Redistribution, recognition and power in the public financing of cinema in Pernambuco: a longitudinal analysis of the state's public cultural policy in the context of gender inequalities

Abstract

In Recife, there was a vast cinematographic production supported financially by a public policy (Law 12,310/2002), with a significant focus on urban themes, unfolding in the engagement for the right to the city. In this phenomenon, there is significant gender inequality in management and production roles, from which we sought to understand whether and how such a policy has affected these inequalities, observing statistics and the perspectives of key actresses based on the concepts of redistribution and recognition (Fraser; Honneth, 2003). Descriptive-explanatory in nature, with a mixed methodological approach and documentary research technique, it observed statistically and longitudinally the distribution of gender throughout the period, affirmative action and films benefiting from it; and content analysis to identify and describe the perception of key actors about 1) the conditions for performing their functions; 2) gender tensions in professional experience. In the analysis, it was identified that the persistence of this phenomenon indicates, firstly, that the processes of reproduction of these inequalities were not significantly affected by the policy, or even that its implementation did not foresee strategies to interfere in these processes. Despite this, it is observed that access to this policy enabled more women to direct films, indicating a context of conflict and dispute.