The Australian film industry is a sausage party. Here’s what we can do about it | Anna Broinowski

Between 2009 and 2014, only 15% of film directors in Australia were women – that is too extreme not to address

The “sausage party” flash mob at the Aacta awards last week, protesting gender inequity in the Australian film industry, was a wake-up call. Hilarious in a larrikin Aussie way – but a sobering spotlight on an endemic and deepening problem.

As one of the few women directors to win an award this year, I clicked my support of the Sausage-ettes in quiet solidarity. But when I read that two of the protesters – Louise Wadley and Megan Riakos– had directed feature films with successful independent theatrical releases, which had nonetheless been rejected for consideration at Australia’s major film and television awards, I felt compelled to speak out.