'I’m happy to report that a new day has come. Hiring practices have changed. I just got chill bumps telling you this!' Via Variety
’s “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” Gerwig’s “Little Women” and — for once — quite a few more.
The resulting #MeToo movement, and the founding of Time’s Up, led women and their allies to call for systemic change: in job opportunities, in pay and in the kinds of stories that are told on screen and who is at their center. Studio executives were suddenly self-conscious about looking obstructive, as the numbers told an incontestable story of active discrimination over the years — always, actually.
For Gerwig, the #MeToo revolution sparked a more emotional catharsis, as she watched the intergenerational bonding among women who came together to say, as she puts it,Gerwig adds, “And I think that was something that was very moving to me, and continues to be very moving to me. Sometimes it takes that — that all at once, everybody is coming awake.”
, who wanted her second feature to be the deeply personal film “The Farewell,” found herself arguing with financiers about the story’s perspective. Wang, who is Chinese American, says they were confused. Was it an American movie or a Chinese one? Oh, and it has a wedding in it! “Multiple producers called it ‘My Big Fat Chinese Wedding,’” she says.
Then there are the decisions that were just plain stupid. As it heads toward $100 million at the domestic box office, “Hustlers” seems undeniable, perhaps inevitable. But screenwriter Scafaria struggled to get it made after she was hired to direct in November 2017 — theoretically, right when Hollywood was trying to course-correct.
When it comes to employing women in key behind-the-scenes jobs, television is ahead of film. According to a report released in September by Martha M. Lauzen of the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, for the 2018-19 television season, 26% of directors were women. The television industry, with its quicker turnaround, has been able to create pipelines for underrepresented talent to get jobs — and also to mandate that their numbers improve.
Determined to do something about it, in 2016 Har’el created Free the Bid, a database that helps brands find women directors — and also extracted a pledge from brands and ad agencies to have at least one woman director bidding on commercial jobs. It’s been so successful, Har’el says, that on Oct. 17, she is launching the similarly modeled Free the Work for film and television directors.
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