Marianna Palka has endured a bumpy decade: The filmmaker and actress was a Sundance breakout whose career was nearly derailed by the prospects of a life-threatening disease. She makes challenging ...

If a simple genetic test could tell you whether or not you had inherited a devastating disease would rob you of your future and leave you a prisoner in your own body — would you take it? That’s ...

MPI Media Group has acquired multi-territory rights to Marianna Palka’s dramedy “Bitch,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Palka stars alongside Jason Ritter. MPI Media Group will be ...

Marianna Palka’s Sundance Competition feature Good Dick has just premiered on Hulu. When he interviewed Palka for Filmmaker in 2008, Nick Dawson wrote: The intrepid Palka makes her big screen debut as ...

From writer/director Marianna Palka and Company X—the production banner of Elijah Wood, alongside Josh Waller, Daniel Noah, and Lisa Whalen—Bitch is a film shaking up Sundance’s Midnight audiences ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rising actresses Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Lana Condor (X-Men: Apocalypse) are attached to star in female buddy comedy Girls Night, written by Cristina Kinon (Bravo’s Adulting) and ...

It's not easy to talk to some people about feminism or the subject of fragile masculinity. Oftentimes, the folks who you want most desperately to understand these things are the audience most ...

Some people feel most at home burrowing in the depths of other people’s pain, and Jason Ritter’s unnamed character in Marianna Palka’s “Good Dick” is clearly one of those people. A clerk in a video ...

Peripatetic L.A. filmmaker Lucy Walker likes to plant seeds of ideas to see if they grow into movies she might want to make. She’s picky about what material is strong enough to support the time and ...

Nearly four years after the emotional events of a documentary that went inside Palka's own life, the filmmaker and actress is more productive — and proud — than ever before. Marianna Palka has endured ...