EDITORIAL
Who would have guessed?
... A study, called “Oscar is a Man: Sexism and the Academy Awards,” found that the best-picture winners, from the 1927-28 season through 2019, included 124 nominated performances by men, but only 72 for women, which is 58% of the male tallies. The “Oscar Is a Man” study was published in Trípodos, a publication of Blanquerna U. in Barcelona, which is Emerson College’s strategic partner in Europe...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
No UK distributor is pretending 2020 has been anything other than a turbulent and extremely difficult year. During the pandemic, new releasing models have emerged. On the arthouse side, independent distributors have worked hard to support colleagues in exhibition, even when venues have remained closed. Gabereau’s Modern Films is one of several companies to use revenue-sharing models that give local cinemas a 50-50 cut of the price of virtual screening-room tickets. Modern continues to release UK titles, among them Sacha Polak’s Dirty God and Cathy Brady’s Wildfire. UK distributors, Gabereau notes, have been able to improvise with virtual releasing and windows during the pandemic in a way that their European counterparts have not. “In a lot of European countries, there are not alternatives. It is cinema or nothing,” she suggests. ”We have the infrastructure and also we don’t have the legal framework that France and Germany have related to production finance. If you don’t adhere to the ‘chronology of the media’ in France or Germany, you could lose some of your production financing retrospectively.”