Terry’s Picks: Super Girls, NYWIFT Pride
Super girls: Marvel Studios launched a national contest that invites girls in grades 10 through 12 to create science or technology projects that “could make the world a better place.” NYWIFT pride: This a great profile on actor-writer-director-producer Erica Fae who, like so many of her fellow NYWIFT members, is a multi-talented artist creating her...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Congrats Wendy, Raise Awareness, The Writers Lab
Congrats, Wendy: NYWIFT member Wendy Blackstone is the composer for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, winner of the 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Short. It is the harrowing tale of a Pakistani honor killing survivor. Watch it on demand through HBO Go. Raise awareness: Four films by NYWIFT members will...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Diversity Study, Ms. Factor Toolkit, Sally Field
#OscarsSoWhite, Male AND Straight: USC Annenberg’s Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative has released a groundbreaking new study which shows the breadth and depth to which Hollywood tends to be straight, white and male. The report evaluates every speaking character across 414 films, television and digital stories released in 2014-2015, and 11,000 speaking characters are...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Celluloid World, Script Intros, Pregnancy Portrayals
Celluloid world: Dr. Martha Lauzen’s latest study shows a significant increase in female protagonists in the top grossing feature films of last year. But it’s all relative – this “big” jump was from only 12% to only 22%. And ethnic and racial diversity is still startlingly low – 76% of all female characters were white....
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Victoria Alonso, Paul Feig, that’swhatshesaid
Congrats, Victoria: 2015 NYWIFT Muse honoree Victoria Alonso is the first woman to receive the Advanced Imaging Society’s Harold Lloyd Award, which is presented to a filmmaker who in the judgment of the Society has created a body of work, and specific achievements in 3D, that advanced the motion picture art form. Victoria is Executive Vice...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: SAG Diversity, The Writers Lab, Inner Beauty
SAG Diversity: In contrast with an all-white lineup of Oscar nominated actors, the SAG Awards had a healthy mix of diverse nominees and winners. That said, the majority of diverse winners were for television, not film. The Writers Lab: Submissions for The Writers Lab 2016 are now open! Learn more and submit at thewriterslab.nyc. The...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Equity, Where’s Rey, Survival Tips
Women’s Equity: Congrats to the team of Equity, which was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance. It’s a Wall Street movie produced, written, directed by and starring women! Where’s Rey? Even though the female Star Wars: The Force Awakens protagonist is wildly popular with fans, she has been mostly missing from the...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: The Writers Lab, #OscarsSoWhite, Netflix Binge
The Writers Lab: Read scripts from The Writers Lab 2015 thanks to our friends at The Blacklist and get ready for 2016 – NYWIFT and IRIS will begin accepting submissions for this year’s Lab on February 1. #OscarsSoWhite: With a complete lack of nonwhite performers in the acting categories and near shutout of nonwhite creators...
READ MOREMoving Forward: Fresh New Year
The Globes were a mess, few women #OscarNoms, new let down study blues, Moving Forward: all-female cast, superpower women and NYWIFT call for submissions!
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Screening Series, Swim Team, Get #Social
Screening Series: NYWIFT is seeking films by women filmmakers for our second Immigrant Women’s Screening Series. Films should be about the New York immigrant experience. See details. Swim Team: Swim Team, the recipient of the NYWIFT Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant at the Muse Awards in December, has been nominated for Indiewire’s Project of the...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Director Diversity, Equal Pay, Golden Globes
What’s wrong with this picture? The Hollywood Reporter’s director roundtable on Sundance TV only featured middle-aged men. Was that the best they could do? Equal pay: California’s new equal pay law, SB358, has been dubbed “the toughest law in the nation.” It supports women who demand to be paid the same as male colleagues in...
READ MOREFor Indie Projects: An Actor’s Table Read Offers Best Results
On an indie film set there is little to no time to rehearse and most of the times the story is shot out of sequence, so it makes sense to have an actor table read before you start shooting.
READ MOREThe Road to Muse 2015
Through all the challenges, New York Women in Film & Television continues to champion the voice of women every year with numerous grants, scholarships, programs and events in support of women such as the Muse Awards.
READ MOREWEEKLY ROUNDUP: THE FEMALE FORCE, YEAR-END LISTS & FUN ADVICE
Star Wars (finally) opened. The female cast members discuss being part of a new history. The end of 2015 marks the beginning of lists. Here’s a range of fun lists to enjoy. We expected more from these movies this year. These were some of the best movies directed by women in 2015. 2015 had great new tv...
READ MOREWEEKLY ROUNDUP: NOMINATIONS, GENDER ISSUES & GREAT COMPANIES
Photo via Wilson Webb / The Weinstein Company Tis the season to be nominated. SAG & Golden Globes nominees lead the way. Ladies, the force may soon be with us. Hollywood’s gender inequality may be due to…daddy issues? A post Mad Men Elizabeth Moss is keeping it light and taking Gayle King’s advice. Looking for...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Muse Honorees Blythe Danner, Lizz Winstead, Sarah Barnett
As we look forward to this Thursday’s Muse Awards, here are some of our honorees: Blythe Danner talks to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast about her 50 year career and taking on her first leading film role at age 72 in I’ll See You in My Dreams. Lizz Winstead’s Tinder parody app Hinder, created...
READ MOREFollow #nywiftmuse on Twitter for Muse Awards Buzz on December 10
The buzz about the Muse Awards is that it’s all about the speeches. It’s not a surprise as the event is an intimate gathering of women in entertainment and those who support them. It’s a safe place for women to talk openly about their experience in entertainment. This 2012 acceptance speech from Muse winner Mariska...
READ MOREWEEKLY ROUNDUP: HISTORY, INSPIRATION & THE “F” WORD
Photo via Variety / Evgenia Eliseeva With a female director, writer, composer and choreographer, “Waitress” will make Broadway history! ”It’s just bad business.” Hollywood finally agrees, gender discrimination needs to be addressed. Now. Watch Edie Falco give a one-minute explanation of why & how she became an actor. (VIDEO) Have your “original” story ideas been done before?...
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