Women In Film

Gender Inequality in 500 Popular Films:
Examining On-Screen Portrayals and Behind-the-Scenes Employment Patterns in Motion Pictures Released between 2007-2012

Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, Elizabeth Scofield, & Dr. Katherine Pieper

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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This study examines gender roles of speaking characters in top-grossing films. This is our fourth Annenberg report, focusing on the gender of independent speaking characters appearing in 100 topgrossing fictional films from 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007. In total, 500 movies and over 21,000 speaking characters have been content analyzed for gender prevalence, demographic information, and hypersexualization. Below, we highlight the study's key findings.

CLICK HERE for the full report.

CLICK HERE for coverage in the LA TImes.

Kalyanee Mam' s A River Changes Course has garnered a number of awards since our "Women Who Dare!" Sundance panel back in January.

Kalyanne's film won the Grand Jury Prize of World Cinema Documentary at Sundance in 2013.

Within the last week the documentary has been recognized:

Winner! of the Conscience Award at the Docville Film Festival in Leuven, Belgium.

Winner!! of the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature at The San Francisco International Film Festival.

Winner!!! of the Special Jury Prize for Best Director and Winner!!!! for Best Cinematography at The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Documentary Award Competition.

You may know her from her multiple EMMY nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the ground breaking "NYPD Blue" or as a stay-at-home prostitute in "Desperate Housewives", a murderous realtor on "Monk" or a sociopathic serial "killer on Law and Order: SVU".

Now, Sharon Lawrence has won the "Best Actor in a Short Film" award at the Women's Independent Film Festival for her work in "The Visit"!  It will be screening at the festival in Los Angeles this Saturday at 6pm.

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 After Tiller, winner of the Women In Film Documentary Grant at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival has gone on to win the Documentary Jury Award at the Sarasota Film Festival and Honorable Mention in the documentary competition fo the Nashville Film Festival.

We congratulate directors Martha Shane & Lana Wilson and the rest of the production team for their success.

 
TINA GHARAVI
Director, I Am Nasrine
BAFTA nominee for Outstanding Debut

The opera ain’t over even after the WIF Lady sings.  The Women In Film Foundation Film Finishing Fund (FFF) takes great pride in the success of our grantees.  Here is the final interview of the series.  We’ve revisited some of our past winners to discuss the life of an independent filmmaker in today’s digital world and to see what winning a grant meant for their film and for them.

This week we talk with Tina Gharavi the director of I Am Nasrine  which was part of our 2011 FFF Grant Cycle.  Producer and WIFF Trustee, Cathleen Summers conducted the interview.