No Meaningful Change in Female Filmmaker Participation at the Sundance Film Fest (Indiewire)
Though the 2014 lineup at the Sundance was disappointingly low on women directors, the festival remains committed to advancing the ranks of women directors in the industry. Two years ago, Sundance and Women in Film launched a joint longitudinal study that would follow the careers of Park City grads to study the gender distribution at the festival itself, as well as the post-festival careers of male and female directors. Below is an infographic that shows how festival alums fa
No Meaningful Change in Female Filmmaker Participation at the Sundance Film Fest (Indiewire)
This morning, Women in Film and the Sundance Institute released the next stage of research on female filmmakers. Last year they released an unprecedented first phase in the work that began the analysis on why they are so many barriers to female filmmakers. The first thing to say is how important this work is. Having longitudinal research on women filmmakers not just based on box office performance is really important to a deeper understanding of the large scale cultural issue
How many of this year's Oscar nominees pass the Bechdel test. Not many.
Judging by the winners’ speeches at last Sunday’s Golden Globes, 2013 was a banner year for ladies in cinema — everyone from Amy Adams to Cate Blanchett praised their writers for including strong female roles. But on closer look, many of the year’s best pictures fail the the most rudimentary test of gender equity in film. It’s called the “Bechdel test,” so named for its creator, cartoonist Alison Bechdel, and it has only three tenets: Does the film have at least two named wom
Dear Hollywood: We know how you can make more money in 2014
The biggest blockbusters of 2013 scored pretty well on the Bechdel Test, a measure of quality onscreen time for women—but even better at the box office Dear Hollywood: We know how you can make more money in 2014. Put more women onscreen. We analyzed the top 50 biggest box office movies of 2013 to see if they passed the Bechdel Test, which evaluates whether a movie has two or more women in it who have a conversation about something other than a man. It’s named after cartoonist
