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Share Her Journey began in 2017 as a five-year campaign committed to addressing gender parity and championing women in front of and behind the camera, both year-round and during the Toronto International Film Festival. It has since evolved into a permanent TIFF initiative, supporting creators at every stage of their professional journey. This global movement is dedicated to building frameworks, empowering creators, and forging paths for women to succeed as storytellers who help shape our cultural landscape.
There is a considerable lack of women storytellers in key creative and decision-making roles in the film industry:*
- Of the top-grossing 51 films of 2021, only 12.7% of the 55 directors involved in creating those films were women — only three of whom were women of colour.
- Of the top-grossing 100 films from of 2021, only 11 had a woman or girl of colour as their protagonist.
- In 2021, only 7% of movies featured more women than men, and only 8% featured equal numbers of men and women.
This hasn’t gone unnoticed at TIFF.
*Data collected by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University. Sources here and here.
Meet the Ambassadors
The Share Her Journey Ambassadors have joined a movement to champion female storytellers, supporting TIFF's commitment to increase participation, skills, and opportunities for women behind and in front of the camera.
List
Tracey Deer
Director, writer, producer
Beans, Mohawk Girls, Club Native, Anne with an E, One More River: The Deal that Split the Cree
Euzhan Palcy
Director, writer, producer
Sugar Cane Alley, A Dry White Season, Siméon
Rima Das
Director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, filmmaker
Bulbul Can Sing, Village Rockstars, Man with the Binoculars: Antardrishti
Mira Nair
Director, producer
Queen of Katwe, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Amelia, The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay!
Sarah Rafferty
Actor
Suits, All Things Valentine, Small Beautifully Moving Parts
Carmel Winters
Director, writer
Float Like a Butterfly, Snap, Limbo
Ellen Wong
Actor
GLOW, Condor, Dark Matter, The Carrie Diaries, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Jennifer Podemski
Actor, producer, director
Mocassin Flats, Cardinal, Future History, Empire of Dirt, Blackstone
Joyce Wong
Director, producer, writer
Wexford Plaza, Sunbathing, Power of Love (Celine Dion Fans in Kenya)
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Actor, producer
The House of Sand and Fog, Star Trek Beyond, The Expanse, 24, The Stoning of Soraya M.
Priyanka Chopra
Actor, producer, activist
Fashion, What’s Your Raashee?, Mary Kom, Quantico
Erika J. Olde
Producer; President and Founder of Black Bicycle Entertainment
Home Again, Woman Walks Ahead, November Criminals, The Female Brain, A Tale of Love and Darkness
Joey Soloway
Writer, director, creator
Transparent, Afternoon Delight, Six Feet Under
Stella Meghie
Writer, director, producer
Everything Everything, Jean of the Joneses, Recovering Undercover Over Lover
Ann Marie Fleming
Writer, director, animator
Window Horses, Stories Sarah Tells, Big Trees, Seven Sins: Gluttony, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Ashley McKenzie
Writer, director, editor
Werewolf, 4 Quarters, Stray, When You Sleep, Rhonda's Party
Carol Nguyen
Director, writer, cinematographer, editor
Facade, Every Grain of Rice, This Home is Not Empty, How Do You Pronounce Pho?, Uprooted
Molly McGlynn
Writer, director
Mary Goes Round, 3-way (Not Calling), Dawn, Stasis, Given Your History, I Am Not a Weird Person
Amma Asante
Writer, director
Where Hands Touch, A United Kingdom, Belle, A Way of Life
Thanks to Canada Goose®, Anne-Marie Canning, Betty-Ann Heggie, Micki Moore Simpson, Netflix Studio (via their support of the Talent Accelerator programme), Jennifer Tory, the RBC Foundation, CHANEL Canada, the Share Her Journey Giving Circle, and all of our donors for their generous and continuted support of Share Her Journey.
TIFF Talent Accelerator is generously supported by the RBC Women Creators’ Initiative. Participants receive a stipend provided by Netflix.
The CHANEL Women Writers’ Network provides women and non-binary participants of TIFF Writers' Studio with ongoing script development support after the programme ends.
Thank you to all of our donors and the thousands of people who have signed up to support women in film through Share Her Journey.
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