Reel Equality
Equation’s award-winning Reel Equality Film Club shows great movies that tell women-centred stories and challenge gender stereotypes
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What’s on
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young WomanThur 18th May 2023The Space - the Squire Performing Arts Centre | Arboretum Street, NottinghamMore than a screening - Stalls | Food | SpeakersStudents: free | General public: Pay what you can This May, Reel Equality Film Club will be returning to...
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Reel Reviews
Reel Review: Thelma and Louise
Reel Review: Thelma and Louise By Kelly, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021. Much discussion and deliberation has gone into the way Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in which a film could represent women in...
Reel Review: Wadjda
Reel Review: Wadjda By Agnes, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021. ABOUT OUR FILMS Much discussion and deliberation has gone into how Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in which a film could represent women...
Reel Review: Difret
Reel Review: Difret By Agnes, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021. Much discussion and deliberation has gone into how Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in which a film could represent women in fair or unfair...
Reel Review: Made in Dagenham
Reel Review: Made in Dagenham By Kinga, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021. ABOUT OUR FILMS Much deliberation has gone into how Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in which a film could represent women in...
Reel Review: Girlhood
Reel Review: Girlhood By Sarah, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021 Much discussion and deliberation has gone into how Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in which a film could represent women in fair or unfair...
Reel Review: Appropriate Behaviour
Reel Review: Appropriate Behaviour By Sarah, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 31st March 2021. Equation’s Reel Equality Film Club carefully chooses films for our screenings (equation.org.uk/reelequality). The Bechdel Test* helps us decide if the film tells...
About Our Film Programme
We choose a wide range of entertaining films that tell women’s stories and don’t stereotype or objectify women. We aim to represent the diversity of human experience and avoid films that further prejudice of any kind. Films are open to interpretation, so we cannot guarantee that everyone will find our film choices unproblematic or feminist from every angle. We always welcome constructive feedback.
Sexism in the Film Industry
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Less than 1 in 4 Hollywood films have a woman in the lead role.
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Only 3% of widely released films star a woman of colour.
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Women are 5 times more likely than men to be shown partially naked or in revealing/sexy clothing.
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In the Oscars’ first 50 years, only 4 of the films awarded Best Picture had women-centred stories.
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Men are nearly 3 times more likely than women to be portrayed as leaders.
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73% of all female characters are Caucasian, followed by African American (14%), Latina (5%), Asian (3%), other worldly (3%), and other (2%).
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Women consistently make up only a third of the speaking roles in popular films.
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There are 5 males to every 1 female behind the camera.
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Reel Equality Blog Posts
Equation Launch Young People’s Film Club
Following on from the success of our award-winning Reel Equality Film Club, Equation are now reaching out to younger audiences with our film club Reel Respect.Similar to Reel Equality, Reel Respect aim to show great movies that challenge gender stereotypes, whilst...
Your free Christmas gift from Reel Equality!
Get festive and feminist with our Christmas movie bingo. How to Play Step 1: Arrange a virtual viewing party with your best group of feminist sisters and allies.Step 2: Get into your festive onesie, mull some wine and gather your mince pies.Step 3: Choose...
Top Lad or Toxic Stereotype? The Hits and Misses of Hollywood’s Male Role Models
In the run-up to International Men’s Day, where men are encouraged to come forth and discuss their gender, relationship dynamics, and talk about what it means to be a man in 2018, looking backward -- and forward -- at what masculinity means in Hollywood is a useful...
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