Ok here are two articles I've posted on Facebook but are blog-relevant.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=22958
Horray! This is an article on Sharon and her work on 'Hannah Free.' She name-drops Sara Plano and myself.
Well when I was at the advanced premiere of 'Hannah Free' in Chicago they had a panel with the filmmakers who happen to all be female. So the topic of the panel was being a female filmmaker. I feel that all this amounted to questions starting with "As a female filmmaker how do you feel..." I'm pretty sure that most of the questions were answered "Well as any filmmaker would feel..." because let me tell you its pretty hard being a filmmaker no matter what genitalia you have.
Yes its true and I won't deny that we're in a male-dominated field and there is sexism but a female director is still a director. Would you say: I'm going to go see my female doctor, my friend's a male musician, male director?
So this next article compares two directors (omgz they're ladies!) and talks about what they look like?!
http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/09/unlikely-rivals-on-the-oscar-circuit.html
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True that films directed by a woman are often cited as having "a female director." The most recent prominent example is The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Like women aren't allowed to direct good action movies. Same goes for Susanna White, who directed most of the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, which is about as male-oriented as anything. (Case in point, I think there's like one female speaking part.)
ReplyDeleteYeah, from the second article: Kathryn Bigelow, 57, is tall, model thin, a one-time art student whose gracious manner belies her proclivity for tense, even violent films...
ReplyDeleteGets me all grrrrrr.