Posted on 03/01/2017 10:51:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Streaming platform Netflix has been criticized in Sweden after a study of its content showed that almost all of the movies hosted there were directed by men.
The Stockholm Feminist Film Festival, an annual festival which aims to improve gender equality within the film industry, carried out an evaluation of the gender equality levels of films and TV shows hosted on the Swedish version of Netflix. It found that 96 percent of all films released on Netflix Sweden in 2016 had a male director.
The film festival also researched the gender balance among scriptwriters, producers and leading characters of films hosted on the platform. It found that 87 percent of the scriptwriters, 74 percent of the producers and 78 percent of the lead characters were men.
"Netflix is the world's biggest platform for films and TV shows. That the offering is so enormously unbalanced is a serious thing. If Netflix wants to contribute to gender equality, it's high time they take in films by women," Stockholm Feminist Film Festival head Stephanie Thögersen said in a statement.
The festival's study found that only 1.5 percent of the films on the platform had both a female lead character and female director. Of all the TV shows released on Netflix Sweden in 2016 meanwhile, 85 percent had a male director.
The research showed that the lack of gender balance was not unique to Netflix however. The festival also looked at all of the films released in Swedish cinemas during the 11 month period between January and December 2016, and found that only 10 percent were directed by a woman, while 26 percent had a female script writer and 31 percent a female producer.
Set to take place in the Swedish capital in March, the Stockholm Feminist Film Festival will showcase movies like Amanda Kernell's Sami Blood, winner of Best Nordic Film at the 2017 Gothenburg Film Festival, which The Local previously wrote about here.
And 100% percent of human existence is realized through the direction of women.
Can we please stop with the juvenile, competitive BS?
Really, Sweden?
With all the “Cultural Enrichment” that is going on in your country, THIS is what you’re worried about?
They were talking on Tim Conway’s show tonight about how the Academy has nominated very few people of color EVER. And yet they dare call Trump racist.
And directors and producers still enjoy the casting couch. Could anything be more sexist??
Swept Away. I haven’t thought of that movie for ages. So true. That was a great movie.
Does “The Matrix” count?
Well, hoping they have the “Brady Bunch Movie”, as that was directed by Betty Thomas (Hill Street’s Lucy Bates).
And if they dug a little deeper they’d find that 99.99% of all technology used in film making was invented by...men. Boohoo.
I never watch a movie until I determine the gender of the director.
The answer for this is for women to go out and make more movies. There is no reason to complain. Just go do it. Surely women can make movies without men leading them by the hand and doing everything for them.
Penny Marshall?
96% is nothing. 100% are directed by directors, produced by producers. Talk about bias.
Heheh...nearly triple post!
That just means there’s a lotta cr@p out there that women AIN’T responsible for making. Yay!
Heck. I cant think of a single female director.
Amy Heckerling directed Clueless.
Susan Seidelman directed Desperately Seeking Susan.
Those were pretty good.
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That movie that Angelina Jolie directed was very good.
Leni Riefenstahl directed “Triumph of The Will”.
Just saying.
“Sweden needs to get her priorities straight. They have much bigger problems than this right now”
They are hopeless, Nanny stated into puddles of mush. A 9/11 type event in Stockholm might get their attention for a week.
“I cant think of a single female director.”
We like older movies, and Ida Lupino came to mind right away. She’s sort of a little cutie too in her younger days. Also a great actress.
Kathyrn {sp} Bigelow- Near Dark, Hurt Locker, Strange Days, the Bin Laden raid movie.
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