Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

Today, March 8, 2010, is “International Women’s Day” – a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.
Last night at the Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow made history by being the first woman to win the Best Directing award … AND her film “The Hurt Locker” also won [...]

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This article was written by Kira Cochrane.
“For Vanity Fair’s annual ­Hollywood issue a few years back, photographer Annie Leibovitz created a classic image of a film director at work. Posing beneath a stormy sky, George Clooney stood with his shirt ripped open, trousers tucked rakishly into his boots, arms outstretched – a young Orson Welles meets [...]

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This article was written by Helen Earnshaw.
“Ok so a female filmmaker has never take home the Best Director Oscar but that doesn’t mean that there are no talent filmmakers at work in Hollywood at the moment.
On the contrary the women are slowly rising and over the last twelve to eighteen months we have seen the [...]

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This article was written by Lopa Bhattacharya.
“It is indeed a wonderful revelation in the history of world cinema that immensely talented women filmmakers of Africa and the African Diaspora are making it really big in innovative filmmaking. Not only are they challenging old cinematic prescriptions, they are also using their superior art of cinema to [...]

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Jenn Page founded Luminave Films with the goal to create great projects for women to star in, produce, direct, and even crew on.  She was determined to make a female friendly production company where women could be given free reign to create whatever their hearts could dream up.
The culmination of wanting to give women a [...]

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