Jack Nevada Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Leni Riefenstahl. Kathryn Bigelow. Jane Campion. Sofia Coppola. Nora Ephron. Barbara Streisand. Julie Delpy. Lena Dunham.There seem to be nearly as many or an equal amount of female singers, artists, authors and photographers. Yet a female working as a filmmaker is still really quite rare compared to those other artistic professions. Why is this? Why arent there more woman directors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Because not enough women are willing to sleep to get to the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahnamahna Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Maybe it's just how things turned out? Why does there have to be a 50/50 distribution of men and women in every profession? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Movie Man Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Maybe it is because women are just not as talented and smart as men and can't make good enough movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Tech Girl Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDmD3sz7go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Movie Man Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDmD3sz7go watched the clip, very funny, but not sure how it applies? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK Tech Girl Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 watched the clip, very funny, but not sure how it applies? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Movie Man Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 tried and I still don't get it...or is it because women are pussies and sometimes assholes but not dicks???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Please be respectful to females. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Movie Man Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Please be respectful to females. I am only discussing what was said in the clip...so do you have a problem with the posted clip? PS. What about Jack's signature, I think that is worse...but you used that term yourself against me ...so I am confused, who you are talking about???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Dex is just saying let's keep this as unsexist as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanboy Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Probably for the same reason there aren't more women on this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Amy Pascal mentioned in an interviews that she wants more female directors doing big budget films either at Sony and that Kathryn Bigelow turned down Bond and Spider-Man, I think the film industry male oriented anyway, Pascal is the only woman to head a studio and even then she shares that responsibility with Michael Lynton. Sony also has their animation studio headed by a woman as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I believe Jennifer Lee will be the first female director of a Disney Animation film. They seem to be making a bit of headway in the animation industry. At any rate, I think it's an issue deeply ingrained in our culture. Women just don't seem to be as interested in filmmaking as men do. You see it in the demographics of this site, and in the animation class I took at college the makeup was predominantly male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I believe Jennifer Lee will be the first female director of a Disney Animation film. They seem to be making a bit of headway in the animation industry. At any rate, I think it's an issue deeply ingrained in our culture. Women just don't seem to be as interested in filmmaking as men do. You see it in the demographics of this site, and in the animation class I took at college the makeup was predominantly male.They've been a few animated films directed by women, The Prince of Egypt was co-directed by Brenda Chapman and KFP2 was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, I agree that there isn't enough female director, it would be great to see Bigelow or Patty Jenkins direct a blockbuster, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDC1987 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 The entertainment industry is still male dominated, the majority of studio execs but also the people in charge of making the movies themselves. The first post mentions that there are tons of female singers, that may be true but a much lower percentage of female recording acts have a hand in writing or producing their material. Again, male dominated. On the official RIAA list of the highest selling artists of all time in the US (albums) a female doesn't show up until Streisand at #11. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinum.php?content_selector=top-selling-artists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 The same reason there aren't more minority directors. Hollywood, by and large, is a Good Ole Boys network. If you're not white and don't have a penis, it can be really hard to break in. The times are changing, but very slowly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Because the dishes won't get washed if they're too busy making movies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Because very few females are willing to be directors from the beginning ... just like not many females would like to post on internet forums like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeFangrl Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 (edited) The "girls are verbal, boys are visual" tendencies start early, though obviously you have male writers and women into art, photography, cameras, etc. But I think a "visionary" boy in the past was more likely to play amateur filmmaker with whatever camera technology was available to him at the time, while a visionary girl would create that world on paper and be an aspiring writer instead. I think that gender split might shift somewhat with this next generation of boys and girls who both grew up having flipcams, easy editing capabilities, and Youtube before entering their double digits. Very time consuming job, hard on relationships especially if kids are desired and many women do want to be mothers (though not all, which is fine!). Drew Barrymore said she wasn't going to direct movies now that she had a kid, because she was not willing to sacrifice the time away from her child that directing would take. Probably several other women interested in directing feel the same way, so they work in TV movies, kid shows, sitcoms, etc. that's a little less time intensive. Hollywood increasingly focused on making action/franchise tentpoles for "everyone" but typically starring white males and directed by white males, even though non-action movies directed by women (Mamma Mia), movies with more diverse casts (F&F franchise, Slumdog Millionaire) and non-white directors (Life of Pi) can rake in the cash as well. When those happen it feels like it's viewed as sort of a one-off and the status quo continues more or less. Even with the more adult serious dramas, something about fathers and sons or some sort of "male journey of discovery" gets to be awards bait, while the same sort of story about female characters has to work harder IMO not to be dismissed as chick flick material (literature is the same way). Not that women can't direct action/franchise tentpoles, too, but I think a lot of female directors might have talents/interests that lie in genres Hollywood isn't throwing the big money toward right now. Edited July 26, 2013 by BoxOfficeChica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
