NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
Nitza Wilon and Elizabeth Kaiden, the founders of The Writers Lab, penned this piece on Hollywood’s exclusion of women over 40 for Indiewire.
Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy are set to star as British Prime Minister and French President respectively in a new political thriller series, “The Choice,” for Netflix, announced among a slate of new television commissions in the U.K. Variety has more info here.
A 4K restoration of Rose Troche’s 1994 lesbian classic “Go Fish” will screen in April at this year’s Queering the Canon retrospective presented by NewFest and BAM in Brooklyn. You can find details about the lineup and get tickets here.
All synopses are courtesy of press materials, unless otherwise noted.
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN AND NON-GENDERED PERSONS OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD
Club Zero – Directed by Jessica Hausner; Written by Jessica Hausner and Géraldine Bajard
At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on “conscious eating.” Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class, and although early lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak’s discussions soon become increasingly disordered and extreme. As a few devoted pupils fall deeper under her cult-like tutelage, they are given a new, even more sinister goal to aspire to – joining the ominous “Club Zero.”
“Club Zero” is now in theaters and will be available on VOD May 21.