The Toronto Film Festival is upon us, as the beginning of Oscar season starts taking shape. This year’s festival has a particular focus on women filmmakers and people of colour.
“The whole industry is talking about inclusion in a way it hasn’t in a long time,” Toronto artistic programmer Cameron Bailey said in an interview. “We never want to say ‘[diversity] is the goal’ because I don’t think that’s the right way to do it. But we do want to make sure we’re paying attention and maybe looking more deeply for stories that will help continue that conversation.”
So here are a few female driven, female directed features to get us all exited about the Oscar season to come. As you can see, these films are diverse, provocative and most importantly different in genre, style and visual language. I can’t wait to see them!
Girl's got direction 