This fall marks the fifteenth anniversary of Girls and Hollywood. Once I began Girls and Hollywood in 2007, a lady had by no means gained an Oscar for greatest director; a lady of colour had by no means directed a $100 million film; ladies leads in massive finances motion pictures have been negligible; nobody was supposed to speak in regards to the sexual abuse rife throughout the business; and Hollywood’s #MeToo reckoning was a decade away.
Fifteen years later, issues are very totally different. The false assumptions that fueled the business — how ladies can’t be trusted to direct massive finances motion pictures, ladies’s motion pictures don’t generate profits, younger boys drive the field workplace — have been consigned to the dustbin of historical past.
And the work of Girls and Hollywood has been part of that change.
Everyone knows that there’s nonetheless a lot work to do, notably in the case of making certain that ladies of colour are represented on-screen and behind the scenes, however I additionally wish to have a good time the progress that has been made.
I’m launching a marketing campaign to mark this anniversary and to lift some funds for the continuing work of Girls and Hollywood. We don’t have massive company sponsors, and for years have been supported by a beneficiant donation from a basis. There’s nonetheless extra work to do. Not solely will we maintain amplifying ladies’s voices, however we’ll work to broaden the Women Membership (our world neighborhood for feminine creatives to attach and help one another) and in addition will launch the Inventive Doula Program, a radical new strategy to serving to advance ladies in filmmaking, creating and galvanizing a brand new technology of Hollywood storytellers.
As a member of the Girls and Hollywood neighborhood, we’d recognize any contribution you may make to Girls and Hollywood right here. (If you want to make a tax deductible contribution of $1,000 or above, please e mail me at melissa@womenandhollywood.com and I’ll share the hyperlink.)
Thanks for sharing your ideas and for being part of our work.
Onward.
