Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinoff has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead". This is based off of two under-performing female-lead driven movies in the past year (with Jodi Foster & Nicole Kidman).

I've got to go and pull some statistics but there are very few female driven movies (even Pixar has yet to do a movie with a female lead) but there are a whole bunch of male-lead movies that tank every week and no one seems to find this alarming.

When I first got into movie making I was 19 and very naive - I just did anything and everything for fun. I love movies and the movie making process. Background bits and stories are my passion. I never really took it all serious because it was just so much fun (yes, 20 hours on set was fun). But I was working in Canada, Europe and New Zealand - a much different beast than working in Hollywood itself. It wasn't until 4 years ago that I actually made my way to Los Angeles and began working in "Hollywood."

For the first time I found everything - the people, the attitude, getting things off the ground, getting taken seriously - a challenge. Because I look like I'm in my early twenties, I wear dresses and I have a quick wit that makes people and myself laugh a lot I wouldn't get taken as serious despite the fact I had years of experience, great perception and was completely capable of putting together the right people, coordinating sets or working in post production to get stuff out.

Hollywood is still run by an Old Boys club and these men would think me "cute" but not "capable " until I started proving myself with successfully completed projects (either in development or production). Once people saw the results, the dresses, the laughter and the look didn't seem to matter - as much. However, being female always has and people in Hollywood are very open about this. And the only women who seem to care about this are those who work in the background (producers, directors, script writers, designers, coordinators etc). It's been my experience that a lot of the young actresses just don't care - and they should. They're going to suffer for this with crappy roles that are disappearing.

There have been a lot of women in film that I've been working with on getting projects up and running and they are almost always small and independent - even with big A-List actresses. These projects don't get as much promotion so finding an audience can often be hard but the upswing is that when they do find an audience, they're almost always well received.

I'm not one to do "women only" projects but I do believe in supporting women in areas where we lack credibility and accessibility solely because of gender. I work to help us do what we want and not necessarily to prove anything. But it's comments from people like Robinoff that make me just want to flip the bird and say, "Alright, game on."