In the wrong movie: Gender inequality in film & TV

“Give women* big budgets” – “Give women* big budgets”. That’s a good sentence. Because it makes sense. Because it’s a sensible demand, pretty much always and everywhere. Because women* are pretty much always and everywhere deprived of a large part of what they are entitled to. As a matter of course.

For example in the film industry. So it’s only right that this sentence greets everyone who accesses the Pro Quote Film website, an initiative of women from film and media who are campaigning for gender equality in the industry. Its predecessor, Pro Quote Regie, was founded in 2014 by twelve female directors, not coincidentally shortly after the German Federal Association of Directors (BVR) published its first director diversity report. The fictional main evening programme of ARD and ZDF (6 p.m. to midnight), according to the report, was on average 89% male-created from 2010 to 2013! Women had to make do with 11%.

That was definitely the wrong movie.

A lot has happened since then, but a lot hasn’t … (excerpt, orig. in German)

The whole text in:

DiVA. Strategien zur Gleichstellung in den Künsten, Berlin 2019 (German only)