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Nowadays, so many female actors aspire to be producers. What began as a trickle in the late 1990s and early 2000s with production firms founded by Drew Barrymore, Salma Hayek, and Charlize Theron has escalated into a flood of talent-producing films and television shows under their own name. Regina King, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Garner, Amy Adams, and Kerry Washington are among the many celebrities whose companies are creating a kaleidoscope diversity of parts for women that would not otherwise exist (and everyone else).

Read more here: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/2023-female-led-tv-movie-projects

LuckyChap Entertainment, which Robbie co-founded with her husband Tom Ackerley and friends Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara in 2013, has been responsible for a plethora of films that turn the narrative of a submissive female heroine on its head.

Robbie is empowering women to regain their voices and express their experiences on their own terms through Promising Young Woman and the upcoming film Barbie. But it does not end there.

Read more here: https://www.marieclaire.com.au/margot-robbie-luckychap-entertainment-changing-hollywood

Florence Pugh has stated that she will not bow to Hollywood body standards.

The actress also admitted people were left “shocked” when she refused to diet for jobs and that demands imposed on women by the film profession are “shocking”.

While chopping ingredients for her garlic crostini bread for Vougue’s Youtube Channel Florence said: “Body image for women is a major thing.”

“From the moment you start growing thighs and bums and boobs and all of it, everything starts changing. And your relationship with food starts changing.”

Read more here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/if-im-happy-in-it-then-im-gonna-wear-it-florence-pugh-refuses-to-submit-to-hollywood-body-standards/75MFEVVLEJDFPPWFETCWOF2WLI/

When Sarah Polley was approached about turning Miriam Toews’ novel “Women Talking” into a film, she wasn’t seeking for a project to direct. Since the publication of “Stories We Tell,” a very personal documentary about Polley’s late mother, in 2012, the Canadian director has spent most of the last decade focusing on parenting her three children, who are now 10, 8, and 4.

Polley chose not to direct “Alias Grace,” a limited series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel of the same name, because “I didn’t think I could manage a picture with kids the age mine were and be a present parent,” she said.

But producers Dede Gardner and Frances McDormand, who were looking for a writer-director for “Women Talking,” presented an appealing offer: “‘Let’s just rewrite the rules,” Polley recalled them saying. “‘Men have written these rules in the film industry and created absurd expectations of hours that are not conducive to families.’ I realized they were willing to break a model and build a new one to allow me to come back, and that was a really big deal.”

Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-22/sarah-polley-women-talking

For the fourth consecutive year, Women In Film has released its awards season ballot, recognizing the women whose work behind the camera made this year’s biggest films possible.

As critics and guilds start voting and handing out awards, the WIF #VoteForWomen ballot seeks to remind voters and shine a light on the women and nonbinary film professionals up for consideration.

The ballot is also a useful resource for hiring women in key positions.

Read more here: https://variety.com/2023/artisans/awards/women-in-film-vote-for-women-ballot-2023-reframe-1235479206/

Jane Campion, became the third female film-maker ever and the second in a row to win best director in the 94-year history of the Academy Awards.

Director Sian Heder won the night’s top gong, taking home best picture and best adapted screenplay, for Coda – just her second feature-length film and the first win for Apple. And earlier in the night, Ariana DeBose win best supporting actress. At just 20, Billie Eilish won for best original song, and costume designer Jenny Beavan picked up her third Oscar for her work on Cruella.

Image: Getty images/ Rueters

Jane Campion wins best director Oscar for The Power of the Dog.

Janne Campion becomes the third woman to win the award, after Chloé Zhao in 2021 and Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.

Janne Campion has already won a string of prizes for the film, including best director at the Baftas, Golden Globes and Directors Guild of America awards, and the Silver Lion prize for best director at the Venice film festival. This is her second Oscar win, having taken the best original screenplay award in 1994 for The Piano; she was nominated for best director for the same film but lost to Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List.