“I like money,” states Equity star Anna Gunn‘s Naomi Bishop, a senior investment banker at the world’s largest investment bank. Corruption, power, and corporate espionage ensue in the second trailer for director Meera Menon’s second feature. Once Naomi reaches the top, she soon realizes shady, white collar, top tier businessman are called shady for a reason. Yes folks, there’s corruption on Wall Street.
We said in our review, “By not towing an obvious line about gender inequality in the workplace, some might find the film subversive; I must say I found the writer’s reasoning confusing. Maybe I was looking for a reason to believe a female-led picture would draw me to new conclusions. Instead, much of answers centered how banking is still seen as a massively dodgy arm of a country controlled by financial institutions. But perhaps it’s just important to acknowledge the relatively infrequent women-orientated films like this that find themselves in genres – and in workplaces (both banking and filmmaking) – that are so male-orientated. Indeed Sundance’s commitment to female filmmakers – 41% of competition films are directed by women – puts other festivals to shame. Perhaps that news bite of changing attitudes to gender in the workplace is the real story here.”
See the trailer below, along with a poster.
EQUITY is about women on Wall Street. It’s a Wall Street drama, but it’s not about corruption, crime, or catastrophe. It’s about women who thrive on competition and ambition, deals and strategy, but who must carefully calibrate every aspect of their lives, professional and private, to stay equal in the game. EQUITY is directed, written, produced, and financed by women, a collaboration among women in entertainment and business leaders in finance—the real-life women of Wall Street—who chose to invest in this film because they wanted to see their story told.
Equity hits theaters July 29th.