Almost three quarters of parents and carers who responded to a 2018 Raising Films Australia survey reported their caring responsibilities have had a negative impact on their career in the screen industry. Of those, 86 per cent were women.
As a result, many were hiding the fact they have kids or care for a loved one. Others simply left the industry altogether.
The juggle of parenting and a screen career isn’t discussed enough, according to cinematographer Lucas Tomoana and colourist Angela Cerasi.
They recently co-hosted a Cinemapodgrapher podcast episode on the topic. In the extract below, they chat to other working parents – cinematographers Tania Lambert Acs and Sky Davies, and director Hailey Bartholomew – to discuss how they manage the balance.
What stage of your career were you at when you had your kids?
Hailey: I didn’t have a career when I had my kids. I was very young, 20, when I had my first.
As a result, many were hiding the fact they have kids or care for a loved one. Others simply left the industry altogether.
The juggle of parenting and a screen career isn’t discussed enough, according to cinematographer Lucas Tomoana and colourist Angela Cerasi.
They recently co-hosted a Cinemapodgrapher podcast episode on the topic. In the extract below, they chat to other working parents – cinematographers Tania Lambert Acs and Sky Davies, and director Hailey Bartholomew – to discuss how they manage the balance.
What stage of your career were you at when you had your kids?
Hailey: I didn’t have a career when I had my kids. I was very young, 20, when I had my first.
- 1/14/2021
- by Lucas Tomoana and Angela Cerasi
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Nicci Wilks, Sarah Ward and Peta Brady.
In a three week window between the floods and the pandemic, a resourceful female-led creative team filmed a feature drama based on a Patricia Cornelius play.
Trudy Hellier and Susie Dee co-directed Shit, adapted by Cornelius, produced by Eyvonne Carfora and featuring the same cast led by Nicci Wilks, Peta Brady and Sarah Ward.
The plot follows three wild and dangerous women who believe the world is shit, their lives are shit and they are shit. After committing a terrible crime they are terrified they will never see each other again.
In their feature directing debuts Dee, who directed the play, called the shots on the studio-set scenes drawn from the play while Hellier helmed the new material on location.
The supporting cast includes Madeline Dyer, Sam O’Reilly and Emilie Bloom. Sky Davies is the Dop.
“Rather than go through a long...
In a three week window between the floods and the pandemic, a resourceful female-led creative team filmed a feature drama based on a Patricia Cornelius play.
Trudy Hellier and Susie Dee co-directed Shit, adapted by Cornelius, produced by Eyvonne Carfora and featuring the same cast led by Nicci Wilks, Peta Brady and Sarah Ward.
The plot follows three wild and dangerous women who believe the world is shit, their lives are shit and they are shit. After committing a terrible crime they are terrified they will never see each other again.
In their feature directing debuts Dee, who directed the play, called the shots on the studio-set scenes drawn from the play while Hellier helmed the new material on location.
The supporting cast includes Madeline Dyer, Sam O’Reilly and Emilie Bloom. Sky Davies is the Dop.
“Rather than go through a long...
- 4/22/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Mrs McCutcheon..
John Sheedy.s Mrs McCutcheon and Claire Randall.s Wolfe are headed to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, where they will compete in the children and youth competition.
Wolfe won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation 14Plus program at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year..The documentary explores a young man.s journey through adolescence with undiagnosed schizophrenia. Randall, the director-producer, made the film with fellow Griffith Film School students Shannen Tunnicliffe, producer, and Lachlan Morton, cinematographer and animator.
Oberhausen marks Mrs McCutcheon.s world premiere. Directed and conceived by Sheedy, the film is the theatre veteran.s first foray into filmmaking, and was written by Ben Young, whose debut feature Hounds of Love won acclaim in Venice last year. .
Mrs McCutcheon follows 10-year-old Tom (Alec Golinger) on a journey of self-discovery. Having always felt he was born in the wrong body,...
John Sheedy.s Mrs McCutcheon and Claire Randall.s Wolfe are headed to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, where they will compete in the children and youth competition.
Wolfe won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation 14Plus program at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year..The documentary explores a young man.s journey through adolescence with undiagnosed schizophrenia. Randall, the director-producer, made the film with fellow Griffith Film School students Shannen Tunnicliffe, producer, and Lachlan Morton, cinematographer and animator.
Oberhausen marks Mrs McCutcheon.s world premiere. Directed and conceived by Sheedy, the film is the theatre veteran.s first foray into filmmaking, and was written by Ben Young, whose debut feature Hounds of Love won acclaim in Venice last year. .
Mrs McCutcheon follows 10-year-old Tom (Alec Golinger) on a journey of self-discovery. Having always felt he was born in the wrong body,...
- 3/30/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Tania Lambert shoots a Toyota Tvc.
If speaks to cinematographers Anna Howard, Tania Lambert, Katie Milwright, Mandy Walker, Bonnie Elliott, Emma Paine, Velinda Wardell, Sky Davies and Ashley Barron about rising up the ranks, the gender gap and the DPs that inspire them.
No woman has ever won the Oscar for best cinematography. In fact, no woman has ever been nominated. In Australia, Abs statistics to 2011 put the percentage of female directors of photography at around 6 percent. Were you aware of the gender divide at the beginning of your career?
Lambert: I was keenly aware of the gender imbalance in the camera department when I first started as a camera assistant. It didn.t bother me a huge deal, but I felt I had to work extra hard to be respected in that role. There were only a few female camera assistants I knew of and one female Dop, Anna Howard,...
If speaks to cinematographers Anna Howard, Tania Lambert, Katie Milwright, Mandy Walker, Bonnie Elliott, Emma Paine, Velinda Wardell, Sky Davies and Ashley Barron about rising up the ranks, the gender gap and the DPs that inspire them.
No woman has ever won the Oscar for best cinematography. In fact, no woman has ever been nominated. In Australia, Abs statistics to 2011 put the percentage of female directors of photography at around 6 percent. Were you aware of the gender divide at the beginning of your career?
Lambert: I was keenly aware of the gender imbalance in the camera department when I first started as a camera assistant. It didn.t bother me a huge deal, but I felt I had to work extra hard to be respected in that role. There were only a few female camera assistants I knew of and one female Dop, Anna Howard,...
- 9/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Could Australian audiences who seem to be tiring of dark, home-grown dramas and thrillers spark to a musical comedy/romance about an Emo teenager who falls in love with a Christian girl?
Writer-director Neil Triffett and producer Lee Matthews reckon so, and are confident they can turn their 15-minute short Emo: The Musical into a full-length feature.
It will be the feature debut for both. Matthews has produced 14 shorts and Triffett has directed numerous shorts and documentaries.
The Emo short has an impressive pedigree, having been nominated for best short at the Generation14 Plus section of this year.s Berlin Film Festival, where it got a special mention, and screened at more than 20 international festivals.
Screen Australia gave the producers a grant to finish the short and is now funding the development of the feature, which Triffett will write and direct as well as composing the songs.
.It.s a...
Writer-director Neil Triffett and producer Lee Matthews reckon so, and are confident they can turn their 15-minute short Emo: The Musical into a full-length feature.
It will be the feature debut for both. Matthews has produced 14 shorts and Triffett has directed numerous shorts and documentaries.
The Emo short has an impressive pedigree, having been nominated for best short at the Generation14 Plus section of this year.s Berlin Film Festival, where it got a special mention, and screened at more than 20 international festivals.
Screen Australia gave the producers a grant to finish the short and is now funding the development of the feature, which Triffett will write and direct as well as composing the songs.
.It.s a...
- 7/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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