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Cate Blanchett launches program to empower female, trans & nonbinary filmmakers

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2y ago

Cate Blanchett launches program to empower female, trans & nonbinary filmmakers

www.lgbtqnation.com /2023/12/cate-blanchett-launches-program-to-empower-female-trans-nonbinary-filmmakers/

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I expected better from the comments of a community called "Uplifting"
- Just block them and be done with it.
  Blocking is extremely effective here compared to Reddit, they just poof out of existence and you never have to think about them again.
- Instead of making a long list of every non cis-male group
  To be clear, the "long list" you're referring to contains three entries.
  Do you actually have trouble juggling that much information at once or are you just upset because you think providing help and opportunities to someone other than a cis-het man is somehow oppressing you? Be honest.
- And an effective way to assure good films continue to be made is to encourage diverse perspectives in the industry. Which is what this program aims to achieve. So, if all you care about is whether or not a film is good then what exactly is your problem with an initiative meant to develop new talent? Please be specific.
  
  I have a feeling there won't be a lot of intellectual diversity or perspectives, but I also don't give a shit what people do with their money. Let people try whatever they think will work for either their goals or their wallet. Win or lose, everything we try is data.
- Maybe everything isn't about the majority of people.
- Actually, no:
  “We’re missing an enormous creative opportunity by not diversifying. We deplore creative laziness, we deplore financial laziness, and so we should therefore deplore a lack of inclusivity,” she said of the industry. “Homogeneity in any industry is the death of progress and innovation. That’s certainly the case for the creative industries. When you walk onto a set that is homogenous, you can sort of taste the outcome. The things that break through that are fresh, that have influence for the next decade, always start because someone took a risk on them.”
I just hope she does a better job of this than the titular character she played in Tár did with her own initiative of supporting women conductors.
Long story short, everyone should see Tár.
As long as the movie is good I don't care who made it. The industry also shouldn't. This goes both ways: good nonbinary filmmakers should get to make movies, bad nonbinary filmmakers shouldn't make movies just because they're nonbinary.
Whoa!! Now I get even more chills watching LotR. Knowing IRL Galadriel supporting the quest for queerness. 🥰
- That’s never been the case though. It’s all about connections. You could have the greatest script ever, but if you don’t know the right people with money it’s not getting made.
  Until recently Hollywood has very much been an old white guy’s party. Old white guys tend not to be very accepting of others.
  So, as an old white guy, I will say: this doesn’t bother me.

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