Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
Announcing!
The Writers Lab Canada
December 2024
presented by
Firecracker Department & Female Eye Film Festival
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The Writers Lab is made possible through the generosity of individuals and organizations committed to the art of screenwriting.
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Oprah Winfrey
The Cornelia T Bailey Foundation
Dirty Films
Lynch Hall Charitable Foundation
The Meg & Alex Weidner Family Foundation
Who’s doing the writing?
Only 12.6% of produced projects in 2022 were written by women over 40 — who are 25% of the world’s population.
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