Poland’s Gdynia Film Festival is the latest fest to sign the 5050×2020 Pledge for Gender Parity, Variety reports. The pledge — which was signed Friday by Gdynia general director Leszek Kopec and programming board head Wojciech Marczewski — has already made waves at Cannes, TIFF, Venice, and numerous other festivals.

The pledge’s overarching goals include transparency regarding festivals’ inclusion of women directors and fundamental steps towards closing the gender gap among fest filmmakers. By signing, participating festivals will, among other things, strive to achieve parity across festival applicants, selection committees, and board members.

Kopec and Marczewski signed the pledge during a 5050×2020 conference held by the Polish branch of Women and Film. The conference included speeches by producer Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, director Małgorzata Szumowska, and Ewa Puszczyńska, producer of Oscar winner “Ida.” Puszczyńska’s latest film, “Cold War,” won Gdynia’s best director prize.

Additionally, Łódź Film School’s Monika Talarczyk presented research that compared Poland’s film funding decisions with those throughout other parts of Europe. She stressed that this research found that only 13 percent of the Polish Film Institute’s budget was allocated to female filmmakers in the past 12 years.

Additionally, Spain’s San Sebastian Festival signed their own parity pledge on Sunday, as expected. Those present included festival director José Luis Rebordinos, Spanish deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo, and the president of Spain’s Assn. of Women Cineastes (CIMA). San Sebastian has already announced that next year’s film selection committee will have a fifth female member, the festival’s head of communications, Ruth Pérez de Anucita.

As Calvo emphasized at the festival’s press conference, “Women just want to be in all the places that we justly deserve to be. Without us, there’s no democracy; with us, democracy gets better.”