Gender – screen sector keeps up the pressure in 2017

Each year the Screen Forever conference checks on the progress of gender equality. So far? Some good, some slower than we thought.
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Image: Jo Kennedy in Starstruck, directed by Gillian Armstrong, written by Stephen MacLean, produced by Richard Brennan and David Elphick. How much further have we come?

Last Wednesday, there were tears at the Screen Producer’s conference, as some attendees learnt that the people of Australia had ticked a box saying they were equal to everyone else in the room. With that sparkle in the air, around two hundred women and four young men, whom Rachel Griffiths quipped should get laid for their effort, discussed how the Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative is tracking. 

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Ros Walker
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Ros Walker is an independent producer who has run the MA program at the VCA for producers, and is an experienced industry agency manager. She has a keen interest in research, and evolving new models for producing in a low budget environment.