Make an Adjustable Mini Camera Tripod Out of Disposable Razors

Make an Adjustable Mini Camera Tripod Out of Disposable RazorsWhether you've got shaky hands or want to leave your camera unattended for some time-lapse action, you don't need to spend money on a tripod to do it. Instructables user jawasan cleverly makes one out of a few disposable razors.

The project looks complicated at first, since you'll also need a small piece of wood and a bolt to link them all together (and attach the camera). However, if you have a well-stocked workbench, this should be child's play?and if not, you could probably use just about anything to hook the three razors together. Not only will it keep your camera steady, but you can even adjust it a bit?using the flexible razor heads?to make it fit in any situation. Check out the link below for the full how-to, and if you're looking for something a bit more versatile (albeit more time-consuming), check out how to built a flexible DIY Gorillapod too.

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Flag debate sparks rioting in Northern Ireland

ITN's Neil Connery reports from Belfast, where a fifth consecutive night of violence followed a loyalist rally outside City Hall.

By Ian Johnston, NBC News

A spat over the flag fluttering over a local government building might sound trivial. But in Northern Ireland, the decision to stop permanently flying the British flag outside Belfast City Hall has sparked some of the worst violence since the 1998 Good Friday peace deal.

Dozens of officers have been injured in attacks on police lines by furious protesters who, night after night, have thrown stones, bottles, fireworks, and, sometimes, Molotov cocktails -- violence that police say is orchestrated by the Ulster Volunteer Force, a pro-British paramilitary group.

Gunshots were heard Saturday, although police said later it appeared that blank rounds had been used. Monday night saw a mix of peaceful protest and riots during which police used water canon and fired plastic bullets, ITV News reported.?

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Loyalist protesters confront police as they gather at Belfast City Hall during a city council meeting Monday evening.

According to one pro-British politician, the demonstrators are staging a ?revolution with a small r? against attempts by Irish nationalist parties to ?remove their Britishness.?

Irish nationalists say they wanted to stop flying the flag from outside city hall because it is also used by pro-British paramilitaries and others to mark out their territory in the divided city and ?intimidate? Catholics.

The Good Friday Agreement was credited with largely ending three decades of sectarian violence known as "The Troubles," during which British troops were sent in to patrol the streets and at least 3,600 people were killed.

It created an elected Northern Ireland assembly and devolved government?in which power is shared between all sides, with traditional arch-enemies remarkably sitting side by side. The assembly meets in an imposing historic building, Stormont, over which the?British flag flies for just 15 pre-agreed days each year. The recent violence was sparked by a vote that agreed a similar policy at local government level in Belfast last month.

Naomi Long, deputy leader of the Alliance Party, warned Northern Ireland was now facing?"an incredibly volatile and extremely serious situation."

"I don't think anyone should underestimate the threat it poses to long-term peace and security in Northern Ireland," she told NBC News.

"If people continue with violence, if it continues to escalate, if paramilitary involvement in that violence continues to grow, there's a real risk that we lose the progress we've made," Long said.

In the month since Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland voted to limit the numbers of days the Union flag flies over its City Hall, 62 police officers have been injured, tens of thousands of dollars' worth of damage caused and senior loyalist paramilitaries have been involved in orchestrating the violence. ?Channel Four Alex Thomson Channel Four Europe reports.

Long described the violence as a "reality check." While politics had delivered the peace process, she said, true reconciliation between the divided communities had been "left to one side because it's painful and difficult."

"What we have had is a papering over of the cracks," she said. "We have deep divisions, deep hatred and sectarianism and it won't go away by itself."

Long, a member of the U.K. parliament, said she and other politicians had received death threats after the Alliance Party members on Belfast City Council voted for an attempted compromise deal over the flag on Dec. 3.?

It allowed the British flag to be flown on a number of designated days -- about 17 or 18 depending on the year -- rather than all the time or not at all.

Riots continue to erupt in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after lawmakers announced restrictions over flying the Union Jack. ITV's Mark Mallett reports.

Cops hurt as British unionist protesters try to storm Belfast City Hall in flag spat

An angry mob tried to storm the council chamber on the night of the vote and protests have continued sporadically since, with Monday seeing the fifth straight night of violence as the council met for the first time since last month?s controversial vote.

Police said Monday afternoon in an emailed statement that 96 people had been arrested since the latest unrest broke out and 61 police officers had been injured.

'Attempt to kill': Police in Belfast attacked as flag riots rage on

Billy Hutchinson, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, which he said provides political advice to the UVF, told NBC News that the flag decision had ?driven people mad.?

?I think what this is about is ordinary citizens who feel people are trying to remove their Britishness,? he said.

?You need to remember that this is the United Kingdom and the flag of the country is the union flag,? he added. ?It would be a bit like if people wanted to take down the Stars and Stripes from some local government in the U.S.?

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Local shoppers waiting for a bus watch as riot police follow pro-British protesters away from Belfast's City Hall during a protest Saturday.

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Hutchinson said this was one of a number of actions by Sinn Fein that were ?outside the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement.?

?I think the flag issue is a very big issue, I think it was the straw that broke the camel?s back ? the catalyst that brought people onto the streets,? he said.

?I think it is serious, I think people need to recognize this is a revolution with a small ?r.? We cannot sustain this sort of inequality coming from Sinn Fein, who are disguising it as equality. They cannot force this through,? he said.

?I think if you listen to what the protesters are doing and saying, I think it is a threat [to the peace process]. It?s not a threat of armed violence? it?s a threat of community and political action,? he added.

Hutchinson stressed he believed in peaceful protest, and would seek to persude any UVF members taking part in violence to stop.

Clinton condemns violence, revisits family legacy in trip to Belfast

Jim McVeigh, leader of Sinn Fein?s councilors on Belfast City Council, said they had thought it would be better to have no national flags at city hall, but had agreed to the compromise deal, which was passed with votes from the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, and the non-aligned Alliance Party.

?The issue of the flag and allegiance and identity is a very important one here in Belfast. [In the city] you will see flags are used to mark out territory ? to intimidate,? he told NBC News, highlighting murals painted on walls and national colors on curbs.

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A burnt out car blocks Dee Street in east Belfast Sunday near a mural that supports the Ulster Volunteer Force paramilitary group.

McVeigh, who said he has had death threats since the vote, said he had expected some protests after the decision on Dec. 3, but added no one anticipated it would be ?as ferocious as it has been.?

?The bottom line is we made the right decision. We?re not going to change that decision. The flag is not going to go back up [permanently]. These protests are futile,? he said.

A spokesman for the police trade union in Northern Ireland, who asked not to be named, told NBC News that the police were ?severely stretched? in dealing with the riots and also the threat from dissident Irish nationalist groups.

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An underground airport, tube-travelling pigeons and giant locusts: Cultural research into London Underground

Jan. 8, 2013 ? Did you know that the London Underground once planned to build its own airport? Or that the creators of the first Underground line originally intended that it would terminate in Paris? Or that pigeons regularly get on at Hammersmith and get off at Ladbroke Grove?

Kingston University architecture expert Dr David Lawrence is the source of such gems of information. He can also talk knowledgeably about ghost stations, stations that featured in James Bond films and the lost tribe of cannibal Underground workers.

The London Underground celebrates its 150th birthday this week -- the anniversary of the first tube journey from Paddington to Farringdon on theMetropolitan Line. "The line's owners planned to extend it out into Kent and ultimately, through a channel tunnel, to Paris," Dr Lawrence explained.

As well as envisaging a Channel Tunnel, more than a century before it became reality, the Underground's planners, in the 1930s, drew up plans for an airport to the east of London. "The Underground liked the idea of having its own airport and wanted to build one at a station at Fairlop, in Essex," Dr Lawrence said. "But the scheme was abandoned at the outbreak of World War II."

Dr Lawrence -- who has been a consultant to London Underground and the London Transport Museum since 1990 -- is particularly interested in the cultural history of the network. "The word underground became common currency at the time of H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine 1895," he explained. The book foresaw a time when the human race would have, effectively, split into two sub-species: the leisured and effete Eloi who lived on the surface and the hard-working but vicious Morlocks, who laboured underground.

"The Morlocks did the work -- they made society function," Dr Lawrence said. "The notion of underground culture meaning a counter culture, of underground art and music, stems from this. On the surface you had the bright, shiny, well-functioning city -- underground you had its sinister mirror image."

The Kingston University architectural historian has also studied the Underground's role on television and film. "In the 1950s you had Quatermass and the Pit, which saw giant locust-like aliens breeding in the tube, for example, and then in the 70s there was a film called Death Line (Raw Meat), in which a lost tribe of former Underground workers preyed on passengers."

Several disused, 'ghost', stations have been used in film and television. "Licensing these spaces for filming is big business for London Transport," Dr Lawrence remarked. "One of the most interesting ghost stations is Bull and Bush under Hampstead Common on the Northern Line. It's not disused -- it was never used."

Dr Lawrence has lectured at Kingston University since 1998. His interest in the Underground extends to its logo and map. "Many people have remarked that the map is elastic -- not geographic in its layout," he said. "What they may not realise is that that was a quite deliberate commercial ploy to exaggerate distances and to encourage people to take the tube to make journeys that they could quite easily have walked."

Or flown, in the case of a group of pigeons who have been observed regularly travelling between Hammersmith and Ladbroke Grove and between Baker Street and Euston Square or Great Portland Street. "They take advantage of the fast food that's left on the trains and seem to choose these stations as they are quite near the surface," Dr Lawrence explained.

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Chinese protest outside newspaper gates in rare censorship demo

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Scores of supporters of one of China's most liberal newspapers demonstrated outside its headquarters on Monday in a rare protest against censorship, backing an unusual strike by journalists against interference by the provincial propaganda chief.

The protest in Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province, comes amid an escalating standoff between the government and the people over press freedom. It is also an early test of Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping's commitment to reform.

The outcry began late last week after reporters at the influential Southern Weekly newspaper accused censors of replacing an original New Year's letter to readers that called for a constitutional government with another piece lauding the party's achievements.

Police allowed the demonstration outside the headquarters of the Southern Group, illustrating that the Guangdong government, led by newly appointed and rising political star Hu Chunhua, wants to tread carefully to contain rising public anger over censorship.

The protesters, most of them young, laid down small hand-written signs that said "freedom of expression is not a crime" and "Chinese people want freedom". Many clutched yellow chrysanthemums, symbolizing mourning the death of press freedom.

"The Nanfang (Southern) Media Group is relatively willing to speak the truth in China so we need to stand up for its courage and support it now," Ao Jiayang, a young NGO worker with bright orange dyed hair, told Reuters.

"We hope that through this we can fight for media freedom in China," Ao said. "Today's turnout reflects that more and more people in China have a civic consciousness."

The attention paid to the protest domestically highlights the unique position of Guangdong, China's wealthiest and most liberal province and the birthplace of the country's "reform and opening up" program. In a symbolic move, Xi chose to go to Guangdong on his first trip after being anointed party chief in November.

On Sunday night, the Southern Weekly official microblog denied the removal of the New Year Letter was due to censorship, saying the "online rumors were false". Those remarks drew criticism from Chinese Internet users.

Many Southern Weekly journalists disavowed themselves from the statement on the microblog, which they say was taken over by management, and pledged to go on strike the next day.

Several open letters have circulated on the Internet calling for the Guangdong propaganda chief, Tuo Zhen, to step down, blaming him for muzzling the press.

Photographs on microblogs showed banners that said "if the toxin of Tuo isn't removed ... Guangdong will be castrated."

"Not since the time of reform and opening up and the founding of China has there been someone like Tuo Zhen," Yan Lieshan, a retired veteran editor at Southern Weekly, told Reuters by telephone. "He's too arrogant, he has gone overboard and constantly violates regulations."

Xiao Shu, a former prominent commentator at the Southern Weekly newspaper, said Tuo required that journalists submit topics for him to approve and yanked issues that he disliked.

"These details illustrate one problem: that he has established within the Guangdong media a system of prior censorship of the press," Xiao said, calling for Tuo's removal.

Chinese Internet users already cope with extensive censorship, especially over politically sensitive topics like human rights and elite politics, and popular foreign sites Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube are blocked.

China shut the website of a leading pro-reform magazine on Friday, apparently because it ran an article calling for political reform and constitutional government, sensitive topics for the party which brooks no dissent.

(Additional reporting by Sui-Lee Wee and Beijing Newsroom, Writing by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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TV-over-Internet service expands despite lawsuits

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., listens during a tour of the company's technology floor in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo?s case, the judge accepted the company?s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., listens during a tour of the company's technology floor in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo?s case, the judge accepted the company?s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., listens during a tour of the company's technology floor in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo?s case, the judge accepted the company?s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., stands next to a server array of antennas as he holds an antenna between his fingers, in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo?s case, the judge accepted the company?s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., gives a tour of the company's technology floor in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo?s case, the judge accepted the company?s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Barry Diller-backed Internet company that challenged cable and satellite TV services by offering inexpensive live television online plans to expand beyond New York City this spring.

In the wake of a federal court ruling that tentatively endorsed its legality, Aereo will bring its $8-a-month service to Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and 18 other markets in the U.S., as well as to New York's suburbs. For the past year, the service had been limited to New York City residents as the company fine-tuned its technology and awaited guidance on whether its unlicensed use of free, over-the-air broadcasts amounted to a copyright violation.

A federal judge in New York ruled in July that the service doesn't appear to violate copyright law because individual subscribers are assigned their own, tiny antenna at Aereo's Brooklyn data center, making it analogous to the free signal a consumer would get with a regular antenna at home. Aereo spent the subsequent months selecting markets for expansion and renting space for new equipment in those cities.

"The court decision was the green light in our perspective," CEO and founder Chet Kanojia said in a recent interview at Aereo's sparse offices in a former engine factory in Queens. "This is an opportunity of a lifetime to build up something meaningful to change how people access TV."

Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereo's case, the judge accepted the company's legal reasoning, but with reluctance.

If the ruling stands, Aereo could cause a great deal of upheaval in the broadcast industry. It could give people a reason to drop cable or satellite subscriptions as monthly bills rise. It also might hinder broadcasters' ability to sell ads because it's not yet clear how traditional audience measures will incorporate Aereo's viewership. In addition, it could reduce the licensing fees broadcasters collect from cable and satellite companies.

Broadcasters have appealed the July ruling. At a November hearing, appellate judges expressed skepticism about the legality of Aereo's operations. In addition, the original judge's ruling was preliminary, made as part of a decision to let Aereo continue operating while the lawsuits wind their way through court. Even if courts continue to side with Aereo on the legality of its setup, broadcasters still could nitpick on the details and try to argue that the antennas don't actually operate individually as claimed.

Despite Aereo's initial win, copyright attorney Kevin Goldberg with the firm Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth rated Aereo's chances "a toss-up. You really are trying to break new ground here."

Goldberg, who isn't representing either side in the case, noted that a federal judge in Los Angeles already has ruled against a copycat service called Aereokiller. Furthermore, he said, Congress can step in at any time to clarify the law.

Kanojia said he didn't want to wait for a final resolution, which could take years. He said all startups accept some risk when they try to shake up an industry.

With average monthly TV bills exceeding $75, Aereo is positioning itself as a cheaper alternative. For $8 a month, subscribers in New York get 29 over-the-air stations. They can watch shows live and record up to 20 hours using Aereo's Internet-based digital video recorder. Subscribers get 40 hours of DVR space for $12 a month and can reduce that to less than $7 by paying for a year in advance.

While cable and satellite services are geared toward watching television on TVs, Aereo streams feeds over the Internet to Windows and Mac computers, iPhones, iPads and boxes such as Roku and Apple TV for feeding Internet content to regular TVs. Android support is expected this year. Services such as Hulu and Apple's iTunes also offer television over the Internet, but not live.

The downside: Aereo doesn't offer cable channels such as CNN, HBO, ESPN and regional sports networks. The exception is Bloomberg TV financial news channel, which reached a deal in which Aereo is paying an unspecified fee. Cable lineups typically have hundreds of channels, compared with a few dozen for Aereo.

The 22 markets Aereo announced in Las Vegas on Tuesday for this spring's expansion are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Ala., Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Madison, Wis., Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, R.I., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Salt Lake City, Tampa, Fla., and Washington. With that, Aereo estimates that the service will reach nearly 100 million potential customers.

After that, Aereo plans to add more cities a few times each year.

One factor for the initial round was a market's proximity to Aereo's headquarters in New York, in case engineers need to board a train or a plane to resolve problems. Weather also was a factor, as much of the construction is taking place during winter months.

Another consideration was demographics. One key target will be people in their 20s who have never subscribed to cable or satellite TV, a group Aereo terms the "cord nevers." Research from Nielsen shows that younger Americans tend to watch more video over the Internet and less on traditional TV than older audiences.

Kanojia said Aereo is offering broadcasters a way to reach younger audiences where they spend their time.

The National Association of Broadcasters disagrees. NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton likened Aereo to someone who steals a six-pack of Coke, shares cans with friends and then claims to be helping the soda company promote its product.

"If you're selling the program for a fee and not compensating the rights holder for that product, that's fundamentally unfair and violates the copyright law," Wharton said.

Aereo, which wouldn't reveal how many subscribers it has, said it will keep prices the same in the new markets, though the available channels will vary.

Not all channels will be offered to everyone in a given market. For example, a Virginia subscriber might be blocked from a Maryland station even though both are in the Washington market. Aereo said it will use data from the Federal Communications Commission to calculate whether that subscriber would normally be able to pick up that station using a regular antenna.

Out-of-market stations won't be available, even if both markets are served by Aereo after the expansion. A New York subscriber who takes a trip to Chicago, for instance, would be able to watch only Chicago stations ? and not New York channels ? while in the Windy City.

In doing so, Aereo continues to tread the boundaries of copyright law.

A 1992 federal cable law allows broadcasters to demand licensing fees from services that retransmit their signals, even if a station offers its signal over the air for free. Cable and satellite companies spend millions of dollars for those rights and often blame price hikes on the fees. High-profile disputes over such fees have led to blackouts of stations on some TV lineups, as broadcasters aren't required to offer their signals to any of these services.

Aereo argues that it isn't subject to those fees because it uses thousands of dime-size antennas to pick up signals and assigns them to subscribers one at a time. The company insists it is merely renting an antenna to the customer, and it's the customer who enables the transmission, the way one would with a home antenna. If two subscribers record the same show, two antennas would be assigned and two copies would be stored on the virtual DVR. The setup is inefficient; Aereo admits it's done solely because of copyright law.

Judge Alison Nathan sided with Aereo last summer, denying broadcasters a request to shut down the service pending resolution of the lawsuits filed in March by major networks and local stations, as well as producers of some of their shows. Nathan ruled that while the service might hurt broadcasters' ability to make money, the law left her no other choice.

Nathan had relied on a 2008 court decision involving a remote DVR service offered by Cablevision Systems Corp. In their appeal, broadcasters pointed out that Cablevision was already paying licensing fees for TV signals, so the court was deciding whether the company had to pay extra for the new service. Cable and satellite TV operators are not plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Aereo, but Cablevision filed a brief saying that Aereo should be subject to the same fees that cable companies have to pay.

Aereo's early investors include Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns Match.com, Ask.com and other websites. On Tuesday, Aereo said it has closed on a second round of financing, worth $38 million and led by IAC and Highland Capital Partners.

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Broadcasters group: http://nab.org

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Cannes, take note.

Call it feminist, call it a full shift in the zeitgeist, call it the seeds of a movie industry revolution, but the Sundance Film Festival has shoved Hollywood into the 21st century when it comes to the inclusion of women filmmakers.

Last May, the Cannes Film Festival?s competitive Palme D?Or line-up sparked controversy over its dearth of female directors. This year?s annual Sundance fest in Park City, Utah, which runs from Jan. 17-27, for the very first time features an equal number of male and female directors in its 16-film U.S. Dramatic Competition category, ranging from Lynn Shelton?s Touchy Feely, starring Rosemarie DeWitt (pictured in the exclusive photo above), to Liz Garcia?s The Lifeguard, featuring Kristen Bell, Francesca Gregorini?s Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, starring Jessica Biel, Jerusha Hess?s Austenland with Keri Russell, Lake Bell?s In a World, also starring the actress-director, and Stacie Passon?s Concussion.

EW connected with Shelton, Garcia, Gregorini, Hess, Passon, and Bell, as well as actresses Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael, who co-wrote the saucy Sundance Midnight screening selection Ass Backwards, and Richard E. Robbins, who directed the CNN Films documentary Girl Rising, which will have scenes shown at Sundance. Absolute joy and excitement resonated through phone and email conversations with the filmmakers, who touted the bright future for women directors ? Kathryn Bigelow?s name may be the biggest out there these days, but many more are on the horizon.

?As a woman navigating through a traditionally male dominated field, I have often felt like more of an oddity than an artist,? says Shelton, whose Touchy Feely marks her third film at Sundance. ?In addition to a gratifying sense of justice in this ?Finally!? kind of moment, I also hope that this year?s gender parity among competition filmmakers at Sundance means we can look forward to a time (hopefully soon) when the quality and content of our work will be considered on its own terms without regard for what happens to be (or not to be) in our pants.?

Representing a wide range as far as the content of their films, this year?s Sundance crop of female-directed movies range from Touchy Feely?s??massage therapist (DeWitt) with an aversion to bodily contact ? to The Lifeguard?s Kristen Bell as a journalist who quits her job in New York and returns to her childhood home in Connecticut, beginning a new life as a lifeguard and precariously connecting with a teenage boy.

The Lifeguard director Garcia expressed glee at the number of women directors with films in competition at the festival ? a precedent to follow, and make the norm for younger women hungry to go into film and direct. ?I?m hoping this, the female directors of 2013, are a vanguard class. I hope this one?ll be remembered as the year the gates opened and equality in indie film became the norm. I?m a feminist. I?ve been annoyed and dismayed since my first day in L.A. by the sexism in the Hollywood film industry,? she says. ?So, to have my dream come true professionally ? getting a film into Sundance ? converge with a huge stride forward for women in film is a personal supernova. I?d like it on my headstone, please: ?Class of 2013.??

?I think that having eight female directors at Sundance this year is nothing short of profound,? she continues. ?Indie film influences mainstream film and mainstream film influences culture and culture influences how people perceive themselves. The butterfly effect from this year can be that young women start thinking of themselves as filmmakers. They start to make movies in whatever way they can. They value their voice, and they speak up about the female experience in the world. It?s so simple, it?s so basic, but it?s everything.?

In Lake Bell?s feature-film directing debut,?In a World,?she plays a struggling vocal coach reaching for her goal of becoming a voiceover artist.

Bell, who has worked with multiple women directors as an actress, chatted about her own experience of being supported by other women, including Shelton, versus being alone in the fray.

?They often speak of the men?s club vs. no-lady?s club. My personal experience has been a lot of support from women,? she says. ?Lynn Shelton is awesome. She?s someone that when I was making my movie I went up to her, after having a martini, and told her, ?I just think you?re great.? I was greeted with a warm reception. Now we?re together in this competition, and she?s a friendly face. I feel like when I?m directing I?m home, and well suited to my happiness, and how I want to spend the rest of my life.?

But Bell also noted the Catch-22 of bringing so much attention to gender at Hollywood-focused festivals, when in other parts of the world women suffer under sexism-based regimes, and filmmaking is not even a faint twinkle of an option for women.

?I often struggle with the idea of trying to force it. If there were no female directors at Cannes, then so be it. And if there are a record number of female directors at Sundance, so be it. If I have a daughter, one day, I know we?re in a very good place,? she says. ?Where we sit, and our small industry, against bigger problems in the world, we?re doing pretty well.?

Source: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/07/sundance-zeitgeist-women-filmmakers/

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