NZCS & WIFT invite discussion on Women DOP’s
Women as DoPs
Images & Sound, 113 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auckland
7pm for 7.30pm start
Wednesday 25th January
Why don’t we have more DoPs in New Zealand?
Women make fantastic cinematographers and yet currently we only have 3 in NZ. Ginny Loane, Jac Fitzgerald and Mairi Gunn will talk about their experinces as DoPs, answer your questions and engage you in a discussion about women as DoPs and what challenges come with the profession.
We are looking forward to an energetic discussion, interesting tales and pearls of wisdom from our 3 guest speakers and we hope it might entice you to take on the challenge and consider a career as a DoP.
We would also like to explore what’s stopping women who currently work in the other camera jobs from progressing on to shoot ie: from Clapper Loader to Assist to operator to DOP seems to bring a big drop off in numbers.
Are the Camera assist jobs becoming more ‘techy’ and is this perception driving women away from even the starting crew positions?
This is a WIFT event in conjunction with the NZCS
FREE for WIFT and NZCS members
$10 for non-members
RSVP goes through Vicky Cox (victoria.c@imagesandsound.co.nz)
If you are keen to network please join us a little earlier around 7pm. We will kick off the conversation at 7.30pm.
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can we hear/see the session??
would be wonderful and informative if the session was available online x
That is a good point – I’ll make contact with WIFT to see who recorded the event.
So – what a turnout – 54 people turned up. Firstly apologies for the cramped space and the failure of the air conditioning but some things cannot be anticipated. We considered changing the venue at the last minute to facilitate the many RSVP’s in the last 2 days but were concerned we would not get the word out to all who had committed to come along. Many thanks to Jac, Ginny and Mairi for sparking off a wide ranging discussion. I don’t know that we actually answered any hard questions completely but we certainly gave a few views a good airing.