India-born internationally-acclaimed actress Freida Pinto, who witnessed stardom with "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, wants to encourage women-driven projects through her banner. She feels stereotypes around women directors need to be debunked and more stories from a woman's perspective need to come out in showbiz globally. Asked if women producers or directors add more compassion and an emotional touch to a film, Freida told IANS: "I wouldn't like to say that men are not compassionate, but there are two different perspectives to look at it. The way we (women) look at things and objects can be different." "I don't believe that men don't lend themselves to that compassionate side, but certainly the female perspective, when it comes to the films, because we are so few of us... has not been fully explored. There are too many stereotypes around female directors as well... Like they don't have stamina, they don't have experience and so on.

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