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The Director

  • Director: Destri Martino
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2012
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Length: 1 minute

In this animated short, a film director makes a statement by wearing a dress on the set. In a sweet, tongue-in-cheek way, the film highlights the contradictory messages often sent to women and girls — that they should take on various feminine attributes until they want a job in a “man’s world.”

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