Women in the Film Industry

Our film opening has 2 leading characters, however we are challenging societal constructs in our film opening as both characters are of Asian ethnicity and females which is uncommon and rare in the mainstream film industry.

From the diagram above it is clear that there is some sort of stigma on having the female gender being lead characters on the screen and in comparison towards men it is quite unlikely.
In recent years, statistics have shown in 2016, females comprised 29% of protagonists. This represents an increase of 7 percentage points from 2015 and a recent historical high.

In addition to this, females are used as 'props' or side characters as female characters continue to show dramatically more skin than their male counterparts, and feature extremely tiny waists and other exaggerated body characteristics. This hypersexualisation and objectification of female characters leads to unrealistic body ideals in very young children, cementing and often reinforcing negative body images and perceptions.Research shows that lookism still pervades cinematic content in very meaningful ways.