Female film directors are on outside looking in, but will ACLU flip the script?

On Valentine’s Day two years ago, film director Maria Giese met with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission staffers in downtown L.A. to talk about an issue she said was stalling her career — gender discrimination.

Giese, who directed the low-budget feature “Hunger” in 2001 and the British film “When Saturday Comes” in 1996, said the commission representatives were sympathetic to her account of being passed over for directing work on movies and TV shows.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.