Maria Giese tackles Hollywood over women directors - or the lack of them

It's been slow going but Maria Giese who's leading the charge in Hollywood over the industry's ongoing discrimination against women directors, says there is progress - at least in television and commercials. Four years ago Maria instigated the biggest industry-wide Federal investigation into women directors in Hollywood history. She's a guest speaker at the upcoming Power of Inclusion Summit in Auckland. The New Zealand Film Commission is trying to encourage more women film directors through initiatives like the recently announced Director Mentorship Programme and annual Gender Scholarship. Maria Giese tells Lynn Freeman why she isn't a fan of this approach. First though, she takes us back to the start of the investigation into Hollywood's discrimination against women directors: Maria is a guest at the Auckland's Power of Inclusion Summit, which starts on October 3rd. Then she goes to Wellington, speaking at screenings of a documentary she's in called This Changes Everything, about the entertainment industry's gender disparity.