Global Women – A film by Anna Mantzaris
Global Women is a funny and important stop motion piece for Global Women New Zealand, released for International Women’s Day 2021 with the aim to raise awareness of the “Motherhood Penalty” that significantly impacts women in the workplace. The short shows there is almost nothing a woman can do in the workplace that is more career-limiting than having a baby.
Credits
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Director: Anna Malin Mantzaris
Producer: Becky Perryman
Executive Producer: Belle Palmer
Dop: Donna Wade & Jon Muschamp
Animators: Anna Malin Mantzaris, Mark Waring & Tim Allen
Set & Prop builder: Hetty Bax
Costume Fabrication: Kat Probert & Isabelle Riley
Scenic Painter: Roy Bell
Post/VFX: Sara Salcedo
Audio: Liquid Studios – Craig Matuschka
Music licensing: Liquid Studios
Music: Original composition – Peter van der Fluit
Release date: 2021
Country: UK
Duration: 1 minute
Production notes
A funny and important stop motion piece for Global Women New Zealand, released for International Women’s Day 2021 with the aim to raise awareness of the “Motherhood Penalty” that significantly impacts women in the workplace. The short shows there is almost nothing a woman can do in the workplace that is more career-limiting than having a baby.
Why I got involved in the project
The gender pay gap is an issue close to her heart. “It is motivating to work on any project that deals with justice, discrimination of some kind or themes related to that. It adds another layer to the creative process,” she says. “Not only do you get to work on something creative where you love the process of it, but you are also doing it to bring forward an important cause, which makes it really meaningful. Being a woman I’m also seeing a lot of the hidden discrimination and obstacles we face. So I felt that I really knew what I was talking about when I made this film, which again just makes it really meaningful and rewarding to work on.”
High-paying jobs are often occupied by men
Some of the discrimination Manztaris has seen in the animation and commercial space includes the recurring theme of high-status or high-paying jobs often being occupied by men. “As directors, women often get lower budget projects and with the higher budget projects it’s like the more invisible women are,” she says. “Suddenly, it’s as if people don’t really trust women with big budget projects in the same way.”
Biography
Anna is a multi award winning Swedish animation director. She loves to work with different textures and materials to give her work a handmade feel. She often works with humour and very tender, human and imperfect characters. Her short films have won over 60 international awards, including European Animation Award, Vimeo Best of the Year, Walt Disney Award and Audience Award at Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Anna has an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art and recently worked on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs. She is also occasionally teaching and has been a guest lecturer at Royal College of Art, Stockholm University of the Arts, Design College of Barcelona, and Hyper Island among others.
When she is not doing animation she loves to eat food and pet dogs.
Filmography
Enough – 2017
Greenpeace – 2018
Good Intentions – 2019
Global Women – 2021