Reel Moments

As of 2011, 20 films have been produced through the program, including giving directorial debuts to Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Biel, Courteney Cox, Kirsten Dunst, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kate Hudson, Eva Mendes, Demi Moore, and Rachel Weisz.

[8] Objectives of the project include empowering women by producing female-friendly short films while creating opportunities for actresses to direct and extending the Glamour brand.

[1] That year, the winners from among the 4000 750-word essays were selected for production by an advisory board of female executives and actresses that included Katie Holmes, Lucy Liu, and Julianna Margulies.

[1] Talia Lugacy was also a director in 2005, and her short, Little Black Dress, was received so well that she parlayed the experience into a directing role for the 2007 movie Descent.

[13][14] Other directors in the first year were Jenny Bicks, Lisa Leone, and Trudie Styler, while actresses included Rosario Dawson and Debi Mazar.

[18] After having been written, directed and acted almost entirely by women, the films were also produced by a woman from Moxie Pictures in Los Angeles.

The acting talent included Camilla Belle, Chevy Chase, Dakota Fanning, Virginia Madsen, Kurt Russell, Winona Ryder, Kristen Stewart, Channing Tatum, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Aisha Tyler.

Moore directed Brittany Snow, Sarah Wright, and Madeline Zima as well as her daughter Rumer Willis in a 12-minute film titled Streak.

[31] Mendes' film, which was entitled "California Romanza", included a cast of Troy Garity, Kathy Najimy, Christina Ricci, and Daniel Stern.

[31] Biel's short, which included performances by youth actresses Emily Skinner and Tyler Wilkins,[32] was entitled "Sodalis".

[31] Weisz debuted with a film entitled "Stop Thief", starring Rosemarie DeWitt and Joel Edgerton.

The shorts, that fall under the year's theme of empowering women to feel beautiful, will open on October 24 at the Director's Guild Theater and be available on glamourreelmoments.com the following day.

[14] In 2011, Reel Moments alums Jennifer Aniston (2006) and Demi Moore (2008) joined Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, and Penelope Spheeris in directing the Lifetime comedy-drama television film Five.