The rumblings of dismay and dissatisfaction have coalesced and found a voice.  Filmdirecting4women, an organization that supports women directors out of England has organized a petition: You Cannes Not Be Serious to show our concerted pissedoffness about the lack of women in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Here’s the petition:

To:  The Organisers of the Cannes Film Festival
As people who care about and are interested in films we must protest the lack of female directors in competition for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Women make up over half of cinema audiences and we demand a fairer representation of female directors in the main competition.

We are raising our voices in protest in hopes that in the future this will never happen again.

We are watching. We will not be silent.

Go here to sign the petition.

They are also going to sell t-shirts and are working to organize an event at the film festival.  Here’s the Facebook page to join to keep updated on news.

Please spread the word of this petition.  Let’s get it to go viral and make a difference!

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