Telefilm Canada: Consultations Telefilm and Funding Agency

telefilm canada: The working group comes after a year of consultations Telefilm has been having with female filmmakers, after an October 2015 Women in View report revealed that only 17 per cent of the productions financed by public funding agency had female directors, according to NOW Magazine. And those were mostly in micro-budget fare. It didn't specify a target but set a date for improvement: 2020. Only 4 per cent of productions with Telefilm investments over $1 million had female directors. The Ministry of Heritage and Telefilm Canada commissioned a 2010 report prepared by consultant Marilyn Burgess, who had fewer hard numbers but enough data to conclude that women have been lacking support. That October 2015 report wasn't the first time the lack of female representation in Canadian film was brought to light. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.