It is the first teo for sure, maybe the third.
We have the inertia of past directors being prinarily men. That means to pool of established directors that are likely to be picked for a bigger budget movie that will receive a ton of advertising will be men.
Second, even with DEI the culture of most cultures simply defers to tall men for the most part, even when it is subconcious. So a pitch for a movie will just end up leaning towards men on top of the ratio of available directors because the people funding movies are likely older men who have concious or inconcious biases.
I’m sure most people pay little attention to the director outside of well known names. The well known names tend to be men, because they have probably been making movies for a couple decades in the current environment. I’m sure there is a mix of people who are interested or turned away from a film if a woman is directing, but I have no idea how much of it is because it is a woman by iteself or because of being marketed as being directed by a woman. Barbie was a massive success, so it isn’t like being directed by a woman is a complete dealbreaker, but while big budget action movies that dominate the box office are directed by men who have become houshold names the ratio will stay skewed.
Even if society leaned hard into DEI it woukd take decades to reach any semblance of balance.
plm00@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Audiences want good movies, and often don’t care who writes or directs them. It’d be a mistake to say the reason for the low percentage “is because sexism” on such a multifaceted situation. A quick web search says only about 15% of all filmmakers are women, so this statistic sounds about right. Either not enough women are interested, or not enough get the opportunity.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
That’s a great point. I thought the initiatives would strive for a 50/50 balance which is why 16% surprises me so much.
plm00@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I wonder what the ratio is between men who want to become filmmakers and women who want to become filmmakers, and if it’s actually 50/50.
hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This is often driven by media portrayal. If young women aren’t seeing women being portrayed as directors in media, they might not make the mental leap to “I want to be a director, and I think it’s possible”. For example, the x files led to women in stem having more confidence in their choice of career (STEM career). geenadavisinstitute.org/…/the-scully-effect-i-wan…