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Novelist Suzanne Collins’ will release “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake” on May 19. It’s the prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy, and is being adapted into a feature film at Lionsgate
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To celebrate AWFJ’s tenth anniversary and mark the movie industry’s feminist developments since our inception, we present our Wonder Women Project, a list of cinema’s top 55 female fiction characters, each a reminder to industry insiders and movie lovers that iconic females in film have had entertainment impact and social influence since the earliest days of cinema. We’re releasing 11 names each week, counting down to number one.
Read more‘It’s time for action’: With the new ‘Systemic Change Project,’ Women in Film Los Angeles and the Sundance Institute are
Read moreThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 boasts a bittersweet ending, and who knows when Hollywood will give us another
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At age 16, Amandla Stenberg stands beside AWFJ’s previously SPOTLIGHTed champions of diversity and feminism. Since Stenberg burst onto the scene with her portrayal of Rue in the first Hunger Games movie, she’s become a leading force in conversations surrounding cultural appropriation and the need for intersectional feminism.
How well does this movie accomplish what it sets out to do? That’s the primary question that propels my writing
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