Canada Bankrolling More Female Directors to Close Gender Gap

[Locutus]

because we must all be MADE equal by the gubmint, regardless of talent or lack thereof.

The National Film Board of Canada, the country's public filmmaker, has promised half the movies it finances will be directed by women.

Those urging Hollywood to close the pay and opportunity gap for women directors should cast an envious eye to Canada.

The National Film Board of Canada, the country's government-funded film producer, on Tuesday announced it will ensure at least half of its productions will be directed by women, and half of all production financing will go towards helping women tell their own stories.

"Today, I’m making a firm, ongoing commitment to full gender parity, which I hope will help to lead the way for the industry as a whole," NFB head Claude Joli-Coeur said in a statement. The public filmmaker backs auteur documentaries, animation, digital projects and feature films by homegrown filmmakers.

Since launching in 1939, the NFB has won 12 Oscars and been nominated 73 times. A recent Canadian study by Women in View concluded Canadian women mostly get to sit in the director’s chair on small film and TV projects, while male colleagues get the big-budget gigs.

Joli-Coeur said films directed by women currently represent around half of the NFB's overall production spending, but numbers fluctuate year-to-year. That commitment comes in the face of recent job losses and closed facilities in response to deep cuts to the NFB's annual appropriation from the federal government.

The public filmmaker's current pic slate includes such releases as Zayne Akyol’s Terre de Roses, Mon Nom Est Gulîstan, Marie Clements’ The Road Forward and Ann Marie Fleming's feature animation Window Horses.

The NFB also backed Sarah Polley's feature documentary Stories We Tell, which won prizes at the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.


Canada Bankrolling More Female Directors to Close Gender Gap - Hollywood Reporter

 

[Frankiedoodle]

It was funny that I found this when I woke up this morning because last night there was a group of us, last night, who were talking about this. It wasn't specifically about the film industry but the topics are close. We were talking what fhappen if companies or government were run by people,that were not necessarily the most competent but picked due to gender. That had been mandated by government. We came to the opposite conclusion than the article.

We likened it to Hillary being given the presidency because she is a woman.
Whether it is pie in the sky thinking, that advancement needs to be done on the premise of ability, not gender.

 

[Blackleaf]

This gender gap exists only because women have babies and take maternity leave.

In Britain, women in their twenties actually earn the same as men and more than single men, but their pay then starts to fall behind men when they take loads of hours off work each week to look after their children. Of course, the government has tried to circumvent this by giving women incredibly generous maternity leave allowances.

Women who don't go on to have kids and carry on working full time carry on earning as much as men and more than single men.

In fact, it's not women who are the poorly paid ones. It's single men

Women work fewer hours, they show less long-term commitment to the job, and they therefore are less hard-working than their male counterparts, on average.

They also get to retire several years EARLIER than men even though they live LONGER then man on average after spending years working less hours than men, which has always struck me as rather odd and unfair.

 

[taxslave]

WIth left leaning governments gender and race are always so much more important than merit. Any wonder our country is falling apart.

 

[Blackleaf]

It's like those shrieking banshees at Wimbledon who, a few years ago, were awarded the same pay as men in the name of "equality" even though they only play the best of three sets matches. They get the same pay as their male counterparts despite not working as hard.