Sentences with phrase «numbers of women filmmakers»

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.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

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.

If you're a filmmaker and you can't turn $ 20 million into $ 80 million domestic, you're just not going to get the opportunities of those who can... and a movie like this is not gonna get anywhere * close * to those numbers unless women go and see it in equal numbers to the men who go to see a «Neighbors»... or at least a «Sideways».

In a special conversation with The Mary Sue, he broke down what it means to shoot on film versus digital and also highlighted a number of women and POC filmmakers whose work excited him.

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The Archer Film Festival strives to bridge that divide by empowering and highlighting young filmmakers who share the goal of increasing the number of women in the film and television industry, and to participate in the conversation about women's representation onscreen.

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.»

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.

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.

2014 was a banner year, with great films in an enormous range of genres: blockbusters and indies, horror and SciFi, dramas and comedies, as well as films from first time filmmakers, a lot of great stuff from women directors, and an unusually high number of excellent films with one - word titles.