While I finished my thesis I didn't do much else for a few months. 404 unopened emails in one account, 791 in the other. And then I was done. And I discovered a short&sharp tweet from MadamaAmbi , sent back in June, in response to my Reading Women's Scripts post: "@devt internalized misogyny?" Then a comment I treasure, also in response to Reading Women's Scripts , from lisa gornick, the filmmaker whose film drawing site I love. Here's her latest drawing, girl at six : Lisa wrote: this is such hard but vital reading. it's like hearing your own mother be mean about you or something like that. it's so sad too. this is a great thing to air, to debate and for everyone not to be scared of discussing. there is probably some deep seated female self hating going on that causes all this to happen in an aggressive macho world of filmmaking and that with some quiet exploration and revelation we could unpick this and a new era of filmmaking could be born.
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