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WANDA held an online conversation with trailblazer WANDA held an online conversation with trailblazers Raising Films UK, the newly set up Raising Films Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen. Representing Raising Films Ireland, WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy was on a panel with Jessica Levick (Raising Films UK) and Nicola Lyons (Northern Ireland Screen). This panel discussion addressed the possibilities of job sharing in the film and television industries and looked at the research behind issues facing parents and carers who can’t commit to the long hours required. Read more or link to the talk at WFT.ie.
WFT would like to thank our outgoing Vice Chair, V WFT would like to thank our outgoing Vice Chair, Vanessa Gildea, for her service to our members. We appreciate all you have done for WFT, Vanessa! We want to take this opportunity to welcome board member Jaro Waldeck to the role of Vice Chair.
Edited by WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy, Women in the Edited by WFT Chair Dr. Susan Liddy, Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers has been featured in the latest issue of Irish University Review. Here’s a sample of Dr. Ciara Chambers's review: "In a 2016 report on gender inequality in the UK film industry, Follows, Kreager, and Gomes articulate how film both reflects and shapes human existence in the twenty-first century: Film occupies a unique position, sitting at the crossroads between being product and art. It has great influence over what we as a society believe and how we feel about it. It not only responds to but shapes public opinion, and so it has a greater obligation to represent our society as a whole and to project informed, developed beliefs than perhaps any other industry. The disparity between male and female directors and the inequality in the industry more generally means we are failing in this obligation. But it is well within the industry’s power to change this…" Read more over in our latest post on WFT.ie.
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