Today is a good day to change that. Since funny is not an option, I am going to take a deep breath, muster up all the courage I can, and talk about an issue I have long observed despairingly from the sidelines.
Over the past three or four months I have been contacted by a civil liberties organization regarding this issue, I have spoken to several reporters anonymously, I've had lawyers call me to inform me that my forty-minute Academy Award-nominated short film somehow uniquely qualifies me for something I never, ever wanted to qualify for (it has to do with an excuse showrunners like to use when turning down feature directors for episode gigs), I even attended two DGA Women's Steering Committee meetings, and the best part, I have met many fellow women directors.
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I think this was a pretty awesome article, I like the way the author writes. Despite her comment that a person either needs to be funny or get real to be heard and that funny was not an option, so she was going to get real, she is also really very funny. I've read a couple articles on this blog about women in Hollywood and the shortage of woman directors and I think that they're really important. Looking back to before I came here, I'm not sure if it had even occurred to me that this was an issue. But if I had tried to think about prominent directors in film or television, I would have probably struggled to think of women. One thing this article emphasized that was unique to others I've read is the way that people have recognized this as a problem and keep saying that they'r going to fix it (for a long time) but its not happening. Progress isn't even happening, and its because these promises are insincere.
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