This semester I am directing an original short film called Broken Heart Boy. A story about first love and first heartbreak, it is about a boy with a mechanical heart who falls in love and has his heart broken. He goes on a journey to get it repaired, struggling to fix it before it breaks permanently.
As the semester progresses, I plan to comment about how the film is being made and more interestingly, what it means to be a female in this area of the entertainment industry.
For example, according to the article 'Women in Media' by Jennie Ruby:
7% of directors in 2005 were women
19% of films released in 2005 employed no women directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers or editors
3 female filmmakers, in all of academy award history, have been nominated for best director award (Lina Wertmuller in 1977, Jane Campion in 1994, and Sofia Coppola in 2004)
0 women directors have ever won
A graphic I made to better represent this data:
As this is a blog, I fully intend to exploit the medium. I promise lots of hyperlinks, will post many youtube videos:
And most of all, I encourage feedback.
Thank you, and I look forward to blogging with you over the next several months.
Love,
-Matty
