All of the feminist organisations making up the Interterritorial Work Group on Equality (GTI) will once again meet at the San Sebastián International Festival and join forces in a collective programme consolidating a common space in defence of equality, diversity and the eradication of violence in the audiovisual sector.  

The Festival agenda will include meetings, round tables and collective actions. The programme will run in two large spaces: the meeting on Feminist Analyses of the Current Audiovisual Industry, already announced and included in the Film Talks programme organised by the Festival’s Thought & Discussion area will take place on 22 September, and the collective action entitled Our Voices on 23 September in the Kursaal press room (12:30-13:30).    

Under the heading of Collective action against sexual violence, the meeting on the 23rd will bring together feminist associations and professionals from the sector who will present three key documents: one containing an exclusive look at the data collected during the investigation to draw up the protocol of Hemen and Euskal Aktoreen Batasuna (EAB); another with the main findings of ‘After the Silence, Spain’s first national report on sexual violence in the film and audiovisual sector composed by CIMA, and the text ‘Cut! Manual of best practices for preventing sexual harassment and violence in the audiovisual industry and film-related events’ put together by AAMMA.  

There will also be a collective reading (by women producers, directors, actresses, composers, journalists in the sector) of fragments of narrations of sexual violence included in the documents. The aim is to give these women a voice, to multiply the echo of their experiences and to generate a collective discourse from the diversity of voices that make up the audiovisual industry.  

With this programme, the GTI consolidates itself as a key collective in the sector, bringing to San Sebastián a unified voice drawing attention to the urgent need to transform the industry, to guarantee equal opportunities, to reinforce diversity and to take a tough stance against sexual violence. This is an exercise of cooperation which makes it possible to project their conclusions in the Festival’s international framework and to open an extensive debate with professionals, institutions and the public, with the shared objective of advancing towards an audiovisual industry that is more diverse, egalitarian and violence free. 

About the GTI 

The GTI (Interterritorial Working Group on Equality in Audiovisuals) is a network that brings together all the feminist associations of audiovisual professionals from across Spain: AAMMA (Andalusia), AMMA (Murcia), CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media), Dona i Cinema (Valencia), Dones Visuals (Catalonia), Hemen (Basque Country), and MIA (Association of Women in the Animation Industry). Its main objective is to work collectively to promote real equality in the film and audiovisual sector.