As reported at On Screen Manitoba, BravoFACT and BravoFACTUAL will now ensure that 50% of their awards will go to female filmmakers:

“The change is meant to help foster up-and-coming female filmmakers in Canada. In order to qualify as female-lead, a submission must have a director or producer attached who is a woman. In addition, every BravoFACT and BravoFACTUAL jury in 2015 will include a female filmmaker as a guest juror.”

The next deadlines are April 1, 2015 for BravoFACTUAL and June 12, 2015 for BravoFACT.

My take: this is long overdue. Go grab a piece of the pie, sisters! We need to hear your stories more than ever.