{
  "id": 5996319,
  "title": "Venice’s Lone Female Competition Director May el-Toukhy on Gender Gap: “I’ve Never Heard a Female Director Being Called a Genius”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/venices-lone-female-competition-director-may-el-toukhy-on-gender-gap",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-06T14:57:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hollywood Reporter",
    "slug": "the-hollywood-reporter",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-may-el-toukhy-on-film-festival-gender-gap-1236692381/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Danish filmmaker, whose post-WWII thriller 'Woman Unknown' premieres in competition Sunday, calls the shortage of women vying for the Golden Lion \"a structural problem\" that is \"as old as cinema and even older than that.\"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "‘Woman Unknown’ Director May el-Toukhy Talks the Torment of World War II ‘Horizontal Collaborators’ and Venice’s Female Director Snub: ‘It’s a Structural Problem’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/woman-unknown-director-may-el-toukhy-talks-the-torment-of-world-war",
        "published": "2026-09-06T12:03:05.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}