A recent study showed that in 2016 women directors were behind the camera for only seven per cent of the top 250 films at the US box office, a two percentage point drop on the year before. Last year the Women in Film, TV and Media Centre in Los Angeles started a campaign to encourage film fans to watch a film by a woman every week for a year and the hashtag #52filmsbywomen was born. Dan Slevin from RNZ Widescreen, has taken up the challenge for 2017 and tells us about it.
Dan Slevin takes on the #52filmsbywomen challenge Photo: South Pacific Pictures
