Women at Feirstein Filmmakers Alliance

06/13/2022

La Sireñas 🧜🏼‍♀️

06/27/2021

Inspired by sharing intimate portrayals of her inner life online, I asked her to collaborate with me on a short series exploring the peculiarities of solitude.
Here’s our first one - sonically brought to life by , who we were lucky was feeling creative in the quarantine, too.

05/12/2018

How many of these female filmmakers can you name? I spy: Ava DuVernay, Salma Hayek, Valérie Donzelli, and Patty Jenkins... Festival de Cannes http://www.5050x2020.fr/en

03/21/2018

An opportunity to connect with women of Brooklyn College at an upcoming Art Party on March 27th at Roosevelt Hall. Hosted by Women’s History Month Committee at Brooklyn College.

03/19/2018

Gals, this is long but super worth the read -- it touches on representation & women making films about women
Re: A Wrinkle in Time:
"[Ava Duvernay's] mission of subject matter is truly more important than whatever you might make of the ex*****on. I immediately think of Tessa Thompson’s comment, 'For days after seeing I thought about how powerful it was to see a biracial character in a big studio movie. beautifully normalized what so many families look like. I wish my younger self could have seen this. That she could have been seen like this.'"

1. Logical Glances I dislike “left brain” film watching for three reasons. The first reason is because it really isn’t how movies are meant to be absorbed. At all. Narrativ…

03/08/2018

A series of workshops on s*xual harassment and discrimination that may be of interest to students! $5 per workshop, Monday, March 12th, and Tuesday 13th, at the New Museum. “Topics will include setting clear lines of professional conduct, dealing with transgressions and gray areas, and changing the balance of power through salaries, promotions, and mentorship.”

Four Workshops (Photo: Dean Kaufman) In light of recent, widespread allegations of s*xual misconduct in every sector, the New Museum is organizing a series of four workshops on March 12 and 13 in order to provide tools, support, and guidance for both leaders and workers in the arts to combat s*xual....

03/05/2018

Claim your spot, Ladies!

03/05/2018

Female investors save the Weinstein Co. from bankruptcy with the plan to re-launch as a female-led movie studio! Ooooooh!! 💡🎥🎬

The new board of directors will be mostly female, too.

03/04/2018

The moderator for tomorrow’s panel, Professor Alison MacLean, made an ambitious and remarkable film in New Zealand, adapted from Eleanor Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal. Following a young drama student, the film plays with ideas of performance, authenticity, and risk. Watch it streaming now on Netflix​! (“I loved it.” –Katie Jefferis)

A drama student is torn between creative possibility and ethical boundaries when his girlfriend's family gets caught up in a s*x scandal.

03/03/2018

“We had to start creating a movement. We have to reshape the way that we’re treated. Things that were normalized before are no longer going to be normalized.... If we aren’t paid equally, why would women expect to be treated equally?” –Jennifer Lawrence argues for equal pay on the PBS NewsHour

In "Red Sparrow," Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence plays a Russian ballerina-turned-agent forced into a brutal and s*xually violent world. But aside from a timely Russian-focused storyline, the film touches on issues of gender and power imbalances that Lawrence has not hesitated to address in...

02/21/2018

“There’s not a lot of women working at the studio level on fantasy and creating worlds... You’re seeing worlds built through the point of view of a black woman from Compton. So when I’m told, ‘Create a planet,’ my planet’s going to look different from my white male counterpart’s planet which we’ve seen ninety-seven percent of the time [in Hollywood films].” Ava DuVernay talking about A Wrinkle In Time on The New Yorker Radio Hour WNYC Radio

Director Ava DuVernay on the distance between “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time.” And a report on how Facebook is reckoning with the fallout from Russian tampering during the election.

02/09/2018

“GERWIG: I knew from having been on different films that when things came up that were problems or difficulties or something went awry, that was not a deviation from the path; that was the path... WRIGHT: And always the obstacle gives you solutions that you find are far more interesting and far more crazy.”

Angelina Jolie, Denis Villeneuve and Joe Wright also open up about their latest films.