F rating

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The F-Rating is intended to promote women in the film industry . The rating is given to films that were made by women or in which women play an essential, independent role. The F-Rating assesses the main role , direction and script . Depending on how many of these categories are filled by women, a film is awarded one to three F s. An essential restriction for the assignment of the F for the main role is that the female figure “has to fulfill a greater purpose than serving the male need for an ideal of beauty”. This considerably limits the choice.

The F-Rating indicates the gender gap and the problem of the celluloid ceiling , the glass ceiling in the film industry. It is intended to draw attention to the disadvantages of women in the film industry, in which mainly men are still in front of and behind the camera. The idea of ​​the F-Rating came from the British film producer Holly Tarquini , who first introduced it in 2014 at the Bath Film Festival in Great Britain. The F rating is based on the existing Bechdel test .

On the initiative of Tarquini, the Internet Movie Database introduced the F-Rating for International Women's Day on March 8, 2017. The films awarded with F Rated can be found using the keyword search. The rating has been adopted by various festivals and cinemas since it was introduced by Tarquini.

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  1. ↑ a b Gwilym Mumford: F-rated: IMDb introduces classification system to highlight work by women. The Guardian , March 7, 2017, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Films by women are less funded than films by men. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 6, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2020 .
  3. ^ Holly Tarquini: Breaking The Celluloid Ceiling: Developing The F-Rating. Queen's Film Theater, October 8, 2018, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  4. ↑ F rating. Children's film blog, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Emilie Buri: Equal Rights: Women play an important role in these films. Swiss Radio and Television , March 8, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dinah Riese: With an "F" for more women. The daily newspaper , March 10, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Why F-rated films matter in 2019. Rich Mix, February 28, 2019, accessed March 31, 2020 .