In 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart joined Ava Duvernay, Agnes Varda, Jane Fonda and more than 80 other women in a demonstration on the palace steps to draw attention to the lack of directors programmed in alignment. That year, only three of the 21 competition films were made by women.
Seven years later, Stewart is back at the festival with his beginnings as a director Water chronologyBut the trip was not easy. “We had to leave the United States to make this possible,” said Stewart trying to finance the film.
Stewart was on site for a conversation of May 16 with Chronolgia The actor and musician Kim Gordon at Hyde Beach by Campari held by piercing the objective. The non -profit group focuses on helping all filmmakers who experience marginalization because of their gender to finance their projects. During the event, the founder of Simbelle Productions, Lauren Melinda, announced the Simbelle Impact Prize, a subsidy without restriction of $ 10,000 granted to a finalist in the next objective cycle whose project illustrates the social impact and artistic clarity.
Despite one of the biggest Hollywood stars, Stewart had to go to Europe to get Chronology do. Based on the Memoirs of Lidia Yuknavitch in 2011 of the same name, the film follows an Olympic swimmer in the past heavy while she loses her scholarship and fights against dependence while discovering her own sexuality and her love of literature.
Stewart knew that she was not right to play Yuknavitch, but her choice not to play in the beginnings made money to find money. “The list of women and men [actors] This can finance a film in the entertainment industry exceeds me so much. They change so quickly and I don’t understand them at all, ”she said. In the end, Stewart threw Imogen Pots into the film.
Stewart spoke just a few hours before the first in the film’s premiere in the United Nations section for the United Nations in Cannes this year. This year’s festival features seven films made by women in its competition composition of twenty-two films, nowhere near parity.
As for his future ambitions of realization, Stewart said: “I would like to [act] In something I direct, and I will do it soon, I hope. But, for now, she is happy to finally see Chronology Screen in front of an audience: “I feel like looking at my child in kindergarten like:” Look at it! “”
