A recent study of the top 250 grossing films found that women comprised roughly 6 percent of the directors; the number of female minority filmmakers can barely be measured. (fortune.com)
Perhaps further honors for DuVernay, and «Selma,» will help women and minority filmmakers get more of a chance to tell stories in Hollywood, but their success will also depend on the sort of stories they want to tell. (fortune.com)
Studios tend to stereotype female and minority filmmakers as only interested in «female» and «minority» stories; as long as Hollywood remains fixated on big - budget action films, artists who are exclusively interested in other subjects will forever be marginalized. (fortune.com)