Elizabeth Karlsen, SJ Clarkson and Kathryn Busby star in the panel ‘The Female Gaze. How gender can drive storytelling’.
The subject of the conversation between these great protagonists of the world of cinema and TV was the “female gaze”, that is, a trope that describes how a work written/produced/directed by a woman (or deliberately conceived for a female audience) can be represented from a female point of view or how it can reflect female attitudes.
The meeting was moderated by Kathryn Busby (SVP Development, Sony Picture Television), who initially addressed the conversation on the concept of ‘male gaze’, describing it as ‘the way in which the creator represents the world from a male point of view’ and observing how it is a concept ‘that has been pervasive for many years and in some ways continues to be so’.
‘I’m not sure I fully understood its meaning until I started working myself’ says Elizabeth Karlsen (Producer of Number 9 Films), who then expressed her willingness to ‘write stories that disrupt the purely male perspective’.
It follows the intervention of SJ Clarkson (Director of Film and TV), known to be the director, among others, of ‘Jessica Jones’, a character who could be considered an example of the focus of the conversation that took place today. In fact, the protagonist, despite having been abused by a man who controlled her mind, is a heroine and a woman of incredible strength.
