Blog Supporting Female Filmmakers
These Romantic Flicks Provide The Fantasy Without The Falsehood Back in the day (and by the day I mean less than 10 years ago) the romance genre, despite also being dominated by male directors, was one of the only genres women were given the most support to direct. A little condescending due to the low …
I've made many lists of recommendations for horror content on the blog for spooky season over the past few years, so this year I thought I would dive into Shudder's collection and see whether they have any female-directed exclusives that you should check out this October to not only enjoy the spooks but support some female creators as well.
Happy 5th Birthday To The Blog, Let's Have A Movie Night! It's The Women's Direction's 5 year anniversary this September which fittingly also coincides with Woman Director Awareness Month. So for our 5th birthday I thought I would list out my top 5 female directed films of all time. Full disclosure that I am STILL …
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Women direct in a wide variety of genres even though there are those who would convince you otherwise. On this blog we have previously shared 10 horror films directed by women (twice) and 10 sci-fi films directed by women as well as 10 films you may not have realised were directed by a woman at …
Back In Isolation With Nothing To Watch? For those currently living in Australia you would be aware of the second wave of COVID-19 currently hitting hardest in Victoria. I'm not about to get political in regards to mask-wearing and people flouting restrictions, but hopefully the next part of our curated list of female directed content …
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I hope you have been enjoying some of the films from this lists part 1 and part 2. I would love to hear which ones you've seen and which ones you'd recommend in the comments below. I have been amazed to see just how much I hadn't even seen on the Netflix home page. Whilst …
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Sick of wasting hours of my life looking for something new to watch I started the most comprehensive list of Netflix content directed by women that, I at least, have ever come across. With over 5000 titles in the Netflix library there always seems to be a circulation of the same 30 films on the …
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We've curated all female directed Netflix content so you don't have to. There are 5511 titles in the Australian Netflix library (as of April 9 2020). That's more content than you could probably watch in your entire life. But how much of it was directed by a woman? How much of this content focuses on …
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Where are you Christmas Films Directed By Women? We all love a good Christmas film. In fact, apart from Halloween, it’s probably one of the only other holidays to have its own genre of film. My plan earlier this year was to provide a list of Easter themed films directed by women that you could …
What a year it has been! I have seen way more female directed films this year than ever before. Part of that is down to my own conscious decision to do better when picking what films to see and the other part is that there has actually been more female directed content for me to …