#woc directors

[omgitsaime]

When I want to avoid writing Bachelorettes (since I'm a wimp who can't see herself win), I work on the costume board on pinterest and convince myself it's fine since it's ✨related to the film✨. It is not and fashion is my coping mechanism

#like girl get your life together #that script should have been finished years ago #yeah God's timing is always right #but girl He only gives you so much time 😭 #bachelorettes #writing #movie making #indie movie #indie filmmakers #scriptwriting #screenplay #procrastination #imposter syndrome #aime made a movie #women directors #poc directors #woc directors #girlblogging #girl blogger #pinterest

[vsthepomegranate]

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

by Julie Dash

#1990s movies #woman director #Black Artist #woc artist #Gullah #indie film

[evren-sadwrn]

“Please do not bring yet another creature into my office.”

John Wick OC, 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖

#i say BRING MORE #DAVID TIME TO BRING ANOTHER POSSUM #A RACCOON EVEN #ellie my hr girlie(shes the hr director) #eleanor ‘ellie’ sallow #john wick oc #jw oc #my oc #oc posting #moodboard #mood board #puppy #light academia #aes #dog aesthetic #woc oc #poc oc

[shivieroy]

so i just saw this lokius shipper saying sylvie is kate herron's self insert 😭

#man they don't even know what a directors job is #the more i see their opinions the more i know they're dumb af #thats not normal #and i really mean it #these people need therapy #and i also saw some of them shipping tom and 0w3n? #like tom hiddleston isn't married to a beautiful woc #and has a child to take care of #unlike owen #anti lokius #sylki #pro sylki #sophia di martino #tom hiddleston #i know i said i wouldn't talk about this ship anymore #but i think something like this must be shared

[hard--headed--woman]

today my little sister told me she was angry because of how other students treated her best friend in high school. i asked her what was going on ; she told me people were racist to her (the girl is black), even their "friends". she said her best friend wears braids or buns almost everyday, after spending time straightening her hair, but that often she doesn't want to and would like to just go to class with her hair loose and natural, without tying it up or straightening it at all ; that often she wants to untie them in the middle of the day for whatever reason. the thing is she never does it and always tie her hair up to go to high school anyway because if she doesn't, people laugh at her and keep touching her hair no matter how many times she tells them to fucking stop and leave her alone. even her friends - especially her friends. my sister told me that everytime she's tried, people mocked her, tried to touch her hair, their friends spent their time making racist comments about it and touching her hair, laughing, ignoring her when she told them to stop and fuck off... and obviously i already knew it was something black women face all the time but still it made me so angry to hear that. this teenager wants to go to high school with her hair down and natural and she can't because people including her supposed friends are being stupid and racist pieces of shit who think it's totally ok to make jokes about a black girl's hair and to touch said hair every damn second

#radblr #radical feminism #radfem safe #radfem #feminism #women's rights #misogyny #misogynoir #racism #woc #women of color #black women #black girls #feminist #i told her to go report it with her friend if it happens again even though i have no faith in the directors of this high school #it's literally not normal. leave that girl alone

[myloveismineallmine]

very hot very unpopular take but. past lives winning would be more impactful for feminism than barbie winning

#barbie is just. so white girlboss feminism #like it makes some okay points...... but it doesn't cover any new ground #it was also co written by a man 🧍 #while past lives was written/directed by a first time woc director #people thinking barbie is peak feminism is. so fucking weird man.

[wylans-stupid-face]

This edit was so good I immediately watched the movie (knowing I would then get less than 6 hours of sleep before work) and boy was it worth it!

#Stay the Night #Stay the Night 2022 #similar to before you go(?) that chris evans movie #but canadian #with a woc director #wylans-stupid-face

[f-eaddy]

“You can’t make big time with small ideas. From now on, so help me, it’s only big ideas. Come on, let’s go!” Thank you to the Orange County Chapter of @sistersincinema for this thoughtful gift 😍 . . . . . . . . . . . #bigideas #thoughts #mindfulness #writer #director #actor #hollywood #actorslife #femalefilmmakers #wif #wocf #woc #create #gratitude (at Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoBQvXlP4ie/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bigideas #thoughts #mindfulness #writer #director #actor #hollywood #actorslife #femalefilmmakers #wif #wocf #woc #create #gratitude

[calilili]

" The Making of #HERstory ; Cali Lili ‘s #Sustainable #FemaleCrew #BLM #InterracialLove #LoveIsLove #Oscars 2020 Contender: eVe N’god this female is not yet rated ™☯️

2023 / 2024 Update : Cali’s innovative work is included in upcoming documentaries and Cali Lili Indies is preparing Cali’s next movie & album (TBA) Movie Review 2022 Times Square Chronicles Cali Lili’s : Eve N God This Female Is Not Yet Rated (with original soundtrack)  Movie Review 2022 Times Square Chronicles Cali Lili ‘s Oscars 2020 ContendereVe N’god this female is not yet rated ” dream…

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#academy awards #All female crew #black lives matter #female director #girlpower #indie film #indies #lgbtq #lgbtq cinema #movie #Music #oscars #qwoc #roe v wade #sustainability #woc #womens rights

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Merle Oberon (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel)—She was mixed race (born in India and her mother was Sri Lankan) and still managed to make it in the British and American film industries (by passing) despite a rough start in life and industry racism. She was the first Asian person to be nominated for any Academy Award (best actress in 1935)! She also survived a car accident in 1937 and kept on acting until 1973, despite potentially career-ending facial scars. Also, she met her third husband while they were filming a movie together in 1973 (her last movie and she still looks great!). They fell in love and got married in 1975 when she was 62 and he was 36. She died 4 years later in 1979. Iconic.

Jean Seberg (Breathless, Saint Joan)— Some of us watched À bout de souffle as a lil French undergrad and had the trajectory of our lives changed by Jean Seberg. She IS French new wave!! She is the moment!! She sadly had to work with a lot of shitty directors in her career but even so, she has this magnetic energy whenever she’s on screen. In her personal life, she was also very supportive of civil rights causes, and was even targeted/harassed by the FBI for financially supporting the Black Panther Party.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Merle Oberon:

Beautiful. Talented. Biracial. Also please refer to the following promo from the aforementioned A Night To Remember, in which she plays the writer George Sand:

Her performances always give off this perfect blend of of being composed, refined, and aloof while still being deeply passionate and I eat it up every time.

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A rare example of a WOC working in lead roles in this era (mostly because she worked very hard to pass as white and had to hide her south asian heritage sadly). She has this very regal vibe but also a simmering intensity—even holding her own as Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff.

I need all the gothic fans to STAND UP for our cathy!!

She has such a unique face when it comes to old hollywood actresses - a lot of them start to melt together in my brain - but Merle has always stood out to me<3

Jean Seberg:

anyone who plays Joan of Arc is kind of hot by default tbh

she's gorgeous, she's cool, she has the original blond pixie cut

She donated a lot of her money to civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and the black panther party as well as Native American school groups, as a result of this the fbi ran a smear campaign against her and a surveillance campaign which is thought to have led to her suicide tragically.

idk if this is propaganda but the COINTELPRO and the FBI are widely blamed for her death. If the FBI was after her for supporting the Black Panther Party you know she was good

#jean seberg #merle oberon #fuck that old woman #hotvintagepoll #ladies 3 #making the choice to change merle's photo of my own volition because I Know What You People Do When You See A Menswear Contestant #and need to equal the playing field here if jean's showing up in full joust mode

[marauderstars]

Ways J.K Rowling did poc dirty in canon:

Making the last name of one of her most powerful black characters “Shacklebolt” - a crude af reference to slavery and just in very poor taste.

Naming her only east Asian character “Cho Chang” - a Korean surname as a first name for a Chinese character - proving she did no research whatsoever into Chinese naming traditions.

Cho’s characterization also leans in to the trope of tragic Asian female characters being defined by their romantic connections to white men, as in “Miss Saigon” or “A Quiet American.” Cho’s storyline centers on her romantic involvement with Cedric, Harry and Roger Davies. She gets no meaningful arc of her own.

The sidekick-ification of Lee Jordan.

Michael Corner being referred to as “the dark one” which is bad enough, and then him being whitewashed in the films.

Pansy Parkinson’s comment about Angelina Johnson’s braided hair looking like “worms” goes completely unpunished. Rowling treats this as standard bullying instead of a racially-charged comment. Rowling clearly didn’t understand the serious implications of this comment and its rooting in deeply-ingrained discrimination against black hairstyles, or she would have written a similar reaction to this as she did to that of Hermione being called a “Mudblood.”

House Elves as a metaphor for slaves is highly problematic because they are depicted as “liking” their enslavement and being complicit in it, much like the black slaves in “Gone With The Wind.” Despite Dobby being a beloved character, he is also seen as an anomaly for desiring freedom, and many other House Elves are depicted as grotesque, fawning, ridiculous or sinister. Pretty garbage metaphor for black slaves.

In Goblet of Fire Rowling describes a group of “African” wizards wearing “long white robes” and “roasting what looked like a rabbit on a bright purple fire.” This is just… *sigh* The way this is worded is very clearly just token exoticism and includes no genuine detail about their clothing, cultural food or nationality. It’s just “wow those zany rabbit-eating Africans and their purple fire.” Once again black characters are being used as examples of otherness rather than shown as human beings.

Rowling has openly admitted that she created a detailed backstory for Dean Thomas, one of the series’ few black characters, but did not include it in the books and included the backstory of Neville Longbottom, a white character, instead.

Approving the casting of a white actress in the role of Lavender Brown in the films, a character the majority of readers assumed was black.

The portrayal of Blaise Zabini’s “famously beautiful” black mother who was known for offing her husbands and taking their money. Like. Come on. Tbh she sounds like a queen but violent woc gold digger is still a shit trope.

Just the entire treatment of the Patil twins at the Yule Ball, the way Harry and Ron treated them and Rowling’s garbage attempt at describing their traditional clothing.

Padma Patil’s portrayal in Cursed Child as the stereotypical controlling Indian wife. The idea of ending up with her instead of Hermione being positioned as some kind of horrible alternate reality for Ron had very xenophobic undertones, and while Hermione is portrayed as black in the play, I don’t believe that Rowling originally intended her to be a black character nor that casting directors deliberately set out to cast a black actress as Hermione in Cursed Child initially.

#feel free to add on #harry potter #anti jkr #jkr mention #tw jkr #harry potter books #canon #hp text posts #hp memes #hp marauders #marauders era #marauders #hermione granger #dean thomas #angelina johnson #lavender brown #cho chang #house elves #s.p.e.w #race in literature #poc #poc representation

[omgitsaime]

#like i need to know if y'all care or not #indie film #indie filmmaking #indie filmmakers #filmmaking #movie making #indie movie #female directors #women directors #poc directors #woc directors #debut #tumblr polls #my polls

[slippersmoo]

Can I just say how grateful I am, how lucky we all are, to see one of the most astounding forces to ever be put to screen. The Dora Milaje. Never once is their power questioned. Never once does their competence and composure waver in all their iterations in the MCU. No matter which director features them in their project, we all collectively know how intelligent and badass they’re gonna be. As soon as they step in we know shits about to be HANDLED.

It makes me incredibly proud as a WOC to see these ladies on screen and it brings me so much joy to see (simply on the internet) their impact on black women and girls alike.

#black panther #dora milaje #general okoye #ayo #aneka #marvel #i just love women #random reflections

[fandomshatewomen]

after barbie came out, so many people were talking about how they hope Barbie's success can pave the way for more female centered films and female directors, yet the marvels doesn't have the same kind of support the barbie movie is getting which centers on three superheroines but I guess it has to do with the fact that the marvels has Monica and Kamala having equal focus as Carol and aren't side characters unlike all the woc in barbie

And like I just saw The Marvels last night and I had a great time!!! but people aren't giving it the time of day because Monica is Black and Kamala is desi and muslim.

mod laina

#barbie 2023 #the marvels #kamala khan #monica rambeau #misogynoir #islamophobia

[wolves0nmars]

With the release of Separate Ways I've really had a revelation about the harassment that Lily Gao faced after RE4R's release. People were mad because all of her deliveries were fairly casual and straightforward rather than emotional or "seductive". Which was obviously just a creative decision. The director probably just wanted to leave behind that male gaze-femme fatale thing that Ada had and allow her to behave like a normal person... just saying... "cya later!" instead of "ssseee youuu laterrruhhh <3 <3 mwa kiss kiss".

But also i think it was just a product of all of the cut Ada content from the game. And after playing Separate Ways, we just got so much more from her voice acting because... we just got so much more from her. We had her put in scenarios where she'd actually be more emotional or vulnerable instead of casual and laid back.

I think that straight male audiences (gamers) have a habit of hating on women whom they vaguely associate with things they don't like. Think Anna Gunn getting death threats cause people didn't like Skylar. Did Anna write her? No. Vince Gilligan did. But she was getting a lotttt more hate than he was. Did Lily Gao singlehandedly just make the decision to go in an entirely new direction with Ada’s characterization? Probably not. Did she cut all of that Ada content from the main story? No. Presumably a bunch of men did all that. But we just have a much easier time hating on a woman, specifically a WOC cause... society and shit.

#separate ways #resident evil #resident evil 4 #re4 #re4r #resident evil 4 remake #re4make #re4 remake #ada wong #lily gao

[heesulovebot]

ik there's the contentious topic about categorizing things as bl and making the distinction between bl and queer media, and i do think there have been valid points in the discourse about how bl is changing and its going through a sort of r/evolution now that bl is getting pretty big (and i'm talking exclusively about asian bl here btw, so in this context it would be the globalization of asian bls). but i also think that it's important to not disregard history and bl's roots.

bl was created by women for women in the 1970s in japan. although from a feminist perspective, bl challenges gender and sexual norms, bring capitalism into the equation, and we're getting the fetishization of gay relationships for (predominantly) straight female consumption.

idt it's a "right or wrong" situation. i believe two truths can exist: bl is a capitalist venture that oftentimes perpetuates harmful stereotypes, but bl can also be liberation for a lot of people. especially asian bl—as a bisexual woc, seeing nonwhite queer media is so so important to me. and i am not asian, but i know it's especially been revolutionary for my fellow queer asian brothers, sisters, & enby siblings.

i read somewhere that the directors instructed juntaek to not watch (korean) bl when studying for his role in the eighth sense. i found this reeeeally interesting, since i've also seen people mention that the eighth sense is not a bl, but queer media. i also think it's important to point out that one of the directors/writers is a white european man, and i'm pretty sure he was the one who told juntaek to watch things like skam or call me by your name instead of kbls—i haven't seen skam but cmbyn is white queer cinema (also problematic, but i digress). in the past, there was also that british bl heartstopper (sorry besties i still haven't seen it i probably should), in which the author expressed that they did not want to label it as bl, but there was backlash as, at least the show, clearly drew inspiration from asian bl.

as a historically asian genre, how does this distinction (bl vs. queer) perpetuate the western hegemony of queer thought? usually when people make this distinction, i don't think they take into account that race plays as much as a part as queerness (intersectionality is so important). but on the other hand, i also understand that bl has clear tropes and narrative structures that make it a bl. we wouldn't call moonlight a bl, or the handmaiden a gl. but also, films are a different medium with less restrictions (if you've seen a korean film vs. a kdrama, you get me lol).

i definitely don't have an answer or anything. the eighth sense is filmed through such a queer lens and it touches on the nuances of the queer experiences in a way i haven't really seen in bl, but i still i find myself wary of proclaiming that it's not bl, ja feel? is the eighth sense (along with bls such as bad buddy, old fashion cupcake, to my star, etc.) a marker of the r/evolution of bl? i guess i just wanted to open up the conversation to hear people's thoughts, especially from my fellow queer pocs.

at the end of the day we're all here to be entertained, but i'm glad to see discourse and think it's fruitful in the long process of decolonizing our mindsets.

#the eighth sense #let me know ur thoughts!!! perspectives!!! feelings!!! #also pls correct me if i said something ill informed i'm here to learn!