The woman who changed a film industry

By Garry Maddox
Updated April 24 2017 - 7:18pm, first published 7:09pm
SMH News/Arts Story by, Garry Maddox. Photo shows, The woman who changed film industry When she took over as chief executive of the Swedish Film Institute, Anna Serner decided the country should have a 50:50 gender split between male and female directors. Her system of grant funding quickly achieved that, which raises some fascinating questions. Do women make different films to men? Are they better? How did male filmmakers handle the change? What should women in Hollywood and Australia do to overcome the lack of opportunity in film? She is delivering the keynote address at the For Film's Sake Festival on Wednesday. Photo by, Peter Rae Monday 24 April 2017. Photo: Peter Rae
SMH News/Arts Story by, Garry Maddox. Photo shows, The woman who changed film industry When she took over as chief executive of the Swedish Film Institute, Anna Serner decided the country should have a 50:50 gender split between male and female directors. Her system of grant funding quickly achieved that, which raises some fascinating questions. Do women make different films to men? Are they better? How did male filmmakers handle the change? What should women in Hollywood and Australia do to overcome the lack of opportunity in film? She is delivering the keynote address at the For Film's Sake Festival on Wednesday. Photo by, Peter Rae Monday 24 April 2017. Photo: Peter Rae

It's the film industry that produced the master director Ingmar Bergman and such internationally acclaimed talents as Lasse Hallstrom???, Lukas Moodysson??? and Roy Andersson???.

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