The second season of Marvel's Jessica Jones will be entirely directed by women, according to Variety. It's the latest effort towards correcting the gender imbalance that is widespread across the film and television industries.
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The article quotes executive producer and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg talking about the all-female directing roster during her panel at Transforming Hollywood 7: Diversifying Entertainment, a conference held on Friday at the University of Southern California.
Rosenberg said that in the second season of the superhero show, she had wanted to increase the number of female directors — a goal that Marvel was completely on board with. Given how in-demand many women directors are these days, she and her fellow producers had set their sights on booking women first, she said, and contracting male directors later in the pre-production process.