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.
That is almost as high a percentage as percent of rapes committed by “refugees” in Sweden....I’d bet.
You mean the sex of the director?
the same Swedes who elected that rockin’ Grrrrl Power government that capitulates to their mohammaden overlords?
Get over it, who cares if there were more men.
So what and who cares? That is not news.
I meant my comment to be a tongue-in-cheek reply.
Odd that I usually give up trying to find something I want to watch.
The wife and daughter are on there constantly.
How does that compare to the number of films in the world directed by men?
After all, it can also be said that Mondays and Fridays account for 40% of all employee absences...
So?
Men are better than women. The sun will rise tomorrow.
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