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Although Spielberg directed Saving Private Ryan, Meyers won the Academy Award for “Best Writing of a Screenplay written directly for the screen” while Something’s Gotta Give is the biggest blockbusters ever directed by a woman, grossing 370 millions.
In the meantime, to raise award opportunities, women
Film Industry Facts and Women Filmmakers
Women represent 50.5% of the population and 44% of the students at Canadian filmmaking schools.
Reactions to Bigelow's Oscar have been split between satisfaction and frustration.
Canadian female directors had won in the past, but Skogland’s was the first nomination for an action film. She won a Genie for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Gender and Academy Awards
Meyer was the film producer and writer for blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan AF1 Shoes, Baby Boom, or Father of the Bride. Later, she directed Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want, and It’s Complicated, which have since become new classic romantic comedies.
Participation of women directors at Canadian film festivals varies between 35 and 19 percent depending on venues.
Women often disengage because of family demand.
Women had to create their own networking with 39 film festivals in North America.
With her own nomination for Fifty Dead Men Walking, based on the Irish Republican Army, Ottawa-born Kari Skogland was Bigelow’s Canadian counterpart.
"I'll celebrate women's achievements in movies when women regularly win best screenplay, best directing and best movie, not once every 82 years," Witness Productions Carole Ducharme recently explained in an email.
Less than 10% of members of the Canadian Director’s Guild are women.
Canadian filmmaking grants are provided by Telefilm and the Canadian Feature Film Fund. Free tuition for writers Nike Air Force Ones, directors and producers is offered by the National Screen Institute. Women in the Director’s Chair propose workshops to engage women directors.
Outlook on the Inequality of Gender
With more demand for action films than any other genres, funds are funnelled where demand is. Since men favour action films, the genre is led by men.
Canadian TV producer Kate Green explains that female-staffed productions have become more common although topics are usually female-oriented.
The “electronic games generation” with its gender balance at film schools could bring new outlets for women’s creativity.
Primetime drama and comedy series are directed by Caucasian men in 85 percent of the cases.
Film Production Funding
The Reality of Gender Inequity
Canadian women filmmakers are eligible for public funding and tax-credits whereas Americans often turn to independent film making, as Bigelow did.
In the United States Nike Air Force 1, men write 70% of all reviews and the ratio male/female actors in films is 3/1.
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Yet, women filmmakers receive only 10% of funding from Canadian Television Fund, 11% from Telefilm, and 14% from SODEC. But, as Carole Ducharme points out, when she applied for funds at Telefim in 2008 she was the only woman among 40 applicants.
Films by women directors have hit box-office records and won multiple awards in the United States, yet Bigelow's is the first action film to break the Glass Ceiling in North America.
Citing American Nancy Meyers, Mystic Films Mary Bissel comments on Meyers’ multiple nominations and awards, yet none as best director. |
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