American Honey director Andrea Arnold has expressed her “shock” at how few women are making films, and that positive discrimination in hiring may be necessary.
Arnold’s latest film American Honey, starring Sasha Lane and Shia LaBeouf, won the Jury prize at this year’s Cannes film festival.
“I remember going to a women’s film festival and feeling a slight amount of trepidation, but actually it was fantastic.
Speaking to the BBC, Arnold was commenting on figures released in 2015 by the Directors Guild of America, which suggested that only 6.4% of Hollywood films in 2014 and 2014 were directed by women.