As Hollywood works to incorporate more women in front of and horny black mother and daughter in sex videobehind the camera, Netflix has launched the category "Because She Watched" with UN Women. Because She Watched, launched ahead of International Women's Day, features content created by and for women and is curated by entertainment powerhouses.
The collection consists of movies and TV shows that inspired women in entertainment around the world, including Sophia Loren, Janet Mock, Salma Hayek, Yalitza Aparicio, Millie Bobby Brown, Mindy Kaling, Laurie Nunn, Lana Condor, Petra Costa, and Ava DuVernay. The collection, which includes content that Netflix says "started important, often hard, conversations that have helped to challenge the way we see the world" will be available to stream all year on Netflix.
Laverne Cox, who selected Brené Brown: The Call to Courage, a documentary about choosing courage over comfort, also noted the importance of Orange is the New Blackfor her career.
“Orange Is the New Blackis the first project where I felt genuinely empowered as a woman thanks to the woman at the helm of the show, Jenji Kohan, and the many women directors, writers, producers, and crew members as well as the stories that centered diverse women in an unprecedented way," said Cox in a Netflix statement. "This show created a space and platform for me as a black openly trans woman that created space for other openly trans women of all races to be truly seen in the depth of our humanity.”
The theme of creating space was echoed by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia.
"This collaboration is about taking on the challenge of telling women’s stories and showing women in all their diversity" said Bhatia. "It’s about making visible the invisible, and proving that only by fully representing and including women on screen, behind the camera and in our narratives overall, society will truly flourish."
Here are the curated shows and movies, including the women who nominated them. (Foreign language titles have been translated to their U.S. titles if available in the U.S.; not all of the below seem to be.)
Alejandra Azcárate - Locked Up
Alice Wu- Frances Ha
Andrea Barata Ribeiro- Sex Education
Anna Winger - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ava DuVernay - A Wrinkle in Time
Barbara Lopez - Scandal
Beren Saat- Bird Box
Bruna Mascarenhas - Quien Te Cantará
Cecilia Suárez - Marriage Story
Chris Nee - Orange is the New Black
Christian Serratos- The Goop Lab
Cindy Bishop - Anne with an E
Elena Fortes - Atlantics
Esther Acebo- Chef's Table: Bo Songvisava
Fadily Camara- How to Get Away with Murder
Fanny Herrero- Je Parle Toute Seule
Fatimah Abu Bakar - Babies
Francesca Comencini - What Happened, Miss Simone?
Giovanna Ewbank- Most Beautiful Thing
Hanna Ardéhn - Silence of the Lambs
Hazar Erguclu- House of Cards
Hend Sabry- Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Ida Elise Broch - RuPaul's Drag Race
Janet Mock - Paris Is Burning
Joyce Cheng - Queer Eye
Juliana Vicente - When They See Us
Kemi Adetiba - King of Boys
Kiara Advani- Lust Stories
Lali Espósito - Notting Hill
Lana Condor- Grace and Frankie
Lauren Morelli - Julie & Julia
Laurie Nunn - The Keepers
Laverne Cox - Brené Brown:The Call to Courage
Liz Garbus- She's Gotta Have It
Logan Browning - Someone Great
Lynn Fainchtein- 2001: Space Odyssey
Marcela Benjumea- Dead to Me
Mercedes Morán- Aquarius
Mika Ninagawa- In the Realm of the Senses
Millie Bobby Brown- Miss Americana
Mina El Hammani- What the F*ck is Going on?
Mindy Kaling - Chewing Gum
Mira Lesmana - ROMA
Mithila Palkar- Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
Nahnatchka Khan- Young Adult
Ngô Thanh Vân- Wonder Woman
Nosipho Dumisa- Gravity
Pathy Dejesus- Raising Dion
Paulina Garcia- Deux Jours, Une Nuit
Petra Costa- Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Salma Hayek- Unbelievable
Sandi Tan- Russian Doll
Shefali Shah - Delhi Crime
Sophia Loren - The Crown
Yalitza Aparicio - Knock Down the House
Topics Activism Netflix