International Federation of Cinematographers
Categories: Diversity & Inclusion
in BuzzFeed News Reporter
by Ariane Lange
Speaking at the New York Film Academy’s campus in Burbank, California, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner scoffed at the film industry’s lack of action on gender parity.
Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, began insisting shortly after her appointment in 2011 that the SFI reach some serious gender parity goals with the films it decides to fund. With the support and cooperation of the commissioners who work for her, ... [Read More]
Categories: Diversity & Inclusion
Women are poorly represented within directors of UK films
We studied a total 2,591 films released between 2005 and 2014, inclusive. In that ten-year period, just 13.6% of working film directors were women.
Perhaps more problematically, there has not been any meaningful improvement in the representation of female directors in our studied period. In 2005, 11.3% of UK films had a female director but by 2014 this had only increased to 11.9%.
FULL REPORT CAN BE REACHED [Read More]
