Lisa French

Lisa French (born 1961)[1] is professor and dean in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-author of Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute and Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia and the editor of Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia.

Career

French spent three years as the director of the St Kilda Film Festival and nine years as a non-executive Director of the Australian Film Institute (AFI). She is currently a member of the Federal Government agency Screen Australia's Gender Matters Taskforce.[2] She is currently the co-chair of a UNESCO global network of 19 universities working on media, gender and ICTs[3] and in that role advocated at the Commission for the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York in 2019, influencing the agenda to increase women's access to media.  

French is the dean of the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne.[4] She conducts research on women in film and television.[5] She edited the anthology Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia (2003)[6] and co-authored Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute (2009).[7][8]

She produced the film Birth of a Film Festival (2003), a documentary about the first Melbourne International Film Festival.[9]

Selected awards and honours

References
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  2. "Screen Australia announces new Gender Matters Taskforce | Media centre". Screen Australia. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  3. "uniTwin | UNESCO". Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  4. "Professor Lisa French - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  5. Quinn, Karl (2019-08-20). "Women making strides on screen, but still a long way to go behind camera". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  6. Tomsic, Mary (2003). "Womenvision: Women and the moving image in Australia [Book Review]". Lilith: A Feminist History Journal (12): 153.
  7. Kaufman, Tina (2010). "Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute [Book Review]". Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (165): 141.
  8. Ellis, Katie (2011). "Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute [Book Review]". Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy (140): 175.
  9. "The birth of a film festival". The Age. 2003-05-27. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  10. "Lifetime Member Spotlight: LISA FRENCH". WIFT VIC. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
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