African Filmmaker Zoe Ramushu Earns Global Nomination for the Technology She Built to Change Who Gets to Work in Film
Views and News with Clarence Ford · 3 June 2026 · 11m
Speaker 1: Zoe Ramushu, South African filmmaker, writer, producer, take on dropner. She's been in the global Speaker 1: spotlight for merging a background and multi talented human being industry advocacy technology. Essentially, she's Speaker 1: looking to dismantle the old boys club dynamics of film crew hiring. Joining us on Speaker 1: the line, Welcome to you, Zoe, It's great to have you with us. Speaker 2: Hi, Clarence, it's good to be here. Speaker 1: I was so excited about this conversation. I really was. I mean, just your CV Speaker 1: that I happened upon is standing and just going through all of it is going Speaker 1: to take up too much of our time. I want to get to thee Yeah, Speaker 1: I want to get to the gist, and I think people are going to see Speaker 1: what you represent without us reading out that stuff. But you have spoken about that Speaker 1: very specific moment, that Netflix moment that's set you were asking for one woman in Speaker 1: every department. Yeah, and then I'd like to know when did you realize that standard Speaker 1: advocacy and the phone calls weren't enough, that the solution actually had to be a Speaker 1: piece of software, and then tell us what this piece of software was. Speaker 2: Thanks, Clarence. It was definitely a moment where it was a combination of the fact Speaker 2: that we were unable to just simply get one female in each department, you know, Speaker 2: and that didn't have to be the hod. It could be even just an intern, Speaker 2: you know, but just one female and each department sounded like a very tall order Speaker 2: for my team, who…
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