![]() ![]() Personally, I loved CSI as a kid, and even now, though finding it to watch is hard. Helgenberger even mentions that women are half the workforce in the forensic science field now. She wasn’t typecast into a girlfriend role, but was a lead character. They loved the show and the strength of her character. Marg Helgenberger, who plays Catherine Willows in CSI, spoke about the power that her role had on young women and girls. Seeing strong women in the forensics field on screen opened the floodgates for women getting involved in the real life forensic science field. The amount of girls taking up archery increased beyond that of adult men. It was extremely prevalent after Brave and The Hunger Games were released. Lesli Link Latter, Director of Homeland TV seriesĪt one point, the film discusses a phenomenon called The CSI Effect. ![]() It’s unusual seeing women as complicated, able to make mistakes, able to be funny and sexual, and troubled. Geena discussed how big of an impact starring in this film had on her life. It was written by Callie Khouri, who was tired of women only being objects in media. The first film reflected on is Thelma and Louise, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. It is powerful, not only in its primary use of women voices, but also in its recognition of the fact that most media consumed worldwide is produced in the United States, which often has a misogynistic take. Shonda Rhimes, Geena Davis, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Oh, and many others open the film. ‘Progress will happen when men take a stand,’ Streep says in the film.The documentary opens with some of the most powerful female voices in the media industry discussing those experiences and the importance of including women in media. His commitment signifies that righting the gender gap isn’t a job that falls only to women. His documentary Casting By championed casting directors, an undervalued field dominated by women. “Filmmaker Tom Donahue has a long investment in chronicling Hollywood’s gender bias. Experts deliver stone-cold statistics, little-known Hollywood-history footnotes, and eventually clear-cut steps every man and woman can take to become an agent of change.” - Julie Miller, Vanity Fair “ This Changes Everything connects the many gender-inequality dots corroding Hollywood – including problematic hiring practices, wage gaps, the representation of women on-screen, and the treatment of women offscreen. While they seemed to have been fighting in a vacuum, the support of the public, Davis believes, is now behind the cause.” - Sage Young, Bustle Their stories are juxtaposed against that of the Original Six – a group of women directors who gathered and circulated evidence of gender discrimination at major movie studios in the 80s. Davis herself serves as an Executive Producer… Meryl Streep, Yara Shahidi, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Tiffany Haddish, Sandra Oh, and Tracee Ellis Ross all… on record with their dissatisfaction, and it’s powerful in and of itself to watch them say, one after another, that this is not OK. “ with The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media… the film… paints an impressively full picture of how Hollywood’s gender imbalance is sustained and also how it reverberates throughout the culture. And the fight can’t be fought by women alone. This timely, straight-talking documentary – made by a male director committed to highlighting and disrupting the male gender bias – goes beyond the hashtag movements to remind us that the fight is nothing new and the struggle for parity is far from over. The last few years have been touted as a reckoning for the film industry, with women pushing back against substandard and discriminatory behaviour. First there was #MeToo, then there was #TimesUp. ![]()
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