The Birds Eye View website offers the following statistics for Women working in Film: “Film is the most powerful medium of our time, but only seven per cent of directors are women, ten per cent screenwriters,” and very few are cinematographers or technicians.
Hardly surprising, but for women engaged in the difficult business of filmmaking the statistics are a cause for concern. And that’s without even examining the track record of other art forms such as theatre, opera and visual art. But perhaps, nowhere, except in the realm of film is the so-called, “glass ceiling” of gender, so painfully evident.
