years of upheaval...
Jessie Buckley will be honored at the 2023 Oscar Wilde Awards. A press release announced that the Oscar-nominated Irish actress will be presented with an award at the annual event run by the US-Ireland Alliance. The ceremony will take...
“Some people count sheep at night, I count votes,” Nancy Pelosi says in a new trailer for Alexandra Pelosi’s 14th HBO doc, “Pelosi in the House.” Filmed in cinema vérité style over three decades, the documentary filmmaker takes viewers inside...
If you’ve ever played exquisite corpse — a game of creating a story or illustration on a paper segmented with folds — you’d know how wacky and surreal the final product can end up. An anthology film whose story...
Mandy Walker made history at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Industry Awards. A press release announced that she’s become the first woman to win the award for Best Cinematography in Film.Walker received the award...
In-flight entertainment is getting an upgrade, thanks to Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing. The “Selma” director’s banner has partnered with JetBlue to launch an in-flight pop-up channel, featuring a curated selection of 12 independent feature films from women directors and...
Apple TV+ thriller “Surface” will be back for a second season. Deadline reports that the streamer has renewed the series starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Sophie, a woman trying to build herself back up and recover lost memories after surviving...
In 1958, a trans woman who went by “Agnes Torres” outsmarted the system to attain gender-affirming healthcare. Thanks to her resourcefulness, she received hormones and corrective surgery from a UCLA gender study led by sociologist Harold Garfinkel. The remarkable...
“Strong people don’t need strong leaders: the emphasis was on the organizing,” civil rights activist Jennifer Lawson tells us in “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” Geeta Gandbhir (“Black and Missing”) and Sam Pollard’s (“Mr. Soul!”) documentary...
