OzDox and WIFT present 'Women Behind the Scenes : How to get to 50%'

Screen NSW led the way with new initiatives to get more women into roles in government supported films, and Grainne Brunsdon was actively involved in that initiative. Deb Verhoeven has been outspoken on the topic. Samantha Lang has been involved in the pressure for change at Screen Australia which has recently announced new measures. Sophie Mathisen and WIFT have used direct action such as the 'sausage' protest at the AACTA Awards.

Will all this be enough? What more can be done?

Panel:
Grainne Brunsdon - Head of Strategy and Industry Development - Screen NSW
Samantha Lang - President - Australian Director's Guild and feature film Director - The Monkey's Mask, The Well, Carlotta (TV series) and The Killing Field
Sophie Mathisen - President WIFT - Writer/Director
Deb Verhoeven - Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University

Chaired by long term feminist and Filmmaker, Gillian Leahy.

BIOS:

Grainne Brunsdon is Manager, Head of Strategy and Industry Development at Screen NSW, working on the strategic direction of the organisation and developing opportunities for emerging and established practitioners. Grainne has more than 20 years professional experience in the creative industries, working in international cultural relations with the British Council, with arts organisations in Sydney and teaching design studies at tertiary level.

Samantha Lang is a writer/director whose career has been punctuated by artistic verve and achievement. Working across a variety of mediums – she has continued to embrace confronting and ambitious material. In 1997 Sam’s debut feature film, The Well was nominated for a remarkable eleven Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards and went on to screen at over 30 festivals worldwide. It was accepted into Official Competition at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival where it was nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or. In 2000, The Monkey’s Mask premiered at Toronto film festival and was followed by a third feature, L’Idole (2003), which Sam co-wrote with renowned Roman Polanski collaborator Gerard Brach (Repulsion, The Tenant, Frantic). Filmed on location in Paris, the French language picture was released internationally in 2003.

Sophie Mathisen is an actress and writer, known for Drama (2015) and The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint (2013).

Deb Verhoeven is Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until 2011 she held the role of Director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. Her most recent book is Jane Campion published in 2009 by Routledge, a detailed case study of the commercial and cultural role of the auteur in the contemporary film industry.

Gillian Leahy is an academic and filmmaker. She teaches all aspects of filmmaking as Associate Professor in Media Arts and Production at the University of Technology, Sydney and she has made over 16 films, most of which are documentaries. She is best known for the experimental essay documentary, My Life Without Steve, which garnered Best Film and Best International Film at MIFF and also was selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival. Her film Our Park was nominated as best documentary by the Australian Critics Circle and was voted into the top 10 docos at the Sydney Film Festival. Both those films are distributed by Ronin Films. Her most recent work, The Chikukwa Project, is an educational film on a very successful permaculture project in Zimbabwe – the largest permaculture project in the world. (www.thechikukwaproject.com). Her feilm 'Baxter and Me', is a theatrical documentary about dogs and intimacy, and an autobiographical memoir which traces her and Baxter’s life over a year and then reflects on issues in Gill’s past with intimacy via her dogs, and her past films and causes.

OzDox is proudly supported by Australia Directors Guild, Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and a large volunteer committee of veteran to emerging documentary filmmakers.

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