Screen Australia Exceeds Gender Parity Targets, Extends Program

s, produced by Matchbox Pictures and Cate Blanchett, and See Saw Films’ euthanasia-themed series Over the three-year period, a headcount of the producers, writers and directors attached to the funded productions reveals 49 percent were women. The prevalence of female producers drove up the average.

Screen Australia finances roughly half of film and TV dramas and documentaries made in Australia by volume. The agency said that its productions have a slightly higher female participation over the last three years than wider industry trends. Screen Australia head of development Nerida Moore said Gender Matters has “fundamentally changed the way we make funding decisions at Screen Australia. It put consideration of what stories are being told and who is telling them at the center of our decision making”.

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