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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...

Impact activities

Reports and publications

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 @underwirefest: ATTENTION ALL @NetflixUK SUBSCRIBERS! There is now 'Directed by Women' collection you can browse through, with every fi…

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@womencallshots - Sun 13 Jan

Anna Serner presenting the latest gender report on the Swedish industry- The Money Report #womeninfilm https://t.co/L5ovXuccUc

@womencallshots - Sun 13 Jan

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