“We feel very grateful and fortunate that we’re part of that small amount. Lebanon native who moved to California as a teen to pursue his acting career. “A statistic I find astonishing is that only about 8% of indie films ever produced actually get distribution,” said Pasqual, 33, a Mt. With creators and cast members including Pittsburgh natives Nick Pasqual and Abhi Sinha, the film is now available on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Google Play and YouTube. Here’s to women supporting other women.From its 2022 world premiere at Dormont’s Hollywood Theater, the indie movie “Poor Paul” has moved on to bigger audiences. One piece of heartening news: Lauzen found that when a film had at least one woman director, the percentages of women working in other behind-the-scenes positions such as writers, editors, and cinematographers were substantially higher than in films exclusively directed by men. The study did not include any data about gender non-conforming or nonbinary representation in the indie film space. Lauzen examined 9,960 credits on 730 films from 2021–2022, comparing them to over 105,360 credits on more than 10,200 films over the period of 2008 to 2022, focusing on high-profile titles and film festivals. Even more bleak is the composing space, where women represented just 17% of indie film composers in the past year. Although women made up 33% of executive producers, 34% of writers, and 35% of directors, they only comprised 20% of cinematographers in both narrative and documentary films in 2021–2022. Film festivals screened or streamed almost an equal number of documentaries directed by women as men on average, and the percentage of women working in every role the study examined was higher on documentaries than on narrative features.Īs for jobs, women are least represented in the visual and audio spaces, as opposed to writing, directing, and producing. “Documentaries continue to employ higher percentages of women filmmakers than narrative features, and independent films offer more opportunities for women than larger budget features,” Dr. Per “Indie Women,” there’s more parity in the documentary space than the narrative feature space, with women making up 43% of working directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers on documentaries rather than 34% of those working on narrative features. That percentage fluctuates depending on the type of film, the position, and if there’s at least one woman in the director’s chair on the project. Lauzen-the executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University-women made up just 39% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on independent films (either narrative and documentary) that screened or streamed at high-profile film festivals in the US from July 2021 to June 2022. Independent Film, 2021-22” released today by Dr. According to the study “Indie Women: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women in U.S. Despite making up over half of the country’s population, women are still underrepresented behind the camera in America’s independent film industry.
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