#miss representation

[angelstills]

Miss Representation (2011)

[profeminist]

Screenplay Software Adds Tool to Assess a Script’s Inclusiveness

Final Draft, popular among screenwriters, has added a feature to judge characters’ gender, race and more. The goal is to provide guidance before a project is greenlit.

“One of the most widely used screenplay programs in Hollywood has a new tool to help with gender equality and inclusion.

In an update announced Thursday, Final Draft — software that writers use to format scripts — said it will now include a proprietary “Inclusivity Analysis” feature, allowing filmmakers “to quickly assign and measure the ethnicity, gender, age, disability or any other definable trait of the characters,” including race, the company said in a statement.

It also will enable users to determine if a project passes the Bechdel Test, measuring whether two female characters speak to each other about anything other than a man. The Final Draft tool, a free add-on, was developed in collaboration with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University, which has been at the forefront of studying the underrepresentation of women on screen.

In a statement, Geena Davis said the update “will make it easier for readers, writers and creative execs to more easily use a gender and intersectionality lens when evaluating scripts prior to greenlight, casting and production.”

Read the full piece here

[movies-reimagined]

“When you have greater diversity behind the scenes, not only do you get more female characters on screen, but you get a different kind of character. You get a more powerful and multi-dimensional female character.”

— Martha Lauzen; Miss Representation (2011) dir. Jennifer Siebel Newsom

[newtkins]

that’s what’s fucking me up

[atlxolotl]

Jennifer Pozner in Miss Representation (2011), dir. Jennifer Siebel

[intersectionalfeminism1-blog]

I created these two text dense infographics as part of the final for my class! These two graphics focused on ecofeminism and how gender binary is detrimental to the advancement of women, especially mothers. I also focused on how violence portrayed in the form of media can misrepresent women and is related to the underrepresentation of women in politics. 

[cardinalrachelieu]

sometimes i reference something from miss representation in casual conversation, and it always blows me away when someone hasn’t seen it

like????? pls love urself & watch this glorious, Iconic™ intersectional feminist film exploring issues of inequality as it pertains to women in american society

[playdoughandplato]

i'm realising that if there's anything I got out of this march it's that I have to do more in terms of actual activism and supporting activists and their groups/organisations. already I try to bring my feminism into everything I do and call in/out people where appropriate but it doesn't feel like enough anymore ... like I've gone to marches and demonstrations before but beyond sending a singular email or making one (1) phone call I haven't kept up that momentum at all. i haven't taken further concrete ACTION and while valiant, that's the literal problem. we don't achieve anything without working for it and without consistency. i just need to remind myself to do more, and to do more often