Sentences with phrase «number of female filmmakers»

Eighty - two women are set to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday to highlight the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years.

In fact, she linked the low number of female filmmakers to the low number of female film critics, noting that critics are the gatekeepers of cinema — and when all of them are men, fewer women are likely to make it through.

Through the star - studded 12 days, questions of diversity plagued the festival, with Chastain commenting on the low number of female filmmakers and Smith on the lack of African - American representation overall.

In a striking rally, 82 women — the same number of female filmmakers to ever be selected to Cannes competition lineup — stood on the Palais red - carpet steps, as Cate Blanchett said, «a symbol of our determination to change and progress.»

Not exact matches

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.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

These numbers are staggering: out of the 178 features made this century by these top filmmakers, only 44 had a female lead.

Announced yesterday, the 2018 competition lineup includes the highest number of films from female filmmakers since 2011 (17.6 %, three out of 17 currently announced films), and the festival will play home to new works from Nadine Labaki, Eva Husson, and Alice Rohrwacher.

For the past three years, the Sundance Institute has looked at its own participation numbers in its annual Sundance Festival with the aim of understanding the rate of participation by female filmmakers.