Cannes 2021: "This Is The Moment For Women," Says Jodie Foster At The Film Festival

"There is now an awareness that it's been too long that we haven't heard stories told by women," she said

There has never been a better time for women to enter the film industry, American superstar Jodie Foster told the Cannes festival on Wednesday, saying movies had too long been starved of female perspectives. Addressing a large crowd of mostly young festival-goers in near-fluent French, she encouraged budding women filmmakers to seek their own truth and not try to please others. "This is the moment for women to enter the industry," Jodie Foster said. Although male domination of the industry had "not changed completely," she said, "there is now an awareness that it's been too long that we haven't heard stories told by women... This is the moment." Jodie Foster received a lifetime achievement on Tuesday for her work that has included star turns in < when she was a child, through to her Oscar-winning role in Silence Of The Lambs. She has also directed several films, including Money Monster with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. "I know it's a bit cliche to say 'tell your own stories'," Jodie Foster said. "But what I mean is: ask yourself questions about the truthfulness of things and whether they resonate within you, instead of pleasing others, be it the public or producers."