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THE WEEK IN WOMEN: Filmmaker Liz W. Garcia, Diane Keaton and Miranda Lambert make news — Brandy McDonnell reports

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Filmmaker Liz W. Garcia says the key to getting more women behind film and television cameras is to stop accepting Hollywood’s lame excuses for not hiring women. Diane Keaton Diane Keaton will receive the American Film Institute’s 45th Life Achievement Award during a gala tribute June 8 in Los Angeles. Two-time Grammy winner Miranda Lambert will oversee the music curation and write an original song for the new friendship comedy Something in the Water, created through Lionsgate digital. Read the details on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.