Just a few years ago, not many people were aware that the employment numbers of women directors in America was “criminally low.” The discussion about the exclusion and censorship of female voices from our nation’s media had not yet taken hold. Today, thanks to the powerful support of the ACLU and a strong surge of […]
Author: Maria Giese
Maria Giese (www.mariagiese.com) co-founded the activist/agitator web forum that helped initiate the EEOC joint government agency investigation for women directors. She directed two feature films: When Saturday Comes and Hunger, based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner, Knut Hamsun. She writes and lectures regularly about women directors, and is currently attached to direct several feature films. Educated at Wellesley College and UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television, she is a member of the Directors Guild
Meryl Streep Boosts Over-40 Women Screenwriters
Back in 1986 Newsweek made a point of suggesting that for all practical purposes, women are dead at age 40. Women over 40, they wrote, are “more likely to be killed by a terrorist” than get married. And Newsweek had statistics to back it up: Women over 40, they claimed “have a minuscule 2.6 percent […]
Jennifer Lawrence: Legal Tipping Point for Women in Hollywood?
The recent “Guardians of Peace” Sony hacks are rocking Hollywood this holiday season with revelations of studio-wide sexism. News that Jennifer Lawrence, arguably the biggest movie star of the moment, received lower pay than her less-famous male co-stars on 2013’s American Hustle could spell catastrophe for Sony—and new hope for women if the revelations lead to action. […]