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Quote of the Day from CinemaCon
CinemaCon is underway in Las Vegas. It is the annual event where the theatre owners are presented with the blockbusters that they will be showing in their theatres this summer.
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2012 Celluloid Ceiling Study Results Are In. Spoiler Alert: They Aren't Great
Following the Sundance Institute & Women in Film’s unveiling of their new groundbreaking study of women directors during the Sundance Film Festival, comes Dr. Martha Lauzen's annual Celluloid Ceiling study, which looks at how many women worked on the top 250 films of the year.
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Sundance Institute and Women in Film Release Unprecedented Study on Women Directors
This morning, here in Sundance, a new ground breaking study of women directors "Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Women Filmmakers" was released. The study is the most comprehensive look to date examining the gender disparity women directors face in the film in...
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Women Make Up Only 33% of Speaking Roles in Films
I used to really hate numbers. Now I find numbers empowering. I find them empowering because they make anecdotal evidence a reality. They help us know we are not crazy.
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Guest Post: We Want More Female-Written Plays! by Katherine Bowman
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI) recently conducted a study on the number of female-written plays produced in LA. The number is a disappointing yet unsurprising 20%.
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Only One African American Woman Directed a Top Grossing Film in 2008
When you see these numbers it shows the difficult road women of color directors have ahead of them, but at least we have some numbers to looks at. Dr. Stacy Smith and Marc Choueiti recently released a report "Black Characters in Popular Film: Is the Key to Diversifying Cinematic Content held in the...
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New Research: Females Are of Lesser Value Than Males
New research from Stacy Smith and Marc Choueiti of USC's Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism has tracked women on screen and behind the scenes in the top 100 grossing films of 2008.
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Research Alert: Changing the Status Quo - Industry Leaders’ Perceptions of Gender in Family Films
Anyone who has been to a G, PG, or PG-13 (and of course R rated films but they are not included in this study) knows that when they look up on the screen there are many more male characters than female characters with speaking roles. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has been tracking th...
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