Is The Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Sexist?
Voting for the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge closes out today, making this your last chance to vote for the Audience Choice Award, which will be handed out at the San Diego Comic Con, on July 24. I suspect that most of the fan film community feels the SWFMC is a good thing, but not everyone agrees, and that’s what we’re gonna explore today after the jump. Now, it’s no secret that I have some issues with the Challenge, but they tend to do with the lack of financial compensation for winning entries. However, in my upcoming book on fan films, Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera, Dr. Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, explains why he’s not impressed with the Awards at all—because they discriminate against women. If you don’t know who he is, to give you a frame of reference, when it comes to the academic study of modern fandom, analyzing fan creativity and discovering how Big Media can interact with fans on a better/more fair level, Jenkins is Obi-W
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