The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival has joined dozens of festivals around the world as a signatory to the 5050x2020 pledge for gender parity and inclusion at film festivals. In signing the Pledge, AGOFF commits to the 5050x2020 objectives by undertaking a series of measures on transparency and accountability. ‘We are strongly committed to gender equality in terms of film selection and organizational bodies. We are therefore proud to sign the Pledge,’ said the Festival’s Executive Director, Cansel Çevikol Tuncer. Inaugurated in 1964, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is dedicated to making a positive contribution to the Turkish film industry and culture in Turkey.
Meryl Streep: We Are on the Case!
50/50 by 2020, an intersectional power movement working across the entertainment business, seeks to establish gender equity in the film industry, where 96% of directors are men, by 2020. It has won backing from a slew of celebrity names, amongst them three-times Academy Award winner, Meryl Streep, who declared, ‘We are after 50/50 by 2020. Equal means equal.’ Likewise, Lena Waithe, the actor and creator of television comedy sensation Master of None, argued ‘The things that makes us different, those are our superpowers.’ And America Ferrera, the Golden Globe winner who we know from the television show, Ugly Betty, made the appeal, ‘Let’s end this silence so the next generation of girls won’t have to live with this bullshit.’ The 5050x2020 initiative has also convinced major film festivals to come on board, among them Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Venice.
Film festivals that have signed 5050×2020:
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