A glaring set of statistics if there ever was one: in Canada, between 2017 and 2019, the percentage of Indigenous women responsible for our television and cinematic writing — zero.
Directing? Zero. Cinematography? Zero. How about key creative work? A pathetic uptick to one per cent. According to the 2019 Women in View on Screen Report, the numbers for women overall in the industry, both in front of and behind the camera, are dreadful, not even reaching 50 per cent parity with men.
For Black women and women of colour, it’s even worse, and for Indigenous women, it’s downright abysmal. RELATED: Watch: Indigenous Filmmaker Michelle Latimer Hopes TIFF Doc ‘Inconvenient Indian’ Will Be Shown In Schools: ‘It Could Definitely Happen’ RELATED: Treat
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