Why are there so few female movie directors?
dominique asked:
I’ve wondered this, in this day and age, why female directors are so grossly outnumbered - in all countries. For instance, there are only two women directors in this year’s Cannes Film Festival (for films in competition). There are plenty of female producers, writers, and some of the best film editors have been women. Why is it so hard for women to break into directing?
I actually am familiar with the industry, and I did go to film school and I work in tv, so I am well aware that there are many female producers, studio heads, writers and editors. There are also plenty of female directors in tv & documentary. Just wanted to get some opinions on why there are relatively few women that direct narrative feature length films in this day and age - why aren’t more Deepa Mehta’s, Lina Wertmuller’s (1st woman to be nominated for Best Direction Oscar) or even Kathryn Bigelow’s emerging?
Pharmacy tech
Just wondering
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What is the name of the Website?
Live Laugh And Love asked:
The Fast Runner, by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk won a medal at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. Kunuk and his co-producer Norman Cohn have launched a website to allow other aboriginal cinematographers a venue. What is the name of the website?
Thanks
Is your domain registration safe and secure?
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How would you deal with this controlling person?
Lisa M asked:
I am a screenwriter and I am dealing with a producer who is so, so controlling and manipulative. I am grateful for this opportunity and I am continuing with the work such as re-writes, etc. but this woman is driving me nuts! She hired a team to help produce a demo dvd of my screenplay; a writer for the treatment (getting paid $200 plus first right of refusal of the script if produced), a composer to compose music from the treatment (getting paid $1500 USD for the dvd only and first right of refusal for the film), and the producer herself who I am paying $2500 USD plus airfair, hotel accomodations, and expenses at the Cannes Film Festival and first right of refusal for the film. The entire ‘team’ had a chat a couple weeks ago, but only 3 people could get into the chat at a time, so the composer chatted with the producer and the writer first, then the composer left the chat to let me in….finally. When I got into the chat, I brought up an error that the writer made on the title of a character. I have maintained that the character is a foreign minister as opposed to the Prime Minister which the writer mistakenly named him as in the treatment. In all my versions of the script (which the producer has) I referred to the character as either ‘minister’ or ‘foreign minister’ and I tried to point that out but the writer retorted, ‘Oh a little research can fix that’. I replied, ‘Well I have worked on this for 4 years and I have done the research and he is not the prime minister but a minister.’. This wirter has a fairly large ego, to say the least. In almost every correspondence with him he feels the need to add in how many people were at his auditions and who he’s writing for at the moment, etc. Perhaps I’m a bit jealous, but if he was so great why would he need to brag so much? But I digress, the producer then said that perhaps I ‘missed a word’ implying that even after 4 years I don’t know the history of the story. (It’s based on true events). Anyway, I later told her that the writer messed up the treatment so badly that the composer couldn’t tell what was going on. She blamed his confusion on my script and not the inaccurate and careless treatment of the writer! Meanwhile the composer admitted that it was the treatment of the other writer that threw him off. The producer is getting everyone, including the composer (go figure), to offer suggestions for the script, which I am grateful for, but 80% of them are already touched on in the script. What can I do? I am paying these people big money and I feel left behind in the dust.
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How would you deal with this person?
Lisa M asked:
This is a long and complex question, so bare with me please. Here we go: I am a screenwriter and I am dealing with a producer (let’s call her Jill) who is so, so controlling and manipulative. I am grateful for this opportunity and I am continuing with the work such as re-writes, etc. but this woman is driving me nuts! Jill hired a team to help produce a demo dvd of my screenplay; a writer (let’s call him Billybob) for the treatment (getting paid $200 plus first right of refusal of the script if produced), a composer (Chad) to compose music from the treatment (getting paid $1500 USD for the dvd only and first right of refusal for the film), and Jill, herself, who I am paying $2500 USD plus air-fair, hotel accommodations, and expenses at the Cannes Film Festival and first right of refusal for the film if it reaches production. The entire ‘team’ had a chat a couple weeks ago, but only 3 people could get into the chat at a time, so the composer, Chad, chatted with Jill and Billybob first, then Chad left the chat to let me in….finally. When I got into the chat, I brought up an error that Billybob made on the title of a character. I have maintained that the character is a foreign minister as opposed to the Prime Minister which Billybob mistakenly named him as in the treatment. In all my versions of the script (which Jill has) I referred to the character as either ‘minister’ or ‘foreign minister’ and I tried to point that out but Billyboob retorted, ‘Oh, a little research can fix that’. I replied, ‘Well I have worked on this for 4 years and I have done the research and he is not the prime minister but a minister.’. This writer has a fairly large ego, to say the least, in almost every correspondence with us he feels the need to add in how many people were at his auditions and who he’s writing for at the moment, etc. Perhaps I’m a bit jealous, but if Billybob was so great why would he need to brag so much? Why would he settle for only $200 to write the treatment? But I digress, Jill then said that perhaps I ‘missed a word’ implying that I wrote just minister and mistakenly left out the word ‘prime’ in prime minister and am now just trying to cover my tracks. And that even after 4 years of research I don’t know the difference between the prime minister and the minister in the story (It’s based on true events). Anyway, I later told her that Billybob messed up the treatment so badly that Chad couldn’t tell what was going on. Jill blamed Chad’s confusion on my script and not the inaccurate and careless treatment written by Billyboob! Meanwhile Chad admitted that it was Billybob’s treatment that threw him off. Jill is getting everyone, including Chad, the music composer (go figure), to offer suggestions for the script. I am grateful for this, but 80% of the suggestions of ideas given are already touched on in the script. What can I do? I am paying these people big money and I feel left behind in the dust.
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Spanish translation?
Rose L asked:
I`m in some serious difficulties here
The film premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
El laberinto del Fauno has won numerous international awards, including three Academy Awards, the Ariel Award for Best Picture and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long form.
The Observer, labeled El laberinto del Fauno as the best film of 2006, describing it as «an epic, poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld
populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters.»
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Help with a hairstyle
Jack asked:
I recently saw this picture of Brad Pitt and I’m trying to figure out how to get my hair to part like his. However, when I part my hair, it looks more like a Cary Grant style. How do I go about getting this shape without a hairstyle team?
Here is the picture: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Angelina-Jolie-The-Exchange-Angelina-Jolie-actor-Brad-Pitt-Cannes-Film-Festival-May/ss/events/en/080101jolie/s:/nm/20080804/lf_nm_life/jolie_dc/im:/080804/photos_ts/2008_08_03t201138_450×323_us_jolie/;_ylt=AoYSk_Oue.abuFaKr83OaIaGWo14#photoViewer=/080801/482/c5a3e6cb387b473abe5175b2c62753e3
Funny quotes? Do you have more of these?;)?
twinkLe asked:
Things that “Celebrities have said”
“The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.” — Michael Jackson
“I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.” - Madonna
“I’d rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I’m forty-five.” - Mick Jagger
“He speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual too.” — Don King
“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” - Yogi Berra
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” - Christina Aguilera
“I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” — David Hasselhoff
“I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.” — Keanu Reeves
“I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.” — Jessica Simpson
“I’m sounding worse than Jessica Simpson right now. She’s looking like a rock scientist.” — Tara Reid
“I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I feel my best when I’m happy.“ - Winona Ryder
“I can do anything as long as I don’t have to speak.“ - Linda Evangelista
“I’m using my brain for the first time in a long time.“ - Victoria Beckham
“I want to wait to have sex until I’m married.“ - Britney Spears
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What’s wrong with Shanghai authorities?
discoveryman asked:
You know that Ms. Sharon Stone wasn’t invited this year Shanghai Film festival because of her remarks on recent China’s earthquake.
Ms. Sharon Stone said that China’s earthquake was karmic payback for its handling of Tibet.
She made this remark at Cannes Film Festival last month.
I strongly believe that people have the right to make remarks on anything and everything.
Why Shanghai authorities banned her images on Christian Dior in Shanghai and didn’t invite her to film festival???
I think they are crazy and they don’t even understand the fundamentals of Democracy.
Don’t you think so?
Reference;
MSN News
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Who is hotter: Brad Pitt or Leonardo DICaprio?
Paperbag [Yorke Bro] asked:
Who is hotter…
Brad Pitt — http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/cannes/cannes_film_festival_2007_photos/brad_pitt/cannes.jpg
***or***
Leonardo DiCaprio — http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tribeca/tribeca_film_festival_2007_photos/leonardo_dicaprio/tribeca.jpg
…?
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Question?plz answer?
yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!! asked:
okay so i was looking at the pictures of the Cannes Film Festival and jude law and norah jones were together in every pic. never apart and i know they are in a movie together but is there something going on between them.
in my opinion they look very nice together.
and plz dont get me wrong or anything
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What song is this? Includes link?
Duchess of Grapes asked:
It’s from one of my favorite movies, Swimming Pool. I couldn’t find a clip from the movie, but this is from them at the cannes film festival. It’s such a beautiful piece of music (so is the director Francois Ozon, as well as the lovely Ludivine Sagnier and the timeless Charlotte Rampling).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUrtSAFE5Q
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Can somebody please translate this excerpt into Spanish?
Cecilie K asked:
Guillermo Del Toro said that the fantasyworld isn`t only Ofelia`s imagination;the fantasyworld does exist. In the ending, Ofelia does actually live in the world (where she would be more happy to live in than the real world)
del Toro was asked to direct The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but turned it down for El laberinto del fauno. In addition to Narnia, the film has also been compared to films such as Bridge to Terabithia and Labyrinth. Del Toro himself has noted similarities with The Spirit of the Beehive.
The film premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. El laberinto del Fauno has won numerous international awards, including three Academy Awards, the Ariel Award for Best Picture and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long form.
The Observer, labeled El laberinto del Fauno as the best film of 2006, describing it as «an epic, poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters.»
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A hundred years of cinema and thousands of films have explored the theme of love and romance and relationships?
Trevor asked:
This scene from a movie recently won ‘best scene depicting romance’ as polled by the Oscars organisers in conjunction with SAG, Golden Globes, BAFTA and the Cannes Film Festival
It’s a thirty second clip and has been hailed as the best screen embrace of all time:
http://www.boxxet.com/Jake_Gyllenhaal/video:brokeback-mountain-the-kiss/
What do you think?
FERMINE: If that’s how you interpreted it then I am afraid you missed the point and didn’t get it at all.
What you say is most definitely not the theme of the movie
LOL
Now off back to your trailer and thump some bibles whilst you think up some more unfunny insults to post in your questions.
BLUE CHRISTIAN: DId you actually watch the clip? One of the reasons why I enjoy this debate with you is because it is so transparent when you give a knee-jerk and hostile response without thinking.
One wonders if your ‘thesis’ on whether an award can be given to a scene is based on your own prejudice and if indeed you would have said the same thing had I posted the final kiss between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind?
Of course the most far reaching membership of movie professionals can vote a scene in a ‘best of’ category. The Oscars do it every year.
BLUE CHRISTIAN: Did you actually watch the clip? One of the reasons why I enjoy this debate with you is because it is so transparent when you give a knee-jerk and hostile response without thinking.
One wonders if your ‘thesis’ on whether an award can be given to a scene is based on your own prejudice and if indeed you would have said the same thing had I posted the final kiss between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind?
Of course the most far reaching membership of movie professionals can vote a scene in a ‘best of’ category. The Oscars do it every year.
Blue Christ: And when you say “hailed as the best, by whom” it is blindingly obvious you didn’t even read the whole question nor did you watch the clip.
Hmmmm …
EOGHAN: Yes. Interesting point. Maybe you should write to Ang and ask him to make a movie about sheep-lurve?
Q: WHY is it always best to shag a sheep on the edge of a cliff?
A: Because it pushes back harder
Blue Christ: Any debate on LGBT issues or Gender issues is important on this forum and I know that a Christian who makes judgments about another’s lifestyle is in the wrong and it is based in ignorance, narrow mindedness and lack of education and exposure to diversity so it is interesting for me to get into how and why you think this way.
Don’t take it personally. I am the same with all homophobic fundies.
Blue Christ: I never used the word ‘hatred’ …. you did.
CAPRICORN: I don’t agree with your take on Brokeback. It’s condescending to prescribe that gay movies should end in a happy-ever-after scenario and Jack died in an accident.
The murder was in Ennis’s mind.
It demonstrates what both overt and internalised homophobia can do to a psyche when society is allowed to act on its prejudices.
BY THE WAY: WHAT did you think of the kiss? That was my question
MUTTERHALLS: I am AMAZED at your response! People like you and the men spend thousands of hours here debating and calling each other names in the name of ‘gender politics’ and you have the gall to ask me to ‘let it go’ when it comes to gender debate and LGBT issues?
Excuse me hun but I find that extremely condescending and I most certainly will NOT let it go.
lmao
… if that is the way you think then may I suggest you ‘let it go’ re all the answers you give about gender on this forum
Wow
Way to show your own hypocrisy!
BLUE CHRIST: That’s just it - you don’t discuss it. And as long as you don’t post answers here denigrating gays then I shall say nothing to you about it.
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