Women filmmakers rally for equality at finance level

Panel of award-winning directors and producers discussed ongoing challenges.Gender equality within filmmaking cannot be achieved until the finances that power productions are evenly split, according to a Sarajevo CineLink panel of producers and directors.Watch the session above.Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, who won the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with her debut feature Murina, said a major “disbalance” still exists between the number of men and women making films and that “quotas are absolutely necessary in financing” to correct this.“Still, in 2019, 84% of the public money in Europe was assigned to men,” said the Croatian filmmaker,

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