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Bright and early Monday morning, John Cho and Issa Rae unveiled the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards and when it came to Best Director, we all waited with bated breath to see if the Academy would follow this unfortunate trend of women being shut out of the category. One by one, Rae announced the nominees: “The Iris…

Women In Film Los Angeles (WIF LA) is partnering with New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and The Actors Fund to expand its Sexual Harassment Help Line to New York. Launched in December 2017, the WIF LA Help Line is an active measure to provide support to those who have experienced sexual harassment or…

The Black List and Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF LA) revealed the participants in their 2019 Feature Residency program as well as their Annual Feature Lab. The collaboration between the organizations provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women screenwriters over the course of a year, the Feature…

Women In Film, Los Angeles has revealed the recipients of its 33rd annual Film Finishing Fund, which awards cash grants and production services to complete works-in-progress films that are by or about women. A total of nine grantees were chosen by an industry jury for the calendar year 2018. This edition’s crop…

UPDATED with more industry reaction: Skydance CEO David Ellison had to know there would be critics of his hiring of John Lasseter to run the company’s animation division, but he might not have expected it to be so denounced as what Time’s Up said today. “Hiring decisions have consequence,” the high-profile…

Women in Film LA and Women and Hollywood are rallying behind female directors. In response to the fourth consecutive complete shutout of female directors in the Golden Globes category for Best Director, and as the Oscar nominations voting period commences, the two organizations are launching a joint social media…