The Femilist

FEMILIST: SEPTEMBER 2018 * FEMALE CREATORS * Ioana Uricaru / Lemonade Ioana Uricaru is a Romanian writer-director whose first feature, Lemonade , just won the Best Director award at the Sarajevo film festival this month.   Her work is not only beautiful and moving, but also socially and politically important.   As with her previous work, Lemonade is a poignant look into our country’s immigration issues and serves as a twist on the American Dream--a sort of reverse-fairytale.   The film is inspired by Iona’s own experience as a Romanian-American immigrant. Logline: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania marries Daniel, an American patient she’s been caring for.   She applies for a green card for her and her son but the process falls unexpectedly off course. Mara is faced with abuse of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself- how far would you go to get w...

FEMILIST: AUGUST 2018 *FEMALE CREATORS* *Young Jean Lee/  Straight White Men As of this month, Young Jean Lee is the FIRST Asian American female playwright to have a show on Broadway.  Her play, “Straight White Men” which stars Armie Hammer, Josh Charles, and Paul Schneider, was inspired by a societal shift Lee saw where straight white men went from just the default human to having an identity category.  It’s a satirical, somewhat surreal, yet genuine look into a family of men struggling with their identity…just like everyone else.  New York Times Article:  Young Jean Lee's Unsafe Spaces *Ann Lupo/  In Reality Ann Lupo’s film  In Reality  was just announced as part of the line up for the 2018 LA Film Festival.  This girl has an incredible ability to put the audience inside the mind of her protagonist by using the structure of the mind itself—bouncing from reality to fantasy, to pure emotions, and back agai...

FEMILIST: JULY 2018 FEMALE-FOCUSED ARTICLES ABOUT INTERESTING WOMEN  La Otra  by Jaquira Diaz Longreads  | June 2018 Link:  Article A poignant coming of age story about the author’s experience as a young girl who finds her world and identity turned upside down when her father’s affair with the next door neighbor comes to light.  The Housewives of White Supremacy  by Annie Kelly New York Times  | June 2018 Link:  Article A slightly scary article about the rise of “tradwives”; hyper-feminine mommy vloggers touting a message of traditional motherhood and white nationalism. A Princess, A Poisoning and an Oil Fortune: The Bizarre Corruption Scandal at Bilfiger  by Raphael Buschmann Spiegel Online  | June 2018 Link:  Article Bilfinger, one of Germany's best-known construction firms, pledged to clean up its global business practices as it pivoted to the oil sector. But when an investigator began digging...