Things You Should Know: 5 Lessons for Young Female Directors by Elena Rossini

If you are not directly of the establishment of Hollywood and don’t look, act and come from the same pedigree as the people in power then you are at a disadvantage. And if you happen to be an ethnic minority or a woman – or even worse – an ethnic minority woman, then you are at a severe disadvantage. This point is self-evident just by observing the number of such working directors there are in the world- not many. Sadly, that is the way it is and always has been.

No, it ain’t fair, but what the hell is “fair” in real life?   One can sit and bitch and moan and hold up protests signs to a deaf audience, or you can do what The Illusionists filmmaker Elena Rossini is doing and knowingly go out there against the odds, with a smarter plan, harder convictions, thicker skin and take the Hollywood prize that you want by sheer determination, strategy and perseverance.

Peep the Indiewire article by this young female filmmaker on the rise entitled: 5 Lessons for Young Female Directors for her blueprint to do it.