The good news is that there are women in competition.

The roster of competition titles was announced and there are 3 women directed films out of a total of 22.  Plus we have Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as the closing film.

That’s 13.6%.

Clearly better, but not good enough.

The women include:

“Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola (U.S.)
“Meek’s Cutoff,” Kelly Reichardt (U.S.)
“Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece)

Venice reveals competition titles (Variety)

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