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Terry’s Picks: Dusty Awards, Handmaid’s Tale, Gabourey Sidibe

Dusty Awards: The SVA Dusty Film & Animation Festival runs May 5-8. We look forward to partnering once again for their annual Dusty Awards! Board President Alexis Alexanian will present the NYWIFT award. Handmaid’s Tale: Can’t wait to start binging on The Handmaid’s Tale. Eight of 10 episodes are directed by women – good for...

Terry’s Picks: Representation Matters, Sheila Nevins, Box Office

Representation Matters: Kathryn O’Kane was among the five NYWIFT board members who joined me at the Women’s Media Summit in Provincetown, MA, last month. She recaps it for our Huffington Post column, as we look ahead to what’s next. Sheila Nevins: NYWIFT member Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films, sat down with Lesley Stahl...

Terry’s Picks: Zookeeper’s Wife, 25 Films, Female Heroes

Zookeeper’s Wife: Go see The Zookeeper’s Wife! Jessica Chastain gives a great performance, as directed by Niki Caro. 25 Films: Mark your calendars – here are 25 women-directed films being released this year. Female Heroes: The Guardian digs into why seeing a female hero – not just passive female characters – on screen is critical...

Terry’s Picks: Spring Drive, Tribeca Films, Black Comediennes

Spring Drive: Now through May 15th is the NYWIFT Spring Membership Drive, during which we offer 50% off the initiation fee for new members. If you’re thinking of joining our community of women calling the shots, now is the time to do it! Tribeca Films: I’m looking forward to next week’s Tribeca Film Festival, which...

Terry’s Picks: Zookeeper’s Wife, Female Friendship, Theresa Rebeck

Zookeeper’s Wife: USA Today highlights the team behind The Zookeeper’s Wife, which might be the most women-populated crew in Hollywood history. Female Friendship: Grace and Frankie stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin talk about aging in Hollywood, women’s sexuality and the importance of female friendship. Theresa Rebeck: In an excerpt from her essay for the...

Terry’s Picks: Diana Means, Stacy Smith, Women Editors

Diana Means: When she’s not working her day job in production and creative services at Warner Bros., Diana Means has been running the L.A. Women’s International Film Festival for the past 13 years. Stacy Smith: Social scientist Stacy Smith gives a Ted Talk on how the media underrepresents and portrays women – and the potentially...

Terry’s Picks: Influential Women, Jill Soloway, Loreen Arbus

Influential Women: Our friends at B&H, with support from Canon and Sony, are running a wonderful Women of Influence series, an inspirational look at the talent, drive and perseverance that forged some remarkable photographic and filmmaking careers. Jill Soloway: In her keynote address at SXSW, Jill Soloway addressed challenges – and solutions – to hiring...

Terry’s Picks: Watch It, True Story, Immigrant Series

Watch It: Celebrate Women’s History Month by watching these 40 movies by women directors – all available for streaming. True Story: Are female-fronted biopics finally on the rise? Immigrant Series: NYWIFT is thrilled to partner with the Queens World Film Festival to present the next installment in this year’s Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories screening series...

Terry’s Picks: Data Driven, Amal Ramsis, Women’s Movement

Data Driven: With support from Google.org’s Global Impact Challenge, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media teamed up with Google to develop software that accurately measures how often we see and hear women on-screen. Amal Ramsis: Here is a wonderful profile of Amal Ramsis, founder of the Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. Women’s Movement:...

Terry’s Picks: Viola Davis, Caroline Waterlow, Joi McMillon

Viola Davis: Congratulations to Viola Davis, who became the first black actor to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award this weekend. And with her role in Fences, she is only the second person in history to win a Tony and an Oscar for playing the same role but in different categories. (The first? Yul Brynner...

Terry’s Picks: Hannah Beachler, Sarah Barnett, New Space

Hannah Beachler: Congratulations to Hannah Beachler, who was awarded “Excellence in Production Design for Awards or Event Special” during the Art Directors Guild Awards last week. The recognition was for her production design for Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Beachler was also the production designer on Moonlight, Creed and Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead and her work will next...

Terry’s Picks: Anna Hozian, Nicole Kidman, Download Now

Anna Hozian: Congratulations to Anna Hozian, whose screenplay Anchor Baby, about a 13-year-old growing up in the Arizona Border Militia, has been acquired by Lynmar Entertainment (The Lost City of Z, Pawn Sacrifice). Hozian developed the script at The Writers Lab in 2015. Nicole Kidman: In an interview with The New York Times, the star...

Terry’s Picks: Empowering Advertising, What’s Next, Ideal Location

Empowering Advertising: I loved Audi’s Super Bowl ad touting the importance of equal pay, which leads with the poignant question, “What do I tell my daughter?” What’s Next: The NY Times checks in with three lauded filmmakers from Sundance 2014, to see how the festival buzz shaped their careers. Ideal Location: MovieMaker takes a look...

Terry’s Picks: Writers Lab, Kimberly Steward, Watch List

Writers Lab: Submissions for The Writers Lab 2017 open tomorrow. We’re thrilled to have Meryl Streep back providing funding for the project for the third year in a row! Kimberly Steward: Congratulations to Kimberly Steward, who is only the second black woman producer – after Oprah Winfrey – to have her film nominated for an...

Terry’s Picks: Spark Diversity, Rachel Feldman, Sundance Women

Spark Diversity: Crowdfunding and distribution platform Seed & Spark announced the #100DaysOfDiversity initiative, a movement joining creators, audiences, brands, festivals and organizations to actively increase representation in entertainment in 100 days. Rachel Feldman: Deadline has a wonderful interview with Rachel Feldman about her fight to get Fair Fight, about the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,...

Terry’s Picks: No Progress, 2017 Resolution, Tax Credit

No Progress: The 2016 Celluloid Ceiling Report by Dr. Martha M. Lauzen at the Center for Women in Television & Film is a bummer. It shows that, despite the recent buzz around women’s equality in entertainment, the number of women behind the camera on the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2016 actually declined. 2017...

Terry’s Picks: 2017 Preview, Women Animators, Melina Matsoukas

2017 Preview: Onward and upward! Women and Hollywood and Film School Rejects have both compiled great lists of films by and about women to look for in 2017. (It’s worth noting that the top movies of the last four years star women!) Women Animators: In response to The Hollywood Reporter’s all male – and all...

Terry’s Picks: Carrie Fisher, Star Wars, BBC America

Carrie Fisher: I was saddened by the loss of icon Carrie Fisher (and her mother Debbie Reynolds) last week. This piece in Indiewire sums up what so many of us are feeling: “In both the stories she told about her life and the stories she represented as a fictional icon, Carrie Fisher taught us that...

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