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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Posted in Social Media on Feb 28th, 2009
If you live in Vancouver, come join me at the WIFF New Media Day on March 4 – a full day of panels, applications, interactive exhibits and networking that will inspire and engage those who want to tell stories in a more interactive space.
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Posted in In The News on Feb 20th, 2009
This article is from AFP. “Women in Indian cinema were traditionally only ever seen as sari-clad beauties who would sing and dance their way into the hero’s heart or in supporting roles as mothers or daughters. While that formula still exists to an extent in commercial films, women are coming to prominence behind the scenes, [...]
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