Pro Quote Regie at the Berlinale The first part of this series delighted in the roar of the collective, global Activist Complex Female Protagonist who works to improve representation of women in front of and behind the camera. (It was a limited record because I can only access information in English and – sometimes – in French.) The second celebrated a recent surge in this protagonist's work, in Australia. This post focuses on gender equity in New Zealand feature film funding. Like other European and British Commonwealth countries we have taxpayer-funded systems to support local screen production– feature filmmaking, short films, webseries, transmedia work and television. And like theirs, our hard data demonstrates that fewer producers apply for development and production funding of women-written and -directed features than for features that men write and direct. One suggestion for New Zealand is that among other taxp...
The Development Project's blog— For women who make movies. And for the people who love them. Globally.