MAI meets a stunt woman, Rachelle Beinart to talk about unconscious gender bias in the film industry and her desire to inspire other young women to enter her profession.
Harriet Worsey
Harriet Worsey is a recent Film graduate from Falmouth University. She has picked up a keen interest in all things feminism within the entertainment industries. Through the continuous work from her dissertation topic of Courage, Bravery and Talent: A Celebration of Stuntwomen in a Male-dominated Film Industry’, she continues to dig deeper into the importance of representing the less appreciated job roles within her field. She believes that the consideration of stunt women is a vital component when it comes to changing the views perceptions of women in the film industry.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey