“To have so many female filmmakers in one space — yes, it is a competition, but this is bigger than one film”
Melissa Barrera, Gayle King, Leslie Mann, and Paula Weinstein attend Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program’s cocktail celebration. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage “When you’re a young filmmaker, you’re looking for the moment when you can quit your day job,” Maya Tanaka told the Cut at a swanky Soho House event on Thursday afternoon. For the up-and-coming writer-director, it seemed that moment had finally arrived.
The 2021 Through Her Lens participants. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage “We all came to the table with very different points of view,” King told the Cut. It wasn’t easy to pick a winner out of the five finalists, and the judges went back and forth, ultimately deciding by vote. “It sounds cliché and trite, but all five of the films we looked at were so good,” she said.
“To have so many female filmmakers in one space — yes, it is a competition, but this is bigger than one film,” said Talati. “We’re here to support each other past these films and through our careers, and that extends beyond the filmmakers to the mentors as well. As a young filmmaker, to have people with experience come in and engage with your work deeply, and take it seriously — take you seriously as an artist — is so meaningful.
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