A wider representation of gender roles, more training opportunities for women filmmakers, and reaching out to women audiences are all ways forward to promote women-centric stories in Southeast Asia…
It concluded that streamers that can reach a wider audience online have already been making a positive impact on the industry as they help to find new audiences abroad, while also creating more opportunities for women filmmakers and diversity in storytelling.
Urged along by streaming platforms, including Netflix, progressiveness now extends to storytelling in the BL genre through to the trans journey. While women are increasingly driving the box office, perspectives have failed to keep up. “We have been seeing women through the male gaze. We have been inundated with that, from Hollywood, with the constant exposure growing up. But you think that it is normal,” Yuson said. “If women are driving the box office and the viewership, then this gaze needs to shift.”
The award-winning actress Anita, who has been learning how to write a screenplay, said with more female writers and directors working in Indonesia, stories presenting more perspectives and more rounded women characters through a “female gaze” may be conceived in the future. She hoped that more training opportunities could be given to women.
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