She reached fame when Theo Van Gogh, the director of Submission, a film that Hirsi had written criticizing women's treatment in Islam, was killed by a fanatic.
Despite fewer paper filings, the center has maintained the staff levels of last year because of procedural changes that require additional keystrokes, according to James Gaither, director of the submission-processing division.
George C. White, the founder of the O'Neill Center and a current board member, said it was a "90percentt chance" that the new resident artistic director would reinstate open submissions.
2004: Provocative film director Theo Van Gogh, who made Submission, stabbed to death by Dutch-born Islamist Muhammad Bouyeri. Dutch-born Islamist Muhammad Bouyeri
For the second year running, China has nominated a film by a French director as its official submission for the best foreign language film Academy award.
Yet despite garnering rave reviews at the 2015 Cannes film festival where Hou was named best director, Taiwan's official submission for the 88th Oscars didn't even make the nine-title shortlist from which the nominated films were chosen.
Repsol UK managing director Ronnie Bonnar said: "'The submission of the consent application is an important milestone for the Inch Cape project.
At the last minute, Wendy suggested we add her old friend, future-Tony award winning Jim Lapine, to the submission as director, and I got future-Tony award-winning Broadway producer Liz Oliver to nominate us.
Writers J.H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, and Akiva Goldsman submitted both parts of "Over There" for consideration in the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series category at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, and director Goldsman made a submission of both parts for the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series category.
Struck by the number of disaster-theme submissions, Asako Fujioka, director of the festival's Tokyo office, said she and her colleagues decided to screen everything that came their way.
