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Terry’s Picks: Equal Rights, Angelina Jolie and Blockbuster Women Directors

#ERAnow: Contact your Congress members and insist they support the Equal Rights Amendment, which would expressly prohibit discrimination against girls and women on the basis of sex. Kudos: Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea will be the first woman-directed film to open AFI Fest in at least a decade. No laughing matter: Directors Catherine Hardwicke, Nicole...

Terry’s Picks: Year of the Woman, CW Showrunners, Flip the Script

Finally: The groundbreaking 1973 documentary Year of the Woman, about the feminist movement, will be available for wide release after a 40-year disappearance. Thank you: At the TCA’s, eight of the CW’s 12 women showrunners discussed their effort to keep gratuitous sexual violence against women off the small screen. Flip the script: Funny or Die...

Terry’s Picks: Indie Women, Revolution, Jill Soloway

Good news: Four of the top five highest grossing indie films of 2015 feature women leads. Even better? Three of them are over the age of 50. Revolution: 2013 NYWIFT Muse Honoree Robin Wright says “we need a female Che Guevara” to fight Hollywood sexism. “We need a revolution.” Important Read: The Moveable Fest printed...

Terry’s Picks: A Discrimination Primer, New Faces, Freeheld

Discrimination 101: Check out this informative primer on the ACLU investigation into Hollywood’s gender discrimination to learn about the cycle – and how to break it. Kudos: Filmmaker Magazine named its 25 New Faces of Independent Film – and 11 of them are women. #LoveIsLove: Looking forward to the timely film Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore...

Terry’s Picks: Tatiana Maslany, Sci-Fi Women, Hiring Disparity

Congrats: Tatiana Maslany finally earned her first Emmy nomination this year for playing not one but six leading roles on Orphan Black, one of my favorite shows. Food for thought: Teo Bugbee points out in this piece for The Daily Beast that, with the exception of Amy Schumer in Trainwreck, most strong women making waves...

Terry’s Picks: Equal Pay for Women’s Soccer, Michael Eisner, Blythe Danner Delivers

Unacceptable: The U.S. women’s soccer team received $2 million dollars after winning the World Cup for a third time. The men’s team earned $8 million for losing in the first round. Sign this petition and tell FIFA to pay women fairly. Laughable: Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner says that a woman who is beautiful and...

Terry’s Picks: Doc on Industry Bias, Jessica Williams Talks Money, Meryl Streep Writes to Congress

Must-watch: This 26-minute documentary from Bloomberg Business sheds a harsh light on the institutional bias against women in the film industry. Good point: The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams reminds us that while it might be nice to see a woman’s face on a $10 bill, real change is measured by how much money women earn....

Terry’s Picks: Lauryn Hill Covers Nina Simone, Inside Out, Film Financing Follow Up

Can’t stop listening to Lauryn Hill’s cover of “Feeling Good,” one of many great Nina Simone covers that will be released along with the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, which hits Netflix on Friday. Well done: Another great film with a female lead breaks records! Inside Out, a coming-of-age tale that follows five anthropomorphic emotions...

Terry’s Picks: Natalie Portman, Women Rule the Box Office & Bonnie Raitt

Good judgment: Natalie Portman insisted on hiring a woman director for the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic. Not bad: This NPR piece points out that we’re only halfway through 2015, and already six of the top 10 box-office hits center on women characters. Something to talk about: Bonnie Raitt is the only woman selected for...

TERRY’S PICKS: FUN HOME, MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL & SPY LANDS AT THE TOP

Bravo! The Broadway production Fun Home made feminist history this week when Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron became the first all-female writing team to win Best Original Score. Oh, please: 37-year old Maggie Gyllenhaal was turned down for a movie because she’s “too old” to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man. “It made...

Terry’s Picks: Eve Ensler, Equality Trending & Women in Disaster Movies Parody

Equality is Trending: The Sh*t People Say to Women Directors blog that went viral last week tells Hollywood horror stories that shed the light on the struggle for equality in the film & television industry. Spread the Word: Blockbuster action pic Mad Max: Fury Road hired Vagina Monologues playwright and activist Eve Ensler...

Terry’s Picks: Yes Please, More Women-centric Content, Tables Turned & Exceptional Performances

Really Loved: Clouds of Sils Maria and the exceptional performances by Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart. Excited to Share: Lena Dunham and Rose Byrne both started all-women production companies to get more women-centric content out in the world. A Must Watch: Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Patricia Arquette and Amy Schumer tell it like it is...

Terry’s Picks: Orphan Black, Captain Marvel & Guys We Love

Thrilled to hear: Marvel sets Nicole Pearlman and Meg Lefavue to write its forthcoming tent-pole feature Captain Marvel. Gotta give a shout-out to: guys like Paul Feig and Joss Whedon who support and showcase women in film. I’m obsessed: with Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black – bringing not just one but more than eight strong women to...

Terry’s Picks: Cannes Gets with IT, Grace and Frankie, Bratz Make-over and More

I agree: Keep independent documentaries on prime time! Norman Lear calls out PBS in The New York Times. Check this out: This smart Australian mom turned her daughter’s overly made-up Bratz dolls into realistic looking girls. I’m cracking up: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as best friends whose husbands leave them…for each other....

Terry’s Picks: Suffragette, Shonda Rhimes & Disruptive Women

Still from Suffragette Loving NYWIFT Members: NYWIFT board member Maura Kelly interviewed member Erin Day about her work as the Festival Director of the New York Television Festival. This interview is part of Maura’s “Disruptive Women” blog series for The Huffington Post. Totally Agree: Shonda Rhimes isn’t “diversifying” TV. She’s “normalizing” it. This Has Got My Vote: Focus...

Terry’s Picks: #AskHerMore, Billie Jean King & Women’s Purchasing Power

Manicure circa 1961 Photograph Horst P. Horst I Agree: It’s humiliating! That’s what Julianne Moore thinks about E!’s ridiculous “mani-cam” at red carpets. Forget the nails – instead, #AskHerMore. Confirming What I knew: For the 5th year in a row, women made up the majority of moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada. Anticipating: Game. Set. Match! Elizabeth...

Terry’s Picks: Minorities Losing Ground in Hollywood, Maggie Smith & HBO’s Gloria Steinam

Still image of Maggie Smith in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Enough already! The recent WGA study shows that women and minorities are actually losing ground in terms of employment as writers in Hollywood. Loved: Maggie Smith in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her character is using her retirement to re-invent herself as a...

Terry’s Picks: Patricia Arquette, Anne Hubbell & Immigrant Women Film Series

Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor is screening Friday night. Read the write up of the film series in the Queens Courier. Join Me: Friday night in Queens for the first installment of our film series, Immigrant Women: Sharing Our Voices Through Film. We will be showing three short films on activism followed by a...

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