Parise discusses her journey from Harvard to Second City to helming shows for Amazon, Netflix, and Lifetime. Vanessa Parise may be the only Hollywood director able to say she deferred Harvard Medical School – for ten years. After graduating magna...

It’s hard out there for female film directors. This, we know. But it doesn’t get any easier when it comes to directing episodic TV. In fact, only 14 percent of episodes in the 2015-16 TV season were directed by women....

Bella Thorne seems to be rising as the face of the young adult genre. She is re-teaming with the group behind Lifetime’s Perfect High, this time as a co-executive producer of Drink, Slay, Love, a TV movie based on Sarah...

Lifetime has greenlit TV movie “Drink, Slay, Love,” which is based on the YA vampire novel of the same name. Bella Thorne is attached as an executive producer and Vanessa Parise will direct the project that hails from Sepia Films...

Women all over the world celebrated when Kathryn Bigelow's film, The Hurt Locker, won the Oscar for Best Picture. But Bigelow is just one of the courageous female directors who are emerging on the scene with the hope of telling...

Director Vanessa Parise had barely graduated from Harvard when she wrote and helmed her first feature, MGM’s 2002 rom-com “Kiss the Bride.” In a sign of the times for helmers, Parise (pictured) in recent years has segued to telepics, where...

Vanessa Parise is an actress, writer and director. Her films Kiss the Bride and Jack and Jill vs. the World hit the indie world with a bang, but what she really wanted to do was get a TV show on...

It’s been said over and over again that Hollywood is a man’s business. And the statistics are there to prove it. According to a report from the WGA, women made up 30 percent of TV staff writers in 2013. So,...

Current trends in genre movies lean toward zombies, war, and the Apocalypse, but I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the benefits of humor in science fiction. Sure, our future planet may be filled with trash, our scientists mad,...

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