Jamie Lee Curtis to be honored at AARP The Magazine’s 21st Movies for Grownups Awards
Curtis joins a prestigious list of previous AARP Movies for Grownups Career Achievement honorees, including Lily Tomlin, George Clooney, Annette Bening, Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Shirley MacLaine, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon and Sharon Stone.
Read MoreLaura McGann’s Netflix documentary ‘The Deepest Breath’ to premiere at Sundance
McGann’s film provides a deep look at the undeniable connection forged between two athletes as they navigate the vigorous and competitive world of freediving. It is a official selection of the Premieres program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Read MoreSophie Barthes’ ‘The Pod Generation’ wins Sundance’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
“The Pod Generation” is an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Barthes’ third feature, the film centers on a New York couple, Rachel (Emilia Clarke) and Alvy (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who live in a not-so-distant future where technology provides ever-more convenient living.
Read MoreClaire Denis to receive L.A. Film Critics’ Career Achievement Award
The critics organization will honor the French filmmaker Jan. 14 at its first in-person awards event in three years. The L.A. Film Critics Association also will recognize 2022’s top achievements in filmmaking as decided by the membership at the ceremony.
Read MoreSojourner Truth Festival of the Arts to showcase Black women filmmakers in Chicago in 2023
Situating new film work by Black women within a broader Black feminist arts ecosystem, the 1976 festival was simultaneously a celebration of the emerging world of Black women’s filmmaking as well as a radical call for the kinds of sociopolitical and institutional changes necessary for a Black women’s film culture to thrive.
Read MoreSalma Hayek Pinault and Anne Hathaway to star in and produce Netflix’s ‘Seesaw Monster’
Details are being kept under wraps, but Netflix has revealed in a news release that Hathaway and Hayek Pinault will play rivals forced to work together in the action-comedy two-hander.
Read MoreIFC Films acquires ‘Biosphere,’ feature film directorial debut from Mel Eslyn
Billed as a playful science fiction film, “Biosphere” is set in the not-too-distant future and stars Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown as the last two men on Earth, who must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
Read MoreKino Lorber to release Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s documentary ‘The Super 8 Years’
One of France’s most respected contemporary writers, Annie Ernaux’s intimate and autobiographical body of work captures the inner lives of women alongside societal and cultural changes in France from the 1960s onwards.
Read MoreNew York Women in Film & Television presents film festival awards and scholarships
The 2022 awards were bestowed on up-and-coming filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media.
Read MoreDocumentary ‘Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?’ coming to Disney+
The documentary marks the directorial debut for Anne McCabe, a longtime editor who has worked on films like “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and the upcoming “Boston Strangler” as well as on television shows like “Succession,” “The Newsroom” and “Nurse Jackie.”
Read MoreWelcome to The Week in Women, an AWFJ Network Blog authored by Brandy McDonnell
An Alliance of Women Film Journalists blog.