Commitment from the national film board of canada that 50 percent of its production budget will go to films directed by women

This commitment will be integrated over the next three years to ensure that gender equality is established as the status quo by 2019. this will involve the implementation of tools to monitor and track gender representation in all national film board of canada (nfb) projects in 11 studios, including an internal process to keep track of gender in all key positions (director, writer, producer, editor, and director of photography). all recorded information will be posted annually on the nfb website to ensure transparency and accountability.the nfb's spending for the 2015-16 fiscal year was for 43.4 percent of productions directed by women and 43.5 percent for films directed by men (with 11.3 percent for mixed-gender teams and 1.8 percent not allocated). those numbers for women were up from the previous year (2014-15) which was 41.7 percent for women and 47.8 for men.currently, fifty-five percent of the nfb’s producers and executive producers are women, with 66 percent of upper management and 70 percent of nfb board of trustee positions held by women.among the diverse films produced by the nfb, some of its notable films by female filmmakers include, but are not limited to, sarah polley’s ‘stories we tell', alanis obomsawin’s ‘kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance’, and mina shum’s ‘ninth floor’. this effort is a contemporary extension of the nfb’s pioneering studio d efforts in 1974, which devoted itself to films by women. new female-directed films coming up soon from the nfb include alethea arnaquq-baril’s ‘angry inuk’, andrea dorfman’s ‘160 girls’, and ann marie fleming’s ‘window horses’.for its next periodic report in 2020, canada will report back and provide further information on the implementation of this newly announced measure.