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Terry’s Picks: Celluloid Ceiling Report, Wendy Blackstone & Carte Blanche Film Series

Composer and NYWIFT member Wendy Blackstone recording a score. Photograph courtesy of Wendy Blackstone. I find myself: asking the same question. Where is the progress? Women directors worked on as many Hollywood films in 2014 as they did in 1998. Check out the new Celluloid Ceiling Report by Martha Lauzen. Congratulations to: NYWIFT member Wendy Blackstone,...

Terry’s Picks: NYWIFT Members at Sundance, Bentonville Film Festival & What to Look for in 2015

Can’t Wait for: Geena Davis to launch the Bentonville Film Festival to “champion women and diversity in film.” The festival runs May 5-9 in Bentonville, AK. Check out the press release from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Congratulations to: NYWIFT members with films at Sundance this year. Make sure to check out these Member films screening at Sundance this...

Terry’s Picks: Sony Hack, Ana Y Yo, and Alysia Reiner

Alysia Reiner on the Red Carpet at the 2014 NYWIFT Muse Awards. Following: Hollywood exposed by the latest leaks from the Sony Pictures hack. It has us all reeling, from reading about income inequality among female executives to learning Aaron Sorkin’s view that women’s roles are not as challenging as men’s roles. The real...

Terry’s Picks: Muse Award Wrap-Ups, ‘Isn’t It Delicious,’ The Black List & Amy Schumer

Robert LuPone and Kathleen Chalfant in Isn’t It Delicious. Photo Courtesy of Empekay Kayjaykay Productions. Don’t miss: NYWIFT’s 34th Annual Muse Awards’ recaps (nywift.org and NYWIFT Blog) if you missed the event held last week in New York featuring honorees Mary Bailey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dawn Ostroff and Wanda Sykes. It was a huge success! Feeling frustrated: with signs of progress...

Terry’s Picks: Wonder Woman, Amma Asante & Sarah Hanssen

First official photo of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Check it out: NYWIFT Member Sarah Hanssen directed a video with The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Crow about Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amoros. Way to go: Belle Director Amma Asante speaks out about the difficulties of funding a “sophomore movie” being “compounded when the filmmaker is female and/or a minority” during her keynote speech at the...

Terry’s Picks: ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,’ Nina Jacobson & a Must Read

Women take to the streets in protest for equality. Making Plans: to attend the NYWIFT/ Women Make Movies/Chicken & Egg and Women in Media Coalition screening of She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry on the evening of Sunday, December 7 at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema. Listening To: A podcast with Nina Jacobson, the producer of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, discuss, “the meteoric...

Terry’s Picks: Women in Film Fund, Olive Kitteridge & Hillary Swank

Frances McDormand in Olive Kitteridge. Photograph courtesy HBO. Watching: Hilary Swank discuss her starring role in The Homesman on The Hollywood Masters, saying she believes it’s a “feminist movie and shows how far we need to go.” Congratulating: the 9 talented grantees of the Women in Film Fund. Recommending: HBO’s mini-series Olive Kitteridge, starring Frances McDormand in an amazing...

Terry’s Picks: ‘Rare Birds of Fashion,’ Women and Hollywood Gets a Podcast & Made In NY Awards

Fundraising video for Rare Birds of Fashion. Supporting: Lily Hayes Kaufman’s Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for Rare Birds of Fashion, a new comedy web series about two funny and smart entrepreneurs who launch a plus-size fashion line. Check out: the newly launched podcast by NYWIFT member Melissa Silverstein’s Women and Hollywood. Congratulating: NYWIFT members Lydia Dean Pilcher and Rachel Watanabe-Batton, along with Mary Jo Winkler, for...

Terry’s Picks: A ‘Toolkit’ to Prove Women-Led Projects Make Money, ‘Dear White People’ & Salke Is Honored

Dear White People. Cheering on: NYWIFT member Lydia Dean Pilcher. She’s working with the Producers Guild of America to create a “toolkit” of stats to prove that women-led projects are lucrative business both here and abroad. Recommending: Dear White People, a film produced by Lena Waithe and Ann Le. I was especially impressed by Tessa Thompson’s performance....

Terry’s Picks: Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award, Patricia Highsmith & Glass Ceilings

Still image of Caryn Waechter’s The Sisterhood of Night. Congratulations: to director Caryn Waechter for receiving the Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for The Sisterhood of the Night, produced by NYWIFT member Lydia Dean Pilcher, at the Woodstock International Film Festival. Happy: to see that another Patricia Highsmith novel has been made into a movie. The Two Faces of January is...

Terry’s Picks: Gloria Steinem on ‘The Good Wife,’ DGA Report on Diversity & ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’

http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?pid=y_5KPwXjuz2Z&partner=cbs&gen=1 Loved: Gloria Steinem’s turn on The Good Wife last Sunday. Check it out if you didn’t see it. She continues to inspire. Enough already! The DGA reports that there has been no progress for inclusion of women and people of color in episodic television. Can’t wait to see: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a film...

Terry’s Picks: Female Journalists at Risk, ‘I Am Eleven’ & Women Do Go to the Movies!

//player.vimeo.com/video/45231682?title=0&byline=0 Just Read: this New York Times article about the power of women moviegoers. You should read it too! Check Out: the Paley Center’s essential panel discussion on women journalists and safety: News Reporting and Navigating Risk: How Women Journalists Stay Safe in Hostile Environments. Go See: I Am Eleven at the AMC Empire 25 or the Village East....

Terry’s Picks: Lizz Winstead & Good News About Female Showrunners

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Terry’s Picks: NYWIFT Members Win Creative Arts Emmys, Helen Mirren Shines & CBS Says Yes to Female Sports Anchors

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Terry’s Picks: Primetime Emmy Nominations, ‘Danger Mouse’ & #LikeAGirl

Seeing: that not much has changed: Women make up only 26% of the Primetime Emmy nominees, the same number as last year. Glad to hear: that the new version of BBC’s Danger Mouse will be have more female characters. Really like: Lauren Greenfield’s video, Always #LikeAGirl, for Always brand. It challenges the sexist expression which...

Terry’s Picks: Vanessa Williams, ‘Thelma & Louise’ & Diversity in UK Films

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Terry’s Picks: Women Directors, ‘Obvious Child’ & ‘Reckless’

Not surprised by: this infographic (above) from Women and Hollywood about how major studios have released very few films directed by women over the last five years. Really loved: Obvious Child, a funny, well-made and important movie about the realities of women’s lives. Caught the premiere of: Reckless, a new show that has many more women working on every...

Terry’s Picks: ‘Caroline’s Wedding’ & Sony’s Diverse Directors Program

Supporting: former NYWIFT staff member Easmanie Michel’s Kickstarter campaign for her first feature, Caroline’s Wedding, adapted from a story by Edwidge Danticat. Glad to hear about: Sony Pictures Television’s Diverse Directors Program, where “participants may be selected to shadow directors on episodes of scripted SPT series.” Applications are being accepted until June 6. Reading: Vogue’s article on...