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Michelle Joy Lloyd's 'Sunday'
It's always exciting when a New Zealand woman-directed feature comes out. There's been a big gap between Dana Rotberg's White Lies/Tuakiri Huna, in early 2013, and Michelle Joy Lloyd's Sunday, which...
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Niki Caro's 'McFarland USA'
Yes, champions can come from anywhere. And New Zealander Niki Caro's a champ, director of McFarland USA. But she's the only woman director on the Disney list for 2015, which includes Pixar films....
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In The Garden
A beautiful moment in herstory. Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay converse after a showing of Selma. Hoping someone recorded it. Half-way through some longish posts. But there are some thoughts I can't...
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Jane Campion: "Let's Really Say 'This is Enough'"
Steven Joyce (Minister of Many Things), Jane Campion, Maggie Barry (Minister for Arts & Culture), James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Jon LandauNew Zealand has a heavyweight Screen Advisory Board,...
View ArticleDriven By Complex Female Protagonists
Filmmaker Kate Kaminski founded the now-legendary Bluestocking Series, of films with complex female protagonists that pass the Bechdel Test. Her ideas in this piece are American-oriented, but they...
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NZer Jackie van Beek wins First Prize in WIFTI Short-Case!
Members from Women in Film chapters all over the world submitted over 800 films for Women in Film International's 10th anniversary Showcase, now called Short-Case, and for the first time ever, WIFTI...
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The Activist Complex Female Protagonist Roars (1)
Introducing The Complex Female Protagonist Roars This year, I got a stall at the local queer fair Out in The Park, to sell my neonics-free bee-loved flowering plants, another artist's beautiful work...
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Linda Niccol – New Zealand Writer & Director
Linda Niccol at Newport BeachI love New Zealand-based films about 'us'. And I love the diasporic elements in New Zealand women’s filmmaking: the contributions of women writers and directors who – like...
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The Activist Complex Female Protagonist Goes For It, In Australia
I'm intrigued. It feels as though a sleeping giant is waking. Back in the 70s and 80s there were many activist women filmmakers in Australia, often making films by, about women and for women. I've been...
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Hash Perambalam and 'Not Like Her'
Still from Not Like Her, with Livy Wicks and Kate ElliottI’ve emerged (briefly) from researching the 1930s and 1970s. Freshly aware how quickly women writers and artists and their histories are lost....
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The Activist Complex Female Protagonist Whispers, in New Zealand
Pro Quote Regie at the BerlinaleThe first part of this series delighted in the roar of the collective, global Activist Complex Female Protagonist who works to improve representation of women in front...
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Anita Ross, 'Cloud Piercer', & Film Fatales
I 'met' Anita Ross five years ago, through her blog, Ophelia Thinks Hard. This is how she introduces herself there– I'm an actress, a writer, mum to a gorgeous, funny and exceedingly clever little boy,...
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Ghazaleh Golbakhsh; & The Waking Dream Collective
Ghazaleh Golbakhsh with cinematographer Jarod MurrayIt's been thrilling to observe some new trends among New Zealand women who write and direct film. Over the last few years, more of them (us) are also...
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Pause. Reflect. Cherish.
Chantal Akerman (image: Liberation)Chantal Akerman's DeathI tried to write about why I felt so deeply sad about Chantal Akerman's death, then read a post from poet Ana Božičević, who got it just right...
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Jane Zusters & Her 'Where Did You Go To My Lovelies'
Mary Dore and Nancy Kennedy's feature about the birth of the American women's movement, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival this year. Afterwards,...
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'Merata Is Always With Us'
Merata MitaAotearoa New Zealand (mostly 'Aotearoa' in this post) held its annual Big Screen Symposium in Auckland last weekend, focusing on 'strengthening our collaborative spirit'. It's run by Script...
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Afia Nathaniel, via Raising Films
Afia NathanielI love the Raising Films site and the women who created it.Raising Films is visionary and absolutely necessary, building a frank-and-fearless community discussion around Family vs Film...
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Dear Jemaine
An actor going to movie premier "attends", an actress "showcases her lithe body" - what I'm saying is: how do I showcase my lithe body?— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) October 26, 2015You make me...
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From Paul Feig to Agnès Films' #FavWomanFilmmaker campaign
#FavWomanFilmmaker team photo: Hannah CountrymanA great week last week, thanks to the male allies of #womeninfilm. Paul Feig tweeted several times in support of Destri Martino's fine work at The...
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Sophie Mayer & Her 'Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema'
And...Action... Sophie MayerSophie Mayer. She arrived at my place via her last book There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond (written with Corinn Columpar) and her beautiful, inspiring and...
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