Entertainment attorney Victoria Cook is well known for representing filmmakers, writers, directors, actors, producers and financiers. But she attracted a lot of attention this year by calling out the Academy Awards’ lack of recognition for women and people of color in documentary filmmaking. Her Facebook post, called “In Reality, We Must Demand Equal Representation for Women Documentarians,” triggered a flood of responses and was picked up by several websites. Cook herself is a filmmaker—she co-produced a full-length documentary about New York pornographer Al Goldstein and co-founded the New York Underground Film Festival.
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