Women and Hollywood

SXSW Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher

Interviews

By Kerensa Cadenas
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April 9, 2013 2:00 PM
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SXSW Interview with Sini Anderson, Tamra Davis and Kathleen Hanna of The Punk Singer

Interviews

I can't write about Sini Anderson's great documentary The Punk Singer without mentioning that Kathleen Hanna has been one of my life-long heroes. When I was sixteen a friend gave me my first Bikini Kill CD, I had never heard anything like it, and feminism wasn't something that was remotely on my radar. I dove into Hanna's music and read everything I could about riot grrrl, even doing a presentation on it for a high school class where I received quizzical looks from the other students. Hanna always seemed larger than life to me--a musically inclined revolutionary badass.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 29, 2013 2:00 PM
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SXSW Review: Women-Directed Shorts including Sequin Raze and Ellen Is Leaving

Features

At SXSW I was able to catch some excellent short films. There were a bunch of great women-centric ones including: Dotty a funny and touching look at an elderly woman struggling to send a text message to her daughter; Community's Gillian Jacobs was hilarious as a woman whose boyfriend begins to literally drive her insane in It's Not You, It's Me, and the gorgeously shot and supremely heartbreaking Mobile Homes about a young mother who is involved in human trafficking and is determined to get her and her son out.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 29, 2013 10:00 AM
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SXSW Interview with Brie Larson - Star of Short Term 12

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By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 26, 2013 12:30 PM
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SXSW Announces Film Festival Winners

News

I've been here on the ground at SXSW for Women and Hollywood and have had the opportunity to see some incredible films, many of which I'm so pleased to say won awards. Destin Daniel Cretton's incredible Short Term 12, with a standout performance by Brie Larson (watch for our interview with her), won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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March 14, 2013 11:26 AM
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SXSW Watch: Improvement Club - Directed by Dayna Hanson

News

This year Women and Hollywood will be at SXSW. One of the films we are excited to catch is Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club which is competing in Narrative. Hanson wrote, directed and stars in the film. It is her first feature.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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February 27, 2013 11:05 AM
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SXSW Adds More Women Directed Films to Schedule

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SXSW has announced another round of films to their lineup, adding more films directed by women. They have also added many films written by women, such as Sundance favorite The East, co-written and starring Brit Marling and At Any Price co-written by Hallie Elizabeth Newton. SXSW also picked up the documentary Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer about the now infamous Russian feminist punk collective.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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February 15, 2013 10:00 AM
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SXSW Line Up: Not Great for Women Directors

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Fresh on the heels of Sundance is SWSX’s film line up. While there are some awesome women-directed films featured such as Sini Anderson's documentary, The Punk Singer, about Kathleen Hanna, unlike Sundance, I’m sad to say, the numbers for women directors aren’t great. Out of the 16 films in the Narrative/Documentary Feature Competition, there are 4 (2 and 2) directed by women. The numbers run low in all categories with no women-directed or written films in the Headliners category to a “high” of 4/18 directed by women in the Narrative Spotlight category and 4/16 in the Visions category.

By Kerensa Cadenas
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February 4, 2013 9:31 AM
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Interview with Rachael Harris - Star of Natural Selection

Blogs

Natural Selection is a small but very touching movie about a woman who has spent 25 years locked in a world and a marriage that have kept her from being a full person. Rachael Harris plays Linda a woman who can't have kids and so according to her religion she can't have sex with her husband Abe.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 16, 2012 10:51 AM
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Interview with Megan Griffiths - Director of SXSW Audience Winner Eden

Blogs

I was a little late to finding out about Eden but I am glad I did. It's a really good and interesting film on a difficult topic -- sex trafficking. We all think the sex trafficking occurs over there in countries far, far away. But it happens here ALL THE TIME. This film is based on a true story of a woman who was kidnapped by a cute guy she met in a bar. A normal night out with your friend ends up being the worst decision. The thing about trafficking is that it happens in plain site and many people in the culture perpetuate it - even guys with daughters. (That's the part that makes me so crazy. How can these dudes buy sex from women they know are held prisoner and not think about their own children.) The disconnect is amazing.

By Melissa Silverstein
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March 14, 2012 12:15 PM
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