The Venice Film Festival has suffered its steepest decline in female representation in five years, with just one woman ...

A UCLA study found that the percentage of women directors behind theatrical films decreased by five percentage points in 2025. Only 10.1% of the top 109 theatrical movies in 2025 were helmed by female ...

In 2018, Ava DuVernay, Cate Blanchett, Agnès Varda, Kristen Stewart and over 80 other female filmmakers stood on the steps of the Palais at the Cannes Film Festival to protest gender inequality in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Last year, women made up just 13% of directors ...

Welcome back. You're listening to KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. March is Women's History Month, so our Midday Movies critics are highlighting women directors, both the trailblazers and the ...

Six years ago, Ally Pankiw got her first big TV breakthrough: She directed the first season of the Netflix comedy-drama “Feel Good.” But getting there was a slog. She recalls being told repeatedly ...

Female directors suffered a “complete reversal of any progress” in 2025, according to a new study out of USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, as the industry hit a seven-year low in women behind the ...

Eight years after Cate Blanchett, Agnes Varda and other female filmmakers demonstrated on the steps of the Palais, women directors have made some gains across the festival, except in the one section ...

Within the last handful of years, animation has earned a new level of respect. So many animated films check all of the boxes, from good story, good voice casting, they look beautiful, there’s a ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven't been told before and claiming space in an ...