WASHINGTON POST: Nina Menkes and Maria Giese’s views about male dominated cinema and progress

Co-producer Maria Giese spearheaded the ACLU and federal investigations that initiated the post-2014 Hollywood gender-change, including the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, after she wrote an explosive article for Ms. magazine in which she observed that entertainment is the worst offender of Title VII employment anti-discrimination laws of any U.S. industry.

Maria is featured in this Washington Post column along with filmmaker Nina Menkes. Shot design is bound up with sexual harassment, abuse and employment discrimination within the film industry in a “devil’s knot,” Nina explains. “And the privilege of the people in power is the glue that holds that knot together.”

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