The phrase
"woman directors" refers to women who have the role of directing or leading a project, organization, or film production. They are women who hold positions of authority and make important decisions in their respective fields.
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Our goal is to recognize and honor the outstanding work
of women directors of narrative features, documentaries and shorts.
But hopefully it will be easier
for women directors to get work on high - profile, big - budget projects.
No longer just one of our
best woman directors, she's now one of the best directors in world cinema, period.
It is not clear whether women chose to write reviews of films
with women directors and writers or if editors assigned these films to women writers.
Hiring women directors has become an actionable priority for studios in recent months, and results are starting to be seen as more female filmmakers are getting hired for franchise projects.
This is a year
when women directors are making it to the finish line in awards season, and STILL they can't break through.
Not because she can't do it, because there are
brilliant women directors, but if you have a family; it's basically a job where you can't do both.
I am equally proud that this year I am one of two
women directors nominated in this category, which until now only had 4 women nominated out of 72 directors nominated.
Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman, Jay Hernandez, Cara Delevingne, writer / director David Ayer, producers Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder and even
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins were present, and we have some soundbite interviews with each of them in our video players below.
Modern - day figures like Wonder
Woman director Patty Jenkins and Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim also got their own lookalike dolls.
However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story
on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.
Companies that sustained three or more
women directors in at least four of five years appreciably outpaced those with sustained low representation by 84 per cent on ROS, 60 per cent on ROIC, and 46 per cent on ROE.
Though women are represented in almost every category at the festival, the stats for
women directors at Cannes aren't much better than last year's, and parity remains a distant not - reality, so there's still a lot of work to be done.
Earlier this week, «The Post» director Steven Spielberg also cited those films when asked
about women directors during awards season.
At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, maybe
women directors do bring more more heart and soul to movies than men.
«Over the last two years, the Academy have completely remade the directing branch and have added many more
women directors from all across the world.
Brooklyn - based filmmaker Sophia Takal won a Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative
Woman Director Award on Tuesday night here at South by Southwest, and, for the most part, her debut feature Green bears out that honor.
Shows on other networks like OWN's Queen Sugar and Netflix and Marvel's Jessica Jones both have featured entire seasons only directed by women — because the shows are run or created by women who saw the need to
give women directors a chance that they normally would have not gotten.
From the time Arzner directed her last film till Lupino directed her first in 1949, there were no
other women directors working in Hollywood.
For the rest of the indie
women directors bringing their A-game, we can only hope there's a surprise or two waiting in the wings, and the critics latch on with all their might.
Long criticized for the lack of
women directors represented, this year Cannes will see the Coppola and Ramsay films, as well as Naomi Kawase's Radiance premiering in competition, a short film directed by Kristen Stewart, the Campion series, and seven films directed by women in the independent - minded Directors» Fortnight section.
To the Duplass» credit, out of twelve episodes, seven
feature women directors, a few making their television debuts.
Twomey, whose movie is about an Afghan girl growing up under Taliban rule, is the first
solo woman director to win the award.
It's pretty inexplicable, given all the complaints
around women directors for years, that some major names weren't already at the table.
«We have the Queens of Cinema, not just three, [but] six
women directors coming to the festival...» including Ava DuVernay (13th).
Acclaimed Wellington - born New Zealand filmmaker Dame Jane Campion once stated that she «would love to see more
women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world...
In an industry
where women directors and directors of color are shockingly rare, Gerwig and Peele broke through and made two of 2017's best - reviewed films.
The lunch brought together an extensive and growing pool of accomplished and
aspiring women directors with chairmen, board members and senior...
The fact that there is such a strong group of
women directors working now in the UK — from Amma Asante through to Joanna Hogg — can only have a positive impact on young women when they are thinking about creative career options.
«Sexism is one of the most socially accepted forms of discrimination and a pervasive disease in the film and television business,» the founders of Shit People Say to
Women Directors said in an email to Fortune.
If you want to be simultaneously outraged and encouraged, check out Vulture's new list of «100
Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring.»
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Women Directors Panel At the Miami International Film Festival