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Each year, my research team examines the top 100 grossing films in the United States.
There's been no change from 2007 to 2015, and if you compare our results to a small sample of films from 1946 to 1955, there's been no change in over a half of a century.
Across the top 100 films of just last year, 48 films didn't feature one black or African-American speaking character, not one.
70 films were devoid of Asian or Asian-American speaking characters that were girls or women.
Eighty-four films didn't feature one female character that had a disability.
Out of a hundred films last year, only 32 featured a female lead or colead driving the action.
Only three out of a hundred films featured an underrepresented female driving the story, and only one diverse woman that was 45 years of age or older at the time of theatrical release.
Turns out, the female directors are associated with, in terms of short films and indie films, more girls and women on-screen, more stories with women in the center, more stories with women 40 years of age or older on-screen, which I think is good news for this crowd.
800 films, 2007-2015, 886 directors.
Did you know if we looked at the top 100 films next year and simply added five female speaking characters on-screen to each of those films, it would create a new norm.
A-listers, as we all know, can make demands in their contracts, particularly the ones that work on the biggest Hollywood films.
The exact same principle can apply to Hollywood films.
Well, on these top films, executives and agents can make sure that women and people of color are not only on the consideration list, but they're actually interviewed for the job.
If we want to see more films by, for and about women, we have to support them.
We need to write, call and email companies that are making and distributing films, and we need to post on our social media accounts when we want to see inclusive representation, women on-screen, and most importantly, women behind the camera.
The US and its content, films in particular, have captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide.
In the last couple of years, I have produced what I call "The Dead Mall Series," 32 short films and counting about dead malls.
I started producing this series in early 2015 after going through kind of a dark period in my life where I just didn't want to create films anymore.
And one of my favorite films was "The Legend of Billie Jean."
It's been featured in uncounted films and television commercials, but what is it and why does it sound that way?
I'd done 50 films by then and 200 songs, and I'd been knighted by the Malaysians.
My archive: 175 films, my 16-millimeter negative, all my books, my dad's books, my photographs.
So I'm not saying that agenda art isn't important; I'm the chairperson of a charity that deals with films and theaters that write about HIV and radicalization and female genital mutilation.
They ban books, art, films.
Over and over again, people tell us, "Yeah, but people don't really want to see films about women, so maybe you should think about making something else.
So now, consider this: if you have watched mostly American movies in your lifetime, 95 percent of all the films you have ever seen were directed by men.
And yet, Paramount and Fox recently released their slates, and of the 47 films that they will release between now and 2018, not a single one will be directed by a woman.
The problem is that as soon as you get to the micro-budget film, so even the very smallest films, we're already only directing 18 percent.
Then you get to slightly bigger films, indies in the $1-5 million budget range, and we go down to 12 percent.
Good news number two, and this is really good news: films by and about women make more money.
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