WIFITeresa Valente
An expert-led free panel on gender equality in film, TV, and theatre. The event will be a panel discussion followed by a Q&A.
Tue, 14 September 2021 – 18:00 – 19:00 WEST – registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-do-women-struggle-to-be-seen-and-heard-in-the-creative-industries-tickets-168935447471?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1
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Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival, which took place in November 2020, continued to showcase the cinematographic work of women from the Mediterranean basin.
During an intense week full of films, roundtables, masterclasses and workshops, shared experiences on how to position / boost women’s work in the film industry and we will debate on the importance of promoting social change through looks in film and festivals.
This 2020 edition also included the educational and collaboration project between film festivals on women – Awareness and Empowerment – which involves partners from Spain, France, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Turkey.
OLHARES do MEDITERRÂNEO – WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL, this year’s edition (2022) will take place from 17 to 20 February, at the Auditório Municipal de Pinhal Novo, Palmela. https://www.olharesdomediterraneo.org/os-olhares-em-palmela-2a-edicao_om2022/
French-Italian actress and director, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, has talked to Euronews about the role of women in film, and how perceptions have changed. See more Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi talks frankly about women in film | Euronews
The European film industry has been impacted for two years by the pandemic, but it has been able to resist and organize itself thanks to its production methods and its great diversity. British, Danish, Bosnian, French and Romanian films have won numerous international prizes and shone on big and smaller screens.
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg was the big winner of the 2020 European Film Awards with Another Round – and it also won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film in early 2021, bringing in a top honour for European cinema.
February’s Berlinale was held in hybrid conditions caused by covid, with a jury of Golden Bear award-winning European directors.
Romanian Radu Jude got the top prize for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn – a somewhat crazy pandemic era comedy… which was a co-production bringing together four European countries.
Europe Creative was present in Cannes in July, reminding the industry of the importance of the Commission’s support for European co-productions. See more at Euronews. By Frédéric Ponsard
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced (8) the nominees for the 2022 Academy Awards. Among the highlights are a number of films starring, directed or produced by women, as “Attack of the Dogs”, which accumulated 12 nominations, and “Love, Sublime Love”, with seven.
In the main category of the award, Best Film, nominated works produced by women account for half of the 10 films nominated. Still, female producers represent only 30% of the nominations. The feature films nominated were “Belfast,” with Laura Berwick on its producing staff; “Dune,” with Mary Parent; “Licorice Pizza,” produced by Sara Murphy; “Attack of the Dogs,” by Jane Campion and Tanya Seghatchian; and “Love, Sublime Love,” by Kristie Macosko.
On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science was marked, with the motto: “Equity, diversity, and inclusion: water unites us.” Organisations such as the Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT) and the United Nations continue to work towards achieving equality in science, technology and innovation, in line with the goals set out in the UN Agenda 2030. See the events that took place in portugal: No Dia Internacional das Mulheres e Raparigas na Ciência, cinco eventos para as celebrar | Causas | PÚBLICO (publico.pt)
EWA TALKS: A MASTERCLASS WITH CHRISTINA SULEBAKK HBO MAX EMEA GENERAL MANAGER
Christina Sulebakk was appointed General Manager of HBO Europe in July 2020 and in January 2021 she was announced as General Manager HBO Max EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). In her current role, Christina is responsible for upgrading current HBO streaming services in existing markets (HBO Nordic, HBO España, HBO Portugal and HBO Go in Central Eastern Europe) to HBO Max services during 2021, and for the expansion in due course of HBO Max into more territories across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
More: EWA TALKS: a masterclass with Christina Sulebakk HBO MAX EMEA General Manager – EWA Women
For the last 15 years, the Seville European Film Festival has built step by step to become now one of the three or four most important film industry events in Spain.
The Seville European Film Festival has seen an increasing dynamism from Andalusia itself in terms of filmmaking and institutional infrastructure.
Women in Focus, for example, will team with the Andalusian Assn. of Women in Audiovisual Media (AAMMA), to host this year two masterclasses delivered by Gloria Bretones, director of sales agency Begin Again Films and script consultant Ana Sánz-Magallón.
More: Festival de Sevilla | Festival de Cine Europeo (festivalcinesevilla.eu)
Teresa Valente
In the atypical year of 2020, the Portuguese films with the highest visibility at national and international level, were directed by women: Listen, by Ana Rocha de Sousa, and A Metamorfose dos Pássaros, by Catarina Vasconcelos.
The Buenos Aires native is prepping the release of the MCU’s fourth phase, beginning with Black Widow (July 9) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Sept. 3) — helmed by the first solo female (Cate Shortland) and Asian (Destin Daniel Cretton) directors for the studio, respectively.
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