Her.Stories: Women at Sundance, indie film world, and Roundup of Sundance-WIF study

What Women Want: Women on the Sundance Juries and National Board of Film Preservation
at Slate

The Surge of Women at Sundance - And What it Means For Filmmaking
at The Wrap

Sundance 2013 Finds Women Out Front, Oscars Loom (Video)
at The Wrap

Anita Hill takes her story to film in new Sundance documentary (with VIDEO)
at The Salt Lake Tribune

Interview with filmmaker Jehane Noujaim on Sundance doc "The Square" (with VIDEO)
Go to minute 18:58 for interview
at Democracy Now

Sundance Film Festival: 'After Tiller' about abortion doctors, patients
at the Los Angeles Times

Lovelace: a feminism-free 'feminist' critique of the pornography industry
at The Guardian

3 filmmakers receive Women in Film grants
at Variety

Sundance 2013: French director Anne Fontaine's work translates
at the Los Angeles Times

Sundance and WIF report roundup:

(Press Release)
Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles Study Examines Gender Disparity in Independent Film

Women Do Better In Indie Film. Please Hold Your Applause.

"[I]t's not enough for a festival that's so proud of its work promoting new voices, and for independent film in general, to simply be better than studio competitors. You can't be proud when the bar is so low."

Study: Women Fare Better In Independent Film

"There are more women working in documentary films than narrative films, but Smith said the research finds that 'as commerce moves in, females move out.'"

Women Are on the Rise at Sundance - When Will Studios Take Note?

"[W]omen have far more success with low-profile projects made outside the studio system."

Sundance 2013: Female directors discuss the challenges they face

"[M]ale producers continue to be unnerved by women's stories, especially ones involving sex."

Sexist Hollywood?: Women Still Struggle to Find Film Jobs, Study Finds

"There isn't any clear indication that we are in the midst of a long-term upward trend."

Sundance and Women In Film Release Unprecedented Study on Women Directors

"[N]ever before has a study been done that tracks the career trajectories of women directors as well as writers, producers, cinematographers and editors."

More women go the indie route than Hollywood, study finds

"[W]e are better able to move forward raising awareness and understanding of the issue while also crafting effective programs to address the situation."

Study: More femme filmmakers in indies than Hollywood

"[W]omen were most likely to be producers across all behind-the-camera positions."

Findings from the Sundance Institute and Women In Film study:

Findings include:

• Of U.S. films selected for the Sundance Film Festival from 2002-2012, 29.8% of filmmakers(directors, writers, producers, cinematographers and editors) were female.
  

• Across all behind-the-camera positions, females were most likely to be producers. As the prestige ofthe producing post increased, the percentage of female participation decreased. This trend was observedin both narrative and documentary filmmaking. Fewer than one third of all narrative producers but justover 40% of associate producers were female. In documentaries, 42.5% of producers and 59.5% ofassociate producers were female.
  

• When compared to films directed by males, those directed by females feature more womenfilmmakers behind the camera (writers, producers, cinematographers, editors). This is true in bothnarratives (21% increase) and documentaries (24% increase).
  

• Females were half as likely to be directors of narrative films than documentaries (16.9% vs. 34.5%).

• Female directors of Sundance Film Festival films exceed those of the top 100 box office films. 23.9%of directors at the Sundance Film Festival from 2002-2012 were female, compared to 4.4% of directorsacross the top 100 box office films each year from 2002 to 2012 that were female.
  

• 41.5% of the female directors across 1,100 top-grossing movies of the past ten years had been supported by Sundance Institute.
  

• Five major areas were identified as hampering women’s career development in film:

- Gendered financial barriers (43.1%)
- Male-dominated industry networking (39.2%)
- Stereotyping on set (15.7%)
- Work and family balance (19.6%)
- Exclusionary hiring decisions (13.7%)

• Opportunities exist to improve the situation for women in independent film. Individuals mentioned three key ways to change the status quo:
  

- Mentoring and encouragement for early career women (36.7%)
- Improving access to finance (26.5%)
- Raising awareness of the problem (20.4%)