Wellywood Woman

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 taxpayer-funded systems we create a women