5 Fabulous Feminist Films from Sundance
5 Fabulous Feminist Films from Sundance
While feminist achievements in popular culture are not always easy to come by, the last few months have brought more than a few heartening moments. This year’s Golden Globes, for instance, had a plethora of feminist moments. Perhaps more surprisingly, even the Super Bowl featured anti-domestic-violence ads, an anti-racism ad starring Mindy Kaling and a spot devoted to raising girls’ self-esteem. And excitingly, this year’s Sundance festival, which just wrapped up on Sunday, is being lauded as particularly strong in its focus on women’s films.
The Hollywood Reporter, in a post titled “At Sundance 2015, Ladies First,” noted that screening schedules were “packed with female-driven works—movies directed by or about women, featuring the kind of plum roles we rarely see actresses enjoying in multiplex fare.” In an interview with the presidents of Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard says, “It’s the Year of Women” in films, while his co-president, Michael Barker, argues that at the festival there is generally “a motif in the finest films…and I think at this festival the motif is feminism.”
In fact, this year 32 percent of the movies screened at Sundance were directed by women, which is far higher than the average 4.4 percent of woman-directed big box office movies of the last decade. There were so many promising feminist-friendly films screened at Sundance it was difficult to pare down the list of movies to watch out for. But, for the sake of brevity, here are the five films that stand out as most groundbreaking and important from a feminist view:
The Hunting Ground
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, the same team that made The Invisible War, which exposed the epidemic of sexual assault in the military and won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2012, have turned their focus to sexual assault on college campuses in their latest documentary.
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Hot Girls Wanted
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
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Grandma
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Tangerine
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I wonder if Robert Armstrong thinks his ship came in and he can finally off all the Mickey Rat t-shirts parked in his basement for the last forty years.
