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WEEK IN WOMEN: AFI Fest Opens and Closes with Femme-helmed, Femme-focused Films – Brandy McDonnell reports

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The 2018 AFI Film Fest, taking place in the heart of Hollywood from November 8 to 15, will open and close with narrative features about powerful, influential women, and both biopics are helmed by female filmmakers.

Premiering on Nov. 8 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, the opening night film for the 32nd edition of AFI Fest will be On the Basis of Sex, director Mimi Leder’s (Deep Impact) inspiring biopic that tells the story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) before she became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

On Nov. 15, AFI Fest will close with the world premiere of another fact-based drama, Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke, and starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. Read more 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.