{"id":171,"date":"2019-02-24T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-02-22T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:28:17","slug":"maria-writer-director-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/maria-writer-director-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria &#8211; Writer, Director, Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An act of courage submission for the 1000 Acts of Courage campaign \u2013 a community-building conscious action campaign collecting one thousand courageous acts for the well-being, empowerment, and equity of girls and women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/51836632_2253835871540416_4158757317354979328_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&amp;oh=c315d491a7775de58d3aa419da7ce054&amp;oe=5D235C67\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAs a female feature film director who could not get work for many years, I spoke out in my union (the Directors Guild of America) and I instigated the 2014 ACLU and 2015 EEOC investigations into systemic discrimination against women directors in US entertainment media. I continue to pursue legal and legislative remedies to the near-exclusion of women from our nation&#8217;s storytelling and cultural narrative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***Maria is featured in the documentary that inspired this campaign &#8211; <em>This Changes Everything<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/acts-of-courage-form\ufeff\"><strong>JOIN THIS POWERFUL MOVEMENT &#8211; SUBMIT YOUR STORY OF COURAGE TODAY!!<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An act of courage submission for the 1000 Acts of Courage campaign \u2013 a community-building conscious action campaign collecting one thousand courageous acts for the well-being, empowerment, and equity of girls and women: As a female feature film director who could not get work for many years, I spoke out in my union (the Directors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-conscious-action","tag-1000-acts-of-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminatefilmfestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}