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By: Spilt Ink » Blog Archive » Stargate Behind the Lens: (Almost) No Girls Allowed

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:48:54 +0000

[...] was reading this post in the archives of Feminist SF–The Blog! about the lack of women writing and directing [...]

By: 13th Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction & Fantasy Fans « Words From The Center, Words From The Edge

Thu, 03 May 2007 15:15:17 +0000

[...] -The Losers, a post by Idle Cyan over at the Feminist SF Blog talks about the shows that don’t have any episodes (or very few) directed and/or written by women: First, I’d already started noticing that a pretty good number of episodes of Supernatural were written by women, which is a good thing, despite this being a show that’s so much about a return to a pre-BTVS, pre-X-Files, men-fighting-monsters set-up. And some other shows do give more than a token number of creative credits to women, like Jericho, for instance. [...]

By: Katherine F.

Katherine F. — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:30:47 +0000

Julie Gardner is co-executive producer of Torchwood and Doctor Who.

Also, although JMS did write very many episodes of B5, during the first two seasons quite a few were written by D. C. Fontana (the D stands for Dorothy).

By: Ide Cyan

Ide Cyan — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:46:38 +0000

Most of those are names I’d been adding to the Wiki, you know.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:56:06 +0000

Jane Espenson wrote the Battlestar Galactica episode The Passage and co-wrote Dirty Hands with Anne Cofell Saunders.

I believe Anne is now writing for Eureka. Johanna Stokes has written four episodes for Eureka.

Smallville has Caroline Dries writing on staff and has had the mighty Doris Egan in the past. I see Tracy Bellomo in the credits also but don’t know whether that name is m or f. Same with Kelly Souders.

Women writers on Supernatural: Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker, Catherine Humphris.

It’s not as bad as it seems. Though I would love to see more women directors in tv.

By: Ide Cyan

Ide Cyan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:00:36 +0000

Someone added a SGA season 3 writing credit for a woman: Holly Henderson, for "The Game", who wasn't listed in the TV.com episode guide I'd consulted. (The IMDb credits her for the story, not the teleplay.)

By: I Read the Internets - 4/21/07

I Read the Internets - 4/21/07 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:30:31 +0000

[...] this week at Feminist SF – The Blog!, Ide Cyan has a post about some trends she’s noticed while adding women TV writers and directors to a list of women eligible for 2008 SF awards. [...]

By: Laura Q

Laura Q — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:02:08 +0000

I bolded Battlestar Galactica woman-writer episodes but haven't added to the awards page yet. Note that Jane Espenson wrote a BSG with Anne Cofell. What I'm noticing from looking at Xena, Buffy, BSG, etc., is that there are a reasonable number of women screenwriters, although still too much of a minority, but where are the women directors? (And what happened to Toni Graphia, the woman who was a co-producer on BSG?) A wikipedia tip -- you can look through Category:Women screenwriters to find other women. Look while you can, because "Women X" categories are always under threat in wikipedia. (There was just a long struggle to resurrect "Women writers".) ... There are lots of women directors, by the way. FSFwiki Category:Directors lists some SF directors who are mostly women and if you browse through wikipedia category:Directors you see lots of women. (Note the absence of wikipedia category Women directors.) It's harder for women directors to get funding for first major picture, distribution deals, and follow-up funding after the first film for second, third, etc. I can't remember the cites for that -- it's been years since I read on this. Maybe out of Chicago's "Women in the Director's Chair" film festival, which is an awesome program (widc.org). No... !!! I see that WIDC is shutting down. Goddammit.

By: Ide Cyan

Ide Cyan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:14:46 +0000

Trying to find recent or upcoming genre movies by women is difficult. Many of the directors of earlier genre works have had to move to TV or to other projects in mainstream drama.

Barbara Hall has recently finished filming a project titled “Demons”, which seems to be a pilot for a TV series about an exorcist, but there isn’t much information about it out there.

There’s a movie titled “Witches” listed on Angela Robinson’s IMDb page for 2007, but almost no information about it whatsoever.

By: Madeline F

Madeline F — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:51:20 +0000

I’m really glad you’re filling in the TV stuff. I kinda hoped there would be female writers on TV, but I couldn’t think of anyone but Marti Noxon… And I couldn’t think of any female directors of movies at all, which had me mildly depressed. Kudos for finding “Blood and Chocolate.”

Still, appalling lack of women at the top of the entertainment industry.