A Gazette on Women in Film...

“The 4%: Film's Gender Problem is a series of six documentary shorts that offers up a powerful perspective on the issue with insights from leaders in the industry. Actress Amanda Peet, for instance, puts it like this, "You’re either on the phone or waving goodbye at the doorstep to your husband, or boyfriend, or brother, or father, who’s going off to begin the plot of the movie." Sound familiar?”

This project, "Made by Women" is an incubator focused on producing dramatic series programming helmed by women, the second incubator project by Indigenous Media. The company is also collaborating with Women in Film Los Angeles, the Producers Guild of America's Women's Impact Network, the Women's Project Lab, the Alliance of Women Directors, the Kilroys and the Lillys to each identify three candidates and assign them to mentors. Based on writing samples, each mentor will select one candidate in order to guide them through the process of creating a pilot script. 

“At the academic level, filmmakers average about 50/50 in terms of gender breakdown,” she said. “Every step of the ladder that you go, as projects involve more money and higher prestige, those numbers drop off. You get fewer and fewer women.

“But what’s incredible,” she added, “is that right now, everyone is aware of it. People are noticing.”

“The latest study on gender equality in Hollywood found that last year, women accounted for 9 percent of the directors of the 250 top-grossing domestic films. This might not sound great, but it’s an improvement over 2014, when women made up just 7 percent of directors for those films. The 2015 result put women on par with the level achieved in 1998.”

Finally! What we’ve always dreamed of!.... To Be back where we were in 1998.

Folks of the internet: Please consider supporting the Kickstarter for the latest feature film from award winning filmmaker, Elisabeth Subrin. They have already shot the film but need YOUR help to finish! 

Check out the Film’s website and check out more on the talented woman director behind it!