Christine Vachon's giving a one-day seminar in Auckland tomorrow, thanks to Script to Screen . I want want want to go. Asked to interview her. But the washing machine died. And then my laptop died. Not just another of its recent small deaths. Dead beyond resuscitation. I love Christine Vachon's books. In Shooting to Kill published twelve years ago, she identified financing entities’ gender—and image-oriented—beliefs as problematic: [They scrutinize] your project for marketable elements that will distinguish it from the morass of independent films…they want a director about whom good copy can be written… It helps if they’re attractive. And it helps if they’re male. I’m usually reluctant to spout stuff like: “If you’re a female it’s so much harder, if you’re a male it’s so much easier” —I hope it’s a little more complicated than that. But I do think that the machine works better with boys. People are more familiar with the whole idea of a male direct...
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