Canada Bankrolling More Female Directors to Close Gender Gap
>The National Film Board of Canada, the country's government-funded film producer, on Tuesday announced it will ensure at least half of its productions will be directed by women, and half of all production financing will go towards helping women tell their own stories.
>"Today, I’m making a firm, ongoing commitment to full gender parity, which I hope will help to lead the way for the industry as a whole," NFB head Claude Joli-Coeur said in a statement. The public filmmaker backs auteur documentaries, animation, digital projects and feature films by homegrown filmmakers.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/canada-bankrolling-more-female-directors-873546
Canada YES!
>>66758380
Would be interesting if they all fail and the money is a total waste. If the women make good films then we have good films.
It's win win.
>implying canada ever made good movies
>>66758380
time to write off Canadian film all together
>>66758497
Rock & Rule was aces.
can someone please stop canada
>>66758380
>Less weed jokes, more period jokes.
How will western culture tank this loss to our arts?
This is some South Africa tier bullshit.
>>66758491
If the films bomb and the initiative fails, there will be a feminist/regressive backlash against the sexist misogyny that surely caused it.
Further proof that 'we wymenz need more money fo' dem programs' to combat the patriarchy's poisoning of culture.
>>66758380
JUST
>>66758380
Man, things are really going down hill with WEED MAN in charge. They've caught the Swedish disease
>>66758517
Should have already done that a long time ago senpai
>"government" mandating specific art
Holy shit...
>>66758380
You fucking Canadians have a literal god damn facebook PM, who cares more about pop culture then your own fucking country.
ITT: pissbabies
>>66758380
Is Cuckteau really the Merkel of America? That guy seems to be completely fucking insane.
>>66759541
Just vote Trump into office. Though, at this point, I'm at least glad that Shillary beat out Bernie. A Bernie/Cuckteau team-up would have been disastrous.
>>66758491
I think women could make great films if they wanted to.
IF they wanted to.
if women wanted to make great films, there wouldn't be an issue of "gender parity" in the film fucking industry most of all.
maple leaf is a meme-country with a meme-prime minister.
>>66758380
>government-mandated art
People are not equal. Some have more intelligence, others more strenght, others simply put in more effort than others.
The attempts of forcing equality of outcome on people that are not equal and not equally deserving, will always result in totalitarism and encroachment of individual rights.
Leftism is cancer.
>>66758491
Except the downside is when it bombs hard because no one wants to watch boring feminism driven films they won't blame themselves, they'll blame racist misogynistic people for not going and seeing the films in droves.
How many fucking things is Canada going to literally force equality into before they realize life doesn't work like that? I'm amazed the people haven't fucking revolved against Trudeau with all the fucking bullshit he's passed
You know what other film is a product of the canadian governments funding to produce more canadian content?
We recently had a big change here with canadian cable channels being forced to let people only pay for the channels they want to watch. Theya re already throwing shitfits because people dont want to pay for shitty canadian channels with canadian programming funded by the government, and they will die out.
>ITT: people confuse government restricting the use of media funds they've allocated with government restricting all media
One day all of you ridiculous paranoiacs will wake up, look at your calendars and realize that it's the current year.
>>66760466
how retarded do you have to b8 to come up with this
>>66760140
>How many fucking things is Canada going to literally force equality into before they realize life doesn't work like that?
Everything. This fucker has been in office for not even half a year. In that time he has:
-Made muh diverse cabinet
-Sold all of Canada's maple syr...eh...gold
-Said he wants a quarter million rapefugees
-Did this shit
And there's probably stuff I'm forgetting or don't know about. He's going to fuck everything up. It's the classical left wing electoral victory. They always immediately start fucking everything up, because they literally believe their shitty cult of an ideology has all the fucking answers to every problem in the world. I've never met a lefty who was interested in democracy and representing the people. They represent their own ideology, and when people vote them in power they think that means the majority of voters are now socialists who have seen the light, and who support every move of the party. And, of course, that the rest deserves to be oppressed for being the counter-revolutionary bourgeoise they are.
You Americans are lucky. I always used to think your system sucked, but everywhere else it also comes down to the 50% divide between left and right. Your system keeps either one from grabbing too much power.
>>66759965
Lots of women already make films, they do so fucking bad that they go direct to life time network, a TV channel for women to cry and whine.
I went and saw a Canadian film once with the girlfriend, it was during the film festive.
It was about a woman on her fucking period having just a fucking shitty time between work, relationship etc, and every day was just more and more bullshit. Then when her period was over it ended with bright sunny skies and shit and "be strong" while having her shoulder held.
My GF cried, and I just sat there thinking "thats it, the movie was about a mundane fucking week being worse because muh cramps"
I bet god just sits up there in the sky laughing his ass off, holding his hands out "YOU SEE WHY I MAKE THEM SUFFER NOW! YOU SEE WHY I SAID TO KEEP THEM THE FUCK OUT OF SHIT! THEY RUIN EVERYTHING!:
Just fuck my shit up, to bad the whole centaur thing isnt real, I think men and women would get along if they just had to fuck a third party, fuck a horse of something. Something that dosent talk back, its just a sex object that shits out humans.
>>66760593
I actually feel bad for Canadian bros. I probably would have looked into moving if I lived there with all the nonsense he's enforcing.
>>66758380
FOUR MORE YEARS
>>66760699
that's exactly my point. there're tons of shitty male directors as well. the ones that can make it to the top do. just as in the workplace, more males choose to go further and higher.
when I read We Need To Talk About Kevin I really couldn't get past about half of it no matter how hard I tried. It's just about some woman complaining the whole time about how hard raising a child was. this is what you get when you coddle and entire generation of special snowflakes and award them for being speshul inidivijuls
>>66758380
THIS JUST IN: CANADIAN FILMS TO BE EVEN MORE IRRELEVANT
>>66760739
I was reading a Dutch news site about the rapefugee flood he wants. One comment said "Guess we can scrap Canada off the list off countries we can flee to".
At least there are no longer any Canadians on the internet bragging about how liberal they are compared to the US. Same with people saying Sweden is a lighting example for the rest of the world. All that pride turns into something more bitter and antagonistic now the left wing philosophy is growing hated, and proven to be ineffective.
I'm not even seeing all the triumphant "capitalism is falling" bullshit anymore. I think they're afraid socialism might actually be falling.
