Screen Australia: Gender Split and Dialogues Session

screen australia: Maslany moment arrived almost a year after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented gender parity in his cabinet ; six months after the National Film Board of Canada announced that 50 per cent of its productions would be by female filmmakers; and a week after TIFF hosted a vital Dialogues session called Women At The Helm: Because it 2016! The TIFF panel included representatives from other countries who outlined their initiatives for getting more women in the director chair and described the very real struggles in getting there, according to NOW Magazine. Sally Caplan, the head of production at Screen Australia, explained the multiple initiatives in place to achieve a 50/50 gender split in the films down under by 2018. I feel so lucky to be on a show that puts women at the centre, she announced. The amazing Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, spelled out how she had already achieved gender parity in her country cinema. Since spring, Telefilm had been hyping a major announcement. Then came Carolle Brabant, the executive director of Telefilm Canada, our primary funding body. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.