IWD 2017: Things are improving for female filmmakers, but there's no time for complacency

Mia Bays is the producer of 12 features and 4 short films (including 2005 Oscar-winner ‘Six Shooter’, and 2008’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’, exec produced by David Bowie ) and Director of Birds Eye View Film, a UK charity that advocates and elevates the female perspective in film, since 2015. Birds Eye View believes in the power of film to reflect and effect change within society. Established in 2002, Birds Eye View ran a film festival until 2014 that showed films by women from all over the world to audiences at the BFI Southbank annually and through touring work and smart female-focused initiatives.