The campaign for real role models

role models - role model of the month

Every month we are featuring a Real Role Model of the Month. These are women who inspire us and prove that we can be whatever we want to be. We will feature women from all backgrounds, all walks of life and with all kinds of experiences. We want to tell their stories and show all children that the possibilities out there are endless.

KATHRYN BIGELOW

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director. She is the first woman to ever be awarded a BAFTA for best director and has also been nominated for a golden globe and an Oscar for The Hurt Locker.
Only three other women have EVER been nominated for best director at the Oscars, so this is a wonderful achievement.

At 20, She started her career as painter winning a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in New York. She made her first short film in 1978 and graduated from Columbia's Film School. She has gone on to direct many Hollywood blockbusters including Point Break, Near Dark, Strange Days and Blue Steel and most notably the critically acclaimed Hurt Locker.
Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.

Says Kathryn:

'If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.'

Pinkstinks and cooltobe.me would love to see Kathryn walk away with this years Oscar for Best Director. Good Luck Kathryn.