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Female Directors On The Rise In France But Locked Out Of Blockbuster Budgets – Collectif 50/50 Study
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A new study by the French cinema gender parity group Collectif 50/50 has revealed the ratio of female to male directors increased from 2013 to 2022, but that gender parity remains a long way off.
According to the study publisjed on Monday and entitled “Parity Behind The Camera”, women accounted for 27% of the 2,196 directors active over the decade in France.
At the same time, just 23.6% of the 2,876 majority-French productions shot over the period were directed only by female directors, although there had been a yearly increase for fiction features directed by women, to touch close to 30% in 2022.
The study revealed, however, that women struggled to build sustainable careers and draw big budgets for their work. Over the period, women accounted for just 11% of directors who had made more that five features.
It showed that a woman had never directed the biggest budget French production of the year over the decade and that the gap between the budgets of the most expensive female and male-directed films was sizeable.
In 2013, for example, the most expensive female-directed A Chance Encounter by Lisa Azuelos came in at €13.4 million, while the most expensive male-directed picture, Le Petit Prince by Mark Osbourne, was budgeted at €59.6 million.
Ten years later, this year’s Cannes Film Festival opener Jeanne du Barry was the most expensive female-directed production in 2022, with a budget of €20.6 million, against €60 million for Jérémy Zag’s Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
Overall, budgets for female-directed films were on average 21% less than the average budget for male-directed films in 2022, but this was an improvement from the previous years when the gap was above 40%.
“The 50/50 Collective dares to hope that
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