| Kathryn Bigelow wins Directors Guild of America Award! |
[31 Jan 2010|03:25am] |
I have been breathlessly following the Directors Guild of America Award results on Twitter (#DGA) all night, waiting to learn this.
KATHRYN BIGELOW HAS WON THE DGA AWARD FOR THE HURT LOCKER!!!
This is the first time a woman has won this award, and it's also a prize that is strongly correlated with Academy Award (Oscar) winners for Best Director, which no woman has won, and only three have ever been nominated for, as of yet. (The nomination for the Oscars will be announced this Tuesday.)
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| The Hurt Locker |
[21 Sep 2009|03:43pm] |
I've seen it twice now (several weeks apart), and I have this to say:
If Kathryn Bigelow does not win the Oscar for Best Director (Achievement in Directing) for The Hurt Locker, I think I'll be boycotting the Academy Awards from then on.
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| RANDOM IDEA |
[11 Sep 2009|08:26am] |
proposal: FEBRUARY as NATIONAL WOMEN IN HORROR Month because sometimes it has 28 days. Can we make this official somehow? PASS IT ON!
Women Deserve This RECOGNITION!!
xo,hannah
www.axwoundzine.com
www.hannahneurotica.com
thoughts?feedback? lets talk ! xoxoox
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| All About Steve |
[07 Sep 2009|03:38am] |
Saw it this evening. I'm not saying it's a masterpiece, but it's definitely suffering unfairly from being reviewed in the lens of the genre of romantic comedies. I know it's being marketed as a romantic comedy, but it's not one: it's a farce, which should become obvious when the romance angle is thoroughly abandonned, but for the fact that there are also romantic comedies around that apparently treat their characters as if they were in a farce. Mary's childishness and automatic behaviour are horrible characterisation if they define a romantic lead, but they make perfect sense -- as does the crescendo of bizarre circumstances/news items that form the backdrop of her adventures -- for a lead character in a farce. Do women even get to play those roles usually? I say Bravo! Sandra Bullock for getting it. Seriously.
(cross-posted to my journals)
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| A budding feminist filmmaker. |
[08 Apr 2009|08:20pm] |
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Hello all,
My name is Jacquie and I'm a budding feminist filmmaker. Are there any other filmmakers/performers/designers/other film-related workers in the community?
Here's my Youtube channel link. I hope this is allowed.
http://www.youtube.com/user/jacquiepickle
Much squish,
Jac-attack
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| unsettling moments in resident evil: extinction (triggering and spoilered) |
[16 Mar 2009|01:00am] |
i like the resident evil series of movies as cheesy fun, but the third one so far had some deeply unsettling moments. for one thing, it opens with the character of alice being shot while in a skimpy red dress, completely unarmed. yes, the same alice that runs around kicking butt the rest of the film. but it's a clone.
that doesn't make it all right when the camera pans back to a shot of a pit filled with similar alices all in skimpy red dresses, many of them with lower limbs askew in sexualised ways.
it also doesn't make it all right that it's all cloned ladies when alice is strangled by a giant super-zombie about halfway through the film, again while unarmed, and again in the skimpy red dress. her fragility while being murdered makes the viewer intensely uncomfortable and upset.
i feel that the movie is undercutting its own 'gurlz kick butt!' message by having these moments of brutally killing unarmed, disoriented women dressed in skimpy clothing.
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| Ax Wound: Gender & The Horror Genre a zine for female horror fans! |
[11 Mar 2009|07:42pm] |
"Ax Wound” is a derogatory term for a menstruating vagina. How perfect for a feminist horror zine title! It is my hope that “Ax Wound” will create a dialogue about gender in the horror/slasher/gore genre — a genre typically thought to reinforce patriarchal values. I want both the 'zine and the website to provide a safe, stimulating environment for feminist horror fans of all backgrounds to discuss the themes of gender, sexuality, and culture in the genre both past and present. Ax Wound will also serve as a platform to help promote and bring together women in the horror industry.
website: http://www.axwoundzine.com
add us on lj ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92) ax_wound
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/axwoundzine
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| SUBMIT TO NEW AX WOUND march 20th deadline/ preview of new content! |
[22 Feb 2009|02:08pm] |
Dear Ax Wound Peoples,
Thank you so much for all your support. It means so much to me and everyone who is about the mission of promoting women and the role of gender in our favorite bloody genre.
I am writing to let you know that currently I am putting together the new issue.
It's very exciting and I think you will all enjoy this one very much!
Some of the content you can look forward to:
Article about horror and porn
Article about womens roles in the films of Eli Roth w/ E.
Roth interview
Shannon Lark interview (plus loads of other exciting interviews!)
The role of the SLut in slasher films
Interview with Valerie Castro of THE PERIOD by Andrew Shearer
A look at:
Women in Horror documentary
the coming of horror-age with NOS
Girls and Corpses talk with Corpsy
Original HORROR ART and fiction
reviews reviews reviews of books films websites
resources for the female horror fan who wants to take
her fandom to the extreme....
this is ONLY A PREVIEW of THE MANY MANY things in this issue!
it is chock full of goodness!
BE PART OF IT.......
Send your submission to AXWOUNDZINE@YAHOO.com
Your deadline is March 20th.
Be in touch if you wanna discuss braninstorm ways to get involved!
I need yoU!
Hearts & Butcher Knives,
Hannah Neurotica
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| US:CA: (SFBay) FREE LGBTQ Filmmaker Workshop for Youth/Elders - Deadline Feb. 6 |
[31 Jan 2009|06:10am] |
TILT/Frameline Generations Filmmaker Workshop for LGBTQ Youth and Elders
There is a TILT/Frameline Generations Filmmaker Workshop for LGBTQ
Youth and Elders that is starting the end of February.
Applications are being accepted now! This is a FREE video production
program for aspiring LGBTQ filmmakers. We are especially trying to
outreach to more young people this year. Please pass this on to anyone
you think would be interested in applying or those who works with
youth. Info and application are below:
CALL FOR ASPIRING YOUTH & ELDER LGBT FILMMAKERS!! !
Frameline in collaboration with TILT present:
THE GENERATIONS FILMMAKER WORKSHOP 2009
(Application Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2009)
What is it?
A FREE eight-week intergenerational workshop working with other Bay
Area Youth and Elders to write, script, cast, storyboard, shoot, and
edit a collaborative short film that will screen at the 33rd San
Francisco International LGBT Film Festival June 18-28, 2009. Through
hands-on exercises, you will learn how to make a movie from beginning
to end – from using a digital video camera to directing actors to
editing your footage. You will also get a stipend for your full
participation.
Who is it for?
Bay Area Youth and Elders who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, questioning or queer and are interested in participating
in an intergenerational collaboration. No prior video experience is
necessary to participate. Young women and people of color are
encouraged to apply.
( Read more... )
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| Slumdog Millionaire Female Co-Director Left Out of Oscar Nomination |
[31 Jan 2009|05:57am] |
Fwd: "Slumdog Millionaire" Update from the FUND FOR WOMEN ARTISTS Newsletter:
"Slumdog Millionaire" Co-Director/ Woman Director Update:
Danny Boyle was given the Best Director award at the Golden Globes for
his work on the film "Slumdog Millionaire. " But Chicago film critic
Jan Lisa Huttner noticed that IMDb.com (a highly respected film
resource) and the film's official press kits listed a woman named
Loveleen Tandan as "Co-director (India)". In an interview published on
our website, Huttner asked Danny Boyle whether he considered Tandan
the co-director, and he replied, "Yes, she deserves it! She's a
proper director." (See
http://www.womenart s.org/reviews/ SlumdogMillionai re.htm)
When the Golden Globes nominated Boyle for "Best Director" but failed
to mention Tandan, Huttner started a letter writing campaign asking
the Golden Globes leaders to explain why they had not included Tandan
with Boyle. Many of our readers joined the letter writing campaign,
often adding touching stories of their own about not being recognized
for their creative work.
The people at the Golden Globes never responded, but journalists in
the U.S. and Great Britain picked up on the story including John
Jurgensen of the Wall Street Journal, Prairie Miller of WBAI, Ramin
Setoodeh of Newsweek, Melissa Silverstein of the Huffington Post,
Amar Singh of London's Evening Standard, Anita Singh of the UK
Telegraph, & Sasha Stone of Awards Daily, and World Entertainment News
Network published on IMDb News.
The Oscar nominations came out this week, and once again Danny Boyle
was nominated for Best Director of "Slumdog Millionaire, " and Loveleen
Tandan was not mentioned.
( Read more... )
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| US; CA: 2009 Queer Women of Color Film Festival - Call For Films |
[29 Jan 2009|06:34pm] |
2009 Queer Women of Color Film Festival - Call For Films
Deadline February 13
Posted by: "Madeleine Lim" director@qwocmap.org madbullfilm
Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:17 pm (PST)
dear friends,
much appreciated if you would please help us
forward this to folks who may be interested.
many thanks!
mad
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CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS
from Queer Women of Color Filmmakers for
"Queerly Irreverent"
for our 5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film
Festival
QWOCMAP, the Queer Women of Color Media Arts
Project, invites queer women of color film-
makers to submit your satirical, hella funny
and thoughtful short films to QWOCMAP's 5th
annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival,
to be held at the Brava Theater, San
Francisco, June 12-14, 2009.( Read more... )
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| US; CA: Call for submissions: OutFest Screenwriting Lab - Spring 09 |
[22 Jan 2009|07:38pm] |
Fwd:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Outfest Screenwriting Lab - Spring 2009
Submission deadline: January 26
Continuing Outfest's commitment to supporting
LGBT-themed films from conception to exhibition,
this Lab nurtures screenwriters and promotes
screenplays featuring LGBT characters and/or
themes. The authors of five screenplays are invited
to participate in a dynamic three-day workshop in
Los Angeles in the Spring 2009, working closely
with established mentor writers.
Submit at www.outfest.org
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| TEETH |
[21 Dec 2008|05:18pm] |
As I work on this new issue of Ax Wound: Gender & The Horror Genre I run into lots of articles on how TEETH is a feminist horror film.
Why do you think TEETH is considered "feminist?" AND is it "feminist?"
discuss.........
i mean, if its feminist...why? im curious what you all think.....
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