Women in Entertainment

Originally published: August 3, 2021 Medusa opens in LA and NYC on July 29, 2022.   With Medusa, writer/director, Anita Rocha da Silveira has created an important film that takes everyday life and subverts it into a horror story, because the truth is more frightening than anything we can dream up.

In Victorian-era Paris, Alice Guy, a 22-year-old stenographer/typist, began working at a camera manufacturing/photography supply company which became Gaumont et Cie, which in turn became a major force in France’s early motion picture industry. This led to her pioneering career in filmmaking that spanned 24 years in which she directed, produced, and/or wrote over a thousand films, 22 of which were feature-length.

Born on June 13, 1879, in Pennsylvania, child prodigy Lois Weber became a concert pianist who toured the United States in her 20s. Weber left home and also joined the evangelical Church Army Workers as a street-corner social activist living in poverty.

Florida native actress Denée Benton turned 30 on December 31, 2021, and her personal New Year kicked off with a role that will most surely change the entire trajectory of her acting career. Playing Ms.

Sired into an acting dynasty dating back 300 years, Ida Lupino was born in post-war 1918 London, daughter to an actress mother and a music hall comedian father. By age ten, she had memorized all the leading female roles in Shakespeare’s plays.

Nearly three decades ago, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Director for The Piano. This year, she returned to win the Golden Globe for Best Director for her 1920s frontier story The Power of the Dog, which won The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

What is lifelike at a maternity ward from the midwives’ perspective? Everyone who has given birth might think they know, but do they really or do they just get a glimpse into an intense and demanding world where life comes to light and those who help make it happen are more or less like soldiers at war? That is at least the comparison Lone Scherfig made in her mind when she created and wrote The Shift, an eight-episode TV series, which is her first Danish-language project in 14 years. The Oscar-nominated Scherfig, who is best known for her English-speaking projects such as An Education, Their Finest, One Day and her Danish-language film Italian for Beginners from 2000, also co-directed the show and felt that the role as showrunner came quite natural to her.

It is said that ‘an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. ’ In the case of Sherry Lansing, one of the most successful executives in Hollywood history, that tree was her mother, Margot Heimann, who had escaped Nazi Germany at age 17 and settled in the Chicago area.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

Freda (Nehemie Bastien) is the eldest daughter of Jeannette (Fabiola Remy), a single mother who owns a little grocery store in Port-au-Prince. She is expected to carry the heavy load of the day-to-day tasks, while her sister Esther (Djanaina Francois) wishes to get married to a wealthy man, and her brother Moïse (Cantave Kervern) wants to emigrate in search of a better fortune.