3 Women Grow Their Roles in Inde- pendent Film Making 女性在独立电影制作中地位提升

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Independent films made history this year.For the first time，women made half of the American dramatic productions shown at the Sundance Film Festival.The festival took place at the same time as the release of a study on women in American independent films.Kelly Jean Kelly has more.

独立制作的电影在今年创造了历史。在圣丹斯电影节展出的美国戏剧作品中，女性作品首次达到半数。电影节举办的同时，一份针对美国独立电影制作界女性的调查也发布了调查结果，凯利·金·凯利带来更多报道。

词汇宝典：release的名词意思是“释放，发表”，如：He is expected to be released from hospital today.他有望今天出院。此外，release也有动词的词性，指“松开；发行”，相关用法有：release one's grasp（of sth）“松开手（不再抓住某物）”；release a film/book/record“发行影片/书/唱片”。

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Ava DuVernay loves making mov-ies.She has directed three docu-mentaries and two feature films，also known as narrative films.All were inde-pendently produced.She says finding fi-nancing is often difficult for women.

艾娃·杜威内喜欢拍电影，她已经导演了三部纪录片和两部故事片，也称为叙事电影。这些作品都是独立制作的，她说，对于女性来说，找赞助通常很困难。

听力破解：听力中对数字词应该格外敏感，播音员重读了three和two，需要注意；还重读了all，起强调作用。

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“In some cases，male-run institutions or male-run organizations or companies find it challenging to wrap their arms around，I'm giving all this money to a woman to make our thing.’”

“有时候，男性经营的机构、组织或公司会觉得很难放心，‘我要把钱给一个女人，让她替我们做事。’”

听力破解：本段语速较快，应注意抓住关键词来理解。find it连读成[′faindi]，不要误听为 finding。读our时语速极快，不要误听为a。

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Ava DuVernay's experience ap-pears to confirm the findings of a study about women in independent film.University of Southern California research-ers studied films shown at the Sundance Film Festival between 2002 and 2012.The research team found that close to 40per-cent of documentary film creators were women.But only about 25 percent of fea-ture films had women in top positions.

艾娃·杜威内的经历似乎印证了那份针对美国独立电影界女性的调查结果，南加利福尼亚大学的调查者们研究了2002年至2012年圣丹斯电影节展出的电影，调查团队发现，近40%纪录片的创作者都是女性，但女性指导的故事片只占25%。

听力破解：播音员升调读found，暗示后面是关键内容，一般会是一个从句。此外，top positions出现吞音现象，top[tɔp]被读作[tɔ]。

词汇宝典：confirm指“证实，证明（报告、意见等）的正确性”，它还有“确认”的意思，如：

Can you confirm this？你确定这件事吗？

Yes，definitely！ 是的，确定！

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Stacy Smith was a lead investigator of the study.

“Females were perceived to be not as trustworthy leading a crew.They were perceived to be not as confident handling not only financial matters but also leading the production of the set.”There have been exceptions，like Kathryn Bigelow.In 2010，she won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Movie for“The Hurt Locker”.Her film told about American soldiers in Iraq.

And Zoe Kazan was able to find financing for her film“Ruby Sparks”， which was released last year.She wrote and starred in the film.

斯泰西·史密斯是这项研究中的首席调查员。

“人们认为女性在领导员工方面是不可靠的，既要处理财务事项还要主导电影拍摄，人们都觉得女性胜任不了。”

但是也有特例，比方说凯瑟琳·毕格罗。2010年，她凭借《拆弹部队》获得奥斯卡最佳导演奖和最佳影片奖。她的电影讲述了在伊拉克的美国士兵的故事。

此外，佐伊·卡赞也为她的电影《恋恋书中曲》成功拉到了赞助，这部电影已经在去年上映了。她是电影的编剧兼主演。

词汇宝典：star的名词意思是“星，明星”，在这里是动词“主演，担任主角”的意思，如：She is to star in a new film.她将主演一部新影片。

学着说一说

1.take place举行

▶take place是“举行，发生”的意思，如：

A：When does the ceremony take place？仪式什么时候举行？

B：I have no idea.我不知道。

▶此外，take one's place 指“代替某人/某物”，等同于 take the place of sb./sth.。

2.appear to do似乎

▶这个短语相当于It appears that...或It appears as if...句式，意思是“好像是”，如：

You appear to have made a mistake.你好像弄错了。

=It appears that you have made a mistake.

=It appears as if you have made a mistake.

3.be perceived to be被认为是……

▶perceive 的意思是“察觉到，领悟”，在这里理解为“认为”，常用于

perceive...as...或 perceive...to be...短语中，意为“认为……是……”，如：

I perceived his comment as a challenge to me.

我认为他的批评是对我的质疑。