NFB on track to hit gender parity objectives ahead of schedule

MONTREAL – Just ahead of International Women’s Day, the National Film Board of Canada said that it has all but achieved its gender parity objectives set out two years ago when it pledged that half of its productions would be directed by women and half of production spending would go toward women filmmakers by 2019.The NFB said that for its 2017-2018 fiscal year, defined as April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, 47% of the works completed were directed by women (with 38% by men and 15% by mixed teams), and 46% of production spending was allocated to works directed...