’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ was a panel at this week’s Sunny Side of the Doc film festival.
The complex issue of diversity and how to tackle it in documentary filmmaking was the topic of conversation at the Sunny Side Of The Doc 2021 panel entitled ’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ that took place online on June 21.
Speakers included Anna Serner, outgoing CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, Sarah Brunet, who oversees the diversity and inclusion strategy for Creative Europe Media, Tamara Dawit, the Canada Media Fund’s strategic lead on equity and inclusion,...
The complex issue of diversity and how to tackle it in documentary filmmaking was the topic of conversation at the Sunny Side Of The Doc 2021 panel entitled ’Diversity: The Initiatives Driving Action, Not Just Talk!’ that took place online on June 21.
Speakers included Anna Serner, outgoing CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, Sarah Brunet, who oversees the diversity and inclusion strategy for Creative Europe Media, Tamara Dawit, the Canada Media Fund’s strategic lead on equity and inclusion,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Mark Salisbury
- ScreenDaily
Gender equality and diversity were on everyone's mind during the online event organised by the European Women's Audiovisual Network. Ewa Network's annual event, celebrated in digital form on 25 February, started off by focusing on the current issues of “Gender Equality & Diversity – the Role of Creativity & Activism”. “The lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera is, from my point of view, the result of a systemic bias embedded in how the industry operates,” noted executive director Alessia Sonaglioni when greeting the audience. “Unfortunately, this observation also applies to other cultural sectors, despite their liberal, progressive aura.” The keynote speaker, community and human rights campaigner and artist Zita Holbourne, opened up about the gender and race discrimination faced by her mother throughout her childhood – which, ultimately, influenced her later in life as well. “Creativity and stories from my imagination is how I survived each...
European Film Promotion, an agency that promotes European filmmaking worldwide, has launched its flagship program, Producers on the Move, as a virtual series of events, replacing the physical events that usually take place at the canceled Cannes Film Festival.
The 20 up-and-coming producers from 20 European countries selected by Efp for the 21st edition of the program met digitally for the first time on Monday, where they were greeted by Efp president Markéta Santrochová.
Santrochová said that although the program had shifted to a virtual version, the essentials remained: “Connecting talented producers from across Europe, facilitating exchange and cooperation, and strengthening their industry networks.”
She added: “This has been Efp’s goal ever since the program was created in 2000, and it has become even more crucial now that the film landscape has changed, and co-operation, support and a sense of solidarity among film professionals are more important than ever before.”
On Tuesday,...
The 20 up-and-coming producers from 20 European countries selected by Efp for the 21st edition of the program met digitally for the first time on Monday, where they were greeted by Efp president Markéta Santrochová.
Santrochová said that although the program had shifted to a virtual version, the essentials remained: “Connecting talented producers from across Europe, facilitating exchange and cooperation, and strengthening their industry networks.”
She added: “This has been Efp’s goal ever since the program was created in 2000, and it has become even more crucial now that the film landscape has changed, and co-operation, support and a sense of solidarity among film professionals are more important than ever before.”
On Tuesday,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The European Women's Audiovisual Network has released a report supported by Kering focused on the issue of women in the entertainment industry. The report is titled "Where Are the Women Directors?"
To download the report in English or French visit Here
This new study was organized and managed by the Ewa Network and carried out with the support and collaboration of its research partners between 2006 and 2013. The network's representatives - Alessia Sonaglioni and Francine Raveney - will be in Cannes on the occasion of a Women in Motion talk, in the company of Anna Serner, CEO at the Swedish Film Institute.
This study is relevant at several levels:- Offering data at European-level on the thematic.
- Analyzing specifics and inequalities at national-level.
- Ewa also offers best practice and policy recommendations that the network would like to promote at European institutions-level
Some European key findings :
- Only one in five films in the seven European countries studied is directed by a woman (21%). This means four out five films are Not directed by a woman.
- The vast majority of funding resources (namely 84%) go into films that are Not directed by women. Low funding perpetuates the scarcity of female-directed films in circulation, in turn affecting the markets' willingness to invest and thus creating a vicious circle.
- There is a significant difference between the proportion of female directors graduating from film schools (44%) and the overall proportion of female directors working in the industry (24%). That talent exist but the potential is not exploited.
To download the report in English or French visit Here
This new study was organized and managed by the Ewa Network and carried out with the support and collaboration of its research partners between 2006 and 2013. The network's representatives - Alessia Sonaglioni and Francine Raveney - will be in Cannes on the occasion of a Women in Motion talk, in the company of Anna Serner, CEO at the Swedish Film Institute.
This study is relevant at several levels:- Offering data at European-level on the thematic.
- Analyzing specifics and inequalities at national-level.
- Ewa also offers best practice and policy recommendations that the network would like to promote at European institutions-level
Some European key findings :
- Only one in five films in the seven European countries studied is directed by a woman (21%). This means four out five films are Not directed by a woman.
- The vast majority of funding resources (namely 84%) go into films that are Not directed by women. Low funding perpetuates the scarcity of female-directed films in circulation, in turn affecting the markets' willingness to invest and thus creating a vicious circle.
- There is a significant difference between the proportion of female directors graduating from film schools (44%) and the overall proportion of female directors working in the industry (24%). That talent exist but the potential is not exploited.
- 5/2/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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