Women’s Film Activism

Introducing The Complex Female Protagonist Roars

I get up early on Friday 15 March. I want to complete this followup to NZ Update 17.1: Safety Revisited (NZ Update 17.1) — about women’s…

I love So Mayer and their work and their generosity. If you’re not familiar with So, check out our interview, when they launched their…

by Anita Rossbach

Aotearoa New Zealand (mostly ‘Aotearoa’ in this post) held its annual Big Screen Symposium [for 2015] in Auckland last weekend, focusing…

This is the first of two posts about gender equity in the allocation of Aotearoa New Zealand (AotearoaNZ)’s taxpayer funds to screen-based…

Today’s The Day! The Bitch Pack, ‘changing women’s representation on screen — starting with the written page’, has just announced the…

Beti Ellerson established the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema | Centre pour l’étude et la recherche des femmes…

It was a beautiful day. Screen Daily reported that France has launched a five-point gender equality charter for its film industry, put…

Two interviews (2105, 2016) with the remarkable #DirectedbyWomen catalyst, Barbara O’Leary

Thanks to Lucy Holyoake and Lorraine Hughes, Wellington has a new and shiny Emerging Women Filmmaker’s Network. It began with a meet-up…