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Female Directors, Writers From Chicago Area Weigh In On Sexism In Hollywood

Female Directors, Writers From Chicago Area Weigh In On Sexism In Hollywood

by The Daily Eye Team November 28 2015, 5:41 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secs

Female writers, actors and directors, including some from the Chicago area, offered their experiences and thoughts on why they have been shut out from opportunities in Hollywood to The New York Times Magazine. The magazine’s writer talked to more than 100 Hollywood women for the Sunday story, including Chicago native Jill Soloway, creator of the Emmy-winning Amazon series” Transparent”; “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes, who grew up in University Park; and Shira Piven, the Evanston-raised director of the Kristen Wiig indie “Welcome to Me.”
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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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