In this guest column, Honey Boy filmmaker Alma Har'el, whose December tweet about Golden Globes nominations went viral, addresses the…
For an indie filmmaker who works on a film for one to three years — and especially for women — playing the awards game often means a gamble on your whole livelihood. These are five to six months of unpaid labor. That said, winning an award can trigger a bonus that is usually a part of the filmmaker’s initial contract and is often bigger than everything they earned making that film.
We are told again and again that it’s essential to our success in the long term that we play along… But it didn’t used to be like this.to voters with the same importance of a political campaign. “We’re living Harvey’s legacy,” one woman whispered in my ear at a lavish awards party. At an awards meeting recently, a fellow female filmmaker friend was told that, out of your typical five directing award nominations, there may be only one spot for a woman or person of color. And that nomination will most likely go to the film that performed best at the box office “because then they can’t dismiss it.”Many women filmmakers prefer not to be referred to by their gender. Gender non-binary filmmakers aren’t even part of the conversation .
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