How to make a film has its structure...But what happens when someone come alongs and turns that whole process on its head?
Unlike Anything Else (Featured Female Filmmakers – Part 11)
Top 10 Female Directed Films From 2018
2018. What a year! It was a big year for gender equality, particularly in the sense of raising awareness. The award season kicked things off with many inspiring speeches from empowering women who called for change in 2018 and saw the first female nominated for a directing Oscar in 8 years. Plus the first woman …
Featured Female Filmmakers – Part 10
We are bombarded everywhere everyday by moving images. Films, TV, YouTube, Ads, Music Videos. Most media these days involves some sort of video and so those videos require directors. On this blog I have mainly focused on film, but I think its important to recognize that the mediascape of today is changing and content creation …
All Joking Aside
One of the things I love most about having this blog is having a voice. A voice that can not only express frustration and herald a call-to-action, but a voice that can share the work of others and lift those people up into the spotlight. Today I'm using this voice to spread the word about …
5 MORE Hashtags For Film Equality
One of my most popular blog posts to date is the 5 Hashtags for Film Equality post I did back in February 2017. But a lot has happened since then. Women, and men, have become far more vocal with their disgust for the lack of gender equality in the film industry. So I think its …
The Masculinisation of Women – A League of Their Own #WDAM
Penny Marshall directed A League of Their Own for a release in 1992. The film tells the story of the American women's baseball league that was created to provide entertainment and lift the spirits of people during WWII. It stars Geena Davis and Tom Hanks with Madonna in a supporting role, and I think if …
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Selma – Woman Director Awareness Month
My new girl crush is undoubtedly Ava DuVernay. She is such an inspiration to me as an aspiring film director myself and every time I see an interview with her or hear her speak its completely uplifting. But what kind of fan would I be without actually seeing her work. Ava has directed a handful …
Are We Over-Saturating?
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 …
Top 10 Women’s Film Festival’s
So the Venice Film Festival has coped a lot flack recently about the serious lack of female representation amongst the directors of the films chosen, from myself included... With the excuse being that the films were all selected on merit and it was a complete coincidence that 87% of the films were made by men. …
Criticising the Criticisers
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 …
