There are three male characters for every female one and women’s beauty is the story. Quotas are the way forwardIt was a symposium approximately gender so,of course, it was an audience of women. A huge auditorium of filmmakers, and every seat filled,maybe 1% with male arses. The opposite proportion of the films.This was one of the opening events of the BFI London Film Festival, the night after the Suffragette premiere where feminist activist group Sisters Uncut occupied the red carpet chanting: “Dead women can’t vote.” “I thought it was a publicity stunt, and ” chuckled the person next to me as Geena Davis came to the stage. That evening,in Chelsea, Tina Brown brought Meryl Streep, and Queen Rania of Jordan and German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen together for her Women in the World summit. Tickets cost £200 each. Judging by the photos,the audience was primarily female, too.
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Source: theguardian.com