Women as DoPs
25 Jan­u­ary at Images & Sound, 113 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auck­land
7pm for 7.30pm start

Why don’t we have more DoPs in New Zealand?

Women make fan­tas­tic cin­e­matog­ra­phers and yet cur­rently we only have three in NZ. Ginny Loane, Jac Fitzger­ald and Mairi Gunn will talk about their exper­inces as DoPs, answer ques­tions and join in a dis­cus­sion about women as DoPs and the chal­lenges that come with the profession.

We are look­ing for­ward to an ener­getic dis­cus­sion, inter­est­ing tales and pearls of wis­dom from our three guest speak­ers and we hope it might entice you to take on the chal­lenge and con­sider a career as a DoP.

We would also like to explore what’s stop­ping women who cur­rently work in the other cam­era jobs from pro­gress­ing on to shoot. ie: from clap­per loader to assist to oper­a­tor to DOP seems to bring a big drop off in num­bers. Are the cam­era assist jobs becom­ing more ‘techy’ and is this per­cep­tion dri­ving women away from even the start­ing crew positions?

This is a WIFT event in con­junc­tion with the NZCS. If you are keen to net­work please join in a lit­tle ear­lier, around 7pm. We will kick off the con­ver­sa­tion at 7.30pm.

FREE for WIFT and NZCS mem­bers
$10 for non-members
RSVP through Vicky Cox victoria.c@imagesandsound.co.nz