Venice Sees Drop in Female Directors With Only One in Competition

The Venice Film Festival has suffered its steepest decline in female representation in five years, with just one woman ...
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Female directors at Cannes can't break the auteur glass ceiling

In 2018, Ava DuVernay, Cate Blanchett, Agnès Varda, Kristen Stewart and over 80 other female filmmakers stood on the steps of the Palais at the Cannes Film Festival to protest gender inequality in the ...
KPBS

Cinema Junkie and Midday Movies celebrate women directors, from trailblazers to rising voices

Welcome back. You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. March is Women's History Month, so our Midday Movies critics are highlighting women directors, both the trailblazers and the ...
Women's Wear Daily

Gillian Anderson and L’Oréal Paris Spotlight Next Generation as Momentum for Women Directors Slows

CANNES, France – On the penultimate night of the film festival, L’Oréal Paris once again turned the spotlight toward the next generation of female filmmakers, awarding Chinese director Lenti Liang the ...
The Daily Californian

In conversation with 3 female directors at Sundance

In 2025, a study conducted by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that women directed only 8% of the top films that premiered in theaters that year, a dip from ...
Stephen Follows

Hollywood gives men second chances it doesn't give women

I followed the careers of 1,765 directors of top grossing films to work out who gets another go after a first film that doesn ...
agerpres

Cinefemina film festival to run in Bucharest between July 7 - 10

Bucharest City will host between July 7 - 10 the Cinefemina film festival, an event intended as a recognition of the artistic excellence of women in the European film industry - directors, ...
Variety

Alliance of Women Directors and Starz Reveal Creative Leadership Lab’s Inaugural Class Designed to Support Female TV Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

Starz #TakeTheLead and Alliance of Women Directors have announced the fellows for the inaugural class of The Creative Leadership Lab, a four-week program designed to support women and gender-expansive ...