Shira Baron, Marian De Pontes, Zenzele Ojore honoured.
The Horizon Award co-founders Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Christine Vachon have announced the winners of the 7th Annual Horizon Awards underrepresented female filmmakers.
Shira Baron and Marian De Pontes will each receive a $2,500 grant, mentorship, and industry exposure for their short films, De Sol a Sol and Etana, respectively.
The filmmakers were told of the awards on a surprise Zoom call attended by Justine Bateman, whose feature film Violet starring Olivia Munn, Colleen Camp, and Justin Theroux will premiere at SXSW Online 2021.
Five runners-up were announced: Maria Alvarez, Godgift Emesi,...
The Horizon Award co-founders Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Christine Vachon have announced the winners of the 7th Annual Horizon Awards underrepresented female filmmakers.
Shira Baron and Marian De Pontes will each receive a $2,500 grant, mentorship, and industry exposure for their short films, De Sol a Sol and Etana, respectively.
The filmmakers were told of the awards on a surprise Zoom call attended by Justine Bateman, whose feature film Violet starring Olivia Munn, Colleen Camp, and Justin Theroux will premiere at SXSW Online 2021.
Five runners-up were announced: Maria Alvarez, Godgift Emesi,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The ReFrame coalition has awarded 26 feature films released in 2019 with its ReFrame Stamp, which recognizes the top 100-grossing gender-balanced narrative and animated features. The list, which grew from 20 total films that earned the stamp a year ago, includes Booksmart, Captain Marvel, Harriet, Hustlers and Oscar Best Picture nominee Little Women.
This reflects gains for women in the important roles of director, department heads, and women of color leads and co-leads. With an aim to increase the number of women of all backgrounds working in film, TV, and media, the ReFrame Stamp, which is showcased in end credits and appears on IMDb, serves as a mark of distinction for projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring. Additional points are awarded to content that has women of color in key positions.
This year’s list included 12 women directors (12 percent) in the top 100 films at the box office compared to 4 in 2018, with...
This reflects gains for women in the important roles of director, department heads, and women of color leads and co-leads. With an aim to increase the number of women of all backgrounds working in film, TV, and media, the ReFrame Stamp, which is showcased in end credits and appears on IMDb, serves as a mark of distinction for projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring. Additional points are awarded to content that has women of color in key positions.
This year’s list included 12 women directors (12 percent) in the top 100 films at the box office compared to 4 in 2018, with...
- 2/26/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
A USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study released Wednesday dispels the long-standing notion in Hollywood that movies with female or underrepresented leads don’t perform as well either domestically or internationally as those with white male casts — a myth that in recent years has been manifested by the meme “Get Woke, Go Broke.”
The study, titled “The Ticket to Inclusion,” also found that the lead’s gender was not a significant predictor of how a movie would perform at the box office.
The study — which looked at top 1,200 films released between 2017 and 2018 — found that movies with white leads or co-leads receive more marketing support, bigger budgets and are distributed wider than those with female or underrepresented leads. It is those factors that were more predictive for box office performance than the lead character alone, and the study asked the question of whether gender or race and ethnicity played a part in...
The study, titled “The Ticket to Inclusion,” also found that the lead’s gender was not a significant predictor of how a movie would perform at the box office.
The study — which looked at top 1,200 films released between 2017 and 2018 — found that movies with white leads or co-leads receive more marketing support, bigger budgets and are distributed wider than those with female or underrepresented leads. It is those factors that were more predictive for box office performance than the lead character alone, and the study asked the question of whether gender or race and ethnicity played a part in...
- 2/5/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Fleabag,” “Pose” and “Grey’s Anatomy” are among the recipients of the 2018-19 ReFrame Stamp for Television, Variety has learned exclusively.
Additionally, ReFrame and IMDbPro have extended their partnership through 2022.
The ReFrame Stamp for Television’s inaugural class of recipients was the 2017-18 television season. Then, the organization awarded 62 series the stamp. Now, only 21 series are receiving the new season’s stamp.
While that seems like a steep decline, ReFrame and IMDbPro have actually altered the decision-making process for which series receive the stamp. The first year, producers, studios and networks were allowed to submit for the stamp via an open call. Now, ReFrame and IMDbPro have created “a baseline and closed data set on which to more accurately compare yearly results.” In doing this, the organizations have found that only 22 series for the 2017-18 television season qualify for the stamp under the new metric. While all 62 series that originally earned...
Additionally, ReFrame and IMDbPro have extended their partnership through 2022.
The ReFrame Stamp for Television’s inaugural class of recipients was the 2017-18 television season. Then, the organization awarded 62 series the stamp. Now, only 21 series are receiving the new season’s stamp.
While that seems like a steep decline, ReFrame and IMDbPro have actually altered the decision-making process for which series receive the stamp. The first year, producers, studios and networks were allowed to submit for the stamp via an open call. Now, ReFrame and IMDbPro have created “a baseline and closed data set on which to more accurately compare yearly results.” In doing this, the organizations have found that only 22 series for the 2017-18 television season qualify for the stamp under the new metric. While all 62 series that originally earned...
- 1/14/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
A group of A-list producers and executives are combating Hollywood gender inequality in a pledge to mentor women directors in the middle of their careers. That’s a time when, at least one prominent study suggests, they disappear from show business entirely.
ReFrame Rise, an initiative of ReFrame, the parity organization run by Women in Film and Sundance Institute, is a pilot program that will pair eight female directors with advisers who will identify job opportunities, refine creative pitches and sharpen participants’ business acumen.
Sue Kroll, Stephanie Allain, Michael De Luca, Poppy Hanks, Paul Feig, and Bruna Papandrea are among the first round of sponsors committing to a minimum of two years of work with their assigned directors.
Executives on board include TriStar Pictures president Hannah Minghella, Amazon Studios film co-head Matt Newman, HBO executive vice president of programming Francesca Orsi, Netflix director of original independent film Christina Rogers and...
ReFrame Rise, an initiative of ReFrame, the parity organization run by Women in Film and Sundance Institute, is a pilot program that will pair eight female directors with advisers who will identify job opportunities, refine creative pitches and sharpen participants’ business acumen.
Sue Kroll, Stephanie Allain, Michael De Luca, Poppy Hanks, Paul Feig, and Bruna Papandrea are among the first round of sponsors committing to a minimum of two years of work with their assigned directors.
Executives on board include TriStar Pictures president Hannah Minghella, Amazon Studios film co-head Matt Newman, HBO executive vice president of programming Francesca Orsi, Netflix director of original independent film Christina Rogers and...
- 10/8/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
ReFrame, the coalition formed by Women in Film, the Sundance Institute and IMDbPro, has designated a total of 20 films among 2018’s 100 highest-grossing titles to receive the ReFrame Stamp, which recognize standout, gender-balanced films.
The list released Wednesday includes Fox Searchlight’s Oscar Best Picture-nominated The Favourite, Paramount’s Transformers pic Bumblebee, Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time, Stx’s I Feel Pretty and Lionsgate’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. Nine additional films outside the top 100 were awarded stamps after applying (see the full lists below).
The stamp, launched last June, awarded 12 film stamps in 2017. But the group’s 2018 study found continued disparities in female representation and women of color, with just 4% of the top 100 films directed by a female (down from 6% a year ago), and 23% written by a female. A total of 37% featured female leads, with only 9% being women of color.
“While 2017 saw an uptick in films directed by women,...
The list released Wednesday includes Fox Searchlight’s Oscar Best Picture-nominated The Favourite, Paramount’s Transformers pic Bumblebee, Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time, Stx’s I Feel Pretty and Lionsgate’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. Nine additional films outside the top 100 were awarded stamps after applying (see the full lists below).
The stamp, launched last June, awarded 12 film stamps in 2017. But the group’s 2018 study found continued disparities in female representation and women of color, with just 4% of the top 100 films directed by a female (down from 6% a year ago), and 23% written by a female. A total of 37% featured female leads, with only 9% being women of color.
“While 2017 saw an uptick in films directed by women,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The fifth annual Horizon Award for up-and-coming female directors has been presented to Caroline Friend and Zenzele Niambi Ojore. The two were honored at a ceremony held during the Sundance Film Festival by award co-founders Cassian Elwes, Lynette Howell Taylor, and Christine Vachon.
The winners received an all-expenses-paid trip to Sundance and meetings with producers, filmmakers, festival programmers and others in the film industry. Both winners had submitted three times previously before finally breaking through to the winner’s circle.
This year’s judges included Minhal Baig, Maria Bello, Catherine Hardwicke, Anne Hathaway, Hannah Minghella, Dee Rees, and Tanya Wexler. Working from this list, the final two filmmakers were decided by the Horizon Award co-founders and Sundance feature film director Michelle Satter.
Attendees at the awards included presenters David Oyelowo, Cheryl Hines, and Cameron Bailey, as well as Jennifer Salke; Graham Taylor; Cassian Elwes; Michelle Satter; Cathy Schulman; Joana Vicente; Cameron Bailey; Kirsten Schaffer; Alison Emilio; Shivani Rawat: Monica Levinson; Justine Bateman; Maria Bello; and Franklin Leonard (The Black List founder)
Horizon Award organizers reached out to 275 schools worldwide, resulting in over 400 submissions from a broad range of schools, including leading film schools, including New York University, USC, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, Emerson, Brown, Boston University, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia State, Florida State, Lebanese University (Lebanon), London Film School, Los Angeles Community College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Polish National Film School in Lodz Poland, Tel Aviv University, and Columbia College Chicago
Female Filmmaker Awards:
Zenzele Niambi Ojore
Official Title: The South is My Sister’s Skin
School: Rhode Island School of Design – Class of 2018
Bio: Zenzele Ojore is a writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. While studying photography and film at the Rhode Island School of Design, she traveled to Chile with Adobe to capture a story on the melting glaciers of Patagonia, and received a fellowship to work on a photo series in the Southwest section of Uganda titled “The Buhoma Side of Bwindi”. Zenzele screened her first short film at the 2013 SXSW film festival in Austin; raised in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia her work is inspired by the eccentric spirit of the American South.
Caroline Friend
Official Title: Under Darkness
School: USC – Class of 2016
Bio: Caroline is a filmmaker with a passion for bringing the past to life through writing and directing. She is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California where she majored in Film & TV Production, as well as History. While at USC, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to write and direct Under Darkness, a short film about a female World War II photographer and soldier. Caroline has directed other projects in collaboration with the USC History Department and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, and her work has been screened at film festivals internationally. She currently lives in Los Angeles and continues to seek meaningful historical content to bring to the screen.
Also Awarded:
Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Sundance Feature Film Program; Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Founders Award
Alison Emilio, Director, ReFrame and Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Contribution to Female Film Makers Award...
The winners received an all-expenses-paid trip to Sundance and meetings with producers, filmmakers, festival programmers and others in the film industry. Both winners had submitted three times previously before finally breaking through to the winner’s circle.
This year’s judges included Minhal Baig, Maria Bello, Catherine Hardwicke, Anne Hathaway, Hannah Minghella, Dee Rees, and Tanya Wexler. Working from this list, the final two filmmakers were decided by the Horizon Award co-founders and Sundance feature film director Michelle Satter.
Attendees at the awards included presenters David Oyelowo, Cheryl Hines, and Cameron Bailey, as well as Jennifer Salke; Graham Taylor; Cassian Elwes; Michelle Satter; Cathy Schulman; Joana Vicente; Cameron Bailey; Kirsten Schaffer; Alison Emilio; Shivani Rawat: Monica Levinson; Justine Bateman; Maria Bello; and Franklin Leonard (The Black List founder)
Horizon Award organizers reached out to 275 schools worldwide, resulting in over 400 submissions from a broad range of schools, including leading film schools, including New York University, USC, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, Emerson, Brown, Boston University, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia State, Florida State, Lebanese University (Lebanon), London Film School, Los Angeles Community College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Polish National Film School in Lodz Poland, Tel Aviv University, and Columbia College Chicago
Female Filmmaker Awards:
Zenzele Niambi Ojore
Official Title: The South is My Sister’s Skin
School: Rhode Island School of Design – Class of 2018
Bio: Zenzele Ojore is a writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. While studying photography and film at the Rhode Island School of Design, she traveled to Chile with Adobe to capture a story on the melting glaciers of Patagonia, and received a fellowship to work on a photo series in the Southwest section of Uganda titled “The Buhoma Side of Bwindi”. Zenzele screened her first short film at the 2013 SXSW film festival in Austin; raised in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia her work is inspired by the eccentric spirit of the American South.
Caroline Friend
Official Title: Under Darkness
School: USC – Class of 2016
Bio: Caroline is a filmmaker with a passion for bringing the past to life through writing and directing. She is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California where she majored in Film & TV Production, as well as History. While at USC, she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant to write and direct Under Darkness, a short film about a female World War II photographer and soldier. Caroline has directed other projects in collaboration with the USC History Department and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, and her work has been screened at film festivals internationally. She currently lives in Los Angeles and continues to seek meaningful historical content to bring to the screen.
Also Awarded:
Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Sundance Feature Film Program; Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Founders Award
Alison Emilio, Director, ReFrame and Co-Founder, Horizon Award – Contribution to Female Film Makers Award...
- 1/27/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The Brett Kavanaugh hearings hung like a dark cloud over Hollywood’s first ever Pay Equity Summit, held today in Burbank. More than 300 attended.
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
- 9/29/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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