Abstract
The decrease in costs of digital technology and the spread of the Internet has increased the number of filmmakers who can
produce a short film, thus changing hegemonies in audiovisual discourse production. In this study we have examined 50 short
films to analyze the social representation of gender and identify the main discoursive lines of filmmakers about men and women
roles. To this end, we followed the methodological framework proposed by Van Leeuwen (2008) about the representation of
social actors. We have identified the latent ideological characteristics in discourse construction that reflect the major gender
representations of the current directors of short films.
