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Mike Figgis, director of Leaving Las Vegas, said, “Film is important to our
culture – it's our main story-telling medium. If it doesn't represent both
genders of our culture, it's an incomplete picture. So it’s crucial that more
women are reflected in the statistics of how many directors there are.”
Kasi Lemmons, female director of the movie Talk to Me, was provided a
studio driver to take her to and from the set of her film. Talk to Me, starring
Don Cheadle, is a film about Petey Greene, the dynamic ex-felon who put
talk radio on the map in 1960s Washington, D.C. Driver and passenger did
some chatting and one of their conversations stuck in her mind. “He said
he’d driven over 130 directors and I was the first woman director he’d ever
driven, ” Lemmons recalled.
This is hardly a scientific study, however the number of women directors is
depressing. There are only 7% female directors in the Directors Guild of
America. Believe it or not, no woman has ever won an Academy Award for
Best Director and only three have ever been nominated. It’s definitely time.
culture – it's our main story-telling medium. If it doesn't represent both
genders of our culture, it's an incomplete picture. So it’s crucial that more
women are reflected in the statistics of how many directors there are.”
Kasi Lemmons, female director of the movie Talk to Me, was provided a
studio driver to take her to and from the set of her film. Talk to Me, starring
Don Cheadle, is a film about Petey Greene, the dynamic ex-felon who put
talk radio on the map in 1960s Washington, D.C. Driver and passenger did
some chatting and one of their conversations stuck in her mind. “He said
he’d driven over 130 directors and I was the first woman director he’d ever
driven, ” Lemmons recalled.
This is hardly a scientific study, however the number of women directors is
depressing. There are only 7% female directors in the Directors Guild of
America. Believe it or not, no woman has ever won an Academy Award for
Best Director and only three have ever been nominated. It’s definitely time.
FEMALE DIRECTORS ARE A RARE SPECIES
W H Y W E C A R E
Mike Figgis,
Director of Leaving Las Vegas
Director of Leaving Las Vegas
Kasi Lemmons,
Director of Talk to Me
Director of Talk to Me
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