The New York Film Festival which is the centerpiece of NY’s fall film season announced its lineup today and only two women are on the docket with film’s of their own.

That’s 7.4%.

I took out the film Revolucion which has 10 directors (and two are women.)  20% of that film is women directors.  If I add back in Revolucion and count the amount of directors the percentage of directors is 11%.

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest is the centerpiece of the festival (yeah!) and Kelly Reichert’s Meek’s Cutoff is also being screened.

Mariana Chenillo and Patricia Riggen are the two women director’s whose work is featured in Revolucion.

Couldn’t we do a little better?  This is NYC.  I expect more (but I guess I shouldn’t.)

Eastwood Joins 48th New York Film Festival as 2010 Lineup is Unveiled (IndieWIRE)

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