It seems like every single day brings with it another depressing statistic about women in film. Like how out of the top grossing 600 films between 2007-2013, only 1.9 percent were directed by women, for example, or how Jennifer Lawrence made $2 million less than Jeremy Renner for “American Hustle,” or — perhaps most shockingly — how the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media recently revealed that females make up only 17 percent of movie crowd scenes. It’s both maddening and extremely depressing to read these numbers and see their implications play out on the big screen, which is why it’s also so important to celebrate those who are putting their money where their mouth is; working their butts off to improve those statistics one movie at a time.

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