In 1983 the DGA sued the studios for discrimination and the case was later dismissed.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play The work your institute has done makes for a really compelling film. Studying the data, Feldman and others found that half of 1 percent of all directing jobs went to women. Read more in Take The Lead on Rachel Feldman Rachel Feldman, a director who participated in Take The Lead’s 50 Women Can Change The World in Media and Entertainment, is also featured in the documentary, and says she worked in the 1980s to create a list of women directors, ten of who comprised 15.6 percent of the Directors Guild of America. “You have to be proactive, this is not happening naturally on its own.” The ratio of male and female roles for men and women is the same since 1946. “Being passive is not good enough any more,” she says. The Institute’s research proves that female involvement in the creative process is imperative for creating greater gender balance before production even begins.” With such a dearth of female representation in front of and behind the camera, it’s a struggle to champion female stories and voices. The Institute reports on its website, “Only 7% of directors, 13% of writers, and 20% of producers are female. There was a sharp increase in women studying STEM after that show’s run. While the lack of female characters and stories is undeniable, the positive effect of having strong female characters is known as the CSI effect, says Marg Helgenberger, who starred in the CSI Tv series as a forensic scientist. Sandra Oh says that when she saw “The Joy Luck Club,” “that was the first time I saw myself on screen.” Henson adds, that while she was only offered what she calls “ghetto roles” as a Black actress, “I saw a bigger picture for myself.” Screen time for men is 60.9% compared to 39.1% for women, and speaking time is 63.7% for men, compared to 36.3% for females.Īs an actress, Portman says, “I felt at a very young age you are being turned into an object.” Representation matters.Īccording to a 2017 Geena Davis Institute study, in family films, male characters outnumber female characters two-to-one when it comes to leads (59.0% compared to 26.0%). The overwhelming preponderance of male actors, male-created Tv and film, and the lack of visuals and storylines around women and their stories has an impact on girls and women, Davis says. Khouri, who wrote and won the Oscar for the 1992 film “Thelma and Louise,” starring Davis in that breakthrough role, says the “misogyny is unremarkable” in its prevalence in Hollywood. Henson, Jessica Chastain Cate Blanchett, Lena Dunham, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Oh, Zoe Saldana, Rose McGowan, Marissa Tomei, Sharon Stone, Rashida Jones, Gillian Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Soloway, Mellody Hobson, Callie Khouri and more. “This film was developed by my company,” Donahue says, “and we felt invested in this injustice.”Īpparently a lot of female Hollywood star power feels the same as the documentary features interviews with Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Tiffany Haddish, Chloe Grace Moretz, Yara Shaidi, Taraji P. It’s the first question Donahue addresses in a brief video panel after the airing of the film, set to open in theaters is August across the country. Davis says she was approached by director Tom Donahue to get involved as a sponsor in the film he had already been working on for two years and wanted her to be interviewed in the film.Īnd yes, the director of a documentary about the lack of female directors and overall sexism and under-representation of women in Hollywood, is a man. As founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Davis calls her company, See Jane.
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