Reverberations from the 2018 Women’s March in Cannes echoed all the way to the Bell Lightbox this year, as the Toronto Film Festival played host to a social-minded pack of filmmakers transforming t…
, and Alice Winocour – and the fact that they all hit the festival circuit at the same time is not some happy accident.
Thematic explorations aside, this new wave – which also includes previous Toronto-selected directors Mia Hansen-Løve , Katell Quillévéré , and Julia Ducournau , all at work on upcoming projects – shares more than a few superficial similarities as well. All are more or less the same age, and almost half of them stem from the screenplay department of the French national film school, La Fémis.
“This system is beneficial, in that it allows women to emerge by removing the economic obstacles that could initially limit access,” she continues. In 2013, the two joined Le Deuxième Regard, an activist network meant to tackle questions of sexism and representation in the French industry. The network helped organize the Femmes de Cinema Lab, a kind of industry-inclusion think tank, and launched the French arm of the Belgian initiative Boost Camp, which offered development workshops to young female directors.
Co-founded by Sciamma and counting Triet and Winocour as fellow members, the collective has sought to move the industry forward while recognizing that reforming France’s particular culture – which has sometimes been at odds with the post MeToo moment — would require a bespoke set of solutions. The first of its kind in Europe, the scheme went into effect in early 2019, and so far 20 or so productions have benefited from it.
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