In celebration of International Women’s Day,
Realscreen has put together some of our most recent interviews with and stories about female filmmakers and recently announced industry initiatives aimed at women creators.
The film and television business as a whole has had a lot of catching up to do when it comes to gender parity behind the camera. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, in 2020 percentages of behind-the-scenes women working on the top 100 and 250 (U.S. domestic) grossing films comprised 21% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers, from 20% in 2019.
However in the documentary category, the numbers jump. The same organization states that “documentaries continue to offer more opportunities for women than narrative features.” In fact, women accounted for 40% of people working in key behind-the-scenes roles on documentaries, compared with only 29% working on narrative features.