In its 70 year history, Cannes Film Fest has seen only four actresses winning the award twice.
Sundance Babes: Women Directors–Deitch, Donna, Desert Hearts
March 2, 2017 by
She is still best known for her 1986 film Desert Hearts, one of the first films about a lesbian love story.
Sundance Babes: Women Directors–Kim, Gina, Never Forever
March 1, 2017 by
Gina Kim, born December 31, 1973, in South Korea, is a filmmaker and academic in the US. Kim’s five feature films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at festivals and MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. Film career Gina Kim’s Video Diary (1995-2002) In 1995, moving to the US for her MFA, Kim […]
Sundance Babes: Women Directors–Russo-Young, Ry
February 27, 2017 by
Her films Nobody Walks and You Wont Miss Me had played at the Sundance Film Fest.
Other Side of Hope, The: Aki Kaurismaki Wins Best Director at Berlin Film Fest
February 18, 2017 by
Acclaimed Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki won the 2017 Berlin Film Fest’s Silver Bear for best director for The Other Side of Hope, a dramedy about the European refugee crisis.
