The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
4 Mar 2020 12:00
Susan Cartsonis
Television
A still from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer and producer of What Women Want, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
In a recent episode of the television series Mad Men, two advertising agencies merge. Each agency has a single woman on their creative team and one woman is told she’s ‘toast’ the combined agency already ‘has one’. As in one woman. In the scenes that follow, the extra woman is ‘disappeared’ with no mention of her again.
Susan Cartsonis was an executive at 20th Century Fox for nearly a decade, where she rose from script reader to Snr Vice President of Production with films such as Nell, The Truth about Cats and Dogs, For the Boys, Dying Young and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. Since then she has produced the box office record breaking films What Women Want, Where the Heart Is, Beastly and No Reservations.
