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Women-directed features at NZ International Film Festival (2, features)
When people ask me why films by women writers and directors matter, I find it quickest and easiest to respond with Jane Campion's classic question: "Women may be 50% of the population but they gave...
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Documentary films by & about women at NZ International Film Festival
Still from The Red HouseLast night's 7 earthquake was unsettling. And misogyny is in the air. Aaron Sorkin's woman problem for instance. And the distressing online abuse of women in the gaming world....
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Women-directed docos about men at NZ International Film Festival
Still Maori Boy GeniusFollowing on from yesterday's Documentary films by & about women--More details and bookings through the New Zealand International Film Festival site.1. Pietra...
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Men's docos about women at NZ International Film Festival
Edith Collier Counting the Catch St Ives ca 1918-1921 (Ta Papa Tongarewa image)Here's the final instalment of films by and about women in the New Zealand International Film Festival: men's documentary...
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New Zealand Update 1: Women Directors
Pietra Brettkelly Oasis imageI'm a sucker for What Happened Next. Everyone I interview or write about interests and excites me, and this John Psathas tweet inspired me to gather together updates about...
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A Golden Age For Women Who Make Movies? (1)
This is based on a study done by the USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism and comes from Equality MythThis wonderful infographic illustrates some of the complex problems that face...
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A Golden Age for Women Who Make Movies? (2)
Niam Itani, the only woman finalist in YouTube's Your Festival competition at the Venice Film FestivalIn A Golden Age for Women Who Make Movies (1) I included an article where Kurt Andersen claimed...
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Niam Itani (1) - Before the Venice Film Festival
Niam ItaniNiam Itani (also Etany) is the only woman director among the ten finalists in YouTube’s short film competition, Your Film Festival, with her Super.Full. I followed her Your Film Festival...
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A Golden Age for Women Who Make Movies? (4)
1. I'm a writer. When I get excited my default activity is to write. And I'm a social media girl. So unless something's confidential, I rejoice in my freedom to speak out and to share what I write.And...
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Toronto & Women Directors
Margarethe von TrottaI'm an optimist and I'm easily enthused. Show me good news about women who make movies and I'm there. So when I saw that women directed six of the twenty features in the...
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New Zealand Update 2: State Funding
I agreed to write 4000 words about New Zealand women directors, for a book. And I delayed researching the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) statistics, although I needed to know whether it practises...
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Start From Your Own Heart – The Wisdom of Dana Rotberg in 16 Elegant Tweets
Dana RotbergI wanted to go to the Christchurch Writers Festival this weekend, where there's an extraordinary line-up. And I wanted to go to the Big Screen Symposium in Auckland, where there's also an...
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NZFC Short Films Announcement
Riwia BrownThe New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) has just announced its 2012 funding decisions for its Fresh Shorts programme, with grants to 16 new short films. Its press release outlines the...
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European Women Directors: Two Records in One Week?
In Europe, it's a roller coaster year for women filmmakers. There were no women-directed features in competition at Cannes earlier in the year, but recently lots of women's films in every programme at...
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Niam Itani (2) At Venice, & After
Niam in VeniceNiam Itani was the only woman filmmaker among the finalists in YouTube's Your Film Festival competition, and joined the other finalists at this year's Venice Film Festival, to pitch the...
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Viscera
Viscera is a visionary not-for-profit based in Los Angeles. Founded by Shannon Lark in 2007, its mission is to expand opportunities for female genre filmmakers and artists. Its range of activities is...
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Catch Up
Muriel RukeyserI'm more of a writer than an activist at the moment. Last week I finished the first draft of my play about Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), the poet and activist whose life, poems and other...
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Celebrating Activism – Yay!
This year, with half the feature films funded by the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) directed by women, it's arguable that discrimination against women directors is in remission here. Though...
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Question Time: Women & Screenplays
Nicholl Fellow (2012) Nikole Beckwith onstage at a talkbackThis week, I'm writing for someone else, about New Zealand women directors. It's a challenge to write 'academically' again and to ensure I'm...
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A New Zealand Problem, Or Two
Loren Taylor in ExistenceThis week, to write what I've agreed to write, I’ve had to come back to New Zealand gender statistics, after eighteen months of learning from countries’ figures, most of them...
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