Minu Jun ’19 had mixed reviews of the film, though he appreciated the increased awareness of the issue. Anyone can do it and here is some proof,” Polgar said. “It’s inspiring that she went out and just did it. Upon watching the film, she was inspired by Sun-Higginson and the spirit of filmmaking.
“This isn’t just video games it’s for film and television, pretty much anything you can think of where you’ve got issues of misogyny and sexism,” Polgar said. She connected the gaming industry issue to other widespread issues of sexism in unrelated professional fields. “To see it on the big screen, so violent and in your face, was kind of shocking and made me really want to act on it,” Polgar said. She answered questions from the audience and explained stylistic and thematic choices in her work.Īri Polgar ’18, who considers herself a female video game player, appreciated the film as it showed the realities of what women face in that industry. The 70-minute screening of the documentary was followed by an in-person discussion with Sun-Higginson. “I don’t think that women just naturally aren’t interested in gaming.” “The issue lies with the culture which cultivates accepting this behavior,” Sun-Higginson said. In the documentary, Sun-Higginson attempts to explain the hostile situation that women in the video game industry face. “What in God’s name is going wrong? Unfortunately the answer is a lot of different things.” “Ninety-six percent of teen girls play games, and yet we have something like 10-12 percent women in the game industry overall,” said Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon Jessica Hammer who was interviewed in the documentary. To them, females represent unwelcome intruders that culturally do not belong in gaming, and the men use this argument to legitimize the harassment and insults that are so common. In the movie, Sun-Higginson describes a “boys’ club” that has formed where white males see the gaming world as their own and respond with hostility at any attempt to change the status quo.
#Gtfo movie movie
“This movie is for people who aren’t gamers it’s intended for people who don’t know anything about the issue,” Sun-Higginson said. Sun-Higginson made the movie to shed light on this issue of pervasive sexism in the video gaming industry for the general public. However, every such attempt is met with great hostility from the gaming community and results in backlash often targeted female designers involved in the game’s production. The gaming industry, traditionally marketed towards white heterosexual males between the ages of 18 and 35, has seen attempts at gradual changes in terms of the content of the games and the perception of women within them over the last few years. The documentary addresses the disturbing harassment to which many females are exposed upon entering the gaming world, whether it be as game designers or active gamers.
“I didn’t realize I was making a movie until it was too late,” Sun-Higginson said. She traveled from game convention to game convention, single-handedly conducting interviews with a handheld camera.
#Gtfo movie series
On Tuesday night, the Awareness film series hosted a screening of the film “GTFO,” a documentary created by Shannon Sun-Higginson ’10 that focuses on the harassment of women throughout the gaming industry.įunded through Kickstarter, Sun-Higginson started working on this project in 2012, never intending for it to turn into a full-blown documentary.
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