Zoe Lister-Jones pulls triple duty for 'Band Aid,' enlists all-female crew
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Zoe Lister-Jones pulls triple duty for 'Band Aid,' enlists all-female crew

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Zoe Lister-Jones not only stars alongside Adam Pally (Ben) and Fred Armisen (neighbor Dave) in Band Aid, she also dons her writer and directors’ hats with this film.  Lister-Jones tackles marriage through music as a young couple hits a dead end in their relationship.  In a last-ditch effort to reconnect, they turn their fights into…

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UPDATE: Sly 'Foxes' wins well-deserved Tony Award for Cynthia Nixon
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UPDATE: Sly 'Foxes' wins well-deserved Tony Award for Cynthia Nixon

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MONDAY UPDATE: Jan Lisa Huttner here, the morning after the 2017 Tony Awards. Congratulations to Cynthia Nixon, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for "Best Actress for a Featured Role in a Play" in the role of "Birdie" in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. Kudos as well to Jane Greenwood who also won a Tony for…

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2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival to screen 'remarkable' films by women
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2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival to screen 'remarkable' films by women

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Sexual exploitation, domestic violence, civic duty, and the rights of indigenous people are just some of the resonant topics that will be tackled in the films to be shown at NYC's 2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (June 9-18). The festival will screen 21 topical and provocative feature documentaries, along with panel discussions that showcase courageous resilience…

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Paint It Black and L’Attesa use male characters to drive female relationships

Paint It Black and L’Attesa use male characters to drive female relationships

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A typical tactic to further a male character’s development, especially in the tidal wave of male superhero movies we’ve been getting for the past five years or so, is to take the guy’s girlfriend or daughter, and have her die. His resulting “manpain” is then milked at the dead female character’s expense to give an…

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The Powder and The Glory: From PBS Doc to Tony-Nominated Broadway Musical!
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The Powder and The Glory: From PBS Doc to Tony-Nominated Broadway Musical!

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The Powder & The Glory -- a PBS documentary now available on DVD -- depicts the feud between esteemed makeup icons Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein. Why is this relevant now? Because War Paint -- the new Broadway musical that has been nominated for FOUR Tony Awards -- is based on this doc 🙂 The tale of these…

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First-time filmmaker Amanda Kernell takes on daunting ‘Sami’ history

First-time filmmaker Amanda Kernell takes on daunting ‘Sami’ history

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Sami Blood -- the first film from Sweden made partially in the south Sami language and depicting the sad history of the Sami people - was a daunting responsibility for first-time filmmaker Amanda Kernell to take on. In the 1930s, the indigenous Sami people were restricted by the Swedish government, educated in boarding schools (where they…

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DocAviv '17: Sneak Peeks from Israel's world-renown documentary film festival
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DocAviv '17: Sneak Peeks from Israel's world-renown documentary film festival

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FF2 Media is proud to introduce Eti Or -- our new Israeli contributor -- with her report on Israeli women filmmaker screenings at this year's DocAviv (Israel's world-renown documentary film festival). Here are sneak peaks of Eti's Top Picks from DocAviv '17. Hopefully some of these films will make their way to festivals and theaters worldwide…

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Does the future of films by women lie in shorts?
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Does the future of films by women lie in shorts?

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This year’s Tribeca Film Festival marvelously demonstrated new platforms for women filmmakers outside of conventional feature films, particularly those eligible for the Nora Ephron Prize. The continuously blurring the lines of shorts, web series, apps, sponsors and “television” could mean more opportunities for women directors. Since the inaugural collection in 2014, the women-directed N.O.W. (New…

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