Tag / comedy

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Bite-sized blog post: Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha

GURINDER CHADA was a BBC news reporter who made award winning documentaries in England before her fiction feature film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) became a US (and international) success.

She continues to direct for the screen and has recently turned Bend It Like Beckham into a stage musical.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her Twitter
The Guardian Articles
British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha to make film on events leading to Partition
Telegraph interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2006Paris, je t’aime (segment “Quais de Seine”)
 1995Rich Deceiver (TV Movie)
 1994A Nice Arrangement (Short)
 1992Acting Our Age (Short)
 1992Pain, Passion and Profit (Video documentary)
 1990I’m British But… (TV Short documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Meera Menon

Meera Menon

Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, where MEERA MENON was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize for a groundbreaking female filmmaker.

Her next film Equity, touted as the first female-driven Wall Street Movie, stars Anna Gunn (star of Breaking Bad) and premieres at Sundance!

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Where to watch her films:

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VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Her Website
Meera Menon to Direct Female-Driven Wall Street Drama for Broad Street Pictures
Farah Goes Bang Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Mark in Argentina (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Susan Seidelman

Susan-Seidelman-on-the-set-of-Desperately-Seeking-Susan-2

After graduating from NYU Susan Seidelman did what many filmmakers did in the eighties and made an indie film on a shoe string budget which received critical acclaim, Smithereens (1982).

Following the success of Smithereens Seidelman went on to make the classic Desperately Seeking Susan giving her neighbor Madonna her first film role

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

FANDOR

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
In Praise of Madonna’s DGAF Style inDesperately Seeking Susan
Once More Into the Groove: ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ Turns 25, New York Times
The Hollywood Interview
Interviewing Susan Seidelman: From Madonna to Menopause
Sets and the City: On the History of Smithereens
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2011Musical Chairs
2009-2010The Electric Company (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– Revolutionary Doughnuts (2010)
– Jules Quest (2010)
– Mighty Bright Fight (2009)
– The Flube Whisperer (2009)
 2009Madonna: Celebration – The Video Collection (Video) (video “Into the Groove”)
 2005Boynton Beach Club
 2005Stella (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– Paper Route (2005)
– Office Party (2005)
 2004The Ranch (TV Movie)
 2002Power and Beauty (TV Movie)
 2001Gaudi Afternoon
 1999Now and Again (TV Series) (1 episode)
– One for the Money (1999)
 1999A Cooler Climate (TV Movie)
 1998Sex and the City (TV Series) (3 episodes)
– The Baby Shower (1998)
– The Power of Female Sex (1998)
– Sex and the City (1998)
 1996Tales of Erotica (segment “Dutch Master, The”)
 1996Early Edition (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Thief Swipes Mayor’s Dog (1996)
 1995The Barefoot Executive (TV Movie)
 1993The Dutch Master (Short)
 1989She-Devil
 1989Cookie
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Nadia Munla – Making Movies about women with women

Want to celebrate women making movies. Check out Hannah has a Ho-Phase. Nadia Munla with screenwriting partner Jamie Jensen directed the female-driven movie Hannah Has a Ho-Phase  and made the movie with an all-female crew. I met Nadia after contacting USC about my female filmmakers project – and got the opportunity to shoot the interview above, edited by Dana Hayes.

HOPHASE POSTER May 30

Nadia and Jamie shopped around the script for Hannah in the traditional fashion and struggled with the consistent note, “It’s really funny. Like a female Hangover – but where is the male perspective?” …. So, Hollywood … here is the female perspective for a change!

Hannah production shot

Check out Nadia’s movie Hannah has a Ho-Phase on hulu – http://www.hulu.com/watch/527807
and the movie’s website – http://ho-phase.com/