During the Calling the Shots research project, we conducted 50 interviews with women who work in key production roles in the UK film industry, which remains dominated by men.
The interviews provided valuable research material and documented first-hand the thoughts, career stories and experiences of all interviewees working in filmmaking. We recorded each interview as a video approximately an hour long per interview, and the recordings are housed with the BECTU History Project.
The interviews began at our launch of the project at the Shetland Film Festival in 2014.
Interviewees included:
Amma Asante, writer-director
Clio Barnard, writer-director
Victoria Boydell, Editor
Moira Buffini, Writer
Cairo Cannon, producer
Gurinder Chadha, writer-director-producer
Anne V Coates, Editor
Lucinda Coxon, Writer
Sarah Curtis, producer
Jeanie Finlay, director/producer
Mandie Fletcher, Director
Sally Potter, Director
Lizzie Francke, BFI Film Fund executive
Joanna Hogg, writer-director
Elizabeth Karlsen, producer
Laura Hastings-Smith, producer
Martya Knitter, Cinematographer
Nina Kellgren, Cinematographer
Polly Morgan, cinematographer
Christine Langhan, head of BBC Films
Xialou Guo, writer-director
Hope Dickson Leach, writer-director
Amy Mathieson, writer-director-producer
Norina McKay, writer/producer
Carol Morley, writer-director
Kate Ogborn, producer
Juliette Towhidi, screenwriter
Tess Morgan, screenwriter
Kelly Marcel, screenwriter
Kim Longinotto, director
Saska Simpson, Editor
Lucia Zuchetti, Editor
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