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15 Films You Need to Watch, Directed by Women of Color Photo: Kevork Djansezian / Stringer (Getty Images) When it comes to leading positions in the world of film and television, women have been overlooked. In 2019, women accounted for only 15.1% of directors in mainstream film and television—just over 1% higher than in 2018. Since the Time’s Up movement brought issues of sexual harassment and mistreatment of women in the workplace to light, new initiatives have emerged in the film industry,...

The Love & Basketball and The Old Guard director shares her respect for "the fight" young filmmakers are showing, reveals the moment she knew she was a true director, and teases her next big-budget project.

Celebrate Womens History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.

Netflix received broadly high marks for diversity and inclusion in its movies and TV shows when it came to gender and people of color, compared to the broader entertainment industry, according to an extensive new report. But the streaming giant fell short in its representation of certain groups, including Latinos, the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities. The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which regularly takes Hollywood studios to task for their shortcomings on diversity, on Fri...

Listen to the audio version BELOW. When we launched our first TV shows in 2013 like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, we aspired to tell stories that weren’t available elsewhere. Not only in terms of the variety we offered, but also the people and cultures we brought to the screen. As we expanded into films and documentaries, we continued to push boundaries - celebrating firsts with talent from traditionally underrepresented communities like Laverne Cox, Rachel Morrison, Yance Ford...

Courtesy Of A24/Josh Ethan Johnson PROMISED LAND A family tries to wring a living from a rural Arkansas farm in Chungs evocative autobiographical drama. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. Right now, the 2020 films that thrilled festival audiences and garnered award nominations are still trickling onto streaming platforms and...

We Have Enough Tragic White Lesbian Period Romances — Move On The new film ‘The World to Come’ unfortunately rehashes a lot of tired sapphic stereotypes. This article contains spoilers for the upcoming film The World To Come. They say there are five rules to follow if you want your lesbian romance to get critical acclaim, wide release, and nomination for awards: 1. It must be set in the distant past. 2. The women must be white, one with light hair, one with dark. 3. Their love must be kep...

Forget the Super Bowl ads. Our fave TV spots last week were on C-SPAN, with Madame Vice President and Secretary Pete. Watching Kamala Harris gavel in that 51st vote in the Senate on Feb. 5 for the COVID-19 relief bill was absolutely awesome. Black Herstory made. And watching President Biden swear in Pete Buttigieg, with husband Chasten at his side, brought a tear to our eye. We could really get used to this whole queer-and-trans-people-matter thing Biden and Harris are doing. The Equalizer We ...

Nomadland — are exciting, they also demonstrate a bigger issue in Hollywood. In the 77-year history of the Golden Globes, outside of the current nominees, only five women — Ava DuVernay, Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, and Kathryn Bigelow — have been nominated for best director, with Streisand being the only winner, for 1984s Yentl. Its been six years since DuVernay was nominated for Selma, and its not like women havent been making movies in the meantime. So why does it ...

What makes a Black movie Black? Keith Murphy © Moviestore/Shutterstock A new special edition of EW celebrates a century of Black Film — but first we had to decide what that meant. What defines a Black movie? For the earliest filmmakers of color, the answer was pretty simple: Movies featuring Black actors telling stories intended for Black audiences. Once known by all as "race films," they came first from pioneers such as William D. Foster, who, beginning in 1912, produced s...