According to a report published on Tuesday by the European Audiovisual Observatory, between 2015 and 2018, only 22% of European feature film directors were women and the trend is even lower in audiovisual fiction, where it falls to 19%.
Among the screenwriters, the numbers are a little higher: It’s 25% for women in films and 34% in audiovisual fiction.
Another lesson from this report is that women are less likely to work alone, since of all the films written by at least one female screenwriter, 67% were written with another professional, who was a male colleague in 87% of cases.
Moreover, between 2015 and 2019, only 18% of European films were made by a predominantly female crew. The latter figure is increasing for documentaries, a sector in which women represent 28% of directors and 30% of screenwriters.
The European Audiovisual Observatory, a Council of Europe body based in Strasbourg, has used its LUMIERE database, which compiles figures provided in particular by the national film agencies, as a basis for these analyses.
The sample studied includes feature films produced between 2015 and 2018 and released in theatres between 2015 and 2019. The data on audiovisual fiction series were provided by Plurimedia and cover TV films and series originating in the European Union and broadcast or made available on SVOD services or TV channels between 2015 and 2018.
See the report: https://bit.ly/2CUStQA (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)