Naomi McDougall Jones: What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood
ناعومي ماكدوغال جونز: وضع المرأة في هوليوود
Naomi McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. Full bio
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I could feel the magic of storytelling
كنت أشعر بسحر رواية القصص
Academy of Dramatic Arts
الأمريكية للفن الدرامي
and ready to take my rightful place
ومستعدة لأخذ مكاني المناسب
that you understand
شخص متعصب لحقوق المرأة
and obsessed with "The Sound of Music,"
ومهووسة بـ"صوت الموسيقى"
"أنا 16 وسأصبح 17"
"I am 16 going on 17,"
for a very serious conversation
that you can't sing that song,
أن تغني تلك الأغنية،
I do need you to understand
أريدك أن تفهمي
gender construct that it reinforces."
الذي تعززه هذه الأغنية
even occurred to me
from doing anything in my life
and I get work, slowly.
وأحصل على عمل تدريجيًا.
that the parts available for women
ذكية ومعقدة ومثيرة
complicated, interesting
female characters, right?
gorgeous, talented women
to stand on a balcony,
أن تقف على شرفة،
inside the house.
she is the ideal girl and Brian's prize
إنها الفتاة المثالية وجائزة بريان
who is making peace with the fact
من الجنوب متعايشة مع واقع
is to tend to her husband."
هي أن تعتني بزوجها
with a tastefully shot gang rape,
بمشهد اغتصاب جماعي
to my agent one day,
going in for parts
what to do with you.
for women in their 20s,
كي تكوني تلك المثيرة
to be the hot one,
بالعمل بعمر 35 سنة"
you were kind of, like,
تصبحين بعمر ال35، تصبحين
20-year-olds' mothers."
أدوار أمهات بعمر العشرين
والتي كانت صديقة لي
with an actress friend of mine,
how insane this is.
about two complex female characters.
عن شخصيتين نسائيتين معقدتين
an all-female production team:
فريق كامل من النساء
we're sitting in the office
كنا جالسون بمكتب
you are going to have to hire
سيتوجب عليكم تعيين
will trust you with their money."
ويستثمرون أموالهم فيكم."
want to see films about women,
مشاهدة أفلام عن النساء،
making something else.
and we win a lot of awards
وربحنا العديد من الجوائز
just keep rubbing at me.
بقيت تجول بخاطري
screenings of the film,
بعد عرض الفلم،
and talk at conferences.
وإلى التحدث بالمؤتمرات
is that, to begin with,
coming up in the film industry,
What do we do about this?"
ماذا سنفعل حيال هذا؟."
with everything you're saying.
حول المكان الذي تقولينه فيه."
about where you say it."
to play the woman card.
تستغلي كونك امرأة
sexism continues on in 2016, right?
are just trying to get along
the way that the world "just is."
كيف يكون العالم كما هو.
something about it,
significant problems in the world
if I can't get a job,
"المتحولون 17"
"Transformer 17," right?
"sharks" among their top 10 major fears.
لائحتهم لأكثر 10 أشياء رعبًا
three million dollars
ثلاثة ملايين دولار
from driving an Aston Martin
to go out and buy that car,
يشترون تلك السيارة،
in pre-sales alone.
حتى قبل أن تطرح في السوق.
and "Hunger Games" came out,
و"هنغر غيمز"،
went up 105 percent.
في الرماية بنسبة 105%
don't just affect your hobbies,
لا تؤثر على عاداتك فحسب،
your emotions, your sense of identity,
وعلى عواطفك وهَويتك.
even your marital status.
حتى علاقتك الزوجبة.
mostly American movies in your lifetime,
في حياتك أمريكية
you have ever seen
of all of the leading characters
الشخصيات الرئيسية
the last five years,
that you have seen a woman in a movie,
الذي شاهدت فيه امرأة بفيلم،
how much it affects us,
are just modern stories --
through which we process
that we understand the world
different than our own.
is being funneled at us
if all of the stories were told?
لو أن جميع القصص رُويت؟
a lot of you are hearing about this,
التي تسمعون بها هذا
have spent years --
في مجال صناعة الأفلام
a lot longer than I have --
أكثر بكثير مني
and writing articles
ويكتبون المقالات
to do a better job about this.
من هذا الوضع
recently released their slates,
بنشر لائحات لأفلامهم في المستقبل
between now and 2017,
will be directed by a woman.
to grow a conscience
ruling class of people
and power and resources,
about giving it up.
عن طريق السؤال
I promise you, here, now, today,
أعدكم، هنا والآن واليوم
plan for the revolution --
and important news for you.
do -- 50 percent.
50 بالمئة.
to the micro-budget film,
منخفضة الميزانية،
to the studio system,
five percent of movies.
will look at this
just aren't as good at directing movies."
the film industry is a meritocracy, right?
تعمل على مبدأ الجدارة، صحيح؟
five percent as talented as men,
5 بالمئة من موهبة الرجال،
that there are serious systemic issues
from here to there.
of untapped potential over here.
غير المستثمرة هنا
and this is really good news:
وهذا خبر جيد بالفعل:
recently released a study
make 23 cents more on every dollar
تحقق ربح 23 سنت فوق كل دولار
commissioned a study
قمنا بعمل دراسة
made over the last five years
returns on investment --
filled each of the following roles:
screenwriter and lead actor.
if it's a woman.
كان ذلك الشخص امرأة.
of all movie tickets.
تذاكر الأفلام.
some portion of the male population
18 percent of all of their films
فقط من جميع أفلامها
is a giant underserved audience
ضخم محروم
you want to see them.
أنت تريد أن تراهم.
let's call it "Hollywood" --
المسمى "هوليوود"
people in Hollywood --
from getting to you.
for the revolution,
in this room or anywhere in the world --
أو في أي مكان بالعالم-
the revolution together.
who watches movies.
إلى أي شخص يشاهد الأفلام
by a female filmmaker per month?
مصنوع من قبل امرأة في الشهر؟
moviesbyher.com
of films by women.
للأفلام المصنوعة من قبل النساء.
to the female characters.
to emotionally support the men?
you're not going to be able to unsee it.
لن تستطيع تجاهل الأمر.
it's going to shift your viewing habits.
ستبدأ عادات المشاهدة لديك بالتغير.
is going to continue to grow.
the female filmmakers out there:
الأفلام النساء هناك
constantly telling you
تخبرك باستمرار
range -- that is on us to fix.
المنخفصة، نحن من يجب أن يجد حلًا لها
أنهم لن يفعلوا
they are not going to.
now, today, features, not shorts.
الآن واليوم، طويلة لا قصيرة.
and they want and need to see them.
ويتوجب عليهم أن يشاهدوهم.
we need to stop wasting so much energy
أن نتوقف عن إضاعة الكثير من الطاقة
and invest in cultivating them.
وأن نعمل على تكبيره.
how to make our movies
to the audiences that want them,
quite so important.
that you want to see.
التي تريدون رؤيتها.
25 dollars in a crowdfunding campaign,
25 دولار في عملية جمع التمويل
million-dollar hurdle,
على عائق المليون دولار،
the other half of the story.
النصف الثاني من القصة.
to all of the businesspeople
very often in the world,
significant social change
تغييرًا اجتماعيًا مهمًا
and distribution are crumbling --
مع بعض النساء الرائعات
and produced by women
والمخرجة والمنتجة من قبل النساء
of female filmmakers
to the audiences who want them.
التي تريدهم.
but it is actually so doable.
لكنه قابل للتنفيذ.
because you ask the people in charge,
طلب ذلك من المسؤولين عنها،
who don't have what they want
الذين ليس لديهم ما يريدون
51 percent of the population has to say.
الأخرى من الناس ليقولونه
that teach me about people
التي تعلمني عن الناس
that aren't perfect.
غير المثالية في الأفلام.
to give a little girl
she dreams of achieving.
making one industry better.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Naomi McDougall Jones - Actress, writer, producer, activistNaomi McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen.
Why you should listen
Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer and women-in film activist based in New York City.
McDougall Jones wrote, produced and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I'm Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit, including four Best Pictures and, for McDougall Jones, three Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. Imagine I’m Beautiful is a "haunting and empathetic" psychological drama that dissects the fine line between self-invention and destruction. The film received a 10-city theatrical and digital release and is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay.
McDougall Jones's second feature film, Bite Me, is currently in post-production, with an expected 2018 premiere. Bite Me is a subversive romantic comedy about the real-life subculture of people who believe that they're vampires and the IRS agent who audits them. In addition to writing the screenplay, McDougall Jones also stars in the film. She is also currently at work on her third feature screenplay, an as-yet-untitled magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman's unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.
McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. She has teamed up with the former CFO of the City of Chicago, Lois Scott, to found The 51 Fund, a VC investment fund will finance films written, directed and produced by women. McDougall Jones is also the Founder of The Women in Film Revolution, the first and only centralized mechanism for leaders of US-based organizations working to bring parity to film to communicate, collaborate, and become a unified movement for change.
McDougall Jones is at work on a book, "The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the Gods of Hollywood," which will be published by Beacon Press in Fall 2019.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Stephen. She grew up in Aspen, Colorado and attended Cornel University before graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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