By: Roy Stafford

Roy Stafford — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:44:34 +0000

"According to the statistics published Wednesday (February 1) by the Swedish Film Institute, the efforts to achieve equality between men and women film-makers are progressing. 30% of the new features launched in 2011 had a woman director, 38% a woman script-writer, and 28% a woman producer. Among the productions subsidised by the institute, the women’s share was 41% for directors, 51% for scriptwriters and 28% for producers." (from Cineuropa)

By: Rona

Rona — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:33:47 +0000

As well as the headline figure, one important aspect is the relationship of the proportion of women professionals to the percentage of films they are involved in. Women producers at 25% of the total are punching above their weight since they are involved in 64% of the top 250 films made (commercially). Directors and cinematographers (5% and 4% respectively) continued to be effectively locked out with 94% and 96% of films without a female in these roles at all. Where there is a possibility of more than one professional – i.e. producing, editing – there are more women registering in these top films. Where it is one key role, they’re not making progress, in fact female directors have dropped 2% since 2011. It’s significant as well that producing is talked of as a naturally ‘feminine’ activity (an acceptable one for women in the film industry) and editing was a female-oriented role from cinema’s inception. Mind you, there were a few female directors back then as well – before they were disappeared!

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