The document outlines plans for a project called Equipoise that aims to promote gender equality in the film industry. It will engage students from colleges and universities in Leeds through film workshops to encourage more female-led stories. The students' short films will be screened at a film festival featuring talks from women film professionals. Funding will come from ticket sales, donations from a crowdfunding campaign, and sponsorships to support the venues, speakers and transportation costs. The goal is to get more women involved in filmmaking careers and showcase existing talent.

1. EQUIPOISE
KYLE BELL, RACHEL MEREDITH, WILL CHANDLER, GEORGE GREGORY, RACHEL RAPER

2. OUR CAUSE
 Our reason driving this project is a belief in equality:
 Equal treatment
 Equal representation
 Equal opportunity

3. "We’re viewed as equals — but we’re still not
there yet. [...] The challenge for our girls, I think,
is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift
and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality
is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have
to contend with that. I contend with it right now
in every realm I operate in.“ – Meryl Streep
“To every woman who gave birth, to every
taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have
fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s
our time to have wage equality once and for
all and equal rights for women […]”– Patricia
Arquette

5. 3 STEP PLAN
i. To Engage
ii. To Educate/Collaborate
iii. To Exhibit/Celebrate
Fuel The Debate
Encourage Talent
Promote Existing Work

6. WORKSHOPS
 It is very important to engage minds as early as possible and get them enthusiastic about
our cause
 Encouraging girls to participate in the project will make them more likely to want to carry
on with film into their careers, and help to make the balance more equal

7. INSTITUTIONS
 Leeds City college
 Bradford College
 Leeds College of Art
 Leeds Trinity
 University of Bradford
 University of Leeds

8. WHY?
 These people are the next generation of filmmakers
 16-21 for the workshops
 Everyone for the Festival

9.  Each of us will take a workshop with one of the groups
 We will encourage them to be female led with female centric stories
 3 to 4 minute films with our help to edit
 We are hoping for around 5 students per group
WHAT?

10. THE OUTCOME
 The outcome for the students will be having their films screened at a festival
 They will also be getting professional experience
 They hopefully be able to talk with professional filmmakers who are also passionate about
getting women more involved in the film industry

11. CONTRIBUTORS
 Motivational talks/speeches
 Sexism
 Overcoming obstacles
 Difficulties
 Positives
 Outcomes of working in the industry
 4 women in the film industry
 Linda Ruth Williams
 Ilana Garrard
 Jeanie Finlay
 Marysia Trembecka

12. LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS
 Linda Ruth Williams
 Professor of Film Studies in the School of
Humanities at the University of Southampton
 Special interests include sexuality and censorship
in cinema and literature, women in
film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence.

13. ILANA GARRARD
 Ilana Garrard
 Camera/Steadicam Operator working in London
 Works mainly on Documentaries in the UK

14. JEANIE FINLAY
 Jeanie Finlay
 Documentary Filmmaker based UK midlands
 Won 2 awards
 Nominated for 3
 Member of WFTV

15. MARYSIA TREMBECKA
 Marysia Trembecka
 Actor/Musician/Singer trained in London, Los
Angeles and New York, main instrument is the
jazz bass guitar
 Member of WFTV

16. BUDGET
 Expenditures:
 Venues
 Distribution
 Guest Speakers
 Transport
 Revenue:
 Tickets
 Download Sales
 DVD Sales
 Sponsorship
 Indiegogo

17. EXPENDITURES
 Everyman Cinema- £10337
 West Yorkshire Playhouse- £7200
 Guest Speakers- £560
 Transport- £240
 DVD Distribution- £15 Per 100 DVDs
 Total- £18337

18. REVENUE
 BFI- £5000
 Tickets- £20 Per Person- 200 People= £4000
 Downloads- £5 Per Download- Estimate 200 People= £1000
 DVDs- £7 Per DVD- Estimate 200 People= £1400
 Kickstarter- £5000 Target
 Sponsorships- £5000, From:
 Leeds City Council
 Yorkshire Post
 EE
 Visit Leeds
 Leeds BID

19. WHY CROWDFUNDING IS IMPORTANT
Money from out crowdfunding campaign will help towards:
 Locations
 Guest speakers
 Transport

20. PERKS
 £1 – Thank You!
 £5 – Social Media Shoutout
 £10 – Badges/Wristbands
 £15 – Digital Download
 £25 –Credited
 £30 – Picture Credit
 £40 – DVD
 £50 – Tickets
 £75 – Tote bag of goodies
 £100 – VIP
 £150 – In the documentary
 £200 – Executive Producer

22. Keep it central, keep it focussed. “Create a list of interesting people to
follow, say interesting things yourself and watch your account grow and
grow” (Grove, 2015)
Q and A's, Promotion videos for crowdfunding campaigns, Trailers,
Production Stories, Vlogging
Grove, E. (2015) Social Media for Filmmakers: Start with the Basics. [Internet] Available from http://www.raindance.org/social-media-for-filmmakers-
start-with-the-basics/ [Accessed 3rd December 2015]
A contender for a strong central hub, but due to it’s ever-growing
complicated sections, it’s potentially falling out of favour for
marketing/word spread

26. ANY QUESTIONS?