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Gaming Behavior, Gender & Screen Entertainment
Anita Sarkeesian is best known for her Feminist Frequency video series and blog that explore gender representations, myths and messages in film and other media. If you’ve seen a clip about the Bechdel...
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Amy Seimetz & Sun Don't Shine
Amy SeimetzThis weekend, there's a group of five films being shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A woman directed one, Amy Seimetz's Sun Don't Shine. The five films are nominated in the Best...
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Women directors. Globally.
After I completed my survey of New Zealand feature directors by gender, I wanted to put the New Zealand statistics alongside those from other countries. It's impossible to do this globally, or exactly....
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Kathleen Gallagher – Poet, Playwright, Filmmaker
Kathleen Gallagher & Mike Single on camera, filming the Hurunui River – one of the four principal rivers in North Canterbury – for Water Whisperers/ Tangaroa Two things affected me last month....
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Sundancing
Jane Campion's Top of The LakeThis week I read Ava DuVernay’s script for Middle of Nowhere, the feature for which she won Best Director in the US Competition at the Sundance Film Festival last year....
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The Bitch Pack & The Bitch List
Today's The Day! The Bitch Pack, ‘changing women's representation on screen – starting with the written page’, has just announced the results of its first annual Bitch List (scripts with Brilliant,...
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They might have completely forgotten us
Anna Keir Self Image poster 1981 silk screen on cotton I. How women artists disappear from historyAs Sarah Polley said the other day, “It’s really lonely being a female filmmaker, there really aren’t...
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Zero Dark Thirty: The Director as Backing Singer?
A Wellington Sevens costume. Thanks, Stuff!I didn't much want to go to Zero Dark Thirty. I scare easily at the movies and don't often watch war films or action films. I love thrillers though, and I'm...
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Laura Thies – an inspiring German woman director
Josephine and Laura about to be unmaskedMany countries have their own crowd-funding sites now. But it seems that there's not a lot of cross-border traffic, except into and out of the States. Because I...
View ArticleWomen Directors at Cannes & Maïwenn's Polisse
The other day, I saw Maïwenn's Polisse at last and marvelled at her skill in writing and directing an absorbing multi-protagonist narrative, as well as acting in it. Polisse won the Prix de Jury at...
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Singing Muriel
This is where I've been. Getting ready for a Skype presentation of my play Throat of These Hours (a work-in-progress) to the Muriel Rukeyser Centenary Symposium at the Eastern Michigan University....
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Taking 'Throat Of These Hours' to the States
Struan Ashby & Jessica Charlton prepare to film composer Chris WhiteThis is what I've been up to, from my Throat of These Hours blog. Back to Wellywood Woman very soon, am missing it!1....
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Helen Mirren Goes For It (& Women Directors in NZ)
Helen Mirren's making a habit of it. When she accepted a lifetime achievement award last year at the Czech Karlovy Vary Festival she said "I don’t know how many female directors are presenting their...
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Under-Representation in Scriptwriting (again)
Recently I participated (from my bed, distracted by itchy shingles) in an excellent Blackboard forum discussion on under-representation in scriptwriting, inspired by the news that the prestigious...
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Nathalie Boltt, Clare Burgess & 'The Silk'
I love it when New Zealand women make short films outside ‘the system’ and find success. The Silk is one of these successes. It's Nathalie Boltt's adaptation of a Joy Cowley story, co-produced and...
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CampbellX and her 'Stud LIfe' feature
I was very excited when I saw CampbellX’s Stud Life in New Zealand’s Out Takes Film Festival programme. I’ve been longing to see it. And wanted to see it for the first time on a big screen because when...
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Jane Campion at Cannes
Jane Campion & her Carosse d'OrIt was a proud moment for New Zealanders and Australians last week when Jane Campion received her Carosse d'Or at Cannes. The Carosse d'Or (Golden Coach) prize is a...
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Robin Lung and 'Finding Kukan'
Kukan is a 1941 documentary made by Rey Scott that highlights China’s resistance to Japan during the early years of World War II. It received an honorary Academy Award that cited Rey Scott “for his...
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Dana Rotberg and White Lies|Tuakiri Huna
Dana RotbergCushla Parekowhai and I went to previews for Dana Rotberg's new feature White Lies/Tuakiri Huna – Cush in Auckland and me down here in Wellington. And the film excited us. White...
View ArticleThe NZ International Film Festival – 1. New Zealand Women
The ContextThis week, the United Nations women's agency, UN Women, joined forces with activist and Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis, to support the first global study of how women and girls are...
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