NEW YORK -- Can money solve a Hollywood gender imbalance? That's the question posed by a new film fund that aims to boost the number of female directors. The fund, called Gamechanger Films, will exclusively finance movies directed by women, The Times has learned. PHOTOS: Leading ladies of the fall TV season
According to an announcement scheduled for Friday, Gamechanger aims to fully or partly finance up to 10 narrative feature films in the coming years, in budgets generally ranging from $1 million to $5 million, across all genres. “Hollywood speaks in terms of money, so our goal is to use that same language,” said Mynette Louie, an independent-film producer (“Children of Invention”) who will serve as president of Gamechanger. “We want to shift the balance, to effect long-term change and increase the number of women directors.” The fund, which organizers say is the first of its kind, grew out of studies such as one at San Diego State University titled Celluloid Ceiling that found that women were vastly underrepresented behind the camera.
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