European Film Award (EFA) nominatons are in, and women are set to compete for the ceremony’s top honors. Two of six helmers in the running for European Director are women: Marie Kreutzer for “Corsage,” a biopic about Empress Elisabeth...
If you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to spooky season, you may find solace in the fact that “Wednesday” is launching on Netflix this month (November 23). Jenna Ortega is following up roles in “Scream” and “X” with...
“She Said” is coming to London early. Together Films and Can’t Buy My Silence (CBMS) are presenting an exclusive preview screening of the Maria Schrader-directed #MeToo drama, with all funds going to CMBS’s campaign against the misuse of NDAs...
Awards contenders are making their way to multiplexes this month. Jennifer Lawrence is eyeing a fifth Oscar nomination for “Causeway” (November 4), Lila Neugebauer’s drama about a U.S. soldier struggling to adjust to life back home after suffering a...
The first narrative feature helmed by a woman in Quebec is getting a 50th-anniversary restoration and making its U.S. premiere. Mireille Dansereau’s “Dream Life” (“La vie rêvée”), the story of two young women who become friends after meeting at...
The Force is with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: the “Ms. Marvel” director has been tapped to helm a “Star Wars” film. Deadline reports that the script is still being written, and plot details remain under wraps.Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning...
A new study from the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) reveals that women “represent only a quarter of all film directors working in the European film industry,” per Deadline. Even with recent European women-directed titles like Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer”...
