Women in Hollywood still only shine in front of the camera

Jodie Foster may have recently won a lifetime Golden Globe for her acting and directing, but opportunities for women behind the camera remain rare in Tinseltown compared with the norms for Indie films. As the New York Post puts it..

"Between 2002 and 2012, nearly a quarter of the directors at [the] Sundance [Film Festival] were women, compared with 4.4 percent for the top 100 box office films in the same period. Including cinematographers, editors, producers and writers, women accounted for 29.8 percent of the American films at Sundance, which has become synonymous with indie film. Films directed by women were also more likely to have women in other key roles behind the camera. And breaking it down further, documentaries were rife with female talent – 34.5 percent were directed by women, compared with 16.9 percent for feature films"

Here's the full article from The Mary Sue.

Thanks to my frozen McCorrespondent North of the Border for this one.