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We're not here to make you comfortable — we're here to tell the true stories of power and loss from our own point of view. There were almost 4,000 short films that played at festivals from 2010 to 2014, and only 32 percent of those films came from female directors. It's time to make a change and shatter an obstacle in our way. Welcome to the Shatterbox Anthology, Refinery29's newest original series comprising 12 short films created by woman directors and writers.
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00:04I got into film as a costume designer and after a decade, I realized I worked
00:09with two female directors and I worked on over 40 films. Why is that?
00:18More than half of our stories are being missed.
00:27Okay, action. The concept of this framing of shattering the box and picking 12 women film
00:33directors to go ahead and do that. New thinkers, new minds, new artists and to be a part of that
00:42is an exceptional honor. Anyone who says they want to hire a woman in a position and they can't find
00:49one, you're just not looking hard enough. With Refinery29, I've been able to do that and
00:54making my first short is a dream come true for me.

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