Put a woman in charge of film school, but make sure the females are degraded on film. It’s all about balance, you see… Read more

As thousands of balloons lift Carl Fredricksen’s house in the new film “Up,” the sky seems to be the limit for Pixar Animation Studios, the still-young Hollywood powerhouse behind the 3-D animated adventure. Read more>>

With the recent influx of museum guard, robotic warrior and sci-fi adventure movies, it’s easy to over look the latest Wayans family satire, and you wouldn’t be missing much. Read more

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Read more

For the good of humanity, someone needs to stop the Wayans clan from procreating — or at least from using their offspring, siblings and other relatives to make bad movies. Read more>>

What’s an appropriate job for a woman in Hollywood? Not director… not sound designer… certainly not key grip. The old standbys of porn star and prostitute still get attention, however. Read more

After the Cannes Film Festival’s screening of the newly restored “The Red Shoes,” master film editor Thelma Schoonmaker comments about the film’s significance, and the importance of preserving such classics. We all know the critical role an editor plays in the making of a film, and Schoonmaker has consistently applied her extraordinary skills to the final shaping of Martin Scorsese’s footage. Schoonmaker is exceptionally generous and always gracious in discussing her work, but will she never take credit for her own crucial contributions?