We recently began the process of investigating the impact of gender in our new dataset of Australian film credits and immediately struck an unexpected problem. In addition to the challenges we already anticipated, such as the well-known limitations of trying to approximate gender based on first names there was another, less immediately apparent dilemma. For […]
A sub-team of kinomatics members (Deb, Pete, Aresh) have been working hard over the past couple of years to test the impact of different hypothetical policy interventions in the film industries of Canada, Germany and the UK. Our effort was part of a larger project coordinated by another kinomatics member – Skadi Loist – at […]
The Kinomatics team were spoiled for idyllic locations for our 4th international symposium. Kinomatics researchers from around the world gathered in Banff between September 27 and October 1 to design an exciting research plan, driven in large part by a new cache of global showtime data covering the early COVID years. In keeping with the […]
