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Patricia Rozema interviews film and TV actresses with Canadian connections, including Andrea Martin, Tatiana Maslany, Sandra Oh and Ellen Page.
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Feb 27, 2015 · Women Who Act: Directed by Barry Avrich. With Andrea Martin, Tatiana Maslany, Sandra Oh, Elliot Page. Women Who Act is a project that will take an in depth look at the careers of some of the biggest actresses in Canadian film and television.
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- Documentary
- Barry Avrich
- 2015-02-27
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"
- Mikaela Coel, “I May Destroy You”
- Gloria Calderón Kellett, "One Day at A Time"
- Alexa Karolinski and Anna Winger, "Unorthodox"
- Jordan Weiss, "Dollface"
- Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, "Broad City"
- Ava Duvernay, "When They See Us"
- Alice Birch and Sally Rooney, "Normal People"
- Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh Mckenna, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
- Issa Rae, "Insecure"
Though she has been acting and writing since 2007, Waller-Bridge became a household name in 2016 when her tragicomedy series "Fleabag" won six Emmy awards including Best Writing for a Comedy Series. Waller-Bridge also served as the head writer for the first season of "Killing Eve," a comedy-drama spy thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, as ...
Considered by many as one of the best shows of 2020, Mikaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” is about a young writer navigating her life, career and relationships after a traumatic event that is loosely-inspired by Coel’s own life. Coel not only starred in the series, which predominantly featured a Black British cast, but also served as the creator, wri...
Co-created with Mike Royce, Gloria Calderón Kellett’s "One Day at a Time" focuses on a Cuban-American family navigating modern coming-of-age issues. Goodwin credits this series with "reinvigorating the multi-cam sitcom when it debuted in 2016." This reboot of a 1975 series with the same title received four Emmy award nominations each year from 2016...
The first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish, "Unorthodox" tells the story of a young woman who runs away from her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to Berlin, Germany. Inspired by a true story, Goodwin feels the limited series is notable because it "uses an innovative blend of suspense and drama."
Jordan Weiss’ writing debut, "Dollface," focuses on a woman reestablishing female friendships after going through a painful breakup. Goodwin included "Dollface" because the series "mixes surreal and fantasy sequences with naturalistic comedy resulting in a fresh take on female-driven storytelling." Hulu revealed that the series was the "best perfor...
Originally created as a web series for YouTube, "Broad City'' follows two millennial Jewish women trying to "make it" in New York City. Throughout the series, Glazer and Jacobson star as best friends Ilana and Abbi. They are also the show’s creators, writers and executive producers. "Broad City" is considered one of the best series of the 2010s by ...
"When They See Us" is a crime drama limited series that focuses on the lives of the now-exonerated suspects from the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger case. Goodwin notes that the series is an "extraordinary use of nonfiction material to bring to life the human beings behind the 'Central Park Five'." The series received critical acclaim and was nom...
Alice Birch and Sally Rooney’s Irish drama limited series "Normal People" follows an on-again off-again love story of two students from high school through their time in college. Based on the best-selling novel, the series not only received critical acclaim for the performances, directing, writing and aesthetics but Goodwin adds that the show utili...
A romantic musical dramedy, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" stars co-writer and creator Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a lawyer who moves from New York to California to pursue an ex-boyfriend from high school. Celebrated for incredible ability to create brand new musical theater numbers every episode, the series maintained a notable cult following throughout...
Partially based on Issa Rae’s 2011 webseries "Awkward Black Girl," "Insecure" earned Rae a 2017 Peabody award for "creating a series that authentically captures the lives of everyday young, Black people in modern society." Co-created with comedian Larry Wilmore, Rae was inspired to write the series when she noticed there was nothing else like it on...
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