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This film, the fascinating unknown story of the remarkable Anne Innis Dagg, Canadian scientist, feminist, naturalist, zoologist, biologist and author, brings her important, overlooked work back to the fore where it urgently needs to be. – Women & Hollywood. More:
The Italian classic film Pasqualino Settebelleze (Seven Beauties) made director Lina Wertmüller the first ever woman to be nominated for a best director Oscar in 1977. Now at 91 years old, the film industry icon is being awarded an honorary Oscar. – Euronews. More:
Female directors don’t merely improve the range of who we see on screen: They change our sense of what female characters get to do. – Stacy L. Smith, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. More:
Hiring more women to direct more TV creates more opportunities down the line, leading to more equality in the entire film and television-making process. – Emily Zemler, Shondaland. More:
These new directorial voices should make indie cinema an exciting place over the next several years. – Zack Sharf, IndieWire. More:
“More than anything else, I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.” – Nadia Murad, awarded the 2018 Nobel peace prize jointly with Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege. On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach, tells Nadia’s story. – Amen Oyiboke, Bustle. More:
In 2017 women had 31.8% of speaking roles in movies, fewer than they did a decade ago. Hiring more female directors and writing in more female speaking roles would help the inclusion crisis. – Shannon Carlin, Bustle. More:
These filmmakers serve as a corrective to the male-centric mythologies that often accompany discussions about film auteurs. BAMcinématek Film Series: ‘A Different Picture: Women Filmmakers in the New Hollywood Era, 1967- 1980’, Brooklyn Academy of Music until May 20. – Manohla Dargis, NYT. More:
Only 3% of 2018 film releases by the six major Hollywood studios are directed by women – the lowest percentage in five years. Amy Adrion’s crowd-funded documentary “Half the Picture” examines gender-based discrimination and hiring practices in Hollywood. It features Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle in Time), Lena Dunham (Girls), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Patricia Cardoso (Real Women Have Curves) and Jill Soloway. – Brandy McDonnell, AWFJ. More:
As a bare-minimum metric, the Bechdel Test does a good job of showing how amazingly far Hollywood is from gender equality. But it isn’t going to push the industry toward an identifiable goal. Many films that pass the Bechdel Test failed most of these new tests. – Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle & Gus Wezerek, FiveThirtyEight. More:
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