You Cannes Not Be Serious

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As people who care about and are interested in films we must protest the lack of female directors in competition for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Women make up over half of cinema audiences and we demand a fairer representation of female directors in the main competition.

We are raising our voices in protest in hopes that in the future this will never happen again.

We are watching. We will not be silent.

994 Signatures

  • Grace Gelder
  • Rachael Battistini
  • Sarah mann
  • Abbe Robinson
  • Martin Torjussen
  • Ivana Massetti
  • Zulay Gutierrez
    • Comments
    • Sexism is running a mock in the film industry. We females are not being taken seriously and I hope more of us will be able to speak and be listened through our creations in film.
  • Sarah Gray
  • COLLETTE MCINTOSH
  • Rosanne Flynn
  • Deanna Dewey
    • Comments
    • In this day and age this is totally unacceptable.
  • Judith Condon
    • Comments
    • How can this be possible in the 21st century? Wake up Cannes!
  • suzanne cohen
  • Abbie Loadman
  • Jill Daniels
    • Comments
    • Cannes FF needs to change NOW!
  • PIEROZZI Sophie Lee
  • maeve rutten
  • Karen Hope
  • Sally El Hosaini
    • Comments
    • We need to break through the celluloid ceiling.
  • Natalie
  • Catalin Brylla
  • Femke Schouten
  • Emilia
  • elise liversedge
  • Alessia Carpegna
  • Angeles Sorribas
    • Comments
    • My short film was not accepted
  • Cahal McLaughlin
  • Neetu Pandha
  • Patrick Duval
    • Comments
    • Take a leaf out of the ultra conventional but now, at least, tentative Oscars & BAFTAs and give women filmmakers the chance of a fair crack.
  • Donna McGhie
  • Alix Longman
  • Phoebe Brown
  • Catherine Munroe Hotes
    • Comments
    • Nishikata Film Review would like to see more women directors at Cannes.
  • Melissa Silverstein
  • max holloway
  • Melanie Smith
  • Sian Tomlinson
  • Ole Christian Solbakken
  • Amber Moelter
    • Comments
    • It is completely unreasonable that woman are not represented at the Cannes Film Festival. Get it together Cannes!
  • Adam Stopek
  • Mariana
  • Maureen North
  • Astrid Askberger
  • Gabrielle Lebeau
  • Erna Cooper
    • Comments
    • Je m'habite а Paris, nйe а Los Angeles, et j'ai fait mon thиse sur Marguerite Duras. C'est йpouvantable qu'aujourd'hui les femmes sont complиtement exclus de Cannes en 2010. Very bad politics, considering Margeurite Duras emerged at Cannes and got recognised there, in 1960. Have both Hollywood and the French gone backward in time? Are we now medieval? Are they going to do witch burnings again, if a woman shows her creative and intellectual prowess?
  • Anna Edwards
  • Viola Vatrini
  • Jenni Jacombs
    • Comments
    • Shameful!
  • Mary Simmonds
  • Erik Carlsson