Haifaa Al-Mansour, one of only two women directors in this year’s Venice Film Festival Competition, made history in 2012 as the first female Saudi filmmaker with her award-winning debut Wadjd…
. The film was the first internationally-acclaimed movie shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s first submission to the Oscars.also breaks ground as the first to be supported by the fledgling Saudi Film Council.
Saudi Arabia announced its first international film festival earlier this year. Could the Red Sea Film Festival be a good platform for this movie? Your personal story is an amazing one of female agency and self-empowerment. This has also been a major theme in your movies. This year there has been consternation from many over the lack of women directors in Venice’s Competition. At the same time there are places for polarizing male directors. How do you feel about that? I don’t want to speak about Polanski or any others. That’s up to the festival. When it comes to the lack of women directors, that doesn’t begin with Venice.
I think that’s partly because #MeToo and Times Up were generated out of the U.S. We hope that other countries will catch up. I have a lot of respect for festivals that stand for higher morals and who give voices to women and those who are under-represented. It’s time we heard from everyone and those we haven’t heard from as much in the past.I think Alberto has probably heard enough about this [laughs].
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