No roles for women? Write your own...

Check out this interview with Rashida Jones who has just finished work on the film Celeste and Jesse Forever which she not only stars in but co-wrote! It is released in the US today but no word on a UK release.

"Not be reductive but isn't everything harder for women?  Isn't it just harder to be alive and be a woman?  We carry this tacit burden of being more empathetic -- again reductive -- of keeping the peace, getting paid less, getting less acknowledgment.  And being nurturing as well as being powerful. It's a high responsibility and I do think that I am very grateful for the feminist movement and it's really put us ahead and has empowered us in a way that is daunting for men.  They don't know how to fit in, they don't know how to deal with it and I think that to publicly still be the "big guys" makes them feel better.  That is the one thing they still have control over.  They can still feel like they are balancing it by being in charge"

Jones goes on about how she wrote the role because of a lack of engaging and dynamic female characters and I think there's a lot to be said for women filmmakers making films and writing stories about a more diverse set of female characters.