Look at these two! Our Prime Minister and our distinguished filmmaker and global advocate for women filmmakers meet, at last week's SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association) conference . Look at their pleasure in each other. Their body language. Their close attention. AotearoaNZ Prime Minister Jacinda Arden meets Dame Jane Campion For me, this meeting is a significant turning point in the movement to gender equity in the allocation of public money for screen storytelling. The first one was at 2015's Big Screen Symposium, when Chelsea Cohen – with support from other Māori women – spoke out about the need to allocate New Zealand Film Commission funding equally to women and men. Our first woman writer/director/producer to do this publicly. Her courage made it safer for others to follow her example. So: what might this Jacinda-And-Jane meeting mean? The new government has already announced its commitment to pay equity and I think we can now be confid...
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