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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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...
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Reel Reviews
Reel Review: Tomboy
Reel Review: Tomboy By Sarah, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 17th March 2021, 1pm. Equation’s Reel Equality Film Club carefully chooses films for screenings, using a detailed checklist of considerations (equation.org.uk/reelequality). Few films tick all the...
Reel Review: Gloria
Reel Review: Gloria By Sarah, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 17th March 2021, 2pm. Equation’s Reel Equality Film Club carefully chooses films for screenings, using a detailed checklist of considerations (equation.org.uk/reelequality). Few films tick all the...
Reel Review: Lemon Tree
Reel Review: Lemon Tree By Agnes, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer, 23rd March 2021, 3pm. Much deliberation went into the way Equation’s Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We use the Bechdel Test* to help us decide if the film tells a woman’s...
Reel Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Reel Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild By Katie, Reel Equality Film Club Volunteer. Thursday 25th February 2020, 4.05pm. Much discussion and deliberation has gone into the way Reel Equality Film Club chooses films for screenings. We've detailed many ways in...
The Voices: His Voice, Her Murder.
Challenging violence against women in real life requires challenging the way it is often glamorized or trivialized in fiction. Equation's Reel Equality volunteer, Sarah, explores the casual infliction of violence against women in Hollywood through a review of Marjane...
How to imitate the clever woman: The Imitation Game and Hollywood’s Reluctance to Allow Women A Mind
The Imitation Game follows mathematician Alan Turing as he designs a machine that interprets messages sent between the Germans and solves the Enigma Code. The film also pinpoints a time when society’s attitudes to women and homosexuality remained brutally regressive,...
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
The Dangerous Link Between the Media, Gender Stereotypes and Domestic Abuse
In Nottingham, domestic abuse accounts for about 40% of all violent crime. 1 in 4 women in their lifetime will experience abuse, with young women aged 16-24 at the highest level of risk. The local 24-hour Women’s Aid helpline (0808 800 0340) receives up to 10,000...
How to imitate the clever woman: The Imitation Game and Hollywood’s Reluctance to Allow Women A Mind
The Imitation Game follows mathematician Alan Turing as he designs a machine that interprets messages sent between the Germans and solves the Enigma Code. The film also pinpoints a time when society’s attitudes to women and homosexuality remained brutally regressive,...
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