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Gender Equality in the Film Business Still Far Off, Venice Seminar Reports

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Liza Foreman “Aiming for 50:50 by 2020” is the outdated slogan from a Council of Europe recommendation on gender equality in the audiovisual sector, as advertised on a pamphlet available at the third “Annual Seminar on Gender Equality and Inclusivity in the Film Industry” at the Venice Film Festival.The event took place earlier this week at the Venice Production Bridge film market, but a raft of statistics, shown at the afternoon session, proved that this goal has not been reached.“20:20 by 2050,” quipped one panelist during the event, which was presented mostly in Italian, with the exception of a moving speech in English by the first female Afghanistan film topper, Sahraa Karimi, who recently fled the country.

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