Date 10/09/2016 - News People
Indian actress Freida Pinto, best known for her roles in Slumdog Millionaire and Rise of the Planet of the Apes , attended the Toronto Film Festival Saturday to voice her support for female filmmakers. Speaking at the TIFF panel, entitled Women at the Helm, she urged women in film to stop relying on studio heads to greenlight more work by female directors, and to bring about industry change on their own. "It's time to stop talking and to start doing something," Pinto said. The actress touted her recently-launched non-profit production company, We Do It Together, to get more women into film and TV in partnership with an advisory board that includes Jessica Chastain, Queen Latifah, Juliette Binoche, Catherine Hardwicke and Ziyi Zhang.
