I really have been kind of MIA lately. On the internet sure but also in real life. It's amazing how quickly time can go by when life things are happening. Is it really the last night of Hanukkah? Only a week til Christmas? When did that happen?
Well, you'll be happy to know that the roommate search has ended, we've found the lucky person who will soon become the latest edition to Bonaparte House. She's a friend which is a HUGE relief and K and I are both confident she's going to fit right in with our crazy. Plus, bonus, she comes with a pup! How excited are we? K and I have both missed having a dog around. It's going to be wonderful.
Of course we're still sad to see J go. We'll keep in touch though and there are nefarious plans in the work for an adventure of epic proportions. That may turn into a movie. I dunno. Anything can happen. Be sure I will tell you more as this THING develops.
Speaking of movies and making them and being a woman who plans to make them... The New York Times ran this article about women in the film industry last week. It's a topic I keep alluding to and yet never get around to actually writing about. Seriously though, it's hard being a woman in this industry! There are opportunities for sure but honestly not as many as you'd think. Especially when your goal is to become a director. Female producers? I have known plenty. Most of them are batshit crazy (it all relates I think) but they do exist. When have I worked with a female director? Um. Twice. Once was a super low budget indie film that shot in Ft. Myers, Florida. The other was a super low budget indie film in San Francisco. And have you heard of these women? Not yet. Hopefully you will someday but yeah. Not yet. Anyway, read the article. It's good.
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4 comments:
Oohh exciting THING.
It's sad that we still have to deal with things like this, though. Publishing, film ... slow progress can feel good until you look at the timeline. It's a damned crime, really.
Slow progress starts to feel like no progress at all after a certain point. We really should be much further along than we are. And why is it so hard for women to be successful in these fields? When people watch a film, how many of them know what the gender of the director is? How many of them even know WHO the director is period? Unless it's one of maybe a dozen names, most people don't care. It all comes from within the industries, not from the audience. I don't know why it is beyond simple sexism, and I know it's more complicated than that, but whatever the cause it really is something that needs to change.
I dunno that it is more than sexism. I mean it goes back to film school and a studio system that has always pushed woman aside. It's the sort of thing that will keep making tiny steps of progress and feel like no progress because the only other way to speed it up is to blow it all up and start over.
The key though is to fight just as hard for it regardless of how it feels. Otherwise things slide backwards.
Yeah, definitely. It just gets silly when it becomes women fighting women, which happens a lot. It's a lot more than just girls being kept out of the boys club. Girls get in. And then they keep other girls out. Dumb!
Either way, you're right. Just need to keep pushing forward.
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