Articles and Interviews


Interviews and Texts on NEROPA

Manori Ravindran: Diversifying TV: the practices improving workplace inclusivity
Television Business International TBI Vision, 12.10.18

Marian Evans: Belinde Ruth Stieve’s NEROPA Strategy
Women’s Film Activism – Medium 24.3.18

Marian Evans: Belinde Ruth Stieve & NEROPA (interview)
Wellywood Woman, 24.3.18

Progress for Parity Principle
Equity Magazine Spring 2018, page 12

WIFT backing NEROPA, A New Initiative to Address Gender Balance on Screen
Women in Fim & Telvision, 22.1.18

Giverny Masso: Casting tool to create gender parity in theatre launches in UK
in: The Stage, 11.1.18

Yvonne de Andrés: Interview with Belinde Ruth Stieve (in German)
in: Aviva-Berlin Online Magazin, 19.7.17

Cecilia Johnson-Ferguson: Neropa, an innovative tool to counterbalance the unequal gender distribution of film characters
in: european women’s audiovisual network, 18.7.17

Peter Hartig: Neutrale Rollen. (Interview with film stills, in German)
in: cinearte 366, page 2-11. 17.3.16

Jana Dolan: “No quiero más películas en las que solo los hombres actúan y las mujeres acompañan, aman y están guapas.“ Interview mit Belinde Ruth Stieve.
in: (500) dias de cine con ella, 9.3.15 (English translation on SchspIN).

 

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Belinde Ruth Stieve: Texts about NEROPA

NEROPA Touring the Irish Isle – #WakingTheFeminists
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts 23.10.18

Equity NEROPA Symposium, London Jan. 18
Presentation and Audio
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN -An Actress’s Thoughts 22.2.18

Teach an Old Dog Tricks!
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 28.11.17

Neoping during Script Development
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 6.11.17

The Future is Now
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 27.6.17

Neropa II: “Yes, But….” – Possible Arguments against Neropa
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 14.3.16

Neropa: NEutrale ROllen PArität für mehr Rollenvielfalt (in German)
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: out-takes – Der Blog der Film- und Fernsehbranche, 21. Jan. 2016

A Casting Tool called Neropa
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 20 Jan. 2016

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Statements and Measures from Film Organizations

BFI Diversity Standards
Guidance for funded projects to better included underrepresented groups on and off screen.

Gendertalk: Offener Brief des BVC an Autoren, Produzenten, Regisseure und Sendermitarbeiter in Deutschland
Bundesverband Casting, 3.5.17

Manifesto for Casting
Equity UK, 21.6.17

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Related Articles

Gender-swapped revivals like Company keep theatre alive, relevant and exciting
Lyn Gardner in The Stage 29.10.18

Working Girl had power suits and female ambition. But where’s the modern equivalent?
Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, 4.10.18

Interview with Mary Steenburgen: ‘We have ugly words for successful female actors’
Zoe Williams in The Guardian 4.10.18

From ,The Handmaid’s Tale’ to ,I love Dick’, the female gaze is thriving on television
Meredith Blake in The Los Angeles Times 5.5.17

Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age.
Hanah Anderson, Matt Daniels in The Pudding April 2016

Diskriminierung in der Filmbranche “Filme und Serien hängen der Realität hinterher” (in German)
Bernd Lechler im Gespräch mit Regisseurin Barbara Rohm.  Deutschlandfunk 11.2.16

Colour-blind casting: how far have we really come?
Lyn Gardner in The Guardian 13.1.16

Women are everywhere so why are we invisible on film?
Eva Wisenman in The Guardian 18.10.15

Frauen? Randfiguren. (in German)
Susan Vahabzadeh in der Süddeutschen 10.10.15

Deutscher Filmpreis: Die Heldin? Die mit der Brille! (in German)
Katja Nicodemus in Die Zeit 8.5.14

Women, gay and black people still shown as stereotypes in film, says study
Amelia Hill in
The Guardian 18.3.11

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Selection of Texts from Belinde Ruth Stieve

Cleverer Girls
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 26.9.18

Who’s to be seen on CRIME SCENE?
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 28.6.18

Let’s Talk About the Inclusion-Rider
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 15.6.18

What we hear is what we see?
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 13.10.17

The Future is Now
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 27.6.17

Star Wars: The Empiricism Strikes Back
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 2.2.17

Wedneday TV films: only fictional?
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 14.12.15

Berlin Theatre Festival 2015. And Gender Switching
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 4.5.15

Age: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 14.3.14

Well done, Sister Equity! – Interview with Jean Rogers (Equity UK)
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 5.12.13

The Perfect Age for German TV
Belinde Ruth Stieve in: SchspIN – An Actress’s Thoughts. 31.7.13