Screen Queensland will roll out four new programs this year in a bid to address the gender imbalance in the Australian screen industry.
While Screen Australia reports that 57 per cent of all key creatives to receive production and development funding last year were women or female-identifying people, new industry-wide data suggests bolstering women's participation more broadly is a slow road.
The state branches of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) are set to form an alliance under a national banner, WIFT Australia, in a move designed amplify advocacy efforts towards gender parity in the Australian screen industry.
Tania Lambert's work on SBS anthology 'Erotic Stories' was recently recognised with an AACTA nomination for best cinematography in television. But it's been a long journey as one of the few women working in a male-dominated industry.
Create NSW has already achieved its target of an average 50:50 gender split in its screen development and production funding programs by 2020.
A new report released by the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) shows that there is limited on screen diversity within students' capstone projects at film school, and behind the camera, crew roles are gendered.
The Australian Directors Guild (ADG) has formally proposed a quota for 50 per of the projects which get Screen Australia production funding to be directed by women.
Brooks is circumspect but optimistic about the steps being taken by Screen Australia to guarantee gender equality behind the camera.