Welcome to the premier website about movies directed by women.

This site includes information on historical women directors, statistics on women directors, and also includes Director interviews. We are a grassroots collective that has grown out of the passions of women directors who are working towards increasing the awareness of women's contributions to film and television history. Our website is done on a volunteer basis. Any support you can offer us goes to making this a bigger and better site.

PREMIERING THIS WEEKEND!!!

This weekend show your support for a woman-directed movie...

Run, don't walk to the theater and go to see .....

→ Lost in Beijing directed by Li Yu. (opening in N.Y.)

→ Doc directed by Immy Humes (opening in N.Y.)

(info current as of 2008/01/28 but check local listings!)

Your box-office dollars DO make a difference to women-created cinema! Help spread the word!

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→ STATS ←

You may not know it, but only 5% of Hollywood features are directed by women!! That is shocking & embarrasing for a country that claims to have equality for women in the workplace. In order to change the perception of women around this globe we must have more women making films. Film directors are culture creators for the globe. Don't let apathy get you! Don't get convinced that women should only make small arthouse & women topic movies. That's such a pre-1970's notion. We can make top grossing films! This is an important issue to tackle for true equality.

→ NEW!!! THE CELLULOID CEILING STUDY 2006: Behind the Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2006. The latest figures from Dr. Martha Lauzen's exhaustive study of the top 250 films of 2006. (Released in 2007).

→ Delve into some of our other articles or statistics.

→ Even better, download our brand new VIDEO PODCASTS!

Latest Podcast: 2008/04/17

→ AUDIO PODCASTS ←

NEW! → This week in the MoviesByWomen Podcast Channel: Audio Podcast # 14: Women in Hollywood, with special guest Dr. Martha Lauzen, PhD..

This week’s show focuses on the much talked about startling statistics of women filmmakers working in Hollywood. Our guest Dr. Martha Lauzen PhD., walks us through the harsh reality of being one of the under-represented women working in the “movie biz”.

 
LISTEN NOW  

(Watch, or rather — listen out for it in iTunes and now available for download). If you’re subscribed to the Movies By Women audio podcast channel in iTunes, just hit “Update Podcasts and you’ll get it automatically.

If you’re not subscribed (why not!?!), just click here.

Episode 9 of the Movies By Women.com video podcast is now out! If you subscribe to our podcasts in iTunes, just hit “Update Podcasts” and you’ll get the new episode automagically. If you’re not subscribed, why ever not? Also NEW! is Episode 8 of the Movies By Women.com audio podcast! If you subscribe to our podcasts in iTunes, just hit “Update Podcasts” and you’ll get the new episode automagically. If you’re not subscribed, why ever not?

In Video Podcast #9, we interview Canadian-based Indian Director Deepa Mehta. She directed the 2007 Oscar-Nominated feature WATER and many other acclaimed films such as EARTH and also FIRE. She tells incredible stories of how 2,000 Hindu protestors stormed and burnt down her film set eventually destroying it and tossing it to the Ganges River. Eventually, Mehta put the pieces back together and made this incredibly moving film WATER (2005) following the journey of a 7 year old girl who’s just lost her husband.

Audio Podcast #8: Hosts Tara Veneruso, Stephanie Young, Lucy Rodriguez Watson, and Heidi Martinuzzi talk about film schools: To Film School or Not to Film School? Tara (NYU Film School) and Stephanie (USC Film School) discuss the experience with Lucy and Heidi, who did not go to film school. Poll of Top Ten Film Schools from Film School Confidential.

For all of our previous audio podcasts, please go to our AUDIO PODCAST PAGE!

→ VIDEO: Also, don't forget to check out our Video Podcasts, we have 8 in our library for you to download and enjoy, with many more to come!

Podcasts 007 and 008 -- all about RISK (Girls Behind The Camera), a project in which Director Tara Veneruso is taking 30 at-risk youth girls on a journey of a lifetime -- how to learn filmmaking!

In podcast 006, we have an exclusive interview with Indiewood pioneer Allison Anders. Allison recalls the early indie filmmaking world, she also imparts some wise nuggets from the Indiewood directing playbook and we also see some great clips from Allison's movies.

→ Don't forget to check out all of the Movies By Women VIDEO PODCASTS!

→ ARTICLES ←

→ Julie Delpy: - Interview about Two Days In Paris.

→ Katja von Garnier: - An Interview with the Director.

→ THE CELLULOID CEILING STUDY 2005/2006 - Dr. Martha Lauzen's brand spankin' new study & statistics.

→ In Hollywood, Perception of Equality Doesn't Make It Real by Melissa Silverstein.

→ BOXED IN 2004 - Dr. Martha Lauzen's 2005 study & stats.

→ Nothing Like Hollywood by Erin Trahan.

→ Close Encounters with Laurel Chiten by Erin Trahan.

→ More Articles ...

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