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.
As part of its ongoing Gender Matters initiative, Screen Australia has launched a new program to see female directors, cinematographers and composers attain 'career-defining' credits.
Given the #MeToo movement and initiatives such as Screen Australia’s Gender Matters, it is astounding that female directors in Australia are still subject to workplace bullying and intimidation.
The 58 recipients of Screen Australia's Gender Matters: Brilliant Stories and Brilliant Careers funding have been unveiled.
When US writer Nell Scovell started out in the late 1980s, frequently she was the only female in the writers room.
Having hit its initial Gender Matters target, Screen Australia has set a new KPI: by 2021-22, it hopes that 50 per cent of key creatives across all projects that receive development and production funding are women.
Screen Australia has announced its latest round of production funding, which saw the agency inject $7.4 million across a variety of projects in film, TV and online.
Netflix is signalling a bigger commitment to commissioning Australian productions by hiring Que Minh Luu as director, local originals for Australia.