Jane Campion, who is the only female director to have won the festival's Palme d'Or, explained: "I just think this is the way the world is, that men control the money, and they decide who they're going to give it to."
Jane Campion won the Palme d’Or award for her film The Piano in 1993, and she was also nominated for an Academy Award for best director, which made Jane Campion only the third woman to ever be shortlisted for this achievement.
35 directors had been invited to make a short film for Cannes' 60th anniversary, and in the group gathered for a media conference on Sunday, she was the only woman among many other top names that included Roman Polanski and Gus Van Sant.
