#Quota
Australia Launches Three-Tick System to Encourage Gender Diversity Onscreen and Behind the Scenes
Only fifteen percent of features backed by Screen Australia, that country’s state film fund, are directed by female filmmakers. Just 23% are written by women, and a mere 32% are produced by women....
Australian Directors Guild Proposes 50–50 Quotas at Screen Australia for Women Filmmakers
Last year, the Swedish Film Institute reached 50–50 gender parity in its funding distribution between male and female helmers. Some in Australia, including noted filmmaker Gillian Armstrong, are...
Cannes Dispatch: Women Directors Panel Reveal It’s a Man’s World, Suggest Gender Quota
Not manytopics make people squirm more than gender-based quota systems, but afterhearing significant statistics about women in the film and televisionindustries, a somewhat ambivalent panel at...
Director Jasmila Zbanic Is Wary of Quotas for Women Directors
Quota is a dirty word in our supposed meritocracy. But it’s a less contentious, even normal, practice in other parts of the world. Sweden, for example, recently mandated that “funding shall be...