{"id":669946,"date":"2025-05-18T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/even-kristen-stewart-had-trouble-getting-her-first-feature-financed\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T09:40:21","slug":"even-kristen-stewart-had-trouble-getting-her-first-feature-financed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/even-kristen-stewart-had-trouble-getting-her-first-feature-financed\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Kristen Stewart Had Trouble Getting Her First Feature Financed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tIn 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart joined Ava DuVernay, Agnes Varda, Jane Fonda and over 80 other women in a protest on the steps of the Palais to draw attention to the lack of female directors programmed in the line-up. That year, only three out of the 21 competition films were directed by women.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeven years later, Stewart is back at the festival with her directorial debut\u00a0The Chronology of Water<\/em>,\u00a0but the journey was not an easy one. \u201cWe had to leave the United States to make this possible,\u201d said Stewart of trying to get the film financed.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart was on hand for a May 16 conversation with Chronolgy<\/em> actor and musician Kim Gordon at Hyde Beach by Campari held by Breaking Through Lens. The non-profit group is focused on helping any filmmakers who experience marginalization due to their gender get their projects financed. At the event, Simbelle Productions founder Lauren Melinda announced the Simbelle Impact Award, a $10,000 unrestricted grant given to one finalist of the next Breaking Through Lens grant cycle whose project exemplifies social<\/a> impact and artistic clarity.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite being one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars, Stewart had to go to Europe to get\u00a0Chronology<\/em>\u00a0made. Based on Lidia Yuknavitch\u2019s 2011 memoir of the same name, the film follows a once-hopeful Olympic swimmer as she loses her scholarship and battles addiction while discovering her own sexuality and love of literature.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart knew she was not right to play Yuknavitch, but her choosing not to star in the debut made finding money all the more difficult. \u201cThe list of women and men [actors] that can finance a movie in the entertainment industry are so beyond me. They change so quickly and I don\u2019t understand them at all,\u201d she said. Ultimately, Stewart cast Imogen Poots in the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart spoke just hours before the film\u2019s May 16 premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at this year\u2019s Cannes. This year\u2019s fest features seven films directed by women in its twenty-two-film competition line-up, nowhere near parity.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for her future directing ambitions, Stewart said, \u201cI would love to [act] in something I direct, and I will do it soon, I hope.\u201d But, for now, she is happ<\/a>y to finally see Chronology<\/em> screen in front of an audience: \u201cI feel like I am watching my kid in kindergarten like, \u2018Look at her go!’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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