WOMEN’S VOICE - STATISTICS FROM #FNC49

WOMEN’S VOICE - STATISTICS FROM #FNC49

Since 2019, the Festival du nouveau cinéma has been a signatory to the 50/50 Collective pledge created in 2018 to achieve parity in the film and audiovisual sector. The TIFF and FNC are the only two signatory festivals in Canada. In the wake of a general awakening to the treatment of women in our industry, but also more broadly in our society, the FNC wishes to affirm its desire to improve its practices in order to achieve ever more parity and diversity. Good news: Eurimages has chosen the FNC to present the Audentia Award in 2021, a 30,000 Euro award for the work of a programming director.

In 2020, in terms of feature film programming, the international competition reached parity with 5 films made by at least one woman out of 10 works presented, on the 4 feature films of the national competition, 2 are produced by women, on the 11 films of Temps O, 7 are produced by a woman, and finally on the 11 titles of the international competition Panorama, 7 are scripted by a woman, and 6 produced by a woman.

Of the 30 members of the various juries, 21 are women (70%). Our programming team (70%), our employees (75%), our pre-selection committee (67%) and our Board of Directors (57%) are also mostly women.à

We are optimistic that we will continue on this necessary path, and will work to collect more diverse statistics that will allow us to improve our practices on parity, equity and inclusion.

Find out more about women at our 49th edition!

LIST OF FEATURE FILMS DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND/OR SCRIPTED BY WOMEN

COMMUNICATIONS

We wanted to highlight the young women directors (1st or 2nd feature films) through the communication tool "Discover new women directors" distributed on our social networks.

EVENTS

As part of FNC Forum, we organised a “Speed-meeting” networking event for emerging women filmmakers with FCTMN.

PARITY AND STATISTICS

This year, we have programmed 217 works.
93 works have at least one woman to the direction (43%)

→ On our 56 FEATURE FILMS:

13 have at least one female director (23%),
26 have at least one female producer (46%),
13 have at least one woman writing (23%)

• Of the 10 films in the International Competition, 5 have at least one female director (50%)

• Of the 4 films in the National Competition, 1 has a female director (25%), 1 was written by a woman (25%) and 2 were produced by women (50%)

• Of the 11 films in the Time O section, 2 were directed or scripted by a woman (18%), and 7 were produced by a woman (64%)

• Of the 5 Incontournables films, only one was directed or scripted by a woman (20%), but two were produced by a woman (40%)

• Of the 8 films in the Les Nouveaux alchimistes Competition, 1 was directed by a woman (13%), 1 was written by a woman (13%) and 1 was produced by a woman (13%)

• Of the 11 films in the Panorama International Competition, 5 were directed by a woman (45%), 7 were scripted by a woman (64%) and 6 were produced by a woman (55%)
  
  

→ On our 19 works of VR:

8 have at least one female director, (42%)

→ Of our 142 short films,

72 have at least one female director (51%)

FNC FORUM

Of 56 stakeholders, 38 are women (68%)
At the pitch first works presented by Netflix, 15 people participated were directors or producers out of a total 18 (83%)

OUR JURIES 

Of the 30 members of the various juries (feature films, short films, new media and Forum pitch combined), 21 are women (70%)

For feature film competitions, 7 out of 12 jurors are women

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2 women, 1 man
NATIONAL COMPETITION: 2 women, 1 man
NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES - MAIN FILM: 2 women, 1 man
FIPRESCI: 1 woman, 2 men

For short film competitions, 9 out of 12 jurors are women

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 3 women
NATIONAL COMPETITION: 2 women, 1 man
NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES - AQCC: 3 women
RPCÉ: 1 woman, 2 men

For FNC Explore Competitions, 3 out of 3 jurors are women

EXPLORE JURY: 3 women

For the Pitch Premières oeuvres of FNC Forum, 2 out of 3 jurors are women

PITCH JURY: 2 women, 1 man

THE PROGRAMMING TEAM

One programming director and 6 programmers for 3 programmers (70%)

OUR SCREENING COMMITTEES

4 of 6 screening committee members are women (67%)

The TEAM

Three-quarters of the team is female (75%)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

4 of the 7 board members are women (57%)