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Council of Europe Adopts Landmark Recommendation on Gender Equality in the Audiovisual Sector
This follows the Council of Europe’s Sarajevo Conference Declaration which was adopted in August 2015 during the Sarajevo Film Festival under the Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers.
Photo: Sarajevo Conference Women in today’s film industry: gender issues. Can we do better? 2015
STRASBOURG, 28/09/2017 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a landmark Recommendation on Gender Equality in the Audiovisual Sector. This follows the Council of Europe’s Sarajevo Conference Declaration which was adopted in August 2015 during the Sarajevo Film Festival under the Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers.
The recommendation was drafted by a wide range of
international experts from funds and broadcasters in Council of Europe member
states, with feedback from representatives of prominent industry bodies and
academics.
It is the first ever pan-European recommendation to
acknowledge the problems inherent in the industry from a gender perspective,
including:
- the lack of awareness of the prevalence of gender
inequality;
- the conscious and unconscious gender bias at all levels
and
- the unequal distribution of funding for audiovisual
content among women and men; and to promote a variety of practical solutions to
address these issues.
The recommendation invites governments of Council of Europe
member states to:
- review their legislation and policies;
- collect, monitor and publish data;
- support research;
- encourage the ongoing development of media literacy and
- enhance the accountability processes.
It also contains a detailed series of monitoring methods and
performance indicators to assist all sectors of the audiovisual industry in
collecting data and taking coherent action on their findings. In addition, there
is a handy list of reference tools for developing knowledge in this sector.
Outreach events will be held to disseminate best practice and share
know-how.
The Eurimages film fund was instrumental in providing
know-how for the content of the recommendation alongside the CDCPP (Steering
Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape) and in fact Eurimages has a
whole series of measures aimed at furthering gender equality in the film
industry.
More info:
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/eurimages/gender/gender_en.asp