Articles by Michele

Selected Industry Publications

2024 “The Benefits of Being ‘Young and Dumb’: A Review of ‘My Old Ass’” at Ms. Magazine
2024 “Who’s Afraid of Taylor Swift” at Ms. Magazine
2023 “Barbie and My Midlife Crisis” at Ms. Magazine
2023 “What’s So Funny About a Sexless Marriage?” at Film Threat
2023 “In Film ‘Miranda’s Victim,’ Michelle Danner Explores the Right to Speak Up and the Right to Remain Silent” at Ms. Magazine
2023 “The Problem with Gender-Reversed Teen Sex Comedies” at Literary Hub
2023 “Rethinking Character and Conflict: A Conversation with Jess King, Author of ‘Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television” at Script
2023 “Pondering ‘Women Talking’: What if Women Left Society?” at Ms. Magazine
2023 “Lucia Small’s Film ‘Girl Talk’ Explores Gender Bias Within High School Debate Teams: ‘A Powerful Team With Powerful Girls’ Voices’” at Ms. Magazine
2022 “Gender Is Still Burning: The Ms. Q&A with Jennie Livingston” at Ms. Magazine
2022 “5 Strategies for Quitting Your Job… as an Entrepreneur” at Entrepreneur
2022 “Filmmaker Elizabeth Mirzaei on Telling the Stories of Afghan People and Fighting ‘Afghanistan Fatigue'” at Ms. Magazine
2021 “The Crime Hidden in Plain Sight: An Interview with Amy Ziering, Director of ‘Allen v. Farrow’” at Ms. Magazine
2021 “Sex Sells—But Why? and How? Author Maria San Filippo on Sexual Provocation in Film and TV” at Ms. Magazine
2021 Promising Young Woman: A Modern-Day Take on Rape-Revenge” at Ms. Magazine
2021 “The Mastermind Group You Can Start Yourself” at Entrepreneur
2020 “What About Boys? Affirmative Consent in American Teen Films” at In Media Res, a MediaCommons Project
2020 “The Sex Talk… With a Little Help from Teen Movies” at The Good Men Project
2020 “How to Write Better Sex Scenes” at Script Magazine
2020 “Q&A: Author and Screenwriter Jenni Hendriks Writes Abortion Back into the Teen Comedy” at Ms. Magazine
2020 “An Abortion Teen Comedy? Unpregnant Goes There.” at Ms. Magazine
2020 “How to Build Your Creative Support Network” at Stage 32
2020 “The Sex Talk—With a Little Help from Classic Teen Comedies” at Ms. Magazine
2020 “Time’s (Still) Up: Rewriting Our Film History” at Ms. Magazine
2020 “You’re an Entertainment Entrepreneur—Act Like One” at Stage 32
2019 “It’s not just the Oscars: The Library of Congress fails women filmmakers, too” in Salon
2019 Book Excerpt: “The Legendary Female Filmmakers Everyone Should Know” in Women and Hollywood
2019 Berlinale Coverage: God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya; Knives and Skin; Une Colonie; The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open in The Independent
2018 Art of the Creative Entrepreneur:Part 1 and Part 2, The Independent
2016 How to Pitch: Lessons Learned from DocDay, ITVFest, and the Salem Film Fest, The Independent
2016 Interviews for 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2016: Annie Berman, Complex Movements, Kate McCartney & Kate McLennanJoel Hodge & Evan Glodell, and Paisley Smith The Independent
2015 ITVFest: Fostering the Next Generation of Television and Web Series Producers in… Dover, Vermont?MovieMaker Magazine
2014 Filming Matty Christian: A Documentary Filmmaker Finds Inspiration with Found Footage,” NewEnglandFilm.com
2014 Back to the Past: Keva Rosenfeld’s 1986 Documentary All American High Finds a New AudienceThe Independent
2014 Best of the Shorts: Tribeca 2010The Independent
2014 From RI to Oscar: Talking with Producer Erika Hampson,” NewEnglandFilm.com
2009 “Mondo Explorer Guide to Paris”
2008 To Shoot Flying, Jennifer Fox Gave Up Control of Her CameraThe Independent
2008 The Transformation of TelevisionThe Independent
2008 Werner Herzog Made Me Do ItThe Independent
2008 “How to Make a Short Film,” NewEnglandFilm.com
2007 Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction review, Moviemaker
2005 On Moving,” Bonjour Paris
2001 2001: A Sundance Odyssey,” NewEnglandFilm.com
2000 “Going to Market: A Report from the IFP Market,” NewEnglandFilm.com
1997 Video Streaming: The Future is Now,” NewEnglandFilm.com