Women In Animation Sets Program For 2022 World Summit
deadline.comWomen in Animation today unveiled the program for its sixth annual World Summit, in conjunction with this year’s Annecy Animation Festival and Mifa 2022.The theme of the event, taking place at the Impérial Palace Hotel on June 13, is “Gender Justice: A Global Call for Inclusion in Animation.” The day-long symposium will feature panels and focused conversations spotlighting key thought leaders, filmmakers and executives from around the world discussing gender justice—a system of equity and fairness for people of all genders and gender identities, including men, women, transgender and nonbinary people.This year’s WIA World Summit is the first to take place in person, in the Covid era.
Like all past summits, the sixth will be livestreamed and available to the general public via the WIA website from 9:30am-4:30pm CEST/12:30am-7:30am PST, with a lunch break from 12:20-2:30pm PST.
The Summit will also be recorded and posted subsequently on the WIA website.“Over the last six years, WIA has led critical conversations on the global stage surrounding diversity, inclusion, and equity through our Women in Animation World Summits.
We are extremely proud of the work we’ve put in but we are not done,” said WIA President Marge Dean. “I’m thrilled that our sixth World Summit theme will look at how gender justice can be a solution to some of the issues plaguing the industry including a very real labor shortage.
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