Tagged: women and film

Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival Emphasizes Diversity

Hollywood and the film industry have long had a major problem with equality when it comes to anyone who isn’t a straight, white male. While this fact isn’t news to anyone, it has increasingly been brought to the forefront of our nation’s social consciousness in the past few years.

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Why I Don’t Want to Hear Your Privileged Narrative

Hollywood, book publishing, and other media outlets are designed to give audiences stories that they will want to take in, but, all too often, the system that is used to determine whether or not a narrative will connect with readers and watchers — and, therefore, whether or not a particular story will ever see widespread distribution — neglects to consider the audience as a diverse blend of people who enjoy good stories.

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