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Tag: Women Directors

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Hollywood Isn’t So Progressive When It Comes to Female Filmmakers

By Tracy Bloom —

When Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for 2008’s “The Hurt Locker,” it was widely viewed as a breakthrough moment for women who worked behind the camera. But several years later, Bigelow is still an exception to the long-held belief in Hollywood that a man must steer a film in order for it to have a chance at financial success.