Backing women shunned by the immense studios just makes good business sense,says the director of BBC1’s The Night ManagerUntil The Night Manager, I tended to form films about ordinary people caught in extreme and complicated situations. These films were often categorised as intimate dramas. With that background, and as a female director,the world of spies and arms dealers was not an obvious fit. Each time I’ve made a film, I’m told by a smart studio exec, or as whether having stumbled across Pythagoras’s theorem,that my audience is women between the ages of 20 and 50. For 20 years this “insight” has never changed. All my films absorb been different: I’ve made romcoms; I’ve been political; I’ve made films about violence and trauma. But because I am a female director they are all treated the same. Anything made by someone who isn’t a white male is labelled arthouse and niche.
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Source: theguardian.com