This fall marks the fifteenth anniversary of Girls and Hollywood. After I began Girls and Hollywood in 2007, a lady had by no means gained an Oscar for finest director; a lady of shade had by no means directed a $100 million film; girls leads in massive finances films have been negligible; nobody was supposed to speak in regards to the sexual abuse rife throughout the business; and Hollywood’s #MeToo reckoning was a decade away.
Fifteen years later, issues are very totally different. The false assumptions that fueled the business — how girls can’t be trusted to direct massive finances films, girls’s films don’t become profitable, younger boys drive the field workplace — have been consigned to the dustbin of historical past.
And the work of Girls and Hollywood has been part of that change.
Everyone knows that there’s nonetheless a lot work to do, significantly on the subject of guaranteeing that girls of shade are represented on-screen and behind the scenes, however I additionally need to have fun the progress that has been made.
I’m launching a marketing campaign to mark this anniversary and to boost some funds for the continued work of Girls and Hollywood. We don’t have massive company sponsors, and for years have been supported by a beneficiant donation from a basis. There may be nonetheless extra work to do. Not solely will we preserve amplifying girls’s voices, however we are going to work to broaden the Ladies Membership (our international neighborhood for feminine creatives to attach and assist one another) and in addition will launch the Inventive Doula Program, a radical new strategy to serving to advance girls in filmmaking, creating and galvanizing a brand new technology of Hollywood storytellers.
As a member of the Girls and Hollywood neighborhood, we might recognize any contribution you may make to Girls and Hollywood right here. (If you need to make a tax deductible contribution of $1,000 or above, please e mail me at melissa@womenandhollywood.com and I’ll share the hyperlink.)
Thanks for sharing your ideas and for being part of our work.
Onward.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
