Female Television Director: Be Pretty and Shut Up
For years women television directors have been told to wait, the change in employment will come. In 2014 we are told, again, to wait for change which will be slow in coming
Women Directors Numbers Increase by 4% in 14 Years. Congratulations! You’ve Finally Reached 12%
Women directors increased their numbers by 4% in the past 14 years. Congratulations! you’ve finally reached 12%
Women Amazons
As I was looking for an image to add to the posts, I came across the page in Google images. 99.9% of the pictures include women fighting clad in very minimal clothes. Usually no more than a bikini. Really?! that is how they fought? Wearing a bikini? I managed to find an image […]
Women and Hollywood
The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2011 by Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D. Copyright © 2012 – All rights reserved. In 2011, women comprised 18% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. This represents an increase of 2 […]
When There’s a Will There’s a Way
There’s this promise which we grow up with and one we try to instill in our children. It seems this promised exist in many languages and many cultures; In Hebrew they say “There’s nothing that stands in the way of the will”, in English we say “When There’s a Will, There’s a […]
Being Script Supervisor II – The End
All’s well that ends well. Late one evening I got a call from the producer. “I’ve got the money for you,” He said triumphantly, “In cash.” “Cash??” “I went to a restaurant in Beverly Hills where he usually eats dinner and asked for the money in cash. In front of his friends, he reached into […]
Being Script Supervisor II
From time to time a script supervisor is asked to time a script. Usually it means a producer is considering producing that movie. Since every shooting day is very expensive, they ask for the script to be timed – meaning estimate how long the movie will be if it was shot as written. If the […]
F@#k Her and The Horse… III
“The man you will marry will have an understanding of the human behavior.” He started immediately. “Ha?” He was reading from French notes, saying it outloud in English and I was ready to write it all down in Hebrew. “I don’t understand.” “He’ll understand and will have an insight to people’s feelings.” “Like a psychiatrist […]
F$%k Her and the Horse… II
He was one of the “best in the world” French astrologers who came to Israel one winter for a short visit. It’s a once in a life-time opportunity, my friend Rona said, no matter the cost.
F&*k Her and the Horse She Rode In On
The old open-faced cardboard box by my desk hasn’t been touched in a long time. Maybe it’s the cobwebs and the coat of dust indented with fingerprints, where I held it on my way from the garage, that makes it look so old and unappealing. Or maybe it’s the bottom of the box which was […]
Female Tv Director- Why is Wonder Woman Important?
- Why I Love Wonder Woman Without Even Seeing the Movie
- Have You Seen a Good Movie Lately?
- Thank you, Director Paul Verhoeven
- Where are the Female Directors At?
- Female TV Directors New Statistics
- Female Directors, How Do We Continue from here?
- Listen Up Female Directors
- 2016 DGA Statistic
- Do Female Director’s fair better in features? Nah