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The leaders of the Cannes Film Festival have signed a gender equality pledge promising to make their selection process more transparent and to push their executive boards toward gender parity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cannes director Thierry Fremaux signed the pledge Monday in a packed tent on the Cannes beach, along with Edouard Waintrop, artistic director of Cannes\u2019 Director\u2019s Fortnight section, and Charles Tesson, artistic director of Critics\u2019 Week. Watching from the front row was this year\u2019s nine-member jury, including President Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Ava DuVernay and Lea Seydoux.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe hope that Cannes will welcome these new initiatives,\u201d Fremaux said.\u00a0\u201cWe hope that it will reinforce the realization that the world is not the same anymore. The world has changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe must question our history and our habits,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The pledge was drawn up by the French gender-parity group 50\/50 by 2020, which brought in other groups including Time\u2019s Up. The same international coalition was behind Saturday\u2019s rally on the red carpet steps of Cannes\u2019 Palais des Festivales, where 82 women protested gender inequality in the film industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWomen are not a minority in the world, and yet our industry says the opposite,\u201d Blanchett said from the top of the Palais steps, alongside French filmmaker Agnes Varda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Their number \u2014 82 \u2014 reflected the number of female directors who have been selected to show their films at Cannes\u2019 prestigious main slate. In contrast, 1,866 male directors have been selected in the festival\u2019s 71-year history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cannes has come under repeated criticism in recent years for its poor record of selecting female filmmakers. Only one female director, Jane Campion, has won the festival\u2019s top award, the Palme d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Of the 21 films in competition this year, three are directed by women. Saturday\u2019s protest came ahead of the premiere of Eva Husson\u2019s \u201cGirls of the Sun,\u201d which is about a Kurdish battalion of female soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Monday\u2019s pledge also calls for the festival to compile statistics breaking down the gender of filmmakers and major crew members for all films submitted to Cannes. Fremaux said that 1,900 movies were submitted this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the past, Fremaux has pointed out that the Cannes festival screens films directed by women at a much higher percentage than are made in the movie industry itself. Studies have shown that women directed 11% of the 250 most popular movies at the U.S. and Canada box office in 2017 \u2014 a figure only slightly above the same metric 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEven if there is a higher proportion of women showing films at Cannes, we\u2019re aware that it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Fremaux said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cannes became the first film festival to sign the pledge, but it is expected to be followed by others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Other film festivals have more aggressively pursued gender parity, including the Tribeca Film Festival, which last month touted its percentage of female filmmakers \u2014 46%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the signing, filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski noted it was Blanchett\u2019s birthday, and attendees serenaded the actress with a rendition of \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: latimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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