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At this point, you've heard — to some extent — about the lack of female directors hired in Hollywood. Perhaps you've heard that, of the 347 feature films that debuted in 2013-2014, 82% of directors were white men. You might even know that of the 200 movies coming out in the next two years from major studios Fox and Paramount, none of them will be directed by women. And you may have even caught wind that things are so bad, the ACLU has begun an investigation into the gender discrimination we've got going on here.
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00:00Can you name any female directors at all?
00:02Oh, it's going to be a feminism thing.
00:04You've caught me.
00:05Yeah, one of those feminism things.
00:07Um, I can't, actually. I really can't.
00:11Oh, weird.
00:18This is Vanessa, senior entertainment writer for Refinery29,
00:21and I'm going to ask a whole bunch of strangers
00:23if they know any female directors.
00:24I bet you they don't.
00:27I bet you they say Tarantino a lot.
00:29Are you good with directors?
00:30Like, do you have any favorites?
00:31Uh, Quentin Tarantino's my favorite.
00:32Quentin Tarantino.
00:33Tarantino.
00:34Tarantino, yeah, he's pretty reliable.
00:36Reliable. Reliable Tarantino, that's what we call him.
00:39Oh, Steven Spielberg, yep.
00:40Steven Spielberg, he's the director.
00:41Steven Spielberg.
00:42Spielberg.
00:43Steven Spielberg.
00:44Steven Spielberg.
00:45Steven Spielberg.
00:45Steven Spielberg.
00:46Spielberg.
00:47Scorsese, Fincher, Tarantino.
00:49You know, I just went through, took all the classics.
00:51Can you name a female director?
00:54No.
00:55Okay.
00:55If you want a second to think, I mean this is...
00:58I don't, I don't think I can.
01:06Would you be able to name a female director?
01:09Nope.
01:10Right.
01:12On Broadway?
01:13Not, not so much in movies, no.
01:15Female directors?
01:17Yeah.
01:18No.
01:19Female directors, to be honest, I don't.
01:23Ava...
01:23Ava DuVernay?
01:24Yeah, yeah.
01:25Selma.
01:26Wait, that one chick.
01:28Oh, Katherine Bigelow.
01:34Her locker, that's one, what's her name?
01:36Her name is Katherine Bigelow.
01:38That's the one, Katherine Bigelow.
01:39I've heard of her.
01:44There clearly aren't enough women directors since I had a hard time naming two.
01:50I can't, as a woman, name another female director.
01:59There's 47 movies coming out in the next two years from Paramount and Fox, and all of them are directed
02:04by guys.
02:05Wow, that's a shame.
02:07It's these conversations that need to be, that we need to have, that hopefully can, you know, bring about some
02:13change.
02:14Because that's, come on, it's not, it's not just men living here.
02:18If you look at the representation of women either at the Oscars, and people of color as well, yeah, I
02:25think that there's a lot of room for improvement.
02:27Ben with a backwards hat says we need more women behind the camera.
02:30100%.
02:30I know what I'm thinking, I want to learn about you guys and see things from other perspectives.
02:36From the female lens?
02:36Yeah.
02:37Girls should get equal opportunities as guys as well, so.
02:41Great.
02:41Well, if you want, we'll just turn this right into a Tinder profile for you.
02:44Let's do it.
02:45Okay.
02:45I feel like more women should be everywhere, so.
02:47Everywhere.
02:48Everywhere.
02:49Just everywhere.
02:51And there it is.
02:53We need more women!

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