IMDB, best known for being the premier online database for movies, television, and video games, has unveiled a new rating system into their system – F for feminist friendly films. Over 21,000 films have been graded to reflect the official rollout.
Films receive the “F” grade based on three criteria:
- A woman directed the movie.
- A woman wrote the movie.
- Strong female characters are featured in the story.
IMDB founder and CEO Col Needham explained that “the F-Rating is a great way to highlight women on screen and behind the camera.”
The “F” rating was first used by Bath Film Festival director Holly Tarqui in 2014. Tarqui told the U.K. Independent in an interview that the real goal of the rating system 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.”
Frozen, Bridget Jones’s Diary and American Honey are some of the films that have been rated F.
