SXSW 2013 Female Directors & Screenwriters

It's crazy to think about, but SXSW is less than two weeks away!  As the whole world prepares to descend on the city we call home, we know it may be difficult to keep up with all the SX news.  So, if you haven't compiled your list of must-see films at the festival, we're here to help.  Below is a list of all the films playing at the festival that have either a female director or screenwriter credit (or sometimes both!).  Check it out and tweet us (@womenincinema) which films you're most excited to see this year!  


Narrative Features
Improvement Club (Dayna Hanson)
Swim Little Fish Swim (Lola Bessis)

Documentary Features
Los Wild Ones (Elise Saloman)
Touba (E. Chai Vasarhelyi)

Narrative Spotlight
Grow Up, Tony Phillips (Emily Hagins)
Gus (Jessie McCormack)
Loves Her Gun (Lauren Modery)
Some Girl(s) (Daisy Von Scherler Mayer)
Zero Charisma (Katie Graham)

Documentary Spotlight
The Network (Eva Orner)
Spark: A Burning Man Story (Jessie Deeter)
TINY: A Story About Living Small (Merete Mueller)
Xmas Without China (Alicia Dwyer)

Visions
Elena (Petra Costa)
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (Sophie Huber)
Maidentrip (Jillian Schlesinger)
Our Nixon (Penny Lane)
Yellow (Heather Wahlquist)

24 Beats per Second
Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker (Lily Keber)
The Great Hip Hop Hoax (Jeanie Finlay)
Good Vibrations (Lisa Barros D'sa)
The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson)
This Ain’t No Mouse Music! (Maureen Gosling)

SXGlobal
And Who Taught You To Drive? (Andrea Thiele)
Diario a Tres Voces / Three Voices (Otilia Portillo Padua)
The Fifth Season (Jessica Woodworth)

Headliners
The East (Brit Marling)

Festival Favorites
At Any Price (Hallie Elizabeth Newton)
A Teacher (Hannah Fidell)
Before Midnight (Julie Delpy)
The Crash Reel (Lucy Walker)

Special Events
Burning Love (Erica Oyama)
Mabon “Teenie” Hodges- A Portrait of a Memphis Soul Original (Susanna Vapnek)

Narrative Shorts
The Audition (Celia Rowlson-Hall)
Black Metal (Kat Candler)
Boneshaker (Frances Bodomo)
Ellen Is Leaving (Michelle Savill)
#PostModem (Jillian Mayer)
SEQUIN RAZE (Sarah Gertrude Shapiro)
Si Nos Dejan (Celia Rowlson-Hall)
SKIN (Jordana Spiro)
Social Butterfly (Lauren Wolkstein)
Weighting (Brie Larson)
When We Lived in Miami (Amy Seimetz)

Documentary Shorts
Endless Day (Anna Frances Ewert)
Flutter (Dara Bratt)
The Roper (Anna Sandilands)
The Village (Liliana Sulzbach)

Animated Shorts
The Event (Julia Pott)
Oh Willy… (Emma De Swaef)
Old Man (Leah Shore)

Texas High School Shorts
Again (Jade Basinski & Pearl Basinski)
The Benefactress (Alina Vega)
CaNnibal (Sophia Haid)
Don’t Be Afraid Ashley (Makena Buchanan) 
Drop (Zenzele Ojore)
GBFF (Atheena Frizzell)
The Magic Lasso (Amy Harvie)
Outbreak (Maddison Lopez)
Zipper (Rachel Davis)

View the entire SXSW Film Festival lineup here.

A Night of Member Screenings

Women In Cinema is shaking things up this month.  Instead of having our usual (awesome) panel, we will be hosting A Night of Member Screenings.  We're very excited for our lineup and you should be, too!  A Night of Member Screenings will showcase the WIC Fall 2012 Film Festival Scholarship winning films, a fine cut of the WIC summer production, and more short films created by WIC members.  This is a great opportunity to see what your fellow classmates have been up to and to meet other members.

PANEL DETAILS
Wednesday, February 27
Starts at 7:30 pm
CMA 3.120, Free Admission
Facebook Event

Film Festival Scholarship Winners

On December 17th, Women In Cinema awarded three Film Festival Scholarships to three hard-working ladies at UT.  The jurors were incredibly impressed with their films and we can't wait to see the future work of these three directors.  Congrats Ladies!

Martha! - Directed by Haley Anderson

Synopsis: Martha, a shy Catholic schoolgirl, experiences an immaculate conception after listening to rock n roll.

Jenny and Steph - Directed by Elizabeth Chatelain

Synopsis: When Jenny’s older sister Steph decides to throw a party, Jenny witnesses first-hand what keeps the two girls at an ever increasing distance: Steph and her friends smoking meth.

Plateau - Director Catherine Licata

Synopsis: Melody deals with the aftermath of a breakup while celebrating her best friend’s upcoming wedding.

A big thank you to our two jurors Producer Megan Gilbride (Lovers of Hate, Where Soldiers Come

From, The Bounceback) and Director Elizabeth Mims (Only the Young). Each winner will receive waived submission fees to the following film festivals: Los Angeles Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, Aspen Shorts Fest, deadCenter Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival. Be sure to check our blog later in the spring semester when we announce the spring Film Festival Scholarship!

Women in Cinema's SXSW Panel

Mark your calendar and come to Women in Cinema's SXSW 2012 panel. We will be joined by several talented women filmmakers to discuss their work, their views on filmmaking, and any other questions you may have. This is the non-official SXSW event of SXSW women filmmakers that you won't want to miss.

WOMEN IN CINEMA's SXSW PANEL
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

We will be meeting:
at the CMB Building Studio 4D from 7:00-9:00pm
Facebook Event


Kelly Sears is an animator and filmmaker living in Galveston, TX. Her work has been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Anthology Film Archives, Sundance and in galleries and film festivals internationally. Her collage films are created from discarded periodicals, books, archives, and orphan films. They harness images of the past to reflect on the present.
Her films draw on experimental, documentary and narrative practices and feature both analog and digital animation techniques. http://www.kellysears.com/


Megan Griffiths joins SXSW for her third feature "Eden." Her film "The Off Hours" premiered at Sundance in 2011 and went on to screen at festivals around the globe. The film received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for cinematography and Megan was awarded the prize for Best Director at Spain’s Ourense Film Festival. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341722/



Amy Seimetz is a writer/director/actor/producer. Previous acting credits include "The Off Hours", "Tiny Furniture", "Myth of the American Sleepover", "A Horrible Way to Die", and "Alexander the Last". As a producer, Amy has worked on "Medicine for Melancholy", "Dish & the Spoon", "Silver Bullets", and "No Matter What". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1541272/


Annie Silverstein is currently earning her MFA in Film at University of Texas-Austin. Most recently she produced/directed the short documentary "Noc na Tanecku" (Night at the Dance) (SXSW, Silverdocs 2011). Her documentary work has aired on PBS’ Independent Lens and at festivals internationally. “Spark” is Annie’s first fiction film.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2502502/


Hannah Fidell recently moved to Austin, Texas from Brooklyn, NY where she worked as the event coordinator for The New School University's Media Studies department. Her first feature film, We're Glad You're Here, premiered at the Indianapolis International Film Festival in 2011. She has worked on "The Gathering Squall" and "Man & Gun" wich are screening at SXSW.
http://hannahfidell.com/home.html


Kim Sherman is a filmmaker and musician, currently based in Missouri. Most recently, Sherman produced the feature A Horrible Way To Die which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Sherman has won numerous advertising awards for her directorial commercial work and produced a handful of daring and groundbreaking narrative shorts, including the experimental drama, A Face Fixed, by director Andrew Droz Palermo. Kim was selected to be one of the 2011 Sundance Creative Producer Fellows, and is currently working with Palermo on his debut feature film, One & Two.
http://kimbotsherman.com/

Anna Margaret Hollyman's film credits include, "Gayby" (2012 SXSW Narraive Feature Competition), "White Reindeer", "Small Beautifully Moving Parts" (2011 SXSW Narrative Feature and recipient of the 2011 Hamptons Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan Award), "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (2012 SXSW Narrative Spotlight), "Slacker 2011", "The Romance of Loneliess", "The Color Wheel", "The Brave One", "Adelaide", "Samantha" and "Anna". TV: "My Generation" (ABC). She studied Theater and Art History at Sarah Lawrence College, trained with Suzanne Esper at the Esper Studio in New York, and studied improv with the P.I.T. and Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and Los Angeles. annamargarethollyman.tumblr.com

The Panel will be moderated by Kat Candler who also has her film, Hellion, in the festival.

Kat Candler's award winning films screened at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, Florida Film Festival, Houston Museum of Modern Art, National Institutes of Health and on PBS. Her latest screenplay Love Me was produced by Dolphin Entertainment and Anchor Bay. Candler is a Lecturer at the University of Texas and the leader of the student organization Women in Cinema.


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Women in the Austin Film Festival

We are lucky to live in a town with so many amazing film festivals, among which is the Austin Film Festival. If you're going to the Austin Film Festival this week/weekend, here are some films by women to check out ...

Note from AFF - we are excited to have Mira Sorvino in attendance for Union Square!

All I Know - the Castle Sessions - This melodic doc features 12 singer-songwriters from around the world who have come together for three full days of intense songwriting in a 16th century castle in Denmark.

American Teacher: Matt Damon narrates this doc by AFF Alum Vanessa Roth (attending the festival!) about four teachers living and working in disparate urban and rural areas across the country.

Don't Expect Too Much: Nicholas Ray’s widow Susan directs an exploration into the difficulties that Ray faced in Hollywood and the significant influence he continues to have on filmmakers today. Featuring newly released archival images and audio tapes of Ray.

Leila: Paul and Leila appear to have the perfect life, they are both madly in love; the only problem is that one of them has lost their mind.

One Night Stand: A funny, intimate doc following top Broadway and television writers, actors, and directors as they invent four short musicals, from the blank page to the live stage, all within 24 hours. Featuring Rachel Dratch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Richard Kind.

Pariah: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Union Square: tells the story of a reluctant reunion between two sisters (Mira Sorvino and Tammy Blanchard) One is on the verge of marriage; the other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they're hiding from each other--and from themselves.-- note, director Nancy Savoca in attendance!

When Dreams Take Flight: Through a series of fascinating stories about brilliant and often courageous characters, spanning six centuries and two continents, this doc explores the myth and reality of why humans are compelled to fly like birds.

Wish Me Away: After a lifetime of hiding, Chely Wright becomes the first commercial country music singer to come out as gay, shattering cultural stereotypes within Nashville, her conservative heartland family and, most importantly, within herself.



Also while you're at the festival, you might consider checking out some of the shorts and films made by RTF alumni which includes Women in Cinema's own, Carlyn Hudson and her film, Z & Beau and Chelsea Hernandez and her film, Archer. RTFer at AFF

More information about the Austin Film Festival can be found at: http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/new/ and more specific information - including trailers and screening times for the films at: http://aff.festivalgenius.com/2011/films