US actress and director Kristen Stewart has said she is "so angry" that progress for female film-makers in Hollywood has gone backwards after a post-MeToo boost.
The Twilight star, who directed forthcoming film The Chronology of Water, delivered an impassioned speech at a women's luncheon in Los Angeles hosted by the organisation behind the Oscars.
"The backsliding from a brief moment of progress is statistically devastating," she told the audience. "Such a pitiful number of films from the past year have been made by women."
The Celluloid Ceiling, an annual report that monitors the number of female film-makers, said 11 of the top 100 grossing films of 2024 were directed by women, down from 16 in 2020.
The MeToo movement of 2017 led to a reckoning in Hollywood about men in power and female representation both in front of and behind the camera.
