Third year university. Our last opportunity to make a film before semester was over. Each student was given the task of writing a 5 minute script with less than 20 something lines of dialogue. I was pretty happy with what I wrote. The story had potential and it represented the kind of film I enjoyed …
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When it comes to learning about the history of film you will find a severe lack of women in the picture. I can attest to this as someone who studied film at university. From the technology's inception, to experimentation with the medium, all the way through to what we consider classic cinema; the films that …
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If you were not severely in awe of the amount of films at this years Sydney Film Festival than my hat goes off to you. I managed to squeeze in 8 all up, which was an abysmal 3% of the 250+ films on show over the week and a half of consistent screenings. But despite …
I'm going to be hard pressed to keep finding Parisian pun titles for my articles on this, but as long as Cannes film festival keeps seesawing on the scale of gender equality I will have to be cringe worthy. But seriously, what is going on with Cannes this year? Last years festival caused a stir …
If you are a geek like myself then you will be also be lamenting the fact that many of our beloved franchises are coming to conclusion this year. The Avengers, Game of Thrones and Star Wars are all reaching their momentous conclusions in 2019. For studios, franchises equal one thing and one thing only. MONEY. …
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I read an article the other day by director of recent release The Spy Who Dumped Me, Susanna Fogel, who brought up the interesting idea that maybe we are over-saturating people with the message of gender equality. Everywhere you look these days there are people making a point of pointing out that its still not equal, that …
The San Diego State University study of Women in Television and Film that came this week discovered that female critics are outnumbered 2 to 1 by their male counterparts [1]. A look into 4111 recent film reviews on popular film criticism site Rotten Tomato's discovered that 68% of those reviews were written by men, 4 …
So it's time to start up this blog again for 2018! The past year has been a big year for women in film. In the work that they have produced, and in closing that gender gap. Awareness is the main word I think of when I look back at 2017. Women found their voice and we're not …
This came up in conversation the other day when I was doing some training about respect and creating a positive culture in the workplace. However I think its relevant to the everyday and specifically to the issue of gender disparity. The topic I'm speaking about is unconscious bias. So what is it exactly? Our brains …
In part 2 of our around the globe series I thought it would be good to take a look at Bollywood. Whilst the industry shares its name with Hollywood, is it incorporating female filmmakers any more than its American counterpart? The short answer is not really. Representation of women in films coming out of India …
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