New CMF initiatives aim to boost female-led content

TORONTO - The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has unveiled a series of tangible measures that it pledged to put in place to increase women in key roles on CMF-funded productions.The organization said Wednesday, on International Women's Day, that the initiatives will include concrete changes to the CMF’s guidelines and policies, a commitment to achieving gender parity in all juries that are put in place to evaluate projects, and support for third-party initiatives, among other measures to be implemented in the upcoming fiscal year and subsequently.According to research conducted in different markets around the world and by the CMF’s own statistics,...