Cannes female film talent say real change in gender parity is finally happening in diverse markets
Women reigning over the silver screen, in front of the camera and behind the scenes, have told Reuters recently that gender parity is starting to take shape in film markets across the world, although progress remains slow. Actors Amina Khalil and Jacqueline Fernandez, and director Rungano Nyoni, spoke ahead of a Women in Cinema Gala, held by the Red Sea Film Foundation in Cannes, at which they were named honorees.
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Women reigning over the silver screen, in front of the camera and behind the scenes, have told Reuters recently that gender parity is starting to take shape in film markets across the world, although progress remains slow. Actors Amina Khalil and Jacqueline Fernandez, and director Rungano Nyoni, spoke ahead of a Women in Cinema Gala, held by the Red Sea Film Foundation in Cannes, at which they were named honorees.
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00:00There's definitely a big movement happening, a lot more than I think there was in the past.
00:05There were only a few in the past and now I would walk into a film set and there are women standing there behind the camera.
00:13And it's just such a beautiful moment, I think, to be a part of the movement that is happening right now in the cinema industry.
00:18We're going through a great phase right now in Hindi films as well when it comes to women.
00:23The films are doing very well, they're reaching good blockbuster success and they're doing good numbers.
00:30And that wasn't maybe the case a couple of years back.
00:33It was a risk and it was a chance to take on a female protagonist or a female content film.
00:39And now people are just hungry for those scripts and they're hungry to make them.
00:53They're going to do a nice side shot here.
01:03Perfect.
01:08I'll turn it on.
01:09Okay.
01:15In a lot of spaces, outside of these spaces, I'm usually the only one, which I find really depressing.
01:20I don't think there's any pride in that.
01:23I would like to have people that are sort of similar to myself being in these rooms because the more of you they are, the more you normalize it, you know?
01:30The more people, when they come to pitch, they don't look at you as like, oh, you're unusual.
01:46I'm thinking about using it because I don't have an outfit for the closing night.
01:49I really feel it's embedded.
01:51It's in our blood almost.
01:52Like we are the women that just have decided to come and say, okay, we're going to talk about all the things that you told us not to talk about.
01:59But we're going to, but it's, it's also a matter of tackling these issues gracefully.
02:03And I think this is what really needs to be focused on.
02:07It's not about what you're talking about.
02:09It's about how you're saying it.
02:10And it's about what the story is.
02:12And if you can bring an audience into a story and with such humanity and humility and love for the characters and for the story, they will support your cause and they will take it with so much more acceptance.
02:24It's, I'm in two minds about it because on one hand, I hope the younger generation don't have to do this.
02:34The younger women.
02:36So we're the last, we should be like dinosaurs that people laugh at when they get older, you know, and say, oh, you know, this used to happen.
02:42They used to do spotlight women, but now everyone gets an opportunity.
02:45They used to do spotlight women, but now everyone gets an opportunity.
03:15They used to do spotlight women, but now everyone gets an opportunity.