The Guardian website has featured an article about three new generation female directors where they discuss their work. Debra Granik, an award-winning independent filmmaker, talks about the Bechdel test in relation to her latest film Winter's Bone a film where the women are "adjudicating a huge amount of the questions of life. There has never been enough screen time for that reality - that real-life behaviour of women."
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein discusses her first Hollywood feature film the romantic comedy Going the Distance, starring Drew Barrymore, which she says appealed in part because she gets "so frustrated by the way women are portrayed in this genre. They seem to either be desperate to get married or control-freak, career-obsessives."
The third filmmaker is renowned pop video director Sanaa Hamri who talks about her third feature film Just Wright a romantic comedy starring Queen Latifah. The film is "a Cinderella story set in the world of championship basketball" which features an all African-American cast something, which is still seen as a rarity. "Hopefully in 10-20 years it will be antiquated to think that it's odd to have a film with an all African-American cast that didn't play a race card," Hamri said recently.
Please visit the Guardian website to read the full article.