Women and Hollywood's Weekly Newsletter
June 20
NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
We have four new interviews out this week: “Jeanette” director, Maris Curran, talks through making her documentary which follows a survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre as she rebuilds her life; director Soraya Simi shares the difficulties of getting doc “Row of Life” made; producer-director Eva Orner discusses making “Surviving Ohio State;” and “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” director Shoshanna Stern explains how she sought to bring hearing audiences into the Deaf perspective through the sound design and form of her film.
Netflix has locked in the release date for Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, “A House of Dynamite”: the flick will land on the streamer October 24, as well as enjoy a limited theatrical release. Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Moses Ingram, Jared Harris, and Anthony Ramos are among the cast - penned by Noah Oppenheim, the geopolitical thriller focuses on a race to determine who is responsible and how to respond when a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States.
All synopses are courtesy of press materials, unless otherwise noted.
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN AND NON-GENDERED PERSONS OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD
The Queen of My Dreams – Written and Directed by Fawzia Mirza (Now in theaters)
Set across decades and continents, “The Queen of My Dreams” follows Azra (Amrit Kaur), a queer, Muslim, grad student in Canada, who finds herself on a whirlwind journey through her family's past after the sudden death of her father. As she travels to Pakistan, memory and imagination blur – transporting her between 1969 Karachi and 1999 Nova Scotia, and between her own coming-of-age and her mother's (Nimra Bucha).