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New York City's Indian Film Festival: MIAAC

Priyanka Boghani | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Indian-Film-Director, India, Films, Bollywood, Miaac, Film, Women Directors, Actors, Mira Nair, World News
Priyanka Boghani

MIAAC started with an independent Asian American filmmaker focus, but now has broadened to the Indian film industry as well as artists from the wider Indian diaspora.

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Hanging with Motherhood Writer-Director Katherine Dieckmann

Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Women, Women in Film, Mothers and Sons, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Parenting, Mothers and Daughters, Screenwriting, Parenthood, Punk, Screenwriters, Mike-Leigh, Katherine Dieckmann, Joan Didion, Women Directors, Working Moms, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

I was frustrated by the absence of movies where a mother is the lead and her issues are the film's main focus, where she is a significant character expressing her soul and existence.

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Milanos Downey, A Majority of One, Ed Asner, African-Americans, Actresses, Aviva Kempner, Catholic-Americans, Emmy Award, Red Channels, Richmond-Virginia, Documentary Film, Tony Award, Gertrude Berg, Jewish-Americans, Rosalind Russell, Aphrodite Palans Andrew, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Communism, The Black List, Screenwriters, Red Scare, Philip Loeb, Huac, Socialism, Susan Stamberg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Women Directors, Norman Lear, Radio, The Rise of the Goldbergs, Greek-Americans, The Goldbergs, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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9/11 Film Review of Amreeka: Drama of the Arab-Christian Experience in America Also Strikes Notes of Heart and Humor

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Palestinian-Americans, Arrested Development, Independent Films, National Geographic, Hiam Abbass, Films, Arab-Americans, 9/11, Nisreen Faour, Babel, Munich, The Immigrant Experience, Cherien Dabis, Lemon Tree, Lebanese-Americans, Melkar Muallem, Women Directors, Alia Shawkat, The Visitor, Amreeka, Jordanian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Arab-Christians, Yussef-Abu-Warda, Arab-Muslims, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Amreeka is an artful, moving testimony to the perils of making assumptions about individuals or groups. It is a is a film of impeccable taste that unites instead of divides.

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DVDs: Japanese Noir? Hai!

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film Noir, The Office, Japanese Cinema, Women Directors, Criterion, Dvds, Alice Guy, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Movie and television reviews of DVDs, from little-known Japanese classics to The Office "Season Five."

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Frozen River: Breaking Through the Summer Pack

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Breaking Entertainment News, Women's Issues, Box Office, Women Film Journalists, Native Americans, Misty Upham, The Oscars, Tom Bernard, Movies, Single Mothers, Women Filmmakers, Illegal Immigrants, Frozen River, Mohawk Nation, Melissa Leo, Courtney Hunt, Women Directors, Sony Pictures Classics, Sundance Film Festival, Women's Issues, Breaking Entertainment News, Box Office, Women Film Journalists, Native Americans, Misty Upham, Tom Bernard, The Oscars, Movies, Single Mothers, Women Filmmakers, Illegal Immigrants, Frozen River, Mohawk Nation, Melissa Leo, Courtney Hunt, Women Directors, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

"Smart movies like Frozen River are an alternative" says Sony Pictures co-president Tom Bernard. "We never try to win the weekend... we try to win the war."

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For Your Consideration: Melissa Leo for Best Actress in Frozen River

Thelma Adams | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sundance Film Festival, Working Women, Native Americans, Frozen River, Melissa Leo, The Oscars, Movies, Women Directors, Immigration Debate, Quentin Tarantino Film, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

When I saw Frozen River, I discovered that when an actress who's also a friend appears on screen, it's doubly interesting because you're rooting for her, and you know she can be great.

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Liberia's Peace Women: Tribeca 2008 Remembers What the World Overlooked in 2003

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Civil War, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Africa, Liberia, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Harvard, Women Directors, Women in Africa, Politics News
Abigail E. Disney

How was it possible that these Liberian women had accomplished such an enormous feat without having been noticed and reported on by the news outlets I had come to know and trust?

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Life in Flight Takes Flight

Tracey Hecht | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Female Directors, Creativity, Directors, Filmmaking, Artists, Life in Flight, Moviemaking, Movies, Women Directors, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Tracey Hecht

The really amazing thing about making Life in Flight was watching it go from a private experience of conceptualization to a hugely collaborative experience.

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Where Are the Women Directors?

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Female Directors, Feminism Clinton, Feminism and Film, Women Directing Change, Motion Picture Industry, Hollywood Studios, Patrick Goldstein, New York Times, Women Directors, Hollywood, Feminism and Work, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

Things suck for women directors, but nothing changes and things are actually getting worse. While most people believe that we are post-feminist, and post-organizing, and post-activism, I think the only way to make change is to agitate.

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