Urbanworld Film Festival to Open with Muhammad Ali, Close with Misty Copeland

The 2015 Urbanworld Film Festival will open with BET biography “Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champ” and close with “A Ballerina’s Tale,” t...

“Normal” & “Virgin” Take Doha Honors

This year’s Doha Tribeca Film Festival jury, led by Jury President Nick Broomfield, has announced the winners of the festival’s Arab Film Competition.

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Participants For Meryl Streep-Funded Screenwriters Lab Announced.

Meryl Streep has always been a trailblazer in Hollywood. Lately, she’s been helping other women become their own trailblazers by advocating for women who work behind ...

Virtual-Reality Film Festival To Hit 10 Cities In North America

Virtual-reality filmmakers are getting their own 10-city festival showcasing their work in the nascent field. The Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival will feature demos of about ...

Meryl Streep Funds Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40

Meryl Streep has funded a screenwriters lab for women writers over 40, to be run by New York Women in Film and Television and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers.
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Six Women-Directed Projects to be Funded by Tribeca Film Institute

Concussion director Stacie Passon, TV writer Colette Burson, and documentarians Heather Courtney and Anayansi Prado were among the filmmakers chosen to participate in the T...