http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_celluloid_ceiling_thoughts_from_five_women_who_broke_through/Last night at the London Film Festival, to an audience of possibly 90%
women, a lively and at times quite provocative discussion went down
about a topic that’s come up quite a bit this year - women and
filmmaking. 2009 has been seen by many as landmark film for
female-directed, written or produced cinema, which certainly finds
evidence London’s programming. To name but a few: Lone Scherfig’s “An
Education,” Claire Denis’ “White Material,” Xiaolu Guo’s “She, A
Chinese,” Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” Lindy Heymann’s “Kicks,” Sophie
Barthes’ “Cold Souls,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Father of My Children,”
Catherine Breillat’s “Bluebeard” and Sam Taylor Wood’s “Nowhere Boy.”
And in honor of this notable but still stunningly disproportionate
trend, the festival put together “Snipping Away at the Celluloid
Ceiling,” a panel featuring five women associated with some of those
films to discuss whether or not there’s a “sea change” in
female-associated filmmaking, and what exactly that characterization
means in the first place.
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