10 Predictions For The Future of Cinema

2. The Amount Of Women Filmmakers Will Not Increase

This one makes me not just sad, but angry. There€™s no denying the film industry, at least on the directing side of things, is male-dominated. There€™s a reason so many films feature women as merely a pretty love interest with no real dimension to their character. If you ask the general public to name a female filmmaker, you might get lucky and they know Nora Ephron, Lynne Ramsay or Kathryn Bigelow- if you€™re really lucky. Seriously, I can barely name any significant female filmmakers who are prominent today. For crying out loud, there seem to be a great many coming out from the middle east like the brilliant Nadine Labaki, where women generally have a tougher time of it! We in the west should be ashamed of ourselves. It€™s practically an entire gender€™s take on the world being ignored. Imagine if we had no black filmmakers, not indian filmmakers, no LGBT filmmakers! Entire cultures and different worldviews not being represented on our screens. We might just find a pleasant bust of variety if studios and audiences invested more in female filmmakers. And most of the mind-numbing romcoms (I lampoon the genre hesitantly, because some of my favourite films are romantic comedies generally perceived as excellent) that suggest all women want to end up with a man and nothing else are directed by men, anyway.
 
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