The popular entertainment database IMDb will soon roll out its new “F-Rating” for feminist-friendly films.
IMDb founder and CEO Col Needham confirmed this week that his website will adopt a standard of grading feminist-related fare that was first used in 2014 by Bath Film Festival director Holly Tarqui.
“The F-Rating is a great way to highlight women on screen and behind the camera,” Mr. Needham told the U.K. Independent on Monday.
The CEO said that nearly 22,000 films have been graded. Their scores will be reflected on IMDb with the F-Rating’s official rollout.
Films will receive a grade based on three criteria:
- A woman directed the movie.
- A woman wrote the movie.
- Strong female characters are featured in the story.
“Our real goal is to reach the stage when the F-Rating is redundant because 50 percent of the stories we see on screen are told by and about film’s unfairly under-represented half of the population — women,” Ms. Tarqui said, the newspaper reported.
More than 250 million people traffic IMDb per month in their search for movie news, cast biographies and a slew of other pop culture factoids.
Some films that have already been reviewed include “Frozen,” “American Honey” and “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and “Kung Fu Panda 2.”
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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