Directors juggle creative vision with problem-solving, budgets, timelines and big crews. Here’s how these women lead in a male-dominated industry
Filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee, photographed outside 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, says of leading on set: 'When things hit the fan, I have to shelve my emotional reactivity.'Running a film set as a director can be an extremely challenging job – juggling creative vision with on-the-spot problem-solving, tight timelines, budget limitations and big crews. For filmmakers from underrepresented communities, things can get even harder.
“I’m the girl that was like, ‘I want to answer every question’ in school – but that’s good,” she says. Growing up, Ms. Mirza says she thought that the only way to lead was by “making people fear you,” because that is how traditional patriarchal systems operate. “I think that’s something that kept me from stepping into directing for a long time – the misconception that was the only way to lead. That’s just not who I am.”
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