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Tanya Wexler: Entertainer and Social Commentator

Eleven years ago today, Hysteria was released in theaters. We’re taking this opportunity to celebrate its director, Tanya Wexler! 

Tanya Wexler is an American director. Throughout her career, she has directed several feature films, all of which towed the line between comedy and drama. Her first, Finding North (1998), is a queer comedy-drama, about a woman who falls in love with a man who she doesn’t know is gay while on a road trip with him.read more.

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In ‘Hysteria’ and ‘Buffaloed,’ Tanya Wexler takes a comedic blow to gender dynamics

We’ve seen female antiheroes most often in positions of conventional power through politics and violence: think Gone Girl, Game of Thrones, or Scandal. In Buffaloed, Wexler makes the female antihero a remorseless small-time debt collector to see just how much trouble she causes.
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Tanya Wexler talks unapologetic female characters in ‘Buffaloed’

Director Tanya Wexler on the set of Buffaloed.

Buffaloed director Tanya Wexler spoke with FF2 Media over the phone about her new film from writer Brian Sacca, starring Zoey Deutch, Judy Greer, Jermaine Fowler, Noah Reid and Jai Courtney. Magnolia Pictures released the film in theaters and VOD on Friday.

Buffaloed just opened in theaters and VOD this weekend.read more.

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TFF ’16: Nora Ephron Award

Rachel Tunnard’s funny and touching Adult Life Skills wins the Nora Ephron Prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival!

Special for FF2 Media by Nora Lee Mandel

Jodie Whittaker as Anna in the film ADULT LIFE SKILLS. Photographer: Jo Irvine

Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) touts that one-third of the films–fiction and documentary–screened at this year’s 11-day event in Lower Manhattan were directed by women (the highest percentage in its 15 years).… read more.

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