A 50/50 gender distribution in Sweden’s film industry

What

Gender equality in the film industry

Where

Sweden

When

2016

Who

Key objectives of the measure:

The Swedish Film Institute Foundation (SFI) works to promote film across the board – from idea to finished product, during launch in Sweden and around the world, and by preserving films for posterity in our archives. In 2010–2014 SFI was granted special funding by the Government to increase gender equality in the film industry through grants to young women filmmakers. The 2013 film agreement made the gender equality criterion more stringent, which means that production subsidies were to be allocated equally between women and men. By the end of 2015 the total of the subsidies allocated during the agreement period were to have been disbursed to 50 per cent women and 50 per cent men in each of the three occupational categories of director, scriptwriter and producer. This goal has now been achieved in principle. In 2016 the Ministry of Culture commissioned Filminstitutet to head work on a seminar at Cannes under the slogan “Fiftyfifty by 2020” with the aim of using Sweden’s stance on gender equality in film production to raise international interest in the issue. The seminar attracted widespread international attention.

Scope of the measure:

National

Nature of the measure:

regulatory

Main feature of the measure:

To increase gender equality in the film industry through grants to young women filmmakers.

Results expected through the implementation of the measure:

By the end of 2015 the total of the subsidies allocated during the agreement period were to have been disbursed to 50 per cent women and 50 per cent men in each of the three occupational categories of director, scriptwriter and producer. This goal has now been achieved in principle.

Financial resources allocated to implement the measure:

Within the ordinary budget frames.

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