Sony Pictures Classics has pre-bought rights to the drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (Armageddon Time) and Emmy nominee Matthew Goode (The Crown), from Westend Films and CAA Media Finance.
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Women represent only a quarter of all film directors working in the European film industry, according to a new study by the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO).
The report coincides with the fifth anniversary this month of the launch of the #MeToo movement in 2017, which at the same time as sounding the alarm about sexual harassment in the film business also put the spotlight on gender inequality as one of the underlying causes.
Five years after that earthquake moment, achieving gender parity across the industry still appears a long way off.
Covering the period from 2017 to 2021, the EAO study looked at gender splits within the key feature film positions of director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, composer and cast.
“Women are still poorly represented among professionals working in key roles behind the camera,” read the report. “In all categories, the proportion of women among active professionals is growing slowly and did not substantially change during the time frame analysed.”
“Between 2017 and 2021 women only accounted for 25% of all directors of European feature films. The gender gap was even more visible among composers and cinematographers, where women only represented 10% of the workforce,” it added.
Female representation was highest amongst producers, where women made up 34% of the active producers in Europe, and screenwriters, where they accounted for 28% of the creative pool.
In front of the camera, despite the rise in female-focused storylines over the last five years, women secured just 39% of lead roles.
Breaking down the gender representation by genre, the study found the highest presence of female professionals in the documentary world.
“Women accounted for 30% of
Sony Pictures Classics has pre-bought rights to the drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (Armageddon Time) and Emmy nominee Matthew Goode (The Crown), from Westend Films and CAA Media Finance.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rachel Maddow isn’t on MSNBC’s schedule Monday through Friday any longer, spurring the need for some of her top behind-the-scenes allies to find other things to do. Cory Gnazzo, who has served as the executive producer of “The Rachel Maddow Show” since 2014 and who has been with the show since its launch in 2008, is taking on a new role as senior executive producer at the network. He will continue to shepherd Maddow’s Monday broadcast on MSNBC and represent her various projects to NBCUniversal. Maddow struck a deal with the media conglomerate in 2021 that calls for the creation of various podcasts, documentaries and more, while keeping her tethered to MSNBC once a week and for special reports.
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