Eva Longoria & Dr. Stacy L. Smith – "Hollywood being progressive is still a myth!"| Listen on Anghami

Jun 20

Nicole Kidman – “We need to support the long process of building female voices.”

After denouncing gender inequality in the industry in 2017, Nicole Kidman publicly pledged to shoot with a female director every 18 months. Eight years later, she has gone far beyond this promise, having already collaborated with 19 female directors. Listen to 2025 Women In Motio ... Show More

23m 41s

Mar 2025

Dame Donna Langley - "When a company with ressources shines a light on something that is important to our culture, it's a powerful thing"

Listen to Dame Donna Langley, Chief Content Officer of NBCUniversal and 2024 Women In Motion Award winner, on the importance of supporting women directors and the powerful female friendship at the heart of Wicked, now a 10-time Oscar-nominated film. Women In Motion is a program b ... Show More

34m 53s

Mar 2025

Zoe Saldaña - "Had I planned this, it would have never happened"

Ahead of the 97th Academy Awards, listen to Best Supporting Actress nominee Zoe Saldaña as she reflects on her role in Emilia Perez, the power of representation in cinema, and the need to create space for women and people of color in the industry. Women In Motion is a program by ... Show More

32m 39s

Mar 2023

Visionary Voices Film Festival Conversation with Executive Director Heidi Bash-Harod

Diana Means interviews Executive Director of Women Voices Now Heidi Basch-Harod about their documentary film festival that takes place online March 1st - March 31st. ABOUT THE WOMEN’S VOICES NOW (WVN) FILM FESTIVAL The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival is an international women’s ... Show More

20m 25s

Oct 2018

133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)

Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of the frankest memoirs of 1920s Hollywood, revealing the systematic sexual exploit ... Show More

42m 2s

Feb 2024

Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)

Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these proble ... Show More

56m 5s

Sep 2019

The Reel: 'Hustlers' draws inspiration from all women fighting to get by

Only eight months passed between the green light for “Hustlers” and its release date, but writer-director Lorene Scafaria fought for years to get the project off the ground.Scafaria said films about women doing “bad things” are always hard to get made, but she found that the stig ... Show More

23m 4s

Aug 2015

Podcasting Women: Chicks Who Script

Chicks Who Script is a hilarious and insightful podcast focusing on women and the film industry. Screenwriters Lauren Schacher, Maggie F. Levin and Emily Blake talk with Cristen and Caroline about sexism, staying motivated and their own writer role models. Learn more about your a ... Show More

1 h

Mar 2023

'Harvesting Our Tea' with Director Sheida Kiran

Diana Means interviews British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and musician Sheida Kiran to talk about her documentary film 'Harvesting Our Tea' screening in the online Women Voices Now documentary film festival March 1st - March 31st. ABOUT SHEIDA KIRAN Sheida i ... Show More

30m 31s

Oct 2020

Gutsy Women (with Gloria Steinem and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha)

By now it’s an all-too-familiar phenomenon: A woman who dares to defy stereotypes or step out of her “place” gets called “shrill,” “bossy,” “ambitious,” or worse. But more often than not, those are the women who get the job done. Hillary talks to feminist activist Gloria Steinem ... Show More

44m 3s

Sep 2023

Women Leaving Men for Other Women

Original Airdate: March 25, 2009Spinning out of an "O Magazine" article about women who leave men to be with other women, Oprah talks to Jackie Warner, star of Bravo's "Work Out," and the straight trainer with whom she's enjoyed a relationship; Chris, a woman who came out as a le ... Show More

35m 2s

Eva Longoria & Dr. Stacy L. Smith – "Hol...