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Belinde Ruth Stieve & NEROPA
PQR = abbreviation for Pro Quote Regie/Pro Quote Film, advocating for equal allocation of public funding to women’s filmsYou’re probably familiar with the questions that screenwriters often ask...
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A Lost Archive?
AWCV’s Nancy Peterson (l.) & Carole Stewart Women’s Gallery Wellington 1980 Auckland Women’s Community Video (AWCV, 1976-about 1986) has become a kind of ghost in the herstorical archive, far too...
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#directedbywomen #aotearoa
Kete– Kura Walker née Rua Photograph– Arekahānara Design– J TerreNgā mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa!It's #Suffrage125 in Aotearoa New Zealand this year, 125 years since women got the vote.To celebrate...
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#directedbywomen in Aotearoa's cinemas this week
It's a big week here in Aotearoa New Zealand! A rare event, release of a brand new local and #directedbywomen narrative feature, The Breakerupperers. Written and directed byMadeline Sami and Jackie Van...
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Wanuri Kahiu's RAFIKI: Accepted for #Cannes2018 & Banned At Home
The Kenyan Classification Board has banned RAFIKI ('Friend' in Swahili), the first Kenyan feature to be accepted for Cannes. It is a love story between two young women, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and...
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Agnès Varda & Cate Blanchett Speak at Cannes2018, Among 82 Amazing Women
Look at them! The five women on the Palme d'Or jury lead the way: Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, Khadja Nin, Ava DuVernay and Cate Blanchett, with Agnès Varda and others.In the clip below (from 9:02:...
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NZ Update #16: Celebrations & Problems
In Aotearoa New Zealand we're keen on movies with women protagonists, in a variety of genres. At the box office last time I looked, seven out of the top ten had women at their centre. But women wrote...
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Emerging Women Filmmakers Network
The first Emerging Women Filmmakers Network meet-up: Lucy (l) and Lorraine (r), in frontThanks to Lucy Holyoake and Lorraine Hughes, Wellington has a new and shiny Emerging Women Filmmaker’s Network....
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#DirectedByWomen month in Aotearoa New Zealand
September marks the fourth global #DirectedByWomen celebration. All round the world, people choose to watch films that women direct. In bed late at night on their phones. On the couch with mates and...
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#directedbywomen #aotearoa - Getting With the Suffrage125 programme
Isabel directing Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson on set with The Bookshop125 years ago today, women in Aotearoa New Zealand got the vote. And my mate’s in town, for a posh Suffrage125 dinner. Writing...
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Julia Berg is On Her Way (to NZ)
Julia Berg is offering a day-long workshop to up to eight lucky New Zealanders, on Saturday January 19. Ideal for many of us who've made new year resolutions to advance our projects and I wish I could...
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NZ Update 17.1 Safety Revisited
(This is easier to read over on Medium; it is also currently being revised, thanks to kind feedback: a new edit up soon.)Just before the #directedbywomen screenings in Auckland, I tumbled down a steep...
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Hang Time & Casey Zilbert
Hang Time stillHang time is a new world wine term for the length of a vine’s growing season; the longer the grapes hang on the vine before harvest, the greater depth of flavour in the final wine. This...
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NZ Update #17.2: Wellbeing & Women's Feature Filmmaking
(As always, find a prettier, easier, read of this over on Medium)I get up early on Friday 15 March. I want to complete this followup to NZ Update #17.1: Safety Revisited (Update #17.1) – about women's...
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Mothers Day
Three mothers-and-film things to celebrate! What a pleasure!1. The Mothers Day screenings of Hepi Mita's beautiful, powerful film about his mother: Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, which I...
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NZ Update #18 – Beyond Exceptionality?
I always enjoy this image that accompanied Variety's announcement of NZ's new International Co-Development Fund, because, thanks to Bluestocking Series, I produced the Complex Female Protagonist cap...
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#WomenInFilm Databases
At Cannes, Downton Abbey actor Victoria Emslie has just announced the launch of Primetime. To encourage the hiring of more women in film, this new database spotlights women from all over the world...
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NZ Update #18.2: Beyond Exceptionality?
It’s all go here in New Zealand, so I’ve had to add this to the last post. And — working around other commitments — I’ve probably missed stuff!But it looks like there are more and more reasons to be...
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The Middle Wife
Kahra Scott-James and Tanya M. Wheeler are making an ambitious short film, The Middle Wife, described by an LA script consultant as ‘Northanger Abbey meets The Innocents’. It explores domestic...
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Kathleen Winter &‘Minimum’
Kathleen Winter’s Minimum explores the lives of women of various ages, ethnicities and sexualities working in minimum wage and under-appreciated jobs in Aotearoa. In hospitality; as carers for old...
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