Gender Equity Policies for Film Industries / Competitiveness of Small Film Producing Nations / Public Service Media and the Child Audience

Doris Eikhof (University of Glasgow) reports insights from the Gender Equity Policy (GEP) Analysis project which conducted a comparative evaluation of gender equity policies for film industries in Canada, Germany, and the UK. Vejune Zemaitye (Tallinn University) outlines the scope and aim of CresCine (www.crescine.eu), a large multi-partner project examining the competitiveness of small European nations in the international film business. Finally, Ashley Woodfall (Bournemouth University / Children's Media Foundation) talks about some of the challenges now confronting public service media in the UK when trying to engage the child audience.