Sophia Scorziello editor A new study has found that women directors are getting more screentime at festivals than ever before.
Though the gap still exists between major studio films by male and female directors, the space in between continues to shrink, and in some areas, has disappeared entirely in regards to independent films at festivals.
In the wider sphere of big studio films, this may not be the case, with one finding setting the number of male and women directors of the top films over the last 15 years at a whopping 11 to 1 ratio.
But this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, women directors outnumbered their male counterparts — a trend evident in Martha M.
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