Women in Film…

When I started working in film at age 13, I was determined to spend the rest of my life making movies. Though my MFA in Playwriting/Screenwriting from Brown granted me time to hone my craft with Pulitzer-prize winning writers, no degree program can really prepare women for the realities of the male-dominated filmmaking business. A new article in the NYTimes, Lights, Camera, Taking Action, investigates the structural and ideological reasons why women have never been as “underrepresented on screen as they are now,” and why the film industry is failing women now more than ever.