Every year we hold a screenplay competition to help promote women screenwriters and strong, positive roles for women.  All entries must be authored or co-authored by a woman and/or feature a woman or women in prominent roles. This year’s batch of entries was impressive and our judges ultimately awarded the Grand Prize to Phil Ferriere [...]

Every year Women in Film & Video of New England holds a screenplay competition with the goal of promoting women screenwriters and strong, positive roles for women.  (Entries must be authored or co-authored by a woman and/or feature a woman or women in prominent roles.) We had lots of great entries for our 9th annual [...]

By Shannon Mullen Women in Film & Video of New England presents a new series of Q & A interviews with professional female filmmakers who live and work in New England or have strong ties to the region. In this edition WiFV features director Valerie Weiss, who started her film career while earning her PhD [...]

The film business is full of female documentarians from Hollywood to Woods Hole, but when it comes to narrative features women directors are still few and far between. That’s the consensus from a conversation with Judy Laster, founder of the Woods Hole Film Festival (WHFF), which kicks off on Cape Cod next week, marking its [...]

Reading blogs by film industry insiders can be an excellent way to stay informed way out here in Hollywood East, but navigating the blogosphere can be overwhelming, even for the savviest web browsers among us. To help narrow down the field I’m devoting this post to sharing a few excellent blogs/columns written by women in [...]

Two indie feature films with strong ties to New England are in theaters this week. New Hampshire native Chris Stinson co-produced the Sundance hit film Terri, which opened in the Boston area this past weekend.  (The film’s other producers also brought us Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.) Screenings continue this week at the Kendall Square [...]