Irish academic Susan Liddy has been elected as the new president of Women in Film and Television International (Wifti), replacing Swedish producer Helene Granqvist who has been in the role since 2018.
Founded in 1997, Wifti has led the way in advocating for better representation and conditions for women working in the screen industries. The umbrella body encompasses 50 Wift and Wift partner chapters worldwide.
Liddy is a lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Limerick. She is also on the board of the Irish Film Institute, the Writers Guild of Ireland and Raising Films Ireland, the body set up to help parents and carers working in the screen sectors.
Her research papers have included Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers (2020); Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power; (2020) and Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry (2021).
She has...
Founded in 1997, Wifti has led the way in advocating for better representation and conditions for women working in the screen industries. The umbrella body encompasses 50 Wift and Wift partner chapters worldwide.
Liddy is a lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Limerick. She is also on the board of the Irish Film Institute, the Writers Guild of Ireland and Raising Films Ireland, the body set up to help parents and carers working in the screen sectors.
Her research papers have included Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers (2020); Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power; (2020) and Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry (2021).
She has...
- 11/21/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in the United States, and Idw Publishing took an interesting tack to raise awareness: they tackled Ptsd and veterans’ mental health head on in an issue of G.I. Joe.
August’s G.I. Joe #7, by Paul Allor, Chris Evenheus and Brittany Peer, takes a look back at the rebooted Scarlett’s time before the Joes’ current war with Cobra. Scarlett is suffering through the aftereffects of her time in Afghanistan, reconnecting with Duke who is fighting to get her treatment for her Ptsd. This issue is something Allor had in mind from before the reboot launched, he told a panel discussion put on by Idw to help raise awareness for the issue.
“That allowed me to do the research for this issue in the background, while I was working on issues 1-6,” he said. “I really wanted to make sure to get it right,...
August’s G.I. Joe #7, by Paul Allor, Chris Evenheus and Brittany Peer, takes a look back at the rebooted Scarlett’s time before the Joes’ current war with Cobra. Scarlett is suffering through the aftereffects of her time in Afghanistan, reconnecting with Duke who is fighting to get her treatment for her Ptsd. This issue is something Allor had in mind from before the reboot launched, he told a panel discussion put on by Idw to help raise awareness for the issue.
“That allowed me to do the research for this issue in the background, while I was working on issues 1-6,” he said. “I really wanted to make sure to get it right,...
- 9/28/2020
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
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