Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in women in film on Aug 18th, 2010
This article was written by Galen Clarke. “If Nayla al Khaja is feeling the weight of responsibility for her latest film project, it doesn’t show. At 3 am today, she and 10 cast and crew members are due to board a flight for Kerala, India, to start shooting a new short movie. Her BlackBerry is [...]
Posted in women in film on Jun 9th, 2010
This article was written by Mary Murphy. “The statistics are scary. “In 2007, females were only 2.7% of all the directors and 11.2% of all the writers employed across the 100 top-grossing films,” says Stacy Smith, an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. “Under a quarter (20.5%) of the producers [...]
Posted in women in film on Apr 6th, 2010
This article was written by Cathy Horton. “Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director during the “Golden Age” of Hollywood’s studio system during the 1920s, 30s and early 40s and the woman director with the largest oeuvre in Hollywood to this day, was born on January 3, 1897 (some sources put the year as 1900) in [...]
Posted in women in film on Mar 8th, 2010
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 Best [...]
Posted in women in film on Mar 2nd, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in women in film on Feb 24th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in women in film on Jan 17th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in women in film on Nov 21st, 2009
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 [...]
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