The documentary, which premiered at Sundance, has also scored international deals.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Nina Menkes documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power and is teaming with library streaming platform Kanopy to release the film.
Billed as an “interrogation of the male gaze in cinema,” Brainwashed will be released theatrically in the US and Canada this autumn, with an educational streaming launch exclusively on Kanopy to follow.
Cinephil is handling international sales at the Cannes Marche and has secured deals for UK/Ireland with the BFI, for the Nordics and Baltics with Non Stop Entertainment, for Poland with New Horizons,...
Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Nina Menkes documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power and is teaming with library streaming platform Kanopy to release the film.
Billed as an “interrogation of the male gaze in cinema,” Brainwashed will be released theatrically in the US and Canada this autumn, with an educational streaming launch exclusively on Kanopy to follow.
Cinephil is handling international sales at the Cannes Marche and has secured deals for UK/Ireland with the BFI, for the Nordics and Baltics with Non Stop Entertainment, for Poland with New Horizons,...
- 5/19/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
As the #MeToo movement continues to resonate, filmmaker Nina Menkes has unveiled details about her forthcoming documentary Brainwashed and the all-female team behind it. The feature docu exposes common cinematic techniques that disempower women and girls. Produced, conceived and directed by Menkes, the film is slated for completion in mid-2021 and will be entered for festival consideration.
The docu gives incisive commentary on films from the 1940s through the present. Using key scenes from A-list directors, Menkes spotlights how filmmakers employ framing, lighting, visual effects and camera angles to disempower women while appearing to glamorize them. These cinematic techniques for disempowerment have been dubbed “The Menkes List.”
Maria Giese and Summer Xinlei Yang have boarded the project as co-producers. Giese is the DGA member who instigated the groundbreaking 2015 industry-wide federal investigation of sex discrimination in Hollywood. Yang is an independent producer and founder of Summary Productions. Giese is also featured...
The docu gives incisive commentary on films from the 1940s through the present. Using key scenes from A-list directors, Menkes spotlights how filmmakers employ framing, lighting, visual effects and camera angles to disempower women while appearing to glamorize them. These cinematic techniques for disempowerment have been dubbed “The Menkes List.”
Maria Giese and Summer Xinlei Yang have boarded the project as co-producers. Giese is the DGA member who instigated the groundbreaking 2015 industry-wide federal investigation of sex discrimination in Hollywood. Yang is an independent producer and founder of Summary Productions. Giese is also featured...
- 10/9/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The fact the case came to trial and resulted in convictions stunned some prosecutors.
The news of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape and sexual assault has been met positively amongst the female filmmaker community around the world despite the mixed verdict at his New York trial on Monday.
Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act, based on the testimonies of two of his accusers - then aspiring actress Jessica Mann and production assistant Mimi Haleyi.
Sentencing is set for March 11 and could carry a prison term of between five and 29 years. Weinstein has still...
The news of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape and sexual assault has been met positively amongst the female filmmaker community around the world despite the mixed verdict at his New York trial on Monday.
Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act, based on the testimonies of two of his accusers - then aspiring actress Jessica Mann and production assistant Mimi Haleyi.
Sentencing is set for March 11 and could carry a prison term of between five and 29 years. Weinstein has still...
- 2/27/2020
- by ¬0¦Liza Foreman¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Nzfc CEO Annabelle Sheehan.
New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) CEO Annabelle Sheehan believes there are currently two global drivers of change in the screen industry.
The first is the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon – the latter of which has just confirmed it will shoot the series The Lord of the Rings in Nz.
The second is a push towards a more diverse and inclusive industry, both behind and in front of the camera.
It’s this second driver that the Nzfc’s upcoming global summit Power of Inclusion will seek to explore head on in partnership with Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television (Wift) International.
The October event has already attracted an impressive array of both international and local speakers including actress and activist Geena Davis; Black-ish and Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi; director Niki Caro, Pose creator Steven Canals, The Black List...
New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) CEO Annabelle Sheehan believes there are currently two global drivers of change in the screen industry.
The first is the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Amazon – the latter of which has just confirmed it will shoot the series The Lord of the Rings in Nz.
The second is a push towards a more diverse and inclusive industry, both behind and in front of the camera.
It’s this second driver that the Nzfc’s upcoming global summit Power of Inclusion will seek to explore head on in partnership with Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television (Wift) International.
The October event has already attracted an impressive array of both international and local speakers including actress and activist Geena Davis; Black-ish and Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi; director Niki Caro, Pose creator Steven Canals, The Black List...
- 9/23/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Maria Giese.
Every studio in Hollywood knows who Maria Giese is, yet she has not directed a feature film since the mid-1990s. Branded a notorious trouble maker, she is the kind of woman that will wind up on a black list if she speaks her mind, and that is precisely what she did.
Giese is a filmmaker and director that had her feature debut in Cannes, was signed to the William Morris Agency and had the promise of the Hollywood dream at her feet. Her passion was to create meaningful work. Yet the stark realisation, as her career and that of her female peers stalled, was that she was being thwarted from doing that work basically because of her gender. Suspecting that this issue was bigger than her own career travails, she became an unrelenting activist that took on Hollywood and instigated the biggest industry-wide federal investigation for female directors to date,...
Every studio in Hollywood knows who Maria Giese is, yet she has not directed a feature film since the mid-1990s. Branded a notorious trouble maker, she is the kind of woman that will wind up on a black list if she speaks her mind, and that is precisely what she did.
Giese is a filmmaker and director that had her feature debut in Cannes, was signed to the William Morris Agency and had the promise of the Hollywood dream at her feet. Her passion was to create meaningful work. Yet the stark realisation, as her career and that of her female peers stalled, was that she was being thwarted from doing that work basically because of her gender. Suspecting that this issue was bigger than her own career travails, she became an unrelenting activist that took on Hollywood and instigated the biggest industry-wide federal investigation for female directors to date,...
- 9/20/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Geena Davis.
Academy Award winner and activist Geena Davis will be among the speakers at the New Zealand Film Commission’s (Nzfc) Power of Inclusion summit in October.
Put on in partnership with the Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television International, the conference, to be held in Auckland, is designed to shine a spotlight on inclusion and representation in entertainment.
In addition to Davis, it boasts a line-up of speakers that include Nz Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; Pose creator Steven Canals; Black-ish star Yara; Shahidi; writers and directors Niki Caro and Haifaa Al-Mansour; The Black List founder Franklin Leonard; writer and producer Philippa Boyens (Lord of the Rings); Raising Films founder Hope Dickson Leach; director Heperi Mita (Mereta: How Mum Decolonised the Screen) and Maria Giese, who led a federal investigation for female directors in the Us. Among the Australian speakers are Magda Szubanski and Benjamin Law.
Academy Award winner and activist Geena Davis will be among the speakers at the New Zealand Film Commission’s (Nzfc) Power of Inclusion summit in October.
Put on in partnership with the Walt Disney Co. and Women in Film and Television International, the conference, to be held in Auckland, is designed to shine a spotlight on inclusion and representation in entertainment.
In addition to Davis, it boasts a line-up of speakers that include Nz Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern; Pose creator Steven Canals; Black-ish star Yara; Shahidi; writers and directors Niki Caro and Haifaa Al-Mansour; The Black List founder Franklin Leonard; writer and producer Philippa Boyens (Lord of the Rings); Raising Films founder Hope Dickson Leach; director Heperi Mita (Mereta: How Mum Decolonised the Screen) and Maria Giese, who led a federal investigation for female directors in the Us. Among the Australian speakers are Magda Szubanski and Benjamin Law.
- 9/12/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
You may be asking: Why is a man reviewing a documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood? But then you may as well ask: Why did a man direct such a film in the first place?
Representation is an issue that affects all of us, on-screen and off, and while it’s inspirational to see women directors such as Natalie Portman and Maria Giese on the front lines of the 2017 Women’s March — as we do in Tom Donahue’s “This Changes Everything” — there’s something to be said for solidarity shown by those who have nothing to gain from their support beyond the advancement of the greater good. So, like white people at a Black Lives Matter rally or straight folks at a Gay Pride parade, Donahue deserves credit for proactively going out of his way to make a movie that tells it like it is — and paints it as it could be.
Representation is an issue that affects all of us, on-screen and off, and while it’s inspirational to see women directors such as Natalie Portman and Maria Giese on the front lines of the 2017 Women’s March — as we do in Tom Donahue’s “This Changes Everything” — there’s something to be said for solidarity shown by those who have nothing to gain from their support beyond the advancement of the greater good. So, like white people at a Black Lives Matter rally or straight folks at a Gay Pride parade, Donahue deserves credit for proactively going out of his way to make a movie that tells it like it is — and paints it as it could be.
- 9/9/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Some of Hollywood’s leading gender equality activists will take part in the second annual Women’s Media Summit, including keynote speaker Dr. Stacy Smith, producer Fanshen Cox Digiovanni, and attorney Kalpana Kotaga — the co-creators of Hollywood’s “inclusion rider.” The summit will be held April 5-7 in Provincetown, Ma.
Smith, founder and director of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the USC/Annenberg School of Journalism, first proposed the adoption of “inclusion riders” in Hollywood contracts back in 2014. But they remained largely unknown until Frances McDormand finished her best actress acceptance speech earlier this month by saying: “I have two words for you: inclusion rider.”
As conceived by Smith, who is widely regarded as one of the leading researchers and advocates for diversity in the entertainment industry, inclusion riders are addenda to employment contracts designed to create more equitable casting and hiring of behind-the-scenes workers.
Digiovanni, who is to head...
Smith, founder and director of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the USC/Annenberg School of Journalism, first proposed the adoption of “inclusion riders” in Hollywood contracts back in 2014. But they remained largely unknown until Frances McDormand finished her best actress acceptance speech earlier this month by saying: “I have two words for you: inclusion rider.”
As conceived by Smith, who is widely regarded as one of the leading researchers and advocates for diversity in the entertainment industry, inclusion riders are addenda to employment contracts designed to create more equitable casting and hiring of behind-the-scenes workers.
Digiovanni, who is to head...
- 3/29/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Feature film writer/director Maria Giese, after convincing the Aclu to take on her cause, in 2015 instigated the Eeoc's industry-wide investigation into discrimination against women directors, which, according to reports, has led to current settlement talks with all six major studios.
The allegations, ranging from sexual harassment to rape, aimed at Harvey Weinstein are just a mere microcosm of a lawless industry rife with abuses against women ranging from sexual harassment to employment discrimination, but they may have tipped the scale by producing the watershed moment those of us who have been battling Hollywood gender inequality have been hoping for.
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The allegations, ranging from sexual harassment to rape, aimed at Harvey Weinstein are just a mere microcosm of a lawless industry rife with abuses against women ranging from sexual harassment to employment discrimination, but they may have tipped the scale by producing the watershed moment those of us who have been battling Hollywood gender inequality have been hoping for.
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- 10/12/2017
- by Maria Giese
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2016 might have been the year when the dire position of women film directors finally broke into wider consciousness. After a monumental effort, spearheaded by Maria Giese, the Aclu and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Eeoc) agreed to hold major film studios, TV networks, unions and agencies to account, citing Title VII violations in all perimeters. 2016 was also the year the Cannes International Film Festival proudly announced that they showcased “only” 86% male directors — down from their average of 93%. Yet even as dismal statistics prove women are severely discriminated against at every level of film production and […]...
- 6/20/2017
- by Nina Menkes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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In September 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched an investigation to uncover systemic discrimination against female directors. Hollywood's female helmers cheered the news, bemoaning their dismal representation with just 4.1 percent of top-grossing movies in 2002 to 2014, says a USC study. But at the time no one envisioned Donald Trump in the White House. Now many are wondering how Trump — whose candidacy was marred by allegations of groping — will affect the investigation as it continues into its second year.
"It's all a big chess game," says director Maria Giese, the first woman to offer testimony...
In September 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched an investigation to uncover systemic discrimination against female directors. Hollywood's female helmers cheered the news, bemoaning their dismal representation with just 4.1 percent of top-grossing movies in 2002 to 2014, says a USC study. But at the time no one envisioned Donald Trump in the White House. Now many are wondering how Trump — whose candidacy was marred by allegations of groping — will affect the investigation as it continues into its second year.
"It's all a big chess game," says director Maria Giese, the first woman to offer testimony...
- 12/9/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The ridiculous and inadequate nature of the vast majority of female film roles has never been more visible, thanks to the vital and increasingly loud protests of performers such as Viola Davis and Emma Thompson; of filmmakers such as Maria Giese, Lexi Alexander, and Paul Feig; and of organizations such as the Mdsc Initiative, Array and Women In Film. The undeniable and inescapable fact is that most female film roles are sparse, poorly written and stereotypical, and generally serve to facilitate the male characters in the story – even those female characters that are the ‘lead’ in a movie.
Regardless of the perceived size of the role, or the status of the actress playing the part, women on film are usually focused entirely on ‘finding a man’, ‘choosing between two men’, being ‘rescued by a man’, or ‘begging a man not to do the brave thing’. Quite often, they are ‘brutalized...
Regardless of the perceived size of the role, or the status of the actress playing the part, women on film are usually focused entirely on ‘finding a man’, ‘choosing between two men’, being ‘rescued by a man’, or ‘begging a man not to do the brave thing’. Quite often, they are ‘brutalized...
- 12/9/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Maria Giese has been fighting the good fight and has begun taking legal action against Hollywood’s near complete shut-out of women directors. It might result in a class action...
- 10/20/2015
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun interviewing female directors as its investigation into discrimination against female film and TV directors is officially underway. First up was director Maria Giese, who was interviewed at the Eeoc's offices in Los Angeles for four hours on Wednesday. Giese, who first brought the problem to the Eeoc's attention in 2013, said investigators were interested in a wide range of issues regarding the employment of…...
- 10/16/2015
- Deadline TV
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun interviewing female directors as its investigation into discrimination against female film and TV directors is officially underway. First up was director Maria Giese, who was interviewed at the Eeoc's offices in Los Angeles for four hours on Wednesday. Giese, who first brought the problem to the Eeoc's attention in 2013, said investigators were interested in a wide range of issues regarding the employment of…...
- 10/16/2015
- Deadline
It baffles me when films like this are chosen for the high-definition treatment ahead of classic visual masterpieces like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia which have not yet been released. It seems a little sacrilegious in all honesty- because on initial inspection, When Saturday Comes can gain very little from the transfer, and it isn’t the kind of film that would offer anything back to the high definition world.
Sadly however, I don’t make the rules, and When Saturday Comes is available to buy on blu-ray now.
This is genuine ‘Boys Own’ stuff from Sean Bean and Pete Postelthwaite, as Bean plays Jimmy Muir, an aspiring footballer (or soccer player if you’re from the other side of the pond) who gets the opportunity to abandon his mundane life as an amateur footballer and play for the team he supports- Sheffield United (via a stint playing under...
Sadly however, I don’t make the rules, and When Saturday Comes is available to buy on blu-ray now.
This is genuine ‘Boys Own’ stuff from Sean Bean and Pete Postelthwaite, as Bean plays Jimmy Muir, an aspiring footballer (or soccer player if you’re from the other side of the pond) who gets the opportunity to abandon his mundane life as an amateur footballer and play for the team he supports- Sheffield United (via a stint playing under...
- 3/3/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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