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The F-Rated Podcast

Listen to the F-Rated Podcast HERE Join us for intersectional F-eminist chat with remarkable women in film from director Amma Asante to multi-award winning composer Nainita Desai. Hosted by F-Rated founder, Holly Tarquini and BBC World Service presenter, journalist Anu Anand exploring all aspects of the film industry by talking...

Holly Tarquini talking F-rating with Helen O’Hara

Women Vs Hollywood with Helen O'Hara In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by Clare Binns, Holly Tarquini, Sophie Monks Kaufman and Tricia Tuttle, to discuss the impact of festivals on women in the film industry. They’ll explore the ways that festivals have excluded women in...

Girls On Film Podcast – Is Wonder Woman 1984 a feminist film?

Joining Anna Smith's Girls On Film Podcast for a lively Wonder Woman 1984 debate are Empire critic Helen O’Hara and F-Rating’s Holly Tarquini. They first discuss Helen’s new book Women vs. Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Hollywood, which is available from February 18th 2021. Helen shares some...

F-Rated Day

Back in 2018, we co-curated and hosted a remarkable day in Komedia in celebration of the centenary of the Suffragettes’ landmark victory on the road towards female equality. Holly Tarquini from FilmBath joined forces with creative director, Alex Clark of The Bath Festival to present a whole day of F-Rated...

Girls On film Podcast

Three women who’ve forged their own path in the film industry join Anna Smith's Girls On film Podcast for an inspiring chat about making waves in a man’s world. Holly F Tarquini founded F-Rated, a ground-breaking system for rating female-driven films, Hilary Oliver launched Cameo Productions, a female-run audio production house...

The ‘F Rating’ Is An AMAZING Thing For Women In Film And Here’s Why…

IMDb has added a new F rating system to recognise the contributions of women in the film industry, as well as movies that feature great, female-fronted storylines... IMDb has announced it has adopted the 'F Rating' - a way of highlighting the films that are inclusive of women in writing and directing...

FilmBath director Holly Tarquini on the F-Rating | BFI Podcast

Holly Tarquini, the director of FilmBath, talks about the F-Rated Day, a series of talks celebrating female artists and highlighting the impact of the F-Rating, a feminist film classification system that Holly invented. A triple F-Rated film (Holly's gold standard) is a film starring a significant female character that's written...

BBC’s More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

More or Less: Behind the Stats Link to episode In this hugely popular radio series Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. In this episode, the team look into film ratings, and explore the F-Rating… “Are...

Alex Stolz: Season 1, Episode 6, Holly Tarquini, F-Rated

“Films with female protagonists do better at the box office – but that doesn’t encourage Hollywood to make more films like this” Holly Tarquini Bath Film Festival Director, Holly Tarquini is the creator of F-Rated, the major campaign to change gender inequality in film that has recently been adopted by IMDB....

Passing the Bechdel Test: Irish Film Institute Introduces New F-Rating to Promote Women in the Film Industry

BY: THE HOT PRESS NEWSDESK, 27 JULY 2017. Despite advances in many parts of arts and culture, film still remains a largely male-dominated industry. Thankfully, this is something that the Irish Film Institute (IFI) hopes to help change with their introduction of a new F-rating. According to the IFI’s own website,...

IMDb adopts a feminist ‘F-rating’ for movies

IMDb, the influential online movie database, has adopted a new rating system that highlights the role of women in film. The so-called F-rating was invented in 2014 by Holly Tarquini of the Bath Film Festival to point out the dearth of women in the movie industry, inspired by the Bechdel...

Women on Both Sides of the Lens: 10 Great F-Rated Movies

When Holly Tarquini, the executive director of the Bath Film Festival, was considering in 2014 how to better highlight festival entries that featured the efforts of female filmmakers, she thought of Elen Tejile. Tejile is the director of a Swedish art-house theater who decided to assign a special rating to any...