12 Female TV Directors Who Should Direct A Franchise Film

The conversation about the lack of female directors in Hollywood has been rumbling on for what seems like forever, but that conversation has now found itself at a crucial point. At long last, people are beginning to get specific. After decades of vague allusions to a seemingly intangible, invisible issue, the conversation is finally becoming louder, and less easy to dismiss as the supposedly irrational ramblings of radical feminism. This is thanks to the visible activism of those concerned about the situation – on social media and within the film industry itself. It is also thanks to organisations such as the Female Filmmakers Initiative – launched by the Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles – which commissioned a vital study into the barriers and opportunities facing independent filmmakers, who try to engage in filmmaking while female. This research was a three year study, and the findings of the third and final phase of it were recently delivered in a powerful and disturbing report.

Sarah Myles

Published: May 6, 2015 09:42 am

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Bethany Rooney

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Bethany Rooney

Bethany Rooney has an enviable level of experience behind-the-camera, having started out in 1978 as an assistant to producers on the television series The White Shadow, which was created by Bruce Paltrow. From that initial foothold, Rooney moved into a producing role on the multiple Emmy winning show St. Elsewhere – four episodes of which she also directed. Since then, her work has rarely been absent from our screens.

Rooney has directed often multiple episodes of highly rated TV shows, across a wide range of genres – including China Beach, The Wonder Years, Beauty And The Beast, Dream On, Sisters, Picket Fences, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, Ally McBeal, Dawson’s Creek, Boston Public, Joan Of Arcadia, One Tree Hill, Grey’s Anatomy, Weeds, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Arrow, Parenthood, Criminal Minds, and About A Boy.

What She Should Direct: The background in directing popular shows that are more family-friendly, in addition to helming character-driven drama with some action thrown in, would make Rooney the perfect choice to direct Chronicles Of Narnia – The Silver Chair.

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Sarah Myles

Sarah Myles is a freelance writer. Originally from London, she now lives in North Yorkshire with her husband and two children.