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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.

Tricia Brock

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Award-winning multi-hyphenate Tricia Brock is a writer, producer and director of television, whose career spans decades. Notably, she wrote two episodes of the hit drama Twin Peaks, along with episodes of Knots Landing and Family Law, and also wrote feature length scripts for Due East and Killer Diller. Brock’s first foray into producing came with 1979’s Mr Mike’s Mondo Video, by Michael O’Donoghue, in addition to Due East in 2002.

It is as a director that Brock has excelled, however, racking up over ten years of credits on television shows that have helped to change the landscape of the medium. This list includes episodes of Huff, Grey’s Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty, The L Word, Lipstick Jungle, Breaking Bad, The Big C, Saving Grace, 30 Rock, The Killing, Community, Silicon Valley, Salem, Mozart In The Jungle, Black Box and Girls.

What She Should Direct: With the ability to draw together storylines that might otherwise be sprawling, featuring large ensemble casts, coupled with demonstrable experience in directing character-focused stories with specific visual style, humour, and bold action sequences, Tricia Brock is overdue a chance to move into franchise cinema. With a Green Lantern movie looming on Marvel’s slate, Brock should be high on the list of directors to be considered for it.

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