Towards equity in European audiovisual production

Presentación a cargo de Carlota Álvarez Basso, codirectora del Festival

Date and time: Thursday, Nov.7th. 5.30 p.m. 

Venue: Auditorio del Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Calle de Fuencarral, 3

Tickets: Free admission with prior registration through the website. www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com

Type of activity: Round table. 

Participants:

• Iris Zappe-Heller - Deputy Director of the Austrian Film Institute and Chair of the EFAD Working Group on Gender and Inclusion, Austria.
• Fernando Bigeriego Tenerina. Deputy Director of Development of the ICAA.
• Lise Perottet - General Coordinator of the Femmes de Cinéma Laboratory, France.

Facilitator: Alexia Muiños, Director of Programmes at EWA (European Women's Audiovisual Network).

Activity in English, with simultaneous translation, sign language interpretation and streaming.

Activity organized with the collaboration of the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Iris Zappe-Heller

Iris Zappe-Heller joint the Austrian Film Institute in 1993. 

She took over the Austrian representation at the Board of Eurimages from 1997 to 2021. 

In 2011 she became deputy to the Director of the Film Institute. 

In 2013 she installed the department for Gender*Diversity*Inclusion within the Film Institute, taking a package of measures as Gender Incentive, Gender Budgeting, Gender Reports, ProPro, Script competition... In this function she represented Austria in Eurimages’ Gender Equality Working Group that she has chaired from 2016 to 2021. She joined the EFAD’s Gender Inclusion Working Group in 2018, where she took over the chair in 2021. In 2015 she has been the Austrian expert of the Sarajevo Conference Declaration and therefore actively involved in the drawing up of the European Council’s Recommendation on Gender Equality. 

In 2023 she was appointed Deputy Director of the Film Institute.

Lise Perottet

After a Master in management at ESCP BS and a research paper on the representation of women in Studio Ghibli animated films, Lise Perottet joined the Lab Femmes de Cinéma team in October 2021. She is currently the Lab's General Coordinator.

Alexia Muiños

Alexia Muiños Ruiz is a filmmaker, actress and teacher born in La Coruña. She graduated as a director and screenwriter from the CECC school in Barcelona and completed her training in New York. In 2015 she founded her production company Marineda Films. Her films Noche Transfigurada, Asuntos Domésticos, Medianoche, Domingo por la mañana and En RE DO have received international awards. She has worked in multiple positions in the audio-visual industry: as a runner, as actors coach as well as director and producer. She combines her work as an independent director with acting, teaching and feminist activism within the European Women's Audio-visual Network and Dones Visuals, of which she is one of the founding partners.