Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.
In an extraordinary year in the film industry, more women of color directors have made an impact than ever before.
The overall percentage of women working on top-grossing films has barely budged in over 20 years.
The FBomb talked with All Joking Aside star Raylene Harewood about the world of comedy, unconventional friendships, and the unique pain that comes with a rocky mother-daughter relationship.
The new documentary spotlights women’s leadership in fighting the abuse of power in the use of computer technology.
The need for more realistic and powerful narratives about Black Australian life was a big reason why Haj decided to study film.
Zayed’s documentary, Lift Like a Girl, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on November 11.
The film centers on a Taiwanese American girl named Christy, who is struggling to process both her parents’ divorce and the new family dynamics that come with it.
Marvel Studios, one of the — if not the — most impressive names in the superheroine genre of entertainment, made headlines in recent years for their plans to add Ms. Marvel — a Pakistani-American, Muslim female superhero who first appeared in her own comic in 2014 — to their impressive roster of characters on screen.
Taymor spoke with WMC’s The FBomb about the film and what audiences can take from Steinem’s extraordinary example.
The docuseries, And She Could Be Next, shows that women of color are “changing what the face of leadership looks like” in the United States.
Groundbreaking writer-director Alice Wu surprises with her long-awaited second feature.
“On the Record” focuses on empowering Black women in the #MeToo movement.
More documentary films by and about women are getting awards recognition and finding sizeable audiences. Here is a list of docs, released over the last year, that are available for streaming.
Chinese American filmmaker Cathy Yan recently became the first Asian American woman to direct an American superhero film with the newest installment in the DC Extended Universe, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The film follows the young women as they travel from their small Pennsylvania town to Planned Parenthood in New York City so Autumn can have a surgical abortion.
In the powerful new film "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," a teenager has to cross state lines to seek abortion care.
On February 28, The César Awards, which are essentially the French Oscars, awarded the Best Director honor to Roman Polanski — a man who fled the United States after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.
In creating the movie ”The Assistant,” writer/director Kitty Green interviewed more than 100 women who worked or had worked at Weinstein’s companies, as well as women at other studios and agencies.
These characters’ journeys expose our culture’s ridiculous link between relationship status and total happiness
2019 was a banner year for women in the entertainment industry. But female filmmakers are still unable to break the “celluloid ceiling.”
No women were nominated in the category of Best Director at the Golden Globes even though there were more women-directed top-grossing movies in 2019 than in any year before.
The continued exclusion of female talent shows that major awards are based not on merit but on the biases of individuals.
Although several major film festivals have pledged to have equal representation for female directors by 2020, progress has been slow. Here is our year-end follow-up to our midyear report on how they are doing.