In celebration of International Women’s Day,
Realscreen has put together some of our most recent interviews with and stories about female filmmakers and recently announced industry initiatives aimed at women creators.
The film and television business as a whole has had a lot of catching up to do when it comes to gender parity behind the camera. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, in 2020 percentages of behind-the-scenes women working on the top 100 and 250 (U.S. domestic) grossing films comprised 21% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers, from 20% in 2019.
However in the documentary category, the numbers jump. The same organization states that “documentaries continue to offer more opportunities for women than narrative features.” In fact, women accounted for 40% of people working in key behind-the-scenes roles on documentaries, compared with only 29% working on narrative features.
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Blue Ant Media teams with Julie Bristow’s CCF for unscripted IP The Toronto-based broadcaster, producer and distributor will work with the Content Catalyst Fund to bring women-created IP to the global market. February 22, 2021
Blue Ant Media has inked a new partnership with Content Catalyst Fund (CCF), Julie Bristow’s development and funding venture.
The deal will see the two companies develop, produce and sell women-created unscripted programming for the Canadian and international market, encompassing all of Blue Ant’s resources as a broadcaster, producer and distributor.
CCF will develop unscripted projects across genres such as lifestyle, crime and “high impact” docuseries. Blue Ant Studios will produce titles in collaboration with CCF, with Bristow (pictured) serving as executive producer. The IP creators wil