When I first moved to Hollywood with an MFA in directing, award-winning shorts under my arm and several years of experience working in the industry, I was not prepared to be shut out of my field because of my sex. Eventually social scientists proved with hard numbers what I was experiencing in real time, that, at the time, only 0.5% of film and television production was being directed by women. I wrote my first article in Variety in 2004 and chaired the Director’s Guild of America Women’s Steering Committee from 2012-2014. It may be hard to imagine now, but gender exclusion was not openly acknowledged by our industry until after 2018, instigated by #TimesUp/#MeToo. I believe it's imperative to be a voice for change. In addition to writing articles, presenting on panels and mentoring, I’ve been interviewed in docs: “This Changes Everything.” “Half the Picture,” and “Celluloid Ceilings.” In 2024, I gave a TedX Talk discussing the essential cultural impact of women making movies and television.
Activism
ARTICLES
THE WRAP | 5/10/2025 | “‘LILLY’ Is a Movie for Our Mothers: Complicate, Devoted, Fearless” 🔗
TEDX | 9/15/2023 | Woodstock, Vermont TedX Talks | “Save the world. See a movie made by a woman.” 🔗
Ms. Magazine | 3/23/2021 | Fighting for Pay Equity: A Q&A with Lilly Ledbetter and the Filmmaker Telling Her Story 🔗
Deadline | 12/23/2020 | Rachel Feldman: Women Directors Deserve An Equal Playing Field – Guest Column 🔗
ScreenCraft Panel | 9/1/2020 | How to Write TV Bibles & Treatments: 8 Tips from the Pros 🔗
CARLA Global Media Panel | 8/23/2020 | US TV Showrunners & Producing/Directors 🔗
Film Fatales | 8/7/2020 | iPhone Filmmaking w Ted Melfi 🔗
Winston Baker | 5/28/2020 | Watch Interview: Three Unstoppable Women Directors Hardwicke, Glatter, and Feldman 🔗
NYWIFT | 5/11/2020 | In conversation with film director Rachel Feldman 🔗
ZIP Creative | 5/6/2020 | Interview with director Rachel Feldman 🔗
Sarah Lawrence College Magazine | 5/2020 | Direction Forward | Interview with Alumni Film Director 🔗
Women and Hollywood | 12/11/2019 | Want to Increase the Number of Women Feature Directors? Look to TV 🔗
Variety | 02/07/19 | What the #4PercentChallenge to Hire Women Directors Needs to Succeed 🔗
Variety | 09/18/18 | Open Letter to Reese Witherspoon: There’s an Army of Experienced Women Directors! 🔗
The Wrap | 02/19/18 | Time’s Up for Hollywood Agencies to Sign (and Support) Female Filmmakers 🔗
The Wrap | 01/16/18 | ‘I’ll Never Let Any Woman Direct Me': 11 Female Directors Recount Sexism and Discrimination 🔗
KPCC "The Frame" | 10/25/17 | Listen to an interview connecting Hollywood's sexual harassment to employment discrimination 🔗
The Hollywood Reporter | 10/21/2017 | How to Fix Hollywood's Toxic Gender Exclusion Problem (Guest Column) 🔗
Screenmancer | 9/14/17 | Venice Films Mostly Male & AFI 100 Movies List 2017, Not One by a Woman?
Indiewire / Women & Hollywood | 8/2017 | Plenty of Qualified Women Directors Are Ready to Fill the Ranks 🔗
KPCC "The Frame" | 2/16/17 | Listen to an interview about gender discrimination in Hollywood
Indiewire / Women & Hollywood | 9/2016 | Solutions for Hollywood's Woman Director Problem: Demand More from the Agencies 🔗
Ms. In the Biz | 11/2015 | A Response to Maureen Dowd 🔗
Bloomberg Television Documentary | 6/2015 | Celluloid Ceilings 🔗
Indiewire / Women & Hollywood | 2/2015 | How To Hire A Woman Director
World International Perspective | 7/2014 | Illuminating the Relevance of Women Directing U.S. Media
Indiewire / Women & Hollywood | 7/2014 | An Open Letter to Showrunners
Middlebury College | 7/11/2014 | WomenCallAction: Illuminating the Relevance of Women Directing U.S. Media 🔗