Still, this hardly feels like a sea change, and in my own research, I haven’t seen a huge increase in female directors slated for 20. A recent article in Variety claims that the numbers are moving in the right direction, with possibly 14 of the 100 top-grossing movies in 2019 directed by women, including some of the “big” fall titles like Frozen II, Little Women, and It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. In 2018, 85% of top 100 grossing films were written by men, and of the 112 directors behind the 100 top-grossing movies of 2018, only 3.6% were directed women. With striking data, This Changes Everything, describes the discrimination and obstacles that women filmmakers are up against. Talent agencies are then less likely to promote female filmmakers. This makes it more difficult to secure financing for the second film or to be considered for studio jobs. Their first films don’t receive as much publicity or distribution and then they don’t have a big box office. You will have to seek them out, because they aren’t show in as many theaters as movies directed by men-and that’s one of the big reasons that women don’t advance in their directing careers. For moviegoers, the challenge is to support female filmmakers by making sure that half the films you watch are either directed or written by women.Īs someone who has been doing this for almost two years, I can tell you that it takes planning and deliberation to ensure that 50% of the movies you watch are made by women. This Changes Everything is not meant as just a showcase of the issues but as a call to action to further the cause of the radical social and institutional change that is necessary if we are to move forward as a culture and as a country.This straightforward documentary tries to answer the questions that kicked off my blog: 1) Why are there so few female directors? 2) What can we do to change that? Produced by Geena Davis’s Institute on Gender in Media, this in an activist work that concludes with a call to action for unions, studios, and individuals. There are reasons for this that the film explores. The film's title comes out of my second interview with Geena when she talks about how everyone thought that the success of a female-driven film would finally make things change. There is growing consensus that the time for talk is over but that consensus is not necessarily new. The movement has galvanized the women of Hollywood (and some men) to take real concrete steps toward change. We had the additional fortune of witnessing a new wave feminist movement explode onto the scene while we were shooting. We, the filmmakers, were fortunate to have many female and male power players in Hollywood sit before our cameras. From small micro-aggressions to criminal abuses of power, the mistreatment and underrepresentation of women in Hollywood is becoming increasingly known, though little real change has actually occurred in a system in need of a critical reset. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and the Artemis Rising Foundation, this documentary asks: What is behind the film industry's blatant gender bias? What has been tried in the past and what initiatives are being tried today (and around the world) to confront gender discrimination? What does this discrimination look like on a more personal level? And most importantly, what must be done to create real and lasting change. This Changes Everything takes an incisive look into the male-dominated film industry to examine those forces - both conscious and unconscious - that continue to foster the systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women.
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