A divisão sexual do trabalho cinematográfico em longas goianos (1967-2022)

Abstract

This work intends to describe and analyze the sexual division of labor in the production and direction of feature films in the state of Goiás from the first one in 1967 until the productions of 2022. Such a division of labor does not concern physiological, biological or hormonal aptitudes . It was socially constructed for centuries in order to strengthen a power relationship that was appropriated by contemporary capitalism. In Brazil, although the female population exceeds the male population in numbers, there is still a clear gender bias when analyzing cinematographic productions. To understand this within the cinema in Goiás, a survey was carried out through bibliographies, festival catalogs and catalogs of Goiás producers or associations in order to compare with the national data published by ANCINE in 2020 with the Brazilian Films Commercially Released in Exhibition Halls - 1995 to 2019, added production function information. By raising the data of eighty-five feature films from Goiás, we visualized that they reproduce national statistics, with a majority of men in positions of power and artistic intellectual work such as direction while women are in positions considered as organizational work invisible and bureaucratic, as is the case with production. The study proposed here does not seek a Manichean analysis of the sexual division in the work spaces of film production, but rather points to obstacles that persist and ruptures that allow us to glimpse possible movements towards an artistic production with equal opportunities for male and female filmmakers, as well as how to highlight in the recent history of cinema in Goiás the female directors who managed to emerge in such an unfavorable environment.