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 …
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Women Rocking Hollywood Panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
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 Panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2017
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 …
Women Rocking Hollywood SDCC 2017 panel with Cinema Siren ROCKED HARD!
Women Rocking Hollywood 2017 was Victoria Mahoney, Aurora Guerrero, Tina Mabry, Rosemary Rodriguez, Angela Robinson, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Kirsten Schaffer. All Hollywood Powerhouses! Such graciousness and talent. It’s incredible to me that at SDCC, in an environment full of famous people and A-listers, I would not trade for anyone within a 5 mile radius, the female directors I spent a day with …
Women Rocking Hollywood Panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016
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 …
SDCC 2106’s Women Rocking Hollywood panel: “IF SHE CAN DO THIS, I CAN DO THIS”-Marvel and DC producers and famed directors speak
A NEW COMIC-CON PANEL “WOMEN ROCKING HOLLYWOOD” inspires, and celebrates the power of women to create great art and bring equality to the film industry. The inaugural panel of Women Rocking Hollywood, which took place at Comic-Con International: San Diego on Saturday, July 23rd, which was sponsored by Wattpad, was an unqualified success, delivered to …
NOW MARVEL & DC Represented on SDCC Women Rocking Hollywood panel!
Leave it to the women of the world to bring together Marvel and DC in peace and harmony. As if it wasn’t already an embarrassment of riches to have the director of Women in Film LA Kirsten Schaffer, the director of Twilight Catherine Hardwicke, and respected Indie and TV writer/director Angela Robinson on the inaugural …