At the end of June, the Directors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences invited 92 directors, 53 of them women, to join its organization. Eight of the newly invited directors have been featured on the Drama Movies site. They are: Ana Lily Amirpour ("A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"), Ramin Bahrani ("99 Homes"), Catherine Breillat ("Abuse of Weakness"), Isabel Coixet ("Learning to Drive"), Deniz Gamze Erguven ("Mustang"), Nicole Garcia ("Balcony on the Sea"), Tobias Lindholm ("A Hijacking"), and Anna Muylaert ("The Second Mother").
