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Nominees for 2025 AWFJ EDA Awards – Jennifer Merin reports

December 27, 2025December 29, 2025 Jennifer Merin alliance of women film journalists, awfj, EDA Awards, eda reiss merin, female focus

Since 2006, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) has presented annual EDA Awards, representing professional women critics’ collective perspectives on movies and cinema culture in the movie awards arena, where female critics and critical opinion are still greatly underrepresented. AWFJ honors female creatives in non-gender specific awards categories and in unique Female Focus categories designated for women only. In this year’s Female Focus sction, Sorry, Baby filmmaker Eva Victor squares off with If I had Legs I’d Kick You‘s Mary Bronstein for both Best Woman Director and Best Female Screenwriter, with One Battle After Another‘s cast-mates Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor among those vying for the Best Women’s Breakthrough Performance Award.

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Gender @ the Movies: On-line Film Critics and Criticism – Dr. Martha Lauzen Reports Latest Stats

May 24, 2013February 22, 2014 AWFJ 0 Comments alliance of women film journalists, celuloid ceiling, dr. martha lauzen, film critic statistics, thumbs down, women critics, women film critics, women film journalusts

91% of critics writing for movie/entertainment magazines/websites are male. 90% writing for trade publication websites are male. 80% writing for general interest magazines and sites are male. 72% writing for newspaper websites, and 70% writing for radio outlets/sites are male. Shocked? Read Dr. Martha M. Lauzen’s full report.

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AWFJ Women On Film – Documentaries for International Women’s Day – Jennifer Merin

March 8, 2011 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments alliance of women film journalists, film lists, international women's day, women's documentaries

These superb documentaries that are made by and about women introduce us to contemporary women who are famous or unknown,

AWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, October 16, 2009 – MaryAnn Johanson

October 17, 2009 MaryAnn Johanson 5 Comments alliance of women film journalists, an education, awfj women on film, katherine dieckmann, maryann johanson, motherhood, nick hornby, the week in women, uma thurman

Some men get it, some men still don’t, taking back the chick flick and Hollywood hates women

AWFJ Women On Film – Releasing October 28, 2009

September 27, 2009 Jennifer Merin alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, drew barrymore, movie openings, releasing movies, women film critics

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

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AWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, September 25, 2009 – MaryAnn Johanson

September 25, 2009 MaryAnn Johanson alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, jane campion, katherine bigelow, maryann johanson, the week in women

Cooties alert for the Oscars! Plus: female chauvinist pigs and creepy old guys drooling over young women (and somehow forgetting

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AWFJ Women On Film – Releasing September 18, 2009

September 15, 2009 Jennifer Merin alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, jennifer merin, releasing movies, women film critics

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

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AWFJ Women On Film – Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini on “Tanner Hall” – Jennifer Merin interviews

September 13, 2009 Jennifer Merin 1 Comment alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, francesca grigorini, jennifer merin, tanner hall, tatiana von fursrenburg, women film critics, women filmmakers

Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini’s “Tanner Hall” is an engaging girls’ coming of age film independently made by two

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AWFJ Women On Film – The Week in Women, September 11, 2009 – MaryAnn Johanson

September 11, 2009 MaryAnn Johanson 4 Comments alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, maryann johanson, the week in women, women film critics

Someone else notices that movies are hardly even about women as people. Plus: It’s okay if girls make movies, as

AWFJ Women On Film – White on Rice’s Hiroshi Watanabe, On The Verge – Jen Yamato Interviews

September 11, 2009 Jen Yamato (Archived Contributor) alliance of women film journalists, awfj women on film, hiroshi watanabe, jen yamato, white on rice, women film critics

Though he turned in memorable supporting roles in Ed Zwick’s The Last Samurai and Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima,

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