Hello filmmaker friends! 👋 🎬

I'm a freelance producer who has worked on other people's projects in the past, and now I'm looking for a script to produce and direct myself as a portfolio piece. My preference is:

- Dialogue-led drama or comedy
- Under 20 pages
- Easy-to-scout locations
- Written through the female gaze, with a female or otherwise underrepresented lead

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Ava DuVernay hired ALL female directors on Queen Sugar - specifically 42 (!) female directors over the course of seven seasons. More of this, please...

#WomenInFilm #WomenInTV #AvaDuVernay

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/queen-sugar-impact-ava-duvernay-hiring-all-female-directors-1235271759/

Guest Column: ‘Queen Sugar’ Helmer DeMane Davis on How Ava DuVernay’s Decision to Hire All Female Directors Offered “Life-Transforming Opportunity”

"You cannot tell the story of women in this industry without acknowledging what Ava DuVernay has done," Davis writes about the OWN series, which is coming to an end after seven seasons.

The Hollywood Reporter

Alexandra DeWitt, Fridging, and “Disposable” Female Characters

Have you ever heard the term fridging? It is a trope that, put most generally, refers to the brutal death and/or harm of a usually female character solely to motivate the male protagonist. That is not to say that using death in a story is always wron

http://lunastationquarterly.com/alexandra-dewitt-fridging-and-disposable-female-characters/

#comics #femalecharacterswhogetkilledoff #fridging #womenincomics #womenintv