- NYWIFT’s AfriAmerican Immigrant Screening: Local Stories, Global Themes – Madeline Johnson reports (Alliance of Women Film Journalists / The Female Gaze)
- New York Women in Film & TV Announce 2018 Designing Women Honorees (Variety)
- Films series puts projects showing ‘NYC immigrant experience’ in spotlight (AM New York)
- Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories (BlackTalent.tv)
Apply Now: NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (Women and Hollywood) - USA TODAY Exclusive Survey Reveals Shocking Statistic of Sexual Misconduct in Hollywood (Business Wire)
- Nicole Kidman Joins Meryl Streep in Supporting The Writers Lab (Women and Hollywood)
- Nicole Kidman Joins Meryl Streep Supporting The Writers Lab (Times Square Chronicles)
- Nicole Kidman Lends Her Support to The Writers Lab (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The Fight for Equality at the Sundance Film Festival (Fox News Radio)
- The HP Foundation Under Ha Phuong Donates to New York Women in Film & Television For Three New Programs (Times Square Chronicles)
- HP Foundation to Fund New York Women in Film & Television Young Female Filmmaker Initiative (Broadway World)
- New York Women In Film & Television Invite Women Screenwriters Over 40 TO Participate in The 2018 Writers Lab Funded by Meryl Streep (Black Talent TV)
- The Writers Lab for woman screenwriters over 40 funded by Meryl Streep (Film News UK)
- Meryl Streep Offers The Acclaimed Writing Program for Women Over 40 (Times Square Chronicles)
- Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul Speaks at New York Women in Film & Television’s Muse Awards (NYLovesFilm)
- Judith Light Praises ‘Truth-Telling,’ ‘Courage’ in Hollywood at New York Women in Film & Television Event (Variety)
- Laura Dern Says It’s ‘Really Exciting’ That Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Strong Female
Leads (Just Jared) - Laura Dern, Judith Light Among Honorees at New York Women in Film & Television (Associated Press)
- Judith Light delivers powerful speech about Hollywood reckoning (Page Six)
- NYWIFT to Honor Laura Dern, Judith Light, Ohters at Muse Awards (Variety)
- Watch NYWIFT’s Fall Shorts Festival Online Now (Women and Hollywood)
- Industry Leaders, New York Legislators Urge Governor to Sign Diversity Tax Credit Bill (Variety)
- Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey-Funded Writers Lab Selects Projects (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 Announces 2017 Participants (Women and Hollywood)
- Meryl Streep & Oprah Winfrey’s The Writers Lab Selects 2017 Projects (Broadway World)
- Hollywood is ignoring women over the age of 45, and these experts know why (Mic.com)
- New York Women in Film & Television Announces New Board President Simone Pero (Broadway World)
- New York State Adds Diversity Reports to Film Tax Credit Application (NY Loves Film)
- Women Directors Play Lead Role in Stony Brook Film Festival This Summer (StonyBrook.edu)
- Carmen Ejogo at NYWIFT’s Designing Women (Vimeo)
- New York Women in Film & Television Announces 2017 Designing Women Honorees (Variety)
- Apply Now for NYWIFT Fund for Women Filmmakers Grants (Women and Hollywood)
- SVA’s Dusty Awards Presenters Announced (Animation Magazine)
- Attention, Screenwriters: New Opportunities for Horror, TV and Women Over 40 — Roundup (Yahoo! Movies)
- Continuing the American Cultural Conversation about Women’s Equality: Katie Chambers on Women in Film & Television (Fanm Kanson)
- Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories – Acclaimed NYWIFT Screening Series Returns February 27th (Film News UK)
- Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories Screening Series Kicks Off This Month (BroadwayWorld)
- Passing Straight: What being queer means for women working in television, both behind and in front of the camera (Curve Magazine)
- Meryl Streep back to support The Writers Lab for women screenwriters over 40 (Film News UK)
- Meryl Streep Supports The Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Again) (IndieWire’s Women and Hollywood)
- DuPont-Columbia awards recognize outstanding journalism, and other awards in public media (Current)
- Dispatches from NYWIFT 37th Annual Muse Awards Honoring Women in Film, Television & Media (Indiewood Hollywoodn’t)
- Bloomberg Media COO Jacki Kelley honored with Muse Award (Bloomberg Media)
- After Trump election, women in media urge protection of free speech (Crain’s New York)
- 37th Muse Awards a Resounding Success (Curve)
- Debi Mazar at Women in Film and Television’s Mues Awards in New York 12/08/2016 (HawtCelebs)
- CBS Sunday Morning’s Calendar: Week of December 5 (CBSnews.com)
- Mary Louise Parker, Martha Plimpton, and More Honored at NYWIFT Muse Awards (Indiewire’s Women and Hollywood)
- Catching Up with Debi Mazar (NBC’s New York Live)
- New York Women in Film & Television’s 37th Annual Muse Awards (Curve)
- New York Women in Film & Television Announces Muse Awards Honorees (Variety)
- MoMA to Screen Films by NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund, Today (Broadway World)
- New York Comedy Festival brings shows to Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx (AM New York)
- Made in New York: Comedy Makers (Film News UK)
- Autism story brings “Heart” to Heartland Film Festival (WishTV)
- New Documentary Swim Team at Doc NYC (Swim Swam)
- Female Filmmakers Buck the Industry (The East Hampton Star)
- The 40th Anniversary Of “Charlie’s Angels” . . . And The Uneasy History Of “Jiggle TV” (FastCoCreate)
- NYU SPS Students Win Places in Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab (NYU SPS)
- Striking The Right Balance in Life (about Writers Lab participant Meredith DePaolo) (The Star Online)
- Meryl Streep-Funded Writers Lab Announces 2016 Cohort (Women and Hollywood)
- The Writers Lab, Funded by Meryl Streep, Selects 2016 Participants (BroadwayWorld)
- New York Women in Film & Television and IRIS collective announce 12 winning screenwriters (Crain’s New York Business)
- Meryl Streep-Funded The Writers Lab Announces 12 Female Screenwriters For Second Annual Workshop (IndieWire)
- Meet The Women Making Your Favorite Shows Look Good (Bust)
- NYWIFT Honors Top in Field at Designing Women 2016 (Times Square Chronicles)
- Meet the Woman Behind the Makeup in Tyler Perry & Spike Lee Movies (Galore)
- The New York Women in Film & Television Designing Women Red Carpet (Behind the Velvet Rope)
- Will Arnett, Ray Liotta, Maura Tierney Present at the Women in Film & TV Awards (The Daily Front Row)
- NY: 2016 New York Women In Film & Television’s Designing Women Gala (Getty Images)
- Angel of inclusion Michele Spitz doubling her reach in the world of disability (examiner.com)
- Fun Times in New York City (includes Designing Women) (Times Square Chronicles)
- Are Women Making Progress in the Film Industry? It’s Complicated. (Inside Philanthropy)
- Hollywood Stars Speak Out in Effort to Combat Gender Pay Gap (All Things Considered/NPR)
- Designing Women Awards to Honour The Affair (Film-News.co.uk)
- New York Women in Film & Television Announce Designing Women Honorees (Variety)
- Staten Island Documentary Gets Citywide Attention (Immigrant Screening Series) (NY1 video)
- Writers Lab, Funded by Meryl Streep, Returns with New Female Filmmakers for 2016 (Broadway World)
- Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab for Women Over 40 Names 2016 Mentors (The Wrap)
- Meryl Streep to Fund The Writers Lab, Supporting Women Screenwriters Over 40 (EXCLUSIVE) (Thompson on Hollywood)
- Attention Writers Lab Created For Women Screenwriters Over 40 by New York Women in Film & Television and Meryl Streep (Times Square Chronicles)
- Meryl Streep Praises Hollywood’s “New Time of Possibility for Women” (Vanity Fair)
- Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab for Women Over 40 Names 2016 Mentors (Yahoo! Movies)
- Meryl Streep Backs Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Women and Hollywood)
2015: - Gabourey Sidibe talks with HerFLIX on the Red Carpet at the 2015 NYWIFT’s Muse Awards (HerFLIX)
- Blythe Danner talks with HerFLIX on the Red Carpet at the 2015 NYWIFT’s Muse Awards (HerFLIX)
- Muse Awards Recognizes Top Women In Film and Television (Prime Time Parenting)
- Miralos – 11 De Diciembre de 2015 en los Muse Awards (People En Espanol)
- New York Women in Film and Television Host 35th Annual Muse Awards (Times Square Chronicles)
- It’s all good publicity!’: Blythe Danner reveals daughter Gwyneth Paltrow is not worried about Goop store robbery (Daily Mail)
- The 35th NYWIFT Muse Awards (Behind the Velvet Rope)
- Fantastic over 50! Blythe Danner, 72, and Patricia Clarkson, 55, wow as they are honoured at the New York Women In Film And Television Awards (Daily Mail)
- Empire‘s Gabourey Sidibe Would be Down for More Sex and Guns (New York Magazine’s Vulture)
- Patricia Clarkson weighs in on Hollywood gender equality (New York Post’s Page Six)
- 12 Screenwriters Announced for Meryl Streep’s Women Over 40 Writers Lab (Indiewire)
- Female TV Veterans Get Real About Creating Comedy and Not Waiting to Be Asked (Indiewire)
- Gabourey Sidibe, Blythe Danner Among 2015 NY Women in Film and Television Honorees (Variety)
- Following Up The Writers Lab for Female Screenwriters Over 40 (Indiewire)
- How New York Women in Film & Television Is Fighting Ageism in Cinema (Inside Philanthropy)
- News in Brief: Revolution Studios, NYWIFT (Screen Daily)
- Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriters Lab for Women Over 40 (The Source)
- Meryl Streep’s Screenwriting Lab for Women Over 40 Reveals Participants (Indiewire)
- First group of women screenwriters in Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab revealed (New York Times)
- Meryl Streep financia los guiones de 12 mujeres mayores de 40 años (PPN)
- Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab announces 12 accepted female screenwriters (Empowering Women)
- The Broadsheet: August 11th – Streep’s Screenwriters (Fortune)
- Meryl Streep Financia Los Guiones de 12 Mujeres Mayores de 40 Anos (Hoycinema)
- 12 Selected for Meryl Streep-Backed Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Just Film News)
- Participants for Meryl Streep-Funded Screenwriters Lab Announced (Makers)
- Meryl Streep’s Brilliant Plan To Bring More Women’s Voices To The Screen (Refinery29)
- 12 Women Chosen For Writers Lab Funded by Meryl Streep (Playbill)
- Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab Selects 12 Female Screenwriters (Indiewire)
- 12 Screenwriters Selected for Meryl Streep-Backed Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Indiewire)
- Screenwriters Announced for Inaugural Meryl Streep Writers Lab (Broadway World)
- Meryl Streep’s Screenwriters Program Selects Inaugural Participants (Variety)
- Lea DeLaria Talks ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Season 3, Viral Subway Video, Her ‘Very Weird’ Wedding And More: Exclusive Interview (Fashion & Style)
- Empire Makeup Arist Beverly Jo Pryor Talks Season 1 Beauty: Exclusive Interview (Fashion & Style)
- Uzo Aduba attends the 2015 New York Women in Film & Television Designing Women Awards Gala 5/28 (Lipstick Alley)
- Uzo Aduba Attends 2015 New York Women In Film & Television Designing Women Awards Gala (AfriCulture)
- Uzo Aduba & ‘OITNB’ Cast Honor Makeup, Hair & Costume Designers at New York Women Awards Gala 2015 (JustJared)
- Chatting With the ‘Orange is the New Black’ cast at the Designing Women Awards (New York Observer)
- How Jimmy Darmody Got That Cool Hair on Boardwalk Empire (Gotham)
- Orange Is the New Black’s Lea DeLaria and Uzo Aduba reunite with four more co-stars for Designing Women Awards in NYC (Daily Mail)
- Ann Roth Honored at NYWIFT’s Designing Women (Huffington Post)
- New York Women in Film & Television Name 2015 Designing Women Honorees (Variety)
- Carte Blanche: Women’s Film Preservation Fund- women Writing the Language of Cinema(ArtInfo)
- Carte Blanche: Women’s Film Preservation Fund-Women Writing the Language of Cinema @ MOMA, NY(Elite M Style)
- NYC Weekend Watch: John Carpenter, Charles Laughton, Female Filmmakers & More (The Film Stage)
- Women Writing the Language of Cinema Opens February 2 at MoMa (Digital Cinema Report)
- “Brian Lehrer” Under the Lens, Latin America (CUNY TV)
- “Immigrant Women Filmmakers Focus of Maspeth Movie Screenings” (DNA Info)
- Featured April’s screening in weekend highlight events with details ( El Diario)
- Featured article announcing the new screening series w/photo stills from first program (Indiewire)
- Featured segment: “Film Series Sharing Stories of Immigrant Living in City Comes to Queens” with interviews and clips from film (NY 1 News)
- “Immigrant women share their voices through NYWIFT film series” with photo stills from first series(Queens Ledger)
- April screening included in weekend’s film events with capsule synopsis and details (The New York Times)
- “Film series focus on immigrant women in New York City”(Times Ledger)
- “We’re A Lost Generation That’s Still Alive”: NYWIFT and IRIS Directors on The Writers Lab (Filmmaker Magazine)
- Meryl Streep’s inspiring solution to Hollywood’s ageism problem might actually work (Quartz)
- Meryl Streep Supports A Groundbreaking New Screenwriters Lab For Women Over 40 (Forbes)
- Meryl Streep Funds Workshop for Female Screenwriters Over 40 (Latin Post)
- Meryl Streep Just Started A Screenwriting Lab For Hollywood Lepers (Women Over 40) (Bust)
- Meryl Streep’s Awesome Move To Fight Ageism In Hollywood (The Huffington Post)
- Female screenwriters rejoice! Meryl Streep will fund a screenwriting lab for women over 40 (PopOptiq)
- Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab for Women Over 40 (Inside Philanthropy)
- StreamFix: Movie classics written by women over 40 (HitFix)
- What Lena Dunham and Meryl Streep have in common: 5 major stars making Hollywood a better place for women (Salon)
- Meryl Streep boost for women screenwriters (BBC)
- Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab for Women Over 40 (People Magazine)
- Meryl Streep funds initiative to help women screenwriters: TRFN (Reuters)
- Meryl Streep is Sponsoring a Screenwriting Workshop for Women (Elle)
- Meryl Streep Is Combatting Hollywood Misogyny With Writers Lab for Women Over 40 (Flavorwire)
- Meryl Streep Fights Hollywood Sexism By Supporting Female Screenwriters Over 40 (ThinkProgress)
- Meryl Streep Funds A New Lab For Women Screenwriters Over 40 (The Frisky)
- Meryl Streep Tackles Hollywood Shortcomings by Funding Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (InStyle)
- Meryl Streep Funds NYWIFT’s Screenwriters Lab for Women Writers (Broadway World)
- Meryl Streep funds screenwriting lab for women over 40 (A.V. Club)
- Meryl Streep is Funding a Screenwriters Lab for Women Over 40 (Latina)
- Meryl Streep Is Changing the Game for Women in Hollywood (Policy Mic)
- Meryl Streep Launches Fund for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Indiewire)
- Meryl Streep Is Sponsoring a Screenwriting Workshop for Women (Marie Claire)
- The God Meryl Streep Funds New Screenwriting Lab for Women Over 40 (Jezebel)
- If You’re a Female Screenwriter Over 40, Meryl Streep Wants to Help Develop Your Talent (Film School Rejects)
- Meryl Streep isn’t waiting around for Hollywood inequality to fix itself (Fusion)
- Meryl Streep funds screenwriting workshop for women over 40 (The Dissolve)
- Meryl Streep funding screenwriting lab just for women over 40 (New York Daily News)
- Meryl Streep funds new screenwriting lab for women over 40 (Entertainment Weekly)
- Meryl Streep funds screenwriting initiative for women over 40 (The Guardian)
- Meryl Streep funds workshop for women screenwriters over 40 (The Week)
- Queen of World, Meryl Streep, Funds Screenwriters Lab for Women Over 40 (Pedestrian TV)
- Meryl Streep Launches Screenwriting Lab for Women Over 40 (Hunger TV)
- Meryl Streep’s Big Contribution (Daily Life)
- Meryl Streep stöttar kvinnligt manuslabb (Dagens Nyheter)
- Why We Should All Be More Meryl (Red Online)
- Meryl Streep finanziert Screenwriting Lab für Frauen über 40 (Kino-Zeit)
- Meryl Streep Starts Screenwriting Programme for Older Women (AOL)
- Bow Down To Meryl Streep: Actress Funds Screenwriting Lab For Women Over 40 (Indiewire)
- Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab for Women (NY Magazine – Vulture)
- This Is 40: Meryl Streep Just Created a Writers’ Program for Women (TakePart)
- Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab For Women Over 40 (ArtsJournal)
- Meryl Streep funding lab for female screenwriters over 40 (Oh No They Didn’t!)
- Meryl Streep, NYWIFT Launch Program For Female Screenwriters Over 40 (Tribeca Roundup)
- Meryl Streep’s Big Contribution (Gazette Review)
- How Meryl Streep Is Using Her Own Money to Combat Ageism and Sexism in Hollywood (Vanity Fair)
- Meryl Streep Funds Writers Lab for Female Screenwriters (Time)
- Meryl Streep, NYWIFT Launch Program For Female Screenwriters Over 40 (Deadline)
- Meryl Streep Funds Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40 (Variety)
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