Female directors ‘don’t get offered big films’

Lynne Ramsay has said the industry is still tough for female film-makers, who are often overlooked for big projects.

The Scottish director, whose new film You Were Never Really Here stars Joaquin Phoenix as an ex-soldier who saves children from paedophile rings, said change is happening but there is still a long way to go.

She said: “I have noticed over the years that it was tougher maybe for women, they don’t get offered the big things, someone does their first feature and maybe jumps right ahead.”

She added: “It is certainly not equal but I don’t think that is just to do with gender, I think that is to do with there is not 0 Lynne Ramsay’s latest film is released in cinemas tomorrow enough diversity, it’s traditionally quite a male, middle class profession and typically maybe it still is. But things are changing.”

Ramsay, who is best known for her adaptation of We Need To Talk About Kevin, tackles a book by Jonathan Ames for her latest offering, which is released in UK cinemas tomorrow.