Queen Latifah Launches The “Queen Collective,” A Program to Give Female Filmmakers Opportunities

Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe winner Queen Latifah announces her new venture to give female filmmakers an opportunity with the “Queen Collective.”

“There are just not enough female directors,” Latifah told to Yahoo. “This is a small part of what we’d like to do to help change the disparity that we see out there in terms of all the dollars that are given to male directors, all the support that’s given to male directors, and everything we see, yet we’re at least half of who’s watching these movies and buying these products. So we want to make sure women have an opportunity … that the queens have an opportunity. The Queen Collective will make sure that happens.”

The Queen Collective will welcome submissions from all kinds of women hoping to tell their story. Latifah and her team will choose two people to have the scripts made and financed completely, including the distribution, along with marketing and promotion.

“I try to support anything I can in terms of making sure women have an opportunity. That’s just who I am. Before I really knew what a feminist was, I was already helping to promote the feminist cause. I was just a 15-year-old rapper… I think those things will happen, and we will be attacked sometimes and probably held to a standard that is not necessary, but that doesn’t mean we stop. It doesn’t mean we don’t do it again. That means we keep doing it. We continue to do it until you understand it. Until you get it,” Latifah insists.

Details about the opportunity are still in development, but I will post them as soon as Latifah releases them.