Truly, Dee

fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:

“Being on my own movie set, and just putting a movie together and then having a DP show up and having everyone look to that person for assurance because they’re a man. But also, it was gnarly making that movie. It was not hidden. I mean, surviving River of Grass, the shooting of it, I was like, “Oh my God, this is happening because I’m a woman.” And then I think the distribution had so many sexist elements to it. And then trying to get a film made afterwards where you go to meetings and people go, “Well, we’re not doing women’s films.” People were not shy about it. I was trying to get a film made starring Alfre Woodard and they’d be like, “a woman director and then a Black woman lead, you’re starting in such a hole.” Also, just going to Sundance and watching my male counterparts get the budget I still haven’t gotten on their second films and feeling like, “Wow, a decade lost”—watching all those guys that I am in the same age of, watching their careers.”

— Kelly Reichardt