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.
Bunya Productions is hosting a genre masterclass program in December for mid-career female writers and directors who have compelling ideas for genre TV series or features.
When US writer Nell Scovell started out in the late 1980s, frequently she was the only female in the writers room.
The percentage of female feature film producers in Australia is already well above the global average and continuing to improve.
Courtney Botfield, Rebecca Hammond and Sasha Close at the NMF Brilliant Careers Leadership Conference 2017. The Natalie Miller Fellowship (NMF)...
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.
“What I am really interested in now is international efforts. I’m very excited about coming to New Zealand to participate in the [Power of Inclusion] summit because what we need to do is create an international coalition of women filmmakers and work in solidarity to unify our efforts."
Watching the 2015 Melbourne Cup, Rachel Griffiths didn’t initially know there was a female jockey in the race.