![]() It is not a hospitable work environment for females. This is a contributing factor as to why so many women get out of the business. I’ve witnessed it first-hand, ergo my leaving the business. The bigger story to my way of thinking is the utter lack of female input behind the scenes and the lack of female protagonists on screen.ĭo I think there’s sexism in Hollywood? Hell yeah there is. ![]() The bigger issue here is not the firing but why Pixar has never had a female director to begin with. Tracy L., a former film development executive with 12 years experience in the industry, agrees: Thus, this individual case of firing is pertinent to a larger problem–the lack of females holding powerful studio positions. First, because they touted her as their first female director only a month ago second, she is an experienced animated director third, the firing doesn’t seem to be rational and folks even in the business are confused as to why it happened. But this firing has people up in arms for a variety of reasons. It was only this year, after all, that a woman finally won Best Director at the Academy Awards, despite the fact women have been involved in filmmaking since its beginnings in 1896.Īs Melissa Silverstein of Women and Hollywood puts it,ĭirectors get fired all the time. Women remain a fraction of the industry’s directors, just 7 percent according to the latest study–the same ratio as a decade ago. Pixar is not unique in this regard: As Sharon Waxman & Jeff Sneider write, “The animation industry is not known as a warm and fuzzy place for women.” In Hollywood more generally, as Waxmen and Sneider further note, While changes in directors are common in the film world (so much so that “ they hardly merit reporting,”) this story is causing quite the stir as Chapman was Pixar’s first woman director all eleven previous films were directed by (and featured) men. The title of his previous Pixar short, One Man Band, is a fitting way to describe what seems to have become Pixar’s one-note dedication to male-helmed and -focused films. Instead, Mark Andrews has reportedly taken over directorial duties. Most animators, screenwriters, directors and producers are still men, getting to be the Mowgli-type adventurers in Hollywood, while their female counterparts often remain figurative water fetchers.īrenda Chapman, the woman director who broke into Pixar, reportedly a boys club, was sadly turned back into a non-directing pumpkin last week–no fairy-tale ending for her as the director/heroine of Brave, an animated film she wrote and has been developing for several years. Alas, not only do these animated daughters still accord to gender norms for the most part, but so too do their creators. At the end of The Jungle Book, Mowgli’s love interest sings of her future daughter, “I’ll send her to fetch the water, I’ll be cooking in the home.” Some 43 years later, her metaphorical daughters populate not only Disney films, but also those of Dream Works and Pixar.
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