Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard, Patty Jenkins and Ava DuVernay are among the 82 women who will walk up the main stairs of Cannes Film Festival’s Palais on Saturday as part of a push for gender equality in the film industry.
The event will take place ahead of the gala premiere for Eva Husson’s “Girls of the Sun,” a drama about a Kurdish female battalion which one of the three woman-directed films competing at Cannes Film Festival.
The march is being organized by a new movement called 5050×2020, which calls for more gender equality and diversity in the French film industry.
There will be 82 women as a symbol for the 82 female-directed films that have played at Cannes’s official competition, compared with 1645 films directed by men,” said the 5050×2020 org.
Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Ava DuVernay Taking Part in Cannes Women’s March
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