Women and Hollywood

Women Directed and Centric Films Playing at Human Rights Watch Film Festival

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The Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicks off on June 13th with a great line up of women directed and centric films. Held in New York, the festival will be showing 18 documentaries and two fictional features including the opening film Anita, directed by Freida Mock, which is about Anita Hill.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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June 11, 2013 11:45 AM
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Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Florence Welch Headline Feminist Benefit Concert

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Chime for Change, an organization that promotes education, health and justice for women founded by Beyonce, Salma Hayek and Gucci designer, Frida Giannini, held a concert Sound of Change over the weekend in London.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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June 3, 2013 4:51 PM
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Amy Pascal Asks Hollywood to Eliminate Gay Stereotypes from Films

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Amy Pascal is truly a force. She championed Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty all the way. And at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center gala last week, Pascal asked the industry to take a long, hard look at how LGBT characters are depicted in film. Deadline provided an excerpt from her speech.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 26, 2013 1:30 PM
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Watch This: Nina Simone Singing "To Be Free"

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Legacy Records, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is celebrating Nina Simone as their February 2013 Artist of the Month in honor of Black History Month and Simone's 80th birthday. And a biopic starring Zoe Saldana as Simone is now being edited.

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February 21, 2013 1:30 PM
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Rachel Feldman to Direct Lilly Ledbetter Biopic

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Lilly Ledbetter has chosen Rachel Feldman to direct a biopic based on her life and her fight for equal pay for women.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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February 13, 2013 1:30 PM
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Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards

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Over the weekend at the NAACP Image Awards, Kerry Washington swept the show. She won three awards.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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February 5, 2013 12:00 PM
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Kathryn Bigelow Wants You to Support Women Working in National Security

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Some criticism against Kathryn Bigelow during The Hurt Locker era was lobbed against Bigelow’s statements that filmmaking for her isn’t about breaking gender roles. However, as Jessica Chastain said in her Golden Globes acceptance speech, “when you make a film that allows your character to disobey the conventions of Hollywood, you’ve done more for women in cinema than you take credit for.”

By Kerensa Cadenas
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January 23, 2013 12:00 PM
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Watch This: See Jane Trailer from Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

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Geena Davis's commitment to gender in the media is truly inspiring. See Jane, an affiliated program with her Institute on Gender in the Media, focuses specifically on making sure that children's media has a balanced and varied portrayal of female characters. The below trailer illustrates some of their research findings.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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November 26, 2012 9:30 AM
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Emotional Creature Celebrates Girls Lives

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There have been so few shows and events that truly reveal what it is like to be a girl that when you see truth - the good and the bad - you immediately know that you are seeing something special. For me, the TV show that epitomized girlhood will always be My So Called Life, the Winnie Holzman created show, that ran for one season almost 20 years ago.

By Melissa Silverstein
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November 20, 2012 1:30 PM
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Political Video of the Day: Stockard Channing A is for: Always Remember

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National treasure, Stockard Channing, recently did a video for the "A is For" campaign. With a group of women founders including Martha Plimpton, Lizz Winstead and Sarah Thyre, A is For brings awareness about the war on women taking inspiration and reclaiming Hester Prynn's branding in The Scarlet Letter.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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November 2, 2012 9:37 AM
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