We congratulate Screen Australia on these encouraging results and their Gender Matters initiative, though we note that female directors are still lagging behind in the bigger budget areas. Read the report here.
Screen Australia has gathered industry-wide data that includes productions that haven't received funding from Screen Australia. Here the picture is much bleaker - particularly for female directors.
In TV drama, women accounted for 59% of producers, 49% of writers and 37% of directors.
Feature drama remains an area of focus, with all roles below 50% in 2022/23. Women producers (46%) performed significantly better than directors (22%) and writers (29%).