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The Science of Being a Woman on Screen Francisco Payó González Mexican filmmaker. He has made short films, advertising productions inside and outside Mexico, and assisted in the directing and production departments, and as script advisor, of various film projects.
Behind many of the greatest discoveries, advances, and achievements of humankind, there stands not a great man, but a great woman. The audiovisual world has recreated many of these historical figures and transformed so many other women into historical figures that, in spite of existing only on the screen, they have inspired many of us to change our lives and the world in which we live. As we wait for the premiere of the motion picture Radioactive, based on Lauren Redniss’s graphic novel inspired by the life of Marie Curie, and directed by none other than Marjane Satrapi (the creator of the comic Persepolis), let’s look back over some motion pictures and TV series that, each in their own way, break or have broken with female stereotypes, making an impact on viewers of every gender.
A gora (2009)
A life devoted to knowledge, in which the heroine develops visionary theories that would be corroborated centuries afterwards, forms the axis of this impeccable production about the philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer Hypatia, who found herself confronting one of the greatest historical enemies of science and women’s rights: the then nascent Catholic Church.
