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Counting the women in key production roles in British films of the 21st century.

Recorded interviews with 50 women who work in film production in the UK.

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Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015 is a large Arts and Humanities Research Council funded (£589,710) four-year project researching and writing the contemporary history of women working in the UK film industry.

Calling the shots team

Dr Shelley Cobb (PI) and Prof Linda Ruth Williams (Co-I) head up a team of six w...

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Film news

26 March 2018

Student Film Festival Success

Friday, March 16 was the University of Southampton Student Film Fes...

14 August 2017

Dongguk Summer School and Film Award

11 December 2016

Southampton film students win big in the 4...

On the evening of 28th October, 20 teams met in Southampton city ce...

Recent tweets from callingtheshots

RT @WFTV_UK: Happy International Women's Day, and major shout out to the UK-based orgs we're proud to stand beside in our march towards gen…

@womencallshots - Fri 08 Mar

Today! Our own @lindaruth1 presenting @WomenCallShots research @FilmScreenCam https://t.co/JgGZYGhlRx

@womencallshots - Wed 06 Mar

Our own @lindaruth1 presenting @WomenCallShots research at Cambridge tomorrow https://t.co/JgGZYGhlRx

@womencallshots - Tue 05 Mar

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