Image caption: Fowzia Fathima is the first woman cinematographer in the South who shot to fame with Revathy’s Mitr, My Friend. Director of short film Infected, which screened at Busan International Film Festival, Fathima is also a part of Indian Women Cinematographers Collective, a forum by and for craftswomen/technicians of the film industry. Actor Revathy and Script Lab Mentor Meenakshi Shedde believe that hiring more women across the board will also lead to a better environment on film sets as well as bring newer perspectives

After a relentless battle that lasted five years, the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) finally made a giant leap in their fight against the misogynist system that prevails in the film industry, particularly the Malayalam cinema. On March 17, in response to a PIL filed by WCC, the court directed Malayalam film production houses and organisations like Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA), Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce among others to constitute Internal Complaints Committees (ICCs), as mandated under the Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, 2013.