The award is dedicated to celebrating women and advancing gender equality throughout the industry.
Carolina Markowicz joins the Academy!
14 July 2021
One of the new generation talents to become a 'short films and feature animation' ACADEMY member.
Oliver sat down with The New York Times, you can read his interview here which will appear in print on April 11th.
“The UK gets my style” Shannon Murphy talks to Screen.
29 March 2021
Shannon Murphy has scored a Bafta nomination with her debut feature Babyteeth. Screen talks to the director about taking on the tough, tender tale of first love, family and terminal illness.
Êxtase to have its US premiere at MoMa Doc Fortnight.
24 February 2021
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled the festival lineup!
'Moffie' nominated for a BAFTA!
04 February 2021
Producer Jack Sidey gets Moffie a nomination for 'Outstanding Debut' alongside 'Rocks' and 'Saint Maud'.
#goals 'Honey Boy' is on Film-Grab!
27 November 2020
The beautiful lens of Alma Har’el with Director of Photography Natasha Braier and Production Designer JC Molina.
"Teaming Japan’s greatest internationally renowned filmmaker, Kurosawa, with their greatest living author, Ishiguro, coupled with the tremendously talented Oliver Hermanus, is a producer’s dream."
TERRAIN is an expanded cinema project which brings together dance, documentary film, 360-degree immersive video, virtual interactivity and spatial design into a multimedia story environment.
Johnny Ma's 'To Live To Sing' premieres in China
28 August 2020
A socially distanced screening for To Live To Sing's Chinese premiere in times of Covid.
"A mix of Booksmart, Funny Ha Ha, and Ghost World, the movie has dialogue that is audaciously awkward and deeply hilarious." GARAGE
'CRSHD' gets a virtual theatrical release!
04 May 2020
Emily Cohn's feature debut premieres May 8th. Congratulations hot stuff...#uvebeencrushed! 💯🍒
"Moffie" premieres on Curzon Home Cinemas April 24th.
24 April 2020
Director Oliver Hermanus will be doing a live Q&A on Friday night at 8:30pm.
A millennial American girl who befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they become accidental partners-in-crime.
READ NOW! 'Moffie' is the "must-see queer film set in apartheid-era South Africa." AnOther MAGAZINE⠀⠀
20 April 2020
"Culture Is Not Cancelled" interview with director Oliver Hermanus
EVA & KAZU are in conversation on INSTA LIVE WEDNESDAY!
08 April 2020
@womenundertheinfluence at 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT!
ÊXTASE: a feature doc released to rave reviews in a very similar condition to its main character - isolated from other bodies.
28 March 2020
A hybrid essay film based on director Moara Passoni's own experience of anorexia, and that of all the women who participated in the creation, produced by Academy Award Nominee Petra Costa (The Edge of Democracy) with Lief’s Margo Mars acting as consultant producer.
P.S. Sensuous, exuberant.
One-Time-Only BERLIN screening of 'Honey Boy'!
28 February 2020
Catch Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe and FKA Twigs on the big screen at Babylon Cinema.
Emily's 'CRSHD' screening at TIFF Next Wave!
10 February 2020
'CRSHD' is Emily's debut feature and premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival leading her to be listed as one of NY Times "9 filmmakers to have on your radar".
"Are You Glad I’m Here is an actual masterclass in confronting Western prejudice and liberal simplicities."
01 February 2020
Five Stars for a thrilling debut feature by Lebanese-American filmmaker Noor Gharzeddine.
It is so fitting that she is the first female director to win this category, as someone who founded Free The Work and fights tirelessly to ensure equal opportunities.
'Moffie' goes to America.
11 December 2019
Hermanus' film will be screened in the Queer Cinema Today & The Gayla category
'The Seas Between Us' premieres on Amazon Prime.
27 October 2019
Droga5 London teamed up with Lief to mark a 150 years since the hamburger became the city of Hamburg's tastiest world export through a feature length German arthouse film for Rustlers.
FREE THE WORK 👁️ is now live!
17 October 2019
Floria Sigismondi, comedian Zainab Johnson, actor/activist Riz Ahmed, head of Amazon Studios Jen Salke, Karyn Kusama and Clarissa Cruz of Entertainment Weekly join Alma at the launch Party.
Moffie triumphs at Venice! Read the press reviews here.
04 September 2019
"Oliver Hermanus makes his masterpiece with this brutal but radiant story" VARIETY
Courtney Hoffman brings it all in a cameo opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.