REMAKING FILM: A TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION WITH WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD, BIRDS EYE VIEW AND AN ARRAY OF GREAT SPEAKERS, on the eve of the UK release of
THE ASSISTANT by Kitty Green.
Join Bird’s Eye View and Women and Hollywood/Girls Club for a Conversation
Remaking The Film Industry: Towards a Better, More Inclusive Future Lessons from the Reckoning
Thursday, April 30
Time: 5pm UK; 12pm NY; 9am LA
We are living in difficult and uncertain times. The world we all navigated six weeks ago has disappeared. Across the globe, everyone in the industry is struggling and trying to figure out what is the new norm.
In 2017, following the Weinstein revelations one of the common themes was that the systems in the industry are broken and need to be rethought. Now that all the systems are shut down by the pandemic, this is an opportunity to think about how when we all go back to work, things can be different.
On the eve of the release of Kitty Green’s The Assistant in the UK (it is now available on DVD and Hulu in the US) this multi pronged conversation will include how women who were affected by Harvey Weinstein have taken their trauma and turned it into action, how films and TV are using the reckoning in storytelling, and companies and initiatives that are taking the lessons and building a different world.
Guests : Dame Heather Rabbatts, Chair of Times Up UK; Ursula McFarlane, director of Untouchable; Adrienne Becker, CEO and Co-Founder, Level Forward; Sarah Ann Masse- Silence Breaker; Uzma Hasan, co-founder and Producer at Little House Productions, and Kate Muir- writer
ABOUT THE ASSISTANT
The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant’s – making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.
The Assistant is available to watch on digital platforms from May 1st.
