NEXT WEEK!
Women Wednesday NY's February Event
Group Outing to a BIRDS OF PREY SCREENING
Wednesday, February 19th
AMC 34th Street 14
7:45pm
Here is a link to buy tickets in advance! I am in seat G11.
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Featured filmmaker: JEZEBEL by Numa Perrier.
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In honor of Black History Month, Women Wednesday will use this month in particular to highlight incredible black female filmmakers! WW's very own Maddie Breeland has co-written the emails for this month!
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Numa Perrier
Born in Haiti and raised in small town USA, Numa Perrier is an actress, writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. She produces and develops TV and film projects under her production banner House of Numa. In 2008, Perrier co-founded Black&Sexy TV, a network of several shows created for Black American audiences. Their first production was a film called A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY, which premiered at Sundance and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures. Beginning in 2011 they used YouTube to post their content. Notable shows include The Couple, The Number, Hello Cupid and RoomieLoverFriends.
Perrier directed her first feature film JEZEBEL, starring Tiffany Tenille, in Las Vegas in 2017. The film is semi-autobiographical and draws on her experience as an online sex worker; Perrier also plays a supporting role in the film. JEZEBEL premiered at SXSW in March 2019. THR selected Jezebel as one of its "Best of SXSW 2019" picks.
Watch the trailer for JEZEBEL here!
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BADASS SHORT FORM FILMMAKER OF THE WEEK:
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Nikyatu Jusu
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra Leonean-American Filmmaker Nikyatu's films have screened at top tier festivals nationally and internationally. With a BA from Duke University and an MFA from NYU's Tisch Graduate Film school, she's earned various awards including NYU’s Spike Lee Fellowship Award, the Princess Grace Narrative film grant and Director’s Guild of America Honorable Mentions. Three of her short films were acquired by and aired on HBO.
Her latest short SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT: a project funded by THROUGH HER LENS and sponsored by the Tribeca Film Institute and Chanel, made its debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is currently finishing out a prolific festival run.
Most recently, Nikyatu made her TV Directing debut with an episode of the original scripted horror anthology: Two Sentence Horror Stories, which premiered on CW Sept 2019.
Watch SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT here!
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#OscarsSoWhite: The bleak truth about diversity and the Oscars
"Pop culture expert Jawn Murray told ABC News in early February that although the Academy has made 'great strides' in working to diversify its voting body since 2015, 'it's still going to take time for the overall numbers of the voting body to shift and for the impact of the inclusive new membership to be felt overall.'
'People vote for what they identify with,' Murray said. 'They vote for the stories and the performances and the projects that speak to them and what they can recognize, so if you have a voting membership that is made up of 60-plus-year-old white men, then the categories will often reflect what they're interested in.'"
Check out the full article here!
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Why Do the Oscars Keep Shutting Women Out of Best Director? This One Academy Rule Helps Explain It
"Contrary to popular belief, the entire Academy does not vote on who will be nominated for an Oscar. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is made up of various branches — the actors branch, the cinematographers branch, the writers branch, etc. Though the entire Academy votes on which nominees in all categories will win an actual Oscar, each branch votes on the nominees for its specific category. So the Academy doesn’t choose the Best Director nominees. The directors’ branch does.
Diversity may be growing in the Academy as a whole, but the directors’ branch hasn’t necessarily reached parity. The Academy declined to share the gender breakdown of the directors’ branch with TIME. But the rules to join are structured in a way that might limit the number women directors who are able to gain entry.
According to the Academy’s website, members must have at least two directorial credits, at least one of which had to premiere in theaters in the last 10 years. The films must also be deemed “of a caliber which, in the opinion of the executive committee, reflect the high standards of the Academy.” A director with only one credit to their name might also qualify if that film is nominated for Best Directing, Best Picture or Best Foreign Language Film, or if the executive committee decides to make an exception based on some “unique distinction” or “special merit." Those rules sound reasonable enough, but they present a major obstacle for female directors, who receive dramatically fewer opportunities to direct a second film than their male counterparts."
Check out the full article here!
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