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From Sarah Gavron
Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.
Women in Film and Television is such an important body.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'
I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.
I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.
The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
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