Currently Browsing: For Your Consideration
Dear Cinephiles: It’s time to think about short lists for the 89th annual OscarBowl on February 26, 2017.
Backlash from the 2016 Oscar snubs sparked our merit-based Make Oscars Gold campaign, a combination of #OscarsSoWhite (lack of minorities) and #StopBlueOscar (lack of women). If Oscar wants to be “gold” = merit-based, then everyone should have an equal chance of success.… read more.
FF2 Managing Editor Brigid Presecky asks you to consider these six films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016 (2)
- Jack of the Red Hearts (Director Janet Grillo and Writer Jennifer Deaton)
- Nerve (Director Ariel Schulman)
My Favorite Documentary Films of 2016 (2)
- Be Here Now (Director Lilibet Foster)
- Marathon: Patriot’s Day Bombing (Writer/Directors Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg)
My Favorite Foreign Language Films of 2016 (2)
- Long Way North (Writers Claire Paoletti
and Patricia Valeix) - Nakom (Director Kelly Daniela Norris)
Photo: Jack of the Red Hearts
Photo Credit: Sundial Pictures… read more.
FF2 Social Media Manager Georgi Presecky asks you to consider these six films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016 (2)
- Into the Forest (Writer/Director Patrica Rozema)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Screenwriter J.K.
FF2 Senior Contributor Lesley Coffin asks you to consider these six films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016 (2)
- The Dressmaker (Director Jocelyn Moorhouse)
- Queen of Katwe (Director Mira Nair)
My Favorite Documentary Films of 2016 (2)
My Favorite Foreign Language Films of 2016 (2)
- Toni Erdmann (Writer/Director Maren Ade)
- Summertime (Writer/Director Catharine Corsini)
Photo: Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker
Photo Credit: Screen Australia… read more.
FF2 Senior Contributor Lisa Iannucci asks you to consider these four films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016 (2)
- Hello, My Name is Doris (Screenwriter Laura Terruso)
- Sensitivity Training (Writer/Director Melissa Finell)
My Favorite Documentary Films of 2016 (2)
- 13th (Writer/Director Ava DuVernay)
- Women of Maidan (Writer/Director Olha Onyshko)
Photo: Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris
Photo Credit: Roadside Attractions… read more.
FF2 Senior Contributor Nora Lee Mandel asks you to consider these six films by women writers &/or directors (from the full list of films released in NYC theatres in 2016). Note that this list was created in November & will be updated after December 31, 2016.
My Favorite Feature Films of 2016
- The Dressmaker (Director Jocelyn Moorhouse)
- Equity (Director Meera Menon)
My Favorite Documentary Films of 2016 (2)
- Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four – (Director Deborah Esquenazi)
- Miss Sharon Jones!