What's up this week? Women losing steam in film and television news, as numbers of working women in entertainment drop to levels of the late 1990s, Aaron Sorkin admitted pure ignorance to Hollywood's gender and diversity problems, and recent MPAA's findings regarding women audiences at the box office. Topic of the week? Being a woman in Hollywood Visionary: Casey Gates!

This weeks news comes from Australia, Canada and Sarasota as well as a Women's Film Challenge that you need to act fast on as deadlines close in 2 days, on the 17th! Topic of the week is wearing too many hats in production and writers writing autobiographical staring roles for them to also direct and produce! Oh my! And we're having a great conversation with visionary, Harmony Smith. Tune in and join the fun!

On International Women's Day, we are proud to launch Season 2 of the Miss Vision Podcast, featuring a visionary who prefers the title "Mistress of Suspense", Lou Simon. She funded 3 feature films back to back and has international distribution for them all. We are also discussing table reads and the importance of feedback as well as giving you information about this years writing fellowships and find about about IMDb's new F-Rating system! Join our conversation and bring your friends! Visit our blog: https://missvisionpodcast.wordpress.com Get in touch: [email protected] Get social with us on Facebook & Instagram: @missvisionpodcast

September is #DirectedByWomen 's worldwide viewing party month where you are invited to celebrate and discover the work of women directors. This week's podcast has a focus on films directed by women. We also let you know about some cool opportunities available to you, such as the Screencraft short film fund and a new documentary series by the Center for Investigative Reporting who are seeking out five women documentary filmmakers by the 23rd of September! So tune in, join our conversation and then follow up this podcast by enjoying some #DirectedByWomen viewing parties! I'll start you off with a link to mine: www.jacquiblue.net/viewing-party More about what Barbara does & Directed By Women: http://directedbywomen.com The APPLICATION link for the Center for Investigative Reporting's opportunity is in this article: www.revealnews.org/job-opportuniti…mentary-series/