Happening Saturday, March 30th at 2pm at WonderCon in Ahaheim! SATURDAY 2:00-3:00pm Women Rocking Hollywood 2024: Female Filmmakers Breaking Barriers & Breaking Records Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was the top grossing film of 2023 and is now the highest grossing comedy of all time. Barbie and 2023 releases like Polite Society, Joy Ride, Saltburn, and Past …
It’s mixed news about female representation behind the scenes in Hollywood. Recent findings show gender balanced hiring is still not a priority in the industry, with women of color having the hardest time getting hired, despite critical acclaim. However, studies have also shown female filmmakers hire more women in key roles on feature films, so …
On Saturday, July 21st, 2022, a powerful collection of female filmmakers got together to discuss their careers, latest projects, and experience in the film industry to an excited crowd of con-goers and supporters of parity in the entertainment industry. You can see it here: “Each one Teach One” is an expression women in film know …
Announcing our 2021 Women Rocking Hollywood panel, going live during Comic-Con@Home on the weekend of July 24th! We will announce the time and date as soon as SDCC has made the official announcement. Hi! Leslie Combemale here, creator of WRH and senior contributor for the AWFJ. First let me say I really miss seeing the …
https://youtu.be/z339dPV2_ag 2020 was meant to be a banner year for women in film. This January, the press out of Sundance offered glowing reviews and suggested a promising future for genre, mainstream, and indie movies helmed by women. Then the pandemic swept the world. It has halted production, is actively changing the future for all film …
There have been positive developments in the last year for women in television and film. Initiatives like the 4% challenge are making news, movies and tv identified as gender-balanced are getting ReFrame stamps, and companies like OWN, Annapurna, Netflix, & Sundance continue to expand opportunities for intersectional women, supporting great content in the process. Changes …
The last year saw some forward movement for equality in front of and behind the camera. Women directors helmed more TV pilots than ever before. Will that trend continue? Will it result in more woman-directed and gender-balanced shows? In 2018, still only a fraction of studio films were directed by women, so how can lasting …
Women Rocking Hollywood 2017: Women Directors Changing the Face of Film and Television Wonder Woman broke all records in Hollywood for a film helmed by a female director. Now what? While there’s still a long way to go to equal the number of women behind the camera with women, who make up 51% of the …
This exciting new panel features powerful, talented women changing Hollywood from the inside. As creatives, directors, and producers, they are breaking box office records and showing Hollywood altering the status-quo just makes for better movies. Scheduled to appear are Victoria Alonso (exec producer: Doctor Strange, Captain America: Civil War), Deborah Snyder (producer: Wonder Woman, Justice …
