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A brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film, and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard. Generation after generation, women have faced the devastating reality that Hollywood is a system built to keep them out. The films created by that system influence everything from our worldviews to our brain chemistry. When women's voices are excluded from the medium, the impact on society is immense. Actor, screenwriter, and award-winning independent filmmaker Naomi McDougall Jones takes us inside the cutthroat, scandal-laden film industry, where only 5% of top studio films are directed by women and less than 20% of leading characters in mainstream films are female. Jones calls on all of us to act radically to build a different kind of future for cinema--not only for the women being actively hurt inside the industry but for those outside it, whose lives, purchasing decisions, and sense of selves are shaped by the stories told.

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Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, and producer. Her TED Talk, What It's Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood, ignited a global outpouring of support for the women-in-film movement. She has written, produced, and acted in two award-winning independent feature films, Imagine I'm Beautiful and Bite Me. Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, and producer. Her TED Talk, What It's Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood, ignited a global outpouring of support for the women-in-film movement. She has written, produced, and acted in two award-winning independent feature films, Imagine I'm Beautiful and Bite Me.

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