About flippin’ time!!  After 82 years of ignoring womens films – yes only three nominations in 82 years pretty much means ignoring – Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker,  a low budget, brilliantly executed Iraq war movie. The fact that she is also trounces her ex James Cameron  and the £300 million dollar  Avatar (yawn) makes me even happier.

Even for those of us who don’t necessarily agree with the razzmataz and hype of the Oscars when they so often get it wrong, it feels so good when they get it right!

Thank you Kathryn for giving us all hope. We are so proud of you. It makes it a  lot easier to imagine a future where half the nominees are women. Where it doesn’t make any difference what the gender of the director is. That is what the future holds.

Now we just have to get there!

And given that none of the major female players who have directed such wonderful cinema this year, have projects planned for release  in 2010, the novelty of this historic day may quickly wear off.  Its back to reality which is still a dismal 6 – 9% of all films having a woman director.

But for now on this International Women’s Day, join me in congratulating Kathryn Bigelow and ‘The Hurt Locker’ on a well deserved and supremely welcome win.

As far as the website goes – we are getting there slowly but surely!! Within the next couple of months it will be stuffed full of really useful and inspiring stuff  so if you have any ideas /comments please let me know.

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