At Bold Content, we’re a team of film nerds who love and celebrate cinema and we occasionally blog about topics that are close to our heart. In this post, we’re going to be discussing a concept that we like to champion…getting more women into creative roles in the industry. Last year, women represented 20% of the global Behind the Scene workforce in the film reaching a historical high. Unfortunately, gender equality in Hollywood remains a serious issue, especially when you look at the Oscar nominations of 2020 and notice that none of the Best Picture nominees are directed by a woman. Ironically, it is not because there are none as, according to Celluloid Ceiling, the number of female directors is on the rise. It is simply because female filmmakers are “not yet a trend”. So in order to contribute to the inspiration of such a “trend”, this article will give a platform to a small selection of the most influential female filmmakers of all time. First Female Filmmaker First Oscar-winning Female Filmmaker First Black Female Filmmaker First Sexuality Struggles on Screen First Female Superhero Filmmaker First “Bold” Female Filmmakers Another one of our female filmmakers who we greatly value is Sogol Ashar. Sogol Afshar is an Iranian filmmaker, living in London whose powerful and compelling work is born from her love of fine art. She has a strong connection with female empowerment issues which led to the creation of a commercial for the Fawcett Society which was nominated for a 2017 Adcan award. Finally, we want to give the stage to Charlotte Regan, one of our youngest female filmmakers. Before she became a filmmaker, Regan worked at a scrapyard and as a paparazzi photographer. She had no obsessive interest in film but got involved in directing music videos for friends because of her love for the rap and grime culture. Nowadays she has a diverse portfolio including commercials, branded content, short films and documentaries. Regan is not so much fixated on type of audiovisual storytelling that she creates but more on adding human interest to the stories that she tells. Drug Runner is such a human interest story following the evolution of a 15-year-old child as he falls into the world of drug dealing. We are honoured to have been able to work with Charlotte Regan on this project, together pushing the boundaries of documentary storytelling. Charlotte has won numerous awards for her work, including the BFI Future Film Award, the BFI New Talent Award, a Cannes Lions YDA Award, and now her second Vimeo Staff Pick for Drug Runner. So, female filmmaking is far from dying, however, the growth of the number of women working behind the scene is still terrifyingly low. This is, once again, proven by this year’s Oscars featuring zero female Director nominees. Thus, in order to change this, hopefully, by the next year’s Academy Awards, awareness needs to be raised on this, still an often-ignored issue. Although, many more things can be done; giving influential female filmmakers a platform is one step along the way in turning this “trend” into the norm. So to all female readers, what’s stopping you from picking up that camera and taking film directing in your own hands? We’re willing to help! The post Influential Female Filmmakers appeared first on Bold Content Video Production. from Bold Content Video Production https://boldcontentvideo.com/2020/03/24/influential-female-filmmakers/ via IFTTT from https://fidelmartin0.tumblr.com/post/613469152702758912 from https://johnconnell0.blogspot.com/2020/03/influential-female-filmmakers.html
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