Women comprise only 7 percent of directors in the 250 top-grossing films of all time, according to a Variety study.
While Hollywood catches up, artists with a clear vision of the future are taking it upon themselves to do what they do best: Make a lean, mean, parody machine out of modern film’s propensity for dude-centric, straight, white casting.
In Swapped, the webseries created by Dana Faith Leonard, Zoe Samuel, and Mark Philip Lichtenstein, classic film scenes are re-staged with reversed gender roles. The team was sick of Hollywood’s lack of diversity, and did something about it.
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