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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 @melsil: For #FemaleFilmmakerFriday I have some questions I want to ask female directors 1- do u want to direct a big budget movie? 2- w…

@womencallshots - Fri 03 May

RT @bellecobb: Jocelyn Moorehouse's book is titled 'Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood'. I know many who will want t…

@womencallshots - Tue 23 Apr

“...women accounted for 8 percent of directors working on the top 250-grossing movies of 2018, down one percentage point from 1998. ‘We ha ...

@womencallshots - Wed 17 Apr

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