SmokeLong Quarterly

Art by Marty D. Ison

While low budget and foreign language films are somewhat more equitable, major Hollywood movies are almost always directed by men. The exceptions can be counted on one hand. And that hand’s tallest, most defiant middle finger is the great Kathryn Bigelow. She’s best known as the only woman to have won an Academy Award for Best Director (out of a measly pool of only four total women nominees.) Returning to her war motif, Bigelow is currently in pre-production on her new picture concerning the capture and release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl by the Taliban.