“Armor of Light” director Abigail Disney says it’s time for women to start asserting themselves in media.
The filmmaker, One of the Women’s Image Awards’ Women of the Year, says women need to work together and promote each other in order to overcome the challenges facing women in the entertainment industry and in society as a whole.
“It’s like the #OscarsSoWhite problem,” Disney said in an interview with TheWrap. “It’s endemic, it’s deep, and the responsibility for it ranges from the top to the bottom. Everyone has to take responsibility.”
Filmmaking is in Disney’s bloodline, if you didn’t know from her name: She is the granddaughter of Roy O.