jezebel.com: Sundance Film Festival is underway, meaning lots of fresh, ground breaking indie narrative and documentary films — ones that might not normally get tons of buzz otherwise — are thrust into the spotlight. Along with the movie madness, a new study examining the gender disparity female directors face in the film industry was also released. Titled "Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Women Filmmakers" and conducted by researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, the study assessed 11,197 directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors whose movies screened in Sundance from 2002-2012*.
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This article lists a few facts that may shed light on why the number of women are so low, but another interesting point that may factor into the discrepancy is that women negotiate for fewer benefits. Now, there are even more reasons behind the fact that women negotiate lower salaries and benefits, but I'm curious if that's a trend that also causes more men to direct larger projects.
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