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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Some of Europe’s largest industry groups have asked European Union lawmakers to change their position on the bloc’s planned carbon border policy, in a last-minute lobbying push ahead of a vote on Tuesday, emails seen by Reuters show.
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, in this file picture taken October 28, 2015. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
The European Parliament is set to vote on a report covering the EU’s plan to impose carbon costs on imports of polluting goods. The report aims to influence the European Commission’s eagerly awaited proposal for the policy due in June.
In celebration of International Women’s Day,
Realscreen has put together some of our most recent interviews with and stories about female filmmakers and recently announced industry initiatives aimed at women creators.
The film and television business as a whole has had a lot of catching up to do when it comes to gender parity behind the camera. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, in 2020 percentages of behind-the-scenes women working on the top 100 and 250 (U.S. domestic) grossing films comprised 21% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers, from 20% in 2019.
However in the documentary category, the numbers jump. The same organization states that “documentaries continue to offer more opportunities for women than narrative features.” In fact, women accounted for 40% of people working in key behind-the-scenes roles on documentaries, compared with only 29% working on narrative features.
Northland news in brief: Bay waka ama festival postponed; and dairy industry awards tonight
8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Paddlers compete in the Kris Kjeldsen Memorial Race/Te Taiawhio o Ipipiri during a previous Bay of Islands Waka Ama Festival. Photo / Ruth Lawton
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The Bay of Islands Waka Ama Festival, which was to have been held at Waitangi on March 13-14, has been postponed due to Covid-19 concerns. A new date has yet to be set. Organisers said they had to decide whether the event would go ahead last week before it was known whether Auckland s level 3 alert would be lifted. Many paddlers had been expected to travel from south of Auckland for the festival.
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