Richard E. Grant In ‘The Lesson’, Mark Duplass In ‘Biosphere’ & Their Female First-Time Directors – Specialty Preview
deadline.comA sci-fi comedy by Mel Eslyn and a literary noir by Alice Troughton – who are, respectively, the longtime producer for the Duplass brothers, and an award-winning UK television director (Dr.
Who, Cucumber, The Living And The Dead) — debut in limited release this weekend, alongside Adele Lim’s Joy Ride, a Lionsgate wide-release – marking first-time feature film debuts by three women. (Noting that Chelsea Peretti’s recent Tribeca-premiering film First Time Female Director sort of re-coined that phrase.) Troughton called it “really reassuring” to see female helmers opening films.
In the UK “we are below 20% of the directing force and… directorial women’s roles are dropping, as are roles for people of color.
So the diversity is sort of slacking off a bit after a really good push. So it felt really important as somebody who had the privilege to be in the position to go and make a film, to go and do it.
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