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Indie Female Directors Were Failed by the Film Festival Circuit

A new study finds that multiple film festivals failed to highlight female directors and filmmakers.

The indie filmmaking world has been male-dominated and continues to be so. Female filmmakers have been able to make a few improvements to the indie landscape by stepping in front and behind the camera.

The independent filmmaking world has been more supportive of female filmmakers than major studios. The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, which tracks representation in film and television, found that women comprised 21% of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 100 films in 2021.

You can read the report here, but let’s go through some other highlights.

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Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.

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