Sentences with phrase «minority filmmakers»

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.

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.

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.

I'm not saying directors who make bad movies never deserve to direct again, but ask yourself if a woman or minority filmmaker went through a wild clusterf * ck like Fantastic Four, would they turn around and make a prestige biopic with someone like Tom Hardy?

Ava DuVernay — We don't have enough minority filmmakers in general, or female filmmakers for that matter, so DuVernay and her talents really do stand out.

The 41st annual festival boasted an array of female and minority filmmakers behind and in front of the camera with it's indie - heavy 2017 lineup.

«The changes we are witnessing are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices, of different voices, of our voices, joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying, «Time's up,»» said Judd, before introducing a montage of women and minority filmmakers talking about representation and intersectionality in cinema.

Especially in terms of minority filmmakers, critics can play a crucial role in spotlighting under the radar actors and underseen directors in reviews in mainstream outlets.

The Mexican director praised the producer, Mike Medavoy, for hiring her — «It was not an obvious choice at all to give the movie to a woman» — she said she feels like «an astronaut» in Hollywood because she's one of the few working female minority filmmakers.

2017 was a banner year for women and minority filmmakers: films like Lady Bird, Get Out, First They Killed My Father, Mudbound and Wonder Woman received phenomenal critical praise and box office success... and yet, they were overlooked by award show jurors.

Parker was going to be the minority filmmaker that 2016 so desperately needed.