Wellywood Woman

Jane Campion often speaks out at Cannes, where she's still the only woman to have won a Palme d'Or. Twice: once for her short, Peel , and once for The Piano . This year, as reported by Variety , she's spoken out again. 'We’re a long way from really understanding the female experience of being in the world', she said. 'There’s not enough female storytellers out there. We’ve been brainwashed a bit by the patriarchal experience of the whole way of being in the world.' And now it seems that she  and other prominent filmmakers like  Andrea Arnold – last seen dancing on the Cannes red carpet (I've been enjoying the Cannes feed on YouTube), and   Maren Ade  –  the director of Toni Erdmann , and a member of this year’s feature film jury at Cannes, are thinking about founding a  ‘wonder woman’ film school .   'It’s all about turn your aprons into capes,' Campion said. 'If all of us ladies that have done something strong and good got t...