The event is a rally in support of women in film, part of Tiff’s Share Her Journey initiative, which was set up in 2017.
The object of Share Her Journey, Tiff executive director Michele Maheux explained in her introduction, was not just to “celebrate and lift up women everywhere” but to find “solutions to the gender parity problems that are rampant in the film industry.”
Geena Davis spoke about her work to counter the “unconscious bias” that limits female representation in children’s film and TV.
While the statistics about the lack of gender and race inequality in the film industry were broadly circulated when Share Her Journey was formed, the past 12 months, following the Harvey Weinstein revelations, have crystallised the issue.