Pacific Community Filmmaking and Gender, Impact and Public Engagement

太平洋地区的性别不平等是一个严重的挑战和敏感的问题-需要采取文化上适当的联合发展办法，以支持和推动必要的社会变革。太平洋区域暴力侵害妇女行为的发生率是世界上最高的，而妇女参与议会的比例是世界上最低的。太平洋区域各国已制定了政策战略、法律的框架和一系列举措，但尽管许多捐助者几十年来作出了发展合作努力，但与本国和国际公认的指标相比，在实现两性平等方面进展甚微。AHRC/GCRF研究网络项目，探索参与式电影制作作为解决太平洋地区性别不平等的发展方法（2017/2018）和SFC-GCRF太平洋联系：太平洋地区的社区电影制作和性别不平等（2018/19）项目突出了太平洋地区制作的参与性纪录片和电影制作人的新兴机构。他们的工作开辟了其他途径，通过使社区能够通过自己的文化术语讲述自己的故事，来理解和影响太平洋地区的性别不平等。太平洋岛屿人民在自己对各种事件和行动的分析中指出，必须在特定的社会、集体和亲属关系中区分性别，并强调在社区社会中促进基于权利的问题，如性别不平等和基于性别的暴力的细微差别和敏感性。重要的是，这些项目突出了参与性生产过程对所涉个人和社区的影响，以及如何将项目视为实现基于性别的政策目标的多层次、植根于当地和具有文化敏感性的方法。这一拟议的国际社区电影制作项目将提高电影制作人和组织与社区合作解决两性不平等问题的能力，并利用这项工作推动社会变革。根据澳大利亚人权委员会/全球儿童基金会以前项目的成果，该项目将支持培训和指导社区电影制作人和新兴人才。它将在整个太平洋地区制作关于性别相关主题的媒体项目，在制作期间和之后对参与者和受众产生影响。它将通过跨平台放映和活动将社区，资助者，组织，政府和利益相关者聚集在一起来发展观众。通过培训、制作、发行和公众参与，该项目将寻求明显地倡导新兴的太平洋电影制片人联盟的有效性，以及一种可持续的、当地产生的方法，以围绕性别平等进行背景化和实施变革。拟议项目将以太平洋电影制片人联合会网络为基础，在官方发展援助低收入中等收入国家和低收入中等收入国家-巴布亚新几内亚（包括布干维尔岛）、萨摩亚、所罗门群岛、斐济、图瓦卢、汤加和瓦努阿图-开展媒体项目、电影制片人和公众培训以及发行和利益攸关方方案、政府和非政府组织参与。它也有可能将马歇尔群岛和基里巴斯的从业人员和社区纳入这一网络。这一多方面办法的目标是促进创造性的发展方法，以支持在太平洋地区促进两性平等的挑战。

Gender inequality in the Pacific is a serious challenge and a sensitive issue - requiring a culturally appropriate and joined-up development approach to support and drive the necessary social changes. The prevalence of violence against women in the Pacific region is among the highest in the world, whilst women's parliamentary participation is amongst the lowest in the world. Countries across the Pacific region have put in place policy strategies, legal frameworks and a raft of initiatives, but against their own and internationally accepted indicators there has been poor progress towards gender equality, despite the development cooperation efforts of many donors over several decades. The AHRC/GCRF Research Networking Project, Exploring Participatory Filmmaking as a Development Method to address Gender Inequality in the Pacific (2017/2018) and the SFC-GCRF Pacific Connections: Community Filmmaking and Gender Inequality in the Pacific (2018/19) projects have highlighted and brought together an emerging body of Pacific-made participatory documentary films and filmmakers. Their work opens up alternative routes to understand and influence gender inequality in the Pacific by enabling communities to tell their own stories through their own cultural terms. In their own analyses of events and actions, Pacific peoples point to the importance of differentiating gender within particular social, collective and kinship relations and of the nuances and sensitivities of promoting rights-based issues such as gender inequality and GBV within a communal society. Significantly, these projects have brought to the fore the impact the processes of participatory production have on individuals and communities involved, and how projects can be seen as multi layered, locally embedded and culturally sensitive approaches to achieving gender based policy objectives. This proposed international community filmmaking project will enhance filmmakers' and organisations' capacity to work with communities around issues of gender inequality and to use this work as drivers for social change. Based on outcomes from the AHRC/GCRF previous projects, this project will target support at training and mentoring for community filmmakers and emerging talent. It will produce media projects on gender related themes across the Pacific that will create impact for participants and audiences during and after production. It will develop audiences through cross platform screenings & events that bring together communities, funders, organisations, Government and stakeholders. Though training, production, distribution and public engagement the project will seek to visibly advocate for the validity of the emerging Pacific Filmmakers Consortium, and a sustainable and locally generated approach to contextualising and enacting change around gender equality. The proposed project will build on the Pacific Filmmakers Consortium network, with media projects, filmmaker and public training and programmes of distribution and stakeholder, government and NGO engagement in ODA LMIC and UMC countries - PNG (including Bougainville Island), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tonga and Vanuatu. It has the potential to also include and bring into this network practitioners and communities in Marshall Islands and Kiribati. This multi strand approach has the objective of contributing to creative development methods to support the challenge of promoting gender equality in the Pacific.