This Year, Cannes Had A Record Number of Female Filmmakers By Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang Here’s the good news. Facing public pressure and mounting outrage over the lack of female representation among the filmmakers it chooses to celebrate, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is making efforts to diversify beyond the cavalcade of many of the same male auteurs. Instead, there will…
Linked arm in arm, 82 women from the film industry marched up the stairs of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, to make a statement about the need for gender equality in the movie business. “The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb,” said Cate Blanchett, the president of this year’s festival…