Cate Blanchett Is Pushing for More Funding for Women and LGBTQ Filmmakers, but She Wants to Know Why Nobody Asks Men How to Fix It
Brent Lang Executive Editor When Cate Blanchett starts shooting a new movie or show, it’s always the same story. “It’s like Groundhog Day,” Blanchett said at the Kering Women in Motion Talks at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. “I do the head count, and I’m back in the same place, working with men who I love working with and respect, [but] I’m walking on set and there’s 50 people on set and there’s three women.
When is this going to deeply, profoundly shift?” Blanchett is trying to change a system that remains male-dominated despite all the panels and protests and calls for action.
In addition to debuting her latest film “Rumours” (which she also executive produced), the Oscar-winner is at the festival to promote Proof of Concept, an accelerator program she co-founded last year to elevate the perspectives of women, trans and nonbinary people by financially backing their short “proof of concept” films.
Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini were joined on the panel by their partner on the program, Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
