“Whether or not they have signed the 5050x2020 pledge, the major international film festivals, for the most part, seem to be making incremental progress toward gender parity for directors.”
, but only slightly increased the number of its female-directed new feature films to 18 percent in 2019, up from 16.5 percent in 2018. Headed by Tricia Tuttle, the BFI London Film Festival is also one of the few major international film festivals that has a woman as its leader. Female-directed movies that had their world premieres at the festival in 2019 included Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s.
Presented by the American Film Institute, AFI Fest has a mixture of offerings from corporate studios and independent filmmakers from all over the world. AFI Fest launched in 1987 as a successor to the Los Angeles International Film Exposition . AFI Fest’s current top prize is the Audience Award – Feature, which used to have several subcategories, but was changed back in 2018 to include all eligible films. AFI’s top prize used to be a Grand Jury Prize for the best narrative feature film.
Programmers at film festivals with low female representation often say they don’t get enough films from female directors to have gender parity. That’s a bogus excuse, according to Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, a New York City–based nonprofit that empowers female filmmakers in various aspects of the industry. “It is a system that favors relationships, star power, and larger budgets,” Zimmerman says of the festival submission process.
The statistics in this article are for new feature-length releases at film festivals, and do not include short films, VR films, music videos, TV episodes, or previously released movies that get retrospective screenings at festivals.
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