There Is No Shortage Of Great Female-Directed Films
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On the heels of a reductive Oscar conversation around snubbed female directors, this year’s Sundance Film Festival offered a robust counterpoint.
PARK CITY, Utah — Amid our inclination to focus on Hollywood’s many inequities, including, say, the Academy’s failure to recognize one very specifically selected female directors, the notion of a talent deficit can emerge and drown out the truth: We have a plethora of female filmmakers from across all backgrounds telling daring, superb stories all the time.
They just too often don’t reach the audiences that they deserve.
This month’s Sundance Film Festival, for instance, premiered a wide variety of interesting movies from women — some of whom you might have never heard of before, and others whose work might get a lot of much-deserved buzz at the festival, only for that to fizzle out as the year progresses. (Hopefully that won’t be the case.)
But in today’s flooded news cycle, it’s hard to sustain interest around a film for 365 whole days. Not all of them are acquired by big film studios, and even those that do don’t always get marketed well or find an audience.
Last year’s festival alone gave us good female-directed films like “A Thousand and One,” “Kokomo City,” “You Hurt My Feelings,” “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” “Rye Lane” and “Polite Society” — and none of these caught the Academy’s eye, either. They’re apparently not even notable enough to be mentioned on many “Oscar snubs” lists.
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