Two women seated One is pointing at someone off camera

Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936.

#skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter

Silent Film Book Corner🎞️

“Pink-Slipped: What happened to Women in the Silent Film Industry?”

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@tosilentfilm.bsky.social

#silentfilms #filmsky #Womenfilmmakers

SXSW Short Film Review Roundup Eructation Year: 2026 Runtime: 6.49 minutes Director/Writer: Victoria Trow Actor: Kaylee Kotkins By Joan Amenn Eructation: The medical term for the act or instance of belching -Merriam-Webster Don’…

SXSW Short Film Review Roundup intheirownleague.com/2026/03/20/s... -Hot from #SXSW2026 here are two short films by #womenfilmmakers that you should look out for here at the League! #Filmsky

4 Photos of research team members of the 'Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible' research project, Photo 1: L-R Linda Ruth Williams, Shelley Cobb, Helen M Hanson, Phil Wickham, Lisa Smithstead, Wendy Russell. Photo 2: Jessica Boyall, Photo 3: Katie Crosson, Photo 4: Lucie Mingmei Hao

Meet the Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible project team!

We will be sending out intros to each of us over the next few weeks, but you can see more here:

womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/people/proje...

#womensscreenworkinarchives #wswia #womenfilmmakers

Thrilled to be involved in this fantastic project!

#WomensScreenWork #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DHLab #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Film #TV #WomenFilmmakers #Archives #FilmArchives

Home - Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible

A big #IWD 💜 🤍 💚 shout out to the FAB research team on @womensscreenwork.bsky.social which I’m leading. Our work with archives to make British #womenfilmmakers more discoverable and more visible is gathering pace. But even better, we just love working together. More⬇️

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‘Natchez’ Review: Shrewd Doc Explores a Southern City’s Struggle to Acknowledge History In her Tribeca award winner, Suzannah Herbert observes a Mississippi city known for its antebellum celebrations.

“In NATCHEZ, Herbert observes how an American city that profits off its antebellum history grapples with its legacy of slavery….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film #cinema #movies #documentaries #FilmSky #AmericanSouth #Mississippi #SuzannahHerbert #WomenFilmmakers

Poster for my new film. What do you think? like it? @SaraNewton and her beautiful photography.
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#WomenFilmmakers #womenmakemovies #documentary #NYFA @NewYorkFoundationfortheArts #QAF
@FTH
@NYCDCAS

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.

Amazing news! Urban Garden was just selected by Toronto Indie Shorts via FilmFreeway.com! @NYWIFT #WomenFilmmakers #womenmakemovies #documentary #NYFA @NewYorkFoundationfortheArts #QAF @FTH @NYCDCAS Thank you and thanks to my team, Proud!

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.

Amazing news! Urban Garden was just selected by Nature Without Borders International Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com! Snap! @NWBIFF. Thanks my team and @NYFA @QA & @NYCDOCA for the $$$s. #communitygardens #gardenersworld @NYWIFT #WomenMakeMovies #womensupportingwomen #womenfilmmakers #documentary

#BlackHistoryMonth >

The 1st Black Women Directors🌟

Tressie Sounders * A Woman's Error 1922
Maria P. Williams * The Flames of Wrath 1923

Via the Women's Film Pioneer Project:
@wfpproject.bsky.social

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#femalefilmmakerfriday
#womenfilmmakers

कैसे महिला फिल्ममेकर भारत की स्ट्रीमिंग और ग्लोबल सिनेमा पहचान को नया आकार दे रही हैं जहाँ दीपिका पादुकोण और आलिया भट्ट इंटरनेशनल रेड कार्पेट्स और ग्लोबल सुर्खियों में लगातार छाई रहती हैं, वहीं भारतीय एंटरटेनमेंट इंडस्ट्री में असली और कहीं अधिक गहरा बदलाव कैमरे के पीछे हो रहा है। महिला...

भारत की ग्लोबल सिनेमाई पहचान को नया आकार दे रहीं हैं महिला फिल्ममेकर
स्ट्रीमिंग से लेकर इंटरनेशनल मंच तक, भारतीय कहानियाँ अब पहले से ज़्यादा प्रभावशाली और विश्वव्यापी हैं।
Read more
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#IndianCinema #WomenFilmmakers #OTTIndia #GlobalCinema #StreamingRevolution AVKNewsServices

“I have made so little”: what the archives of two women filmmakers tell us about the film industry The paper archives of Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi reveal both filmmakers’ prodigious creativity and dedication to their craft, but also the challenges and pushbacks they’ve faced in a male-domina...

We have had an excellent season of on #womenfilmmakers and #archives @jessicaboyall.bsky.social postdoctoral on WSW reflects on the season ⬇️

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AMPAS is born🎥🎬🎞️

Jan. 11, 1927 >Louis B. Mayer invites 36 Hollywood insiders to a banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, creating a “labor” organization, including Mary Pickford, screenwriter Jeanie Macpherson & screenwriter/actor Bess Meredyth.

#TheAcademy #womenfilmmakers
#Oscar [Getty/John Springer]

#scriptsky
#writingcommunity
#screenwriting
#womenfilmmakers

Appreciate it, thanks.🎄

สัปดาห์หน้าเตรียมตัวให้พร้อม เพราะเทศกาลภาพยนตร์ผู้หญิง Baturu Women’s Film Festival 2025 เตรียมหนังผู้หญิงไว้ให้คุณกว่า 30 เรื่อง จากกว่า 15 ประเทศ

เช็กรายชื่อภาพยนตร์เด่นๆ ได้เลยที่ www.thenoizemag.com/baturu-women...

#baturu #womenfilmmakers #BaturuWomensFilmFestival

More Women Filmmakers and Greater Diversity at Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte, Copia Final Programs (EXCLUSIVE): Fewer titles from Argentina, given the radical reduction of federal support, has made way for more diversity among the… #WomenFilmmakers #DiversityInFilm #VentanaSur #CopiaFinal #PrimerCorte

How Industry Sexism Stopped the Career of ‘Thousands Pieces of Gold’ Director Nancy Kelly Kelly's first feature drew comparisons to John Ford, but she still became one of many female filmmakers who never make a second film.

#NowWatching Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990, dir. Nancy Kelly) starring Rosalind Chao. #WomenFilmmakers

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Heartfelt thanks to Austrian Cultural Forum for having me accompany this very special screening of the silent films by Louis Kolm-Fleck tonight! 🇦🇹🎞️🎹 The festivity continues tomorrow at Metrograph 🥳📽️🎶

#silentfilm #livemusic #louisekolmfleck
#womenfilmmakers

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We are really looking forward to bringing our project to younger audiences with this workshop in partnership with @bdcmuseum #archives #womenfilmmakers #womenmakemovies #femfilmhist

Excited to share that my film THE PLUNDER
received the Silver Award at the Paris Film Awards!
#poetryfilm
#Experimentalfilm
#Experimentalfilms
#Experimentalfilmmaker
#experimentalfilmmakers
#Shortfilm
#Shortfilms
#Womendirectors
#Womenfilmmakers
#Womandirector
#femalefilmmaker

I am delighted to share that my monograph ‘Women and Amateur Cinema: Redefining Authorship within the Archive’ is under contract to be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2027. 📚 #womenfilmmakers #amateurfilm

So fun meeting role model @melrobbins.bsky.social this morning! I❤️NYC & Mel Robbins thank you for supporting #women, #womenfilmmakers
#indiedocs Can’t wait for you to screen #unbrokendocfilm Watch on @netflix today!

Lilly LILLY is a powerful dramatic film starring Patricia Clarkson, John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski, directed by Rachel Feldman, based on the true story of working-class hero, Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama tire factory supervisor whose goal is to lift her family into the middle class.

Ways to celebrate #WomensEqualityDay (Aug 26) & #LaborDay (Sept 1):

1. Join your local @indivisible.org, where women's issues matter
2. Watch #Lilly, supporting the ideals of #LillyLedbetter, #WomenFilmmakers, & #WomenWhoWork (ie: all of us!)

www.lillymovie.com
#ArizonaWomen
#ArizonaIndivisibles

Sorry, Baby - STARTS TODAY!

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Screenwriting Award!

🎟️ TICKETS: loftcinema.org/film/sorry-b...

#SorryBabyFilm #EvaVictor #Sundance2025 #A24Film #NaomiAckie #LucasHedges #BarryJenkins #LifeAfterTrauma #IndieDrama #WomenFilmmakers #LoftCinema #MustSeeIndie

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, Submissions Enter the world's best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.

Amazing news! Disclosure from a Cloakroom was just selected by New York Movie Awards via FilmFreeway.com! We are finalizing our packaging stage and about to make a big announcement. SO EXCITED!!
#screenwriterslife, #womenmakemovies, #womenfilmmakers

Review: Sorry, Baby Year: 2025 Runtime: 103 minutes Written and directed by: Eva Victor Starring: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Kelly McCormack, Louis Cancelmi, E.R. Fightmaster, John Carroll Lynch, Lucas Hedges By Sarah M…

Review: Sorry, Baby intheirownleague.com/2025/07/01/r... -Our own Sarah Manvel raves about this hot new film so jump in and find out what the buzz is all about here at the League! #sorrybaby #womeninfilm #womenfilmmakers #supportwomeninfilm

Happy Birthday to actress/filmmaker Wendy McColm, the greatest female indie filmmaker in the history of female indie filmmakers!

#wendymccolm #fuzzyheadmovie #birdswithoutfeathers #internetfamous #womenfilmmakers #comedy #humor #independentfilm

Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Interview with ‘Honeyjoon’ Writer/Director Lilian Mehrel Susan Kouguell chats with the award-winning writer and director about her feature film debut, blending lightness and darkness in her writing, and more.

Thanks to award-winning HONEYJOON filmmaker Lilian Mehrel for the great interview for Script Magazine.
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#Lilianmehrel
#tribeca
#honeyjoon
#filmmaker
#awardwinner
#scriptmagazine
#womenfilmmakers
#AT&TTribecaUntoldStorieswinner

Before Disney, came Lotte Reiniger 🌟

The pioneer of silhouette animation, she created the 1st multiplane camera, vital in producing pre-digital animation. The Adventures of Prince Achmed * 1926, is the oldest surviving feature-length animated film.

#WomenFilmmakers #silentfilmsky
#animation