A recent dip in female-led theatrical releases in the UK - back to 2018 levels of 26% reminds us that our work is far from over; that we cannot be complacent.
Below you can read about the research we conduct into gender representation in film and the wider industry, tracking the release landscape to present an accurate picture of investment in films by filmmakers of marginalised genders.
Here you can also find out about news and opportunities at Reclaim The Frame, along with curated film recommendations, filmmaker interviews, and creative responses.
Adapted from bestselling novel Push, by Sapphire
Best Supporting Actress Academy Award® and BAFTA winner for Mo’Nique. A vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in 1987 it is the story of ‘Precious’ Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) a sixteen year old girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father, at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique) a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos and Precious can neither read nor write, but expulsion leads to a life-line in an alternative school and a teacher who will help Precious on a journey from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self determination.
Gabourey Sibibe stars as Precious Jones, a big girl who believes she is dumb and worthless because she is told that everyday by a violent, abusive mother.
Precious finds her hope and redemption through the power of education. Almost completely illiterate at the start, she starts going to school at an alternative program called “Each One Teach One.” The teacher, Ms. Rain (played by Paula Patton) teaches quietly and consistently, and the group of young women begin to wake up their minds and hearts. Through the power of reading and writing, the girls find healing and growth.
This is a powerful movie in which the teacher plays a supporting role to the protagonist, the student. Precious is an unlikely heroine: she moves through life like a shadow, just trying not to get hit or yelled at. She has been abused in every imaginable way, and is at first too traumatized to learn or retain anything.
But from all of this, she rises up. In the safe environment of the classroom under the nurturing wings of the teacher and classmates, she transforms her experience, and this is her triumph. This is a different kind of teacher movie, but it fits the category nonetheless. Powerful production, with absolutely authentic acting that puts you right in the scene.
Real Life Factor: The film is adapted from the novel Push by Sapphire and is not based on a real story. However, it is very realistic, employing authentic-sounding dialogue and refusing to “clean up” the horror of abuse.
Awards: Mo’Nique won for Best Supporting Actress, won for Best Screenplay Writing, nominated for Best Picture, Best Directing, and Best Editing; Gabourey Sidibe nominated for Best Actress. Directors Guild of America: nominated for Best Directing.
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Directed by Byambasuren Davaa
“Veins of the World is intimate and sweeping all at once, and has at its core a sincerity that invites genuine empathy.” Phuong Le, Guardian
Amra is growing up in the Mongolian steppe between herds of goats and YouTube videos. His hopes and dreams revolve around someday performing onstage in “Mongolia’s Got Talent”. However, the fight against the exploitation by gold mining companies and the campaign for a viable environment soon challenge the boy’s eclectic talents.
The director of much-loved world cinema classics The Story of the Weeping Camel and The Cave of the Yellow Dog transports us once again to the spectacular beauty of the Mongolian steppe, this time looking at the encroachment of modernity and its effect on nomadic lifestyles that have changed little in hundreds of years. Following the sudden death of the leader of a campaign against mining companies who are destroying the habitat on which they depend, his eleven-year-old son steps up to carry on his David vs Goliath fight, an old Mongolian folk tale being both his inspiration and his secret weapon.
Director Byambasuren Davaa was diverted from her original scenario for her fourth feature when she witnessed first-hand the impact that mining operations were having on long-established Mongolian communities. She immediately switched her attention to exposing this existential threat. While Veins of the World shows us the majestic grandeur of the Mongolian landscape, the cinematography also reminds us that the way of life dependent upon the preservation of this same land is in a very precarious position.
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World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October each year, and is recognized by the United Nations to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter.is marked on the first Monday of October each year, and is recognized by the United Nations to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter.
The theme for this year’s World Habitat Day is Accelerating urban action for a carbon-free world. Cities are responsible for some 70 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions with transport, buildings, energy, and waste management accounting for the bulk of urban greenhouse gas emissions. The future of our planet depends on national, regional and local governments and organizations, communities, academic institutions, the private sector and all relevant stakeholders working together to create sustainable, carbon-neutral, inclusive cities and towns. World Habitat Day will amplify the global Race to Zero Campaign and UN-Habitat’s ClimateAction4Cities and encourage local governments to develop actionable zero-carbon plans in the run up to the international climate change summit COP26 in November.
Written & directed by
Cathy Yan
Cathy Yan is director of the smash hit DC comics film from 2020 BIRDS OF PREY (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) starring Margot Robbie. DEAD PIGS is her debut feature.
Based on remarkable true events, Dead Pigs is a bitingly humorous social satire about the trials and tribulations connecting a disparate group of characters as thousands of dead pigs mysteriously float down river towards a rapidly modernising Shanghai, China. A universal human story set against the backdrop of globalisation, drastic social change and increasing wealth inequality, the film is the masterful first feature of exciting filmmaker Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey), and stars an international ensemble including Vivian Wu (Away), Mason Lee (Lucy), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Meng Li (The Bad Kids), Haoyu Yang (The Wandering Earth), and David Rysdahl (The Family).
A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect, and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river toward a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai, China.
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Each year, an estimated 70 billion cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and other sentient land-based animals are caged, crowded, deprived, drugged, mutilated and macerated in the world’s factory farms. Then they are brutally slaughtered for our dinner table. Countless aquatic animals are caught and suffocated by vast trawler nets, so we can have our fish fillet or tuna salad.
Since 1983, the annual observance of World Day for Farmed Animals (WDFA) on October 2nd (Gandhi’s birthday) has been offering people of conscience an opportunity to memorialize and mourn these innocent lives. An opportunity to ask their friends and neighbors to stop subsidizing senseless atrocities at their supermarket checkout counter. Hundreds of groups and individuals throughout the world participate each year.
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