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Women Cinematographers ‘Being Judged Still,’ Say Top Industry Talents at Camerimage
Camerimage panelists including Cate Blanchett and Mandy Walker say more diversity and inclusion is sorely needed in the film industry.
On Tuesday, the largest audience yet seen for a diversity and inclusion panel at the fest packed a cinema hall to hear insights from a group that included cinematographers Mandy Walker and Rodrigo Prieto, director Maura Delpero, costume designer Sandy Powell and actor/producer Cate Blanchett. Women filmmakers are beginning to make Marvel films, accessing vast marketing budgets that help establish careers, she noted, but cinematographers like Walker, who shot “Elvis” and upcoming Disney musical “Snow White,” are “still the exception.” Blanchett — who is jury chair of this year’s Camerimage main competition — noted that after stepping away from the film industry for a decade to focus on producing theater, she was struck by the way the “natural organic pathway” for men did not apply to women.
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