I read an article by Colin Brown in Slate which focused on the financing of film – Fighting Gender Bias with Data. Opening with a reference to Cannes and Jane Campion (the only woman director to get the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the first woman director to serve as the festival’s Jury President) – the picture is quickly painted that women do not get to play the game the same way that men do:  “You’d have to say there’s […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women

After a short hiatus last week I return with my weekly reading on movies. To make up for last week’s sojourn I will quote two passages from the iconic director Sidney Lumet’s book Making Movies. It reads like a behind-the-scenes featurette on a Criterion Collection DVD, only for more first-rate movies than you can imagine (not just one)! When I first started trying to make movies myself (fairly recently), after having produced theatre for many years, I lamented the lack […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women