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So many opportunities for #womeninfilm are limited geographically. These aren't.  And they're amazing. WIFT NSW's 'Safer Workplace Strategies' Industry Forum The big opportunity this week is to tune into the Facebook stream of WIFT NSW's 'Safer Workplace Strategies' Industry Forum, to address harassment in the 
Australian screen industry and to inform and inspire us wherever we are in the world. It will discuss implementing a sexual harassment code of ethics in Australia and canvass how to empower witnesses to report harassment and bullying. We all need these conversations right now and warm thanks to WIFT NSW for opening this up to everyone! TIME & PLACE (S) 8.45am to 1.30pm (AEST) Tuesday 12 December and live-streamed globally via WIFT NSW's Facebook page , from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney. AGENDA The forum will hear from experts in the screen, law, sexual assault and workplace prote...

Today's The Day!  The Bitch Pack , ‘changing women's representation on screen – starting with the written page’, has just announced the results of its first annual  Bitch List  (scripts with Brilliant, Intriguing, Creative, Tenacious Heroines). It's a tally of industry votes for scripts seen (but not yet produced) in 2012 that pass  The Bechdel Test   Each script must have: 1. At least two [named] women in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something besides a man. It's a fine occasion and complements the Bitch Pack’s award at Shriekfest, for a horror screenplay that passes the Bechdel Test.  The Bitch Pack  is not alone in its activism. The  Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) diversity reports  first exposed me to activism within that huge film industry based on the United States' west coast. Every two years, the reports examine trends in film and television employment ...