About Jane Gabriel
Jane Gabriel is the founder and editor of openDemocracy's 50.50 editorial section. She directed more than thirty documentaries for Channel Four Television and the BBC international current affairs series "Correspondent" before joining openDemocracy. Jane won the Royal Television Society award for the film ' Island of Outcasts' filmed in Greece, and the One World Media award for the film 'Whose Life is it Anyway?' filmed in India. Jane was a member of Britain's first all women television production company, Broadside.
As well as producing podcasts and articles (see below), Jane has reported on the Commission on the Status of Women (2009, 2008, and 2007) the Nobel Women's Initiative conferences in 2007 and 2009, the Global Safe Abortion conference 2007, and 16 Days against Gender Violence 2007 and 2008 .
The award winning Greek film director, Theo Angelopoulos, died yesterday in an accident whilst working on his new film 




















