New Study Charts the "Post-Festival Chasm" for Women Directors

After becoming the first black woman filmmaker to win the Best Director prize at the Sundance Film Festival (for her second narrative feature "Middle of Nowhere"), Ava DuVernay waited for people to pay attention.  They didn't. "No one offered me anything," DuVernay recalled.  It's not because DuVernay was wrong in thinking that a high-profile award from one of the world's most prestigious festivals would yield at least a few phone calls. Male directors get plucked from obscurity all the time. As Manohla Dargis noted, DuVernay's treatment by the film industry was "in stark contrast with what happened to Colin Trevorrow, whose first feature, [the...

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