In their paper The film festival sector and its networked structures of gender inequality Martha Emilie Ehrich, Katharina Burgdorf, Zhenya Samoilova and Skadi Loist investigate the extent to which the film festival sector is structured by gender bias. For this purpose, they conceptualize the festival sector as a one-mode network, consisting of film festivals […]
Media streaming platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video, Claro Video or Netflix, are finding an increasing need to fight over new subscribers. The competition is extremely tight for online platforms, which forces them to differentiate themselves. One way to achieve this is by offering exclusive content, some of which the platforms even produce themselves. This […]
In addition to devastating the arts sector, COVID-19 has made it abundantly clear that Australia’s cultural policy has been long neglected. In place of a cohesive policy framework that recognises the complex ways that culture creates value beyond that which is economic, a patchwork of policy has arisen. Given the policy void and lack of […]
At the end of August, Screen Australia released a self-congratulatory media announcement claiming they had exceeded their (admittedly low) target of 25% participation for women in Australian screen production over the preceding three years (based on an industry initiative they called Gender Matters). We’ve been trying to crunch the data about gender in Australian feature […]
A research paper “Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets: testing the ‘10% rule’” by Kinomatics members Vejune Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven and Bronwyn Coate has been recently published in the Studies in Australasian Cinema Journal. In this article, we compare Australia and the US as markets for American movies against the […]
How bad is gender inequality in the global filmindustry? It is much worse than you think. The Kinomatics team have been examining our Showtime Dataset to identify how films directed by women are distributed across the globe. We found that around 15% of new release feature films are directed by women (alone or in teams […]
The data is in – 16 speakers, 2 workshops, 3 panels and <retracted> bottles of beer later and its a wrap for the 2nd International Kinomatics Symposium. Until next year!
The Second Kinomatics Symposium will be held at UTS on Thursday April 5 and Friday April 6. Join us for any or all of three sessions featuring kinomatics researchers from Australia, Germany and Canada: Session 1 – Culture, Meaning and #datatoo REGISTER Session 2 Workshops – Making Sense of Your Data through Visualizations with Tableau […]
Read Part One of this post here. PART 2. Visualising Male Producer Networks This aspect of the project was undertaken by Stuart Palmer. This data on creative roles in films contains within it the information to describe the networked structure of creative team relationships embodied in the film set analysed. Social network analysis (SNA) provides […]
Introduction Deb Verhoeven Statistics describing the parlous conditions for women in the Australian film industry have been gathered and circulated for more than 30 years. As long as I have worked in and reported on the industry these statistics have barely deviated. In some cases they’ve become marginally worse. Furthermore, their repeated release has given […]
