We have joined forces to combat one of the major obstacles to gender parity in independent film: a lack of access to capital
among women filmmakers.
Not exact matches
Among the
women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer
filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.
The under - employment of
women film reviewers, actors, and
filmmakers perpetuates the nearly seamless dialogue
among men in U.S. cinema.
Paul: The Long Goodbye (1973, Altman — I'm restricting myself to one film per
filmmaker, so just know I could've easily filled this list with Altmans: California Split and HealtH chief
among them), M. Hulot's Holiday (1953, Tati), An Unmarried
Woman (1978, Mazursky), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974, Hough), Subway (1985, Besson).
Similarly premised on a tipping point between synthesis and disarray was the Kiwi anthology Waru, an unprecedented collaboration
among eight Maori
women filmmakers, each contributing a 10 - minute short film linked in more and less obvious ways to the funeral of the title character, a young boy who died amid dubious circumstances.
Three of the movies from female
filmmakers of color that made our «Best Films About
Women in 2014» list — Amma Asante's Belle, Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay's Selma — are happily
among the 17 films helmed by female directors to crack the top 250 list.
Among those expected Saturday are Salma Hayek, Jane Fonda, «Wonder
Woman»
filmmaker Patty Jenkins and the French director Agnes Varda, a recipient of an honorary Palme d'Or prize.
It screens here as part of a series about female
filmmakers during the New Hollywood era with Marguerite Paris's short All
Women Are Equal (1972), which was
among the first films to focus on a trans
woman.
Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the
filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against
women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.