For this year’s Women’s Month special, our very own Princess Kinoc has invited two of Philippine pop-culture’s female writers: Karen Mae de Vera and Marica Hontiveros-Cheng to talk about three films or topics on Women in Film every week of March.
For the first of this series, Ica selects Mad Max: Fury Road as the first film they tackle on feminism and more. Most of the perspectives online about the film were either written by men or seen through the eyes of men. Listen to this episode now as they talk about it in women’s perspectives, and how it was a gender-bending breakthrough on how female characters should be written.
Spoilers are present in this podcast, as well as some political commentary on how patriarchy still exists in our country so please be wary.
Here’s us wishing there were more female characters written in their true essence the same way as Furiosa’s and the wives in this film. You can still watch Mad Max: Fury Road on HBO! Share with us your thoughts on this episode now.
About this series’ co-hosts:
Marica “Ica” Hontiveros-Cheng, is a freelance writer and team lead for a BPO company. She is also an avid cosplayer, she writes consistently about local music, movies, everything pop culture and is one half of the blog Team PCheng. Her voice as a woman makes her contribution to what you need to know about our local music and pop-culture scene opens up a different kind of perspective. Read more of her writing here.
Karen Mae de Vera, host extraordinaire, and contributing writer for a number of publications such as Kidzone, Esquire, Cosmo.ph and Rappler, and many more. Her plethora of articles range from pop-culture to what women does and want in general, which makes her articulated on the moods and methods of how women are depicted in cinema and in pop-culture. Follow her on Instagram here.
Princess is one of the hosts for Third World Cinema Club. Aside from writing for Film Police Reviews, she has published articles in publications such as the New Durian Cinema and UP’s Pelikula Journal.
Stay tuned next week as we talk about Karen’s pick: the two Harlequinns
