WIFT NSW is a thirty-five year old advocacy group championing the rights and opportunities of women on and off screen. At the most recent AGM, a new committee took the reigns, promising big changes for women in the screen industry – some of which they o
WIFT NSW stormed the AACTA Awards last night, with a dozen members tumbling out of the back of a van and onto the red carpet – dressed as sausages to protest the male dominance of the country's film and television industry. Below, WIFT member and filmma
"It is essential that Australia’s highest national awards body publicly commit to improving an opaque selection process that resulted in a disproportionately low representation of female-driven and focused films in the 2016 awards category," said WIFT N
Criticism over the hire of a Canadian director to shoot the 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' mini continues to mount, with WIFT NSW and the ADG staging a joint protest in front of FremantleMedia’s office in Sydney today.
An Australian female director is set to join FremantleMedia’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', following on from industry criticism over the hire of a foreign director to shoot the series.
The spot, made to introduce Land Rover as the new sponsor of the Brumbies, was shot by DP Ashleigh Carter for director Brett Danton.
Fulcrum Media Finance business affairs executive and WIFT NSW vice-president Sara Gajic has been nominated for NSW Young Woman of the Year.
Aussie director and writer Amanda Brotchie was in Los Angeles in January, her base for the past 18 months, when her friend and occasional collaborator Michael Rymer asked if she was interested in directing an episode of Foxtel’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'.