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Will this keep people like Harvey Weinstein out of the film industry?

Gender equality is a hot topic in the film industry after a string of women have accused Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

Published: 8 November 2017 12:44 CET
Will this keep people like Harvey Weinstein out of the film industry?
Beata Mannheimer and participants in ”The producer as a leader” workshop. Photo: Claudia Fried

Stockholm-based film producer Gila Bergqvist Ulfung admits she's met men like Weinstein here in Sweden. 

“I was lucky because I had a platform of my own, so could say 'Stop it, you're making a fool of yourself!'”, she explains.

Now she keeps her eyes open and creates an environment where women working with and alongside her feel safe to raise concerns.

Gila has built a successful career in the Stockholm region and has been part of the regional film industry's efforts to strengthen a strong female filmmaking community.

Find out the innovative way Stockholm film region is actively working towards (and succeeding at) creating a more gender equal film industry.

Read the full article on the Invest Stockholm website

This article was produced by The Local Client Studio and sponsored by Invest Stockholm.

 

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Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Published: 2 August 2021 10:33 CEST
Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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