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.
Today’s Indie boasts a fabulous article about our wonderful retrospective of SCREEN SEDUCTRESSES: Vamps, Vixens and Femmes Fatales.
Whatever happened to the femme fatale?
Sultry, smouldering temptresses lit up the screen in cinema’s golden age – but where are they now? Sheila Johnston pays tribute to the femme fatale
Read it all here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/whatever-happened-to-the-femme-fatale-1633088.html
… and enjoy the perspectives of Mary Harron, our visiting director, and Rowan Pelling, one of the contributors to our Sex on Screen Debate.
Can women be clowns?
In many film historians’ accounts of the silent movie era, the answer is an emphatic “No!” Serious slapstick was the province of male performers like Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton. Women were there to play ingenues, vamps or character parts. The film historian Walter Kerr claimed that: “No comedienne ever became a truly important film clown.”
The stars were supposed to be beautiful and glamorous – the object of the gaze. Clowning Glories and Screwball Women, a season of comedy films screening during the Birds Eye View film festival, a celebration of women in film, seeks to challenge this hoary old chauvinistic thinking.
Check out this article from The Independent.
It’s worth a read!
