{"id":25799,"date":"2015-03-27T04:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=25799"},"modified":"2015-03-27T04:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:27:28","slug":"amazon-promotes-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/amazon-promotes-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Promotes Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Holly Rosen writes:\u00a0 According to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender In Media, only 31% of speaking roles are given to women.\u00a0 The problem is even worse when you look beyond roles given to young, predominantly white, women in their twenties. It is hard for women to get meaningful roles and remain consistently working in the entertainment industry, and that goes for behind the scenes as well.<\/p>\n

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Image: Amazon Studios<\/em>However, Amazon Studios appears to be a solution for women in Hollywood. Its new platform for streaming video is bringing a slew of interesting female roles, as well as presenting new opportunities for artistic freedom and creativity to producers and creators. New shows are joining the successful\u00a0Golden Globe winner,\u00a0Transparent<\/em>, which is written and created by Jill Soloway, on the Amazon platform.<\/p>\n

Down Dog<\/em>, produced by long-time producer and Are You There, Chelsea?<\/em>\u00a0writer Robin Schiff, is one of a new slate of 13 pilots with only one episode in the can, featuring a cast primarily made of women with a plot line that revolves around a yoga studio including Nikita<\/em>\u00a0alum\u00a0Lyndsy\u00a0Fonseca,\u00a0Paget Brewster\u00a0and\u00a0Orange Is the New Black<\/em>‘s\u00a0Alysia\u00a0Reiner.<\/p>\n

Alpha House<\/em> features a cast with solid female roles played by Julie White, Amy Sedaris, Yara Martinez, Brooke Bloom, Alicia Sable and Wanda Sykes.<\/p>\n

Women are all over Amazon programming. There\u2019s also the\u00a0Leslie Bibb\u00a0starring in Salem Rogers<\/em>, directed by\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0<\/em>helmer\u00a0Mark Waters, written by newcomer\u00a0Lindsey Stoddart, with a cast that includes Rachel Dratch and Jane Kaczmarek, as well as\u00a0Mozart in the City<\/em>\u00a0starring musical legend Bernadette Peters.<\/p>\n

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Image: Amazon Studios<\/em>Amazon is changing the ratio\u2026.quietly and skillfully in a few ways.<\/p>\n

Actresses associated with Amazon\u2019s programming are lauding Amazon for creating shows other networks aren\u2019t daring to produce. They like the roles available when stories focus on edgy topics, and are gravitating toward the freedom of expression offered by the streaming video network.<\/p>\n

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Image: Amazon Studios<\/em>The shows deal with real issues that are meaningful to women such as transgender equality, family, relationships, politics and life decisions.<\/p>\n

The studio is also hoping that its philosophy on gender will take its programming to new heights, and it\u2019s happening on both sides of the camera. With Transparent<\/em>, 20 trans people have been hired in the cast and crew, and 60 have been employed as extras.<\/p>\n

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\nCan Amazon Studios continue to pave new ground for women in television and film and change the ratio? Time will tell, but they clearly are off to a solid start.<\/p>\n

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