2022 Women's History Month

They were Asian actresses who endured being passed over for Asian roles that were given instead to white actresses. One was rejected but was asked to teach the Caucasian actress who got the part (and who appeared in yellowface) how to use chopsticks in the film.

CAMERAderie is an initiative by Women in Media created to train women for industry jobs and help them get through the door. Tema L.

When she was only five years old in 1938, Sylvia La Torre won a singing contest. At seven years old, La Torre began her film career.

Born in 1892 in Cleveland, Ohio Rose Wenger grew up a tomboy. Especially intrigued by the rodeo, she learned to ride and traveled as a trick rider with a Wild West Show by the age of 19.

The best way to build momentum is to make a splash at Cannes and then to impress around the festival circuit enough to win an Oscar nomination. Joachim Trier’s film The Worst Person in the World did this as its lead, Renate Reinsve, won the 2021 Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress Award, and it’s currently celebrating nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards.

A loud scream from a far-end corner of the Beverly Hilton ballroom. A young woman jumps out of her chair, raises her arms in dance moves.

Breakout star of the blockbuster franchise, A Quiet Place, Millicent Simmonds is one of BAFTA’s nominees for this year’s Rising Star Award. Speaking at one of the BAFTA Film Sessions, this remarkable 19-year-old deaf actress from Pennsylvania, talked about her unexpected road to Hollywood.

The Pratt in the Hat is a short film directed by Susan Hillary (aka Shapiro) about civil rights leader Dr. Frances Pratt, Nyack NAACP President for decades.

Consider this. As late as the Second World War, only four Latin American countries had granted their women the right to vote: Ecuador in 1929; Brazil and Uruguay in 1932; and Cuba in 1937.

Elvira Coda Notari, the first woman director of Italian cinema, was born in Salerno, Campania, on February 10, 1875. She benefited from an education, which was unusual for women of that time, earning a high school degree which allowed her to work as an elementary school teacher.