[INTERVIEW] OTT service helps women have greater say in cinema

In 2018, six out of every 10 university freshmen majoring in theater and film nationwide were women, according to a report by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s Center for Gender Equality in Korean Cinema. Despite women's growing representation in the motion picture industry, commercial films produced and directed by female filmmakers that were screened from 2014 to 2018 account for only 7.9 percent. Seeing such startling discrepancy between the number of women wishing to pursue a career in film and of those who successfully make their directorial debuts, one can only wonder what has happened to the hundreds of female-led works that remain off the public's radar after their brief appearances within the festival circuit.

source https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/04/689_307604.html?fl

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