October 06, 2010
SexMoneyMedia Symposium looks at gender in the Film Industry
By
Katherine Dodds
How come women are still such a small minority in our powerful media industries?
OCTOBER 14 - 16: Women in View Takes on the gender divide with their symposium: SexMoneyMedia.From October 14-16, join media and industry leaders for SexMoneyMedia symposium in Vancouver BC.
Three days of workshops, master classes and meetings about the future
of media and women’s place within it.
This is a subject dear to my heart, and I am looking forward to checking out many of the sessions during this important weekend.
Stay tuned for more posts about what will be going on at this symposium.
Keynote speakers include: Trina McQueen, Broadcast Journalist and former president of CTV Inc.; Rita Deverell, Broadcaster and Nancy's Chair of Women's Studies, Mount St. Vincent University; Valerie Creighton, President of the Canadian Media Fund; Rita Cugini, CRTC Commissioner – Ontario; Sara Diamond, President of OCAD University; Ana Serrano, Director of the CFC Media Lab; and Madeline di Nonno, Executive Director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
Other sessions include: Aboriginal Screen Culture, Reel Lives: The Real Women of Chinese Cinema, Women's Voices in New Media, Moving Past Training, Close to the Machine: Women as Inventors, From Studio D to Reality TV and Digital Generations: The Gaming Industry and Games for Women.
See the full program and register today!
www.sexmoneymedia.com
Tag(s):
Film Launch,
Gender,
Media Activism
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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