Animation

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace is an Aboriginally determined research-creation network whose goal is to ensure Indigenous presence in the web pages, online environments, video games, and virtual worlds that comprise cyberspace.

The IM4 Lab was created by Indigenous filmmaker, Loretta Todd, alongside media matriarchs Doreen Manuel, Cease Wyss, and Tracey Kim Bonneau. IM4 is in collaboration with Emily Carr University to offer workshops training Indigenous peoples in XR. IM4 is dedicated to Indigenizing VR/AR/360 by enabling Indigenous communities to find effective ways to incorporate these technologies into educational, cultural, language, artistic and commercial applications.

A writing by Kodi Meier on Anti-Racism in Fantasy/Animation and Academia

The resources below, put together in an effort to begin unlearning, are meant to offer a representative sample of films and readings (both scholarly and popular). This is by no means an exhaustive list, but rather an attempt to highlight a broad range of creative and scholarly works by and about POC that can foster productive classroom discussion and/or provide useful teaching tools.

Founded in 2004 by Two-Time Academy Award Winning Actor Geena Davis, the Institute is the only global research-based organization working collaboratively within the entertainment industry to create gender balance, foster inclusion and reduce negative stereotyping in family entertainment media.

Ongoing international directory of historical and contemporary female* animators

SheCanCode is on a mission to close the Tech Gender Gap. We help women to enter, remain, and excel in the tech industry. We help companies to attract and hire a more diverse workforce.

Founded in 2007 by Andrew Allen and Jason Sondhi, Short of the Week has become the preeminent voice in online film curation built on scouring the web to discover and promote the new wave of emerging filmmakers creating innovative stories for online audiences. With an audience of millions on shortoftheweek.com, Shortverse and our YouTube channel, we have built a network of 30,000 filmmakers and featured over 2,000 short films across every genre from 50+ countries.

We bring together the global animation community to empower and advocate for people of underrepresented gender identities in the art, technology, production, and business of animation, inspiring excellence and justice in all facets of the industry.

Women in Animation (WIA)'s Vancouver chapter, kicked off in early 2018 and is proud to support women

Women in View is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening gender representation and diversity in Canadian media both on screen and behind the scenes. We do this through a range of initiatives that seek to generate awareness, promote talent and spark dialogue across the full spectrum of production, policy and artistic arenas.

A portrait and video series aimed to highlight and advocate the talented women
within the visual effects field of film and television.

Women Who Draw is an open directory of female* professional illustrators, artists and cartoonists. It was created by two women artists in an effort to increase the visibility of female illustrators, emphasizing female illustrators of color, LBTQ+, and other minority groups of female illustrators.