Equal Footing

Submit to the Equal Footing Film Festival on FilmFreeway! The festival will take place online every other month. filmfreeway.com/EqualFootingFi…

Nelly Kaplan was an Argentine-born French writer and film director whose witty, satire-tinged French films about female empowerment and revenge made her a distinctive voice in a male-dominated era. nytimes.com/2020/11/20/mov…

Only 3 out of 18 films competing at 2022 Cannes film festival are directed by women. In 2018, Cannes became the first international film festival to sign a gender parity pledge after 82 women staged a protest over the industry’s treatment of women. variety.com/2022/film/colu…

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June Mathis was an American screenwriter. She was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35 and the highest-paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood. We stand #OnYourShoulders! nytimes.com/1927/07/27/arc…

The women at Sundance in 2022 are screaming at the tops of their lungs. They are saying: Why are you taking our rights away? Why are you turning the clock back 50 years? thewrap.com/female-filmmak…

Proud to spotlight Soma Helmi today. Here's an episode of the Once Upon A Film Industry podcast that gets you to know her better! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-d…

For the European film industry, gender parity is still a long way off. Despite pledges by festivals, funding bodies and industry associations work to narrow the gender gap, fewer than one in four working directors in Europe are female. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Mehta is a world-renowned director, filmmaker and screenwriter whose work challenges traditions, stereotypes and gender roles. She was nominated for an Oscar for her film Water, part of her celebrated Elemental Trilogy: Earth, Fire, Water. medium.com/thrive-global/…

Viola Davis produced and acted in the upcoming American historical epic film The Woman King. She talked about how powerful it was to watch these Black women transform into warriors in the interview. nytimes.com/2022/04/12/mag…

Lulu Wang, a Chinese-born American filmmaker, who is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama films Posthumous and The Farewell. For the latter, she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film. hollywoodreporter.com/video/farewell…

Women filled 25% of key behind-the-scenes roles such as directors, writers, executive producers, producers, editors, and cinematographers on the top 250 grossing films in 2021. variety.com/2022/film/news…

Ms. Materre was an early proponent of independently released works by Black female directors, beginning at a time when diversity in independent film was far from the forefront of the cultural conversation. nytimes.com/2022/04/03/mov…

In the 94-year history of the Academy Awards, only seven women have been nominated a total of eight times and three of them won the statuettes. people.com/movies/female-…

By announcing director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson “and four white guys" as winners - added insult to what should have been a celebratory moment, said one of the film's producers, Joseph Patel, who is of South Asian descent. Let’s stand for #EqualFooting apple.news/ADQRQCUP0Ri2ZS…

According to Yahoo, women at the 94th Academy Awards won 10 of the 43 individual Oscar statuettes handed out on Sunday night, the worst showing for female winners since the 2018 Academy Awards. vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022…

Congratulations Sian Heder on winning Best Adapted Screenplay for CODA which is written and directed by her and has won Oscars 2022 Best Picture. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Congratulations Jane Campion on winning the Directors Guild Award! It makes her the third woman ever to receive the award and represents the first time in DGA history that women have won that award in back-to-back years. nytimes.com/2022/03/13/mov…

"Onscreen gender ratios have remained relatively stable." In 2021, male characters outnumbered females by almost 2 to 1. An astounding 85% of films featured more male than female characters, but only 7% of films had more female than male characters. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…