Tools such as Alma Har’el’s Free the Bid, an amazing database of female directors all around the world, are being created to empower decision-makers with the information they need to make more creative hiring choices.
Tools such as Alma Har’el’s Free the Bid, an amazing database of female directors all around the world, are being created to empower decision-makers with the information they need to make more creative hiring choices.
I myself run a nonprofit that's called Free the Work. If you go on it and register as an emerging filmmaker, you can become part of a community and get a lot of opportunities for hire but also have mentorship.
[Har'el] says the self-perpetuating discrimination makes it a challenge to pull up other women in the industry—but that she's committed to doing just that.