Please find links below to key media coverage about Deanne Weir and the WeirAnderson Foundation.

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Variety Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures to Produce Devotion, Hannah Kent Book-to-Film Adaptation EXCLUSIVE - 19 October 2022

The Guardian Blaze review - Del Kathryn Barton’s feature film debut will take your breath away 20 June 2022

Harpers Bazaar Del Kathryn Barton leads us into a fantastical realm with her film, Blaze - May 2022

Variety Damon Herriman and Greta Scacchi Join Sarah Snook in Run Rabbit Run - 24 January 2022

Screen Producers Australia Deanne talks about her screen stories and COVID-19 impacts - August 2020

if.com.au Now is the time to support Australian stories - 23 April, 2020

Inside Film Deanne Weir hatches ideas to encourage private investment - January 2019

News.com.au Australian Philanthropy Awards 2018: Why Deanne Weir has donated millions of her own money to Charity - August 2018

Philanthropy Australia 2018 Gender-wise philanthropy recipient, Deanne Weir - July 2018

Qantas Magazine Lessons from The Most Inspiring Leaders of 2018 - December 2018

Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2016

Sydney Morning Herald Bell Shakespeare finds lessons in feminism from the Bard - 11 September 2015

Hollywood Reporter The 20 Most Powerful Women in Global TV in 2015 - 10 February 2015

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Probono Australia A post COVID-19 world: Some questions to ask - 13 May 2020

Good Weekend Why philanthropy does not begin and end with rich, white men - 19 November 19 2016

Sydney Morning Herald Philanthropist Deanne Weir gives $1million to women - 20 August 2014

Generosity Magazine The Storyteller: Deanne Weir - 22 July 2014

Deanne Weir talks about the launch of Gender Matters in 2015 - about why it matters to her and her vision for the future. She was initially the chair (a position now held by Joanna Werner) and is now a member of the Gender Matters Taskforce. 

Top banner photo: L-R Hayley McElhinney, Tasma Walton, Sally Phillips and Caroline Brazier in How to Please a Woman (photo credit David Dare Parker)