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This article is about the Australian film and television scholar. For the British archaeologist, see Elizabeth French. For the murdered American child, see Murder of Lisa Ann French.

Lisa French is professor and dean in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.[1][2] She is the author of The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective ,[3] 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.[4][5]

Career

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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.[6] She holds the role of co-chair of a UNESCO global network of 19 universities working on media, gender and ICTs[7] 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.[citation needed]  

French is the dean of the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne.[8] She conducts research on women in film and television.[9] She edited the anthology Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia (2003)[10] and co-authored Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute (2009).[11][12]

She produced the film Birth of a Film Festival (2003),[13] a documentary about the first Melbourne International Film Festival.[14]

Selected awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ ORCID. "Lisa French (0000-0003-2893-9098)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Lisa French". IMDb. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  3. ^ "The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – An International Perspective". Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Shining A Light". www.shiningalight.net. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. ^ French, Lisa (January 2003). "Womenvision: women and the moving image in Australia". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "Screen Australia announces new Gender Matters Taskforce | Media centre". Screen Australia. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  7. ^ "uniTwin | UNESCO". Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Professor Lisa French - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  9. ^ Quinn, Karl (20 August 2019). "Women making strides on screen, but still a long way to go behind camera". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  10. ^ Tomsic, Mary (2003). "Womenvision: Women and the moving image in Australia [Book Review]". Lilith: A Feminist History Journal (12): 153–154.
  11. ^ Kaufman, Tina (2010). "Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute [Book Review]". Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (165): 141–142.
  12. ^ Ellis, Katie (2011). "Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute [Book Review]". Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy (140): 175–176. doi:10.1177/1329878X1114000128. S2CID 149566715.
  13. ^ "Lisa French". IMDb. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  14. ^ "The birth of a film festival". The Age. 27 May 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Lifetime Member Spotlight: LISA FRENCH". WIFT VIC. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
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