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Italian filmmaker Elena Rossini is shedding some much-needed light on women and minority creators with her project We Are Film Directors, which just highlighted its 100th filmmaker: Rossini herself.
With We Are Film Directors, Rossini is populating the popular online GIF database Giphy with GIFs of women and minority filmmakers. On Friday she uploaded her 100th GIF; you can check them all out on her Giphy page.
I’m on a mission to populate @GIPHY with images of women & minority filmmakers. No. 100: Elena Rossini (@_elena), director of @illusionists and creator of #ThisIsWhatAFilmDirectorLooksLike ✨🎥
Find & re-use all the GIFs:
🎬 https://t.co/PhunH5XP6Z
❤️ #RepresentationMatters pic.twitter.com/0A2sTRKw4G— Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena) May 11, 2018 Read more…
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