AUCKLAND, Thursday: Curious Film has achieved a gender-balanced directorial roster – a long-term goal for the company. Founder Matt Noonan and MD Kate Roydhouse have worked diligently to get there, making Curious one of the first major production companies in New Zealand to do so.
Roydhouse said: “While the objective for Curious has always been to support and represent a gender-balanced roster, the challenge was in finding the uniquely creative, talented, powerful voices to help build a strong and well-rounded roster.
“Curious continues to show support through organisations such as Free the Bid.”
“We were very conscious of not being tokenistic, but really finding unique voices that deserve to be recognised.”
At Spikes Asia in 2018, Roydhouse, discussed actionable change within the advertising and production industry around gender equality.
“While this is an industry I love and respect, gender equality has not always been justly highlighted and discussed,” she said yesterday, in a statement.
“This is a priority for me and Curious. When working on building a gender-balanced roster, we were very conscious of not being tokenistic, but really finding those amazingly talented, unique voices that deserve to be recognised and represented.
“I’m proud to say, we have achieved this.”
The current Curious roster is …
- Florian Habicht
- Hyun Lee
- James K Lowe
- Lucy Forbes
- Lucy Knox
- Rachel House
- Roma D’Arrietta
- Sam Kristofski
- Sasha Rainbow
- Summer Agnew
- Syd Garon
- Taika Waititi
- W.A.M. Bleakley
- Zoë Bell
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