Sundance: Director Rory Kennedy Slams “Sexist” Hollywood At Women In Film Panel

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“We live in a sexist world and Hollywood is at the heart of it,” said Rory Kennedy today at the Sundance Film Festival’s annual Women In Film panel. “The financing structure of Hollywood films is also part of the problem,” added fellow panelist Valerie Veatch, the director/producer of the HBO Docs film Love Child. “Women not playing nine rounds of golf stops us from having access to the money, to the hedge funds and the other financing,” she added.

Related: Women In 2013 Movies: Study Finds “Gender Inertia” Behind The Scenes

Today’s panel comes less than a week after San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film released its annual Celluloid Ceiling Report. This year’s study found that the percentage of women holding positions on the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2013 was less than in 1998 when the first Celluloid Ceiling Report was compiled. On the top 250 pics of the year, women made up 16% of EPs, producers, directors, writers, DPs and editors in 2013. That’s a dip from the 17% they made up in 1998. As directors on those top 250 films women made up just 6%, which is a big drop from the 9% they made up in 2012 and back in ’98. It was a better landscape in TV where women made up 28% of the primary production positions jobs during the 2012-2013 season. That’s up from the 21% women made up in the 1997-98 season.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/sundance-film-festival-hollywood-sexiest-women-in-film/

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