Dr  Shelley  Cobb,  Prof  Linda  Ruth  Williams,  Dr  Natalie  Wreyford  (2019),  Calling  the  Shots:  Women  working  in  key  roles  on  UK-­‐‑qualifying  films  in  production  during  2003,    

http://womencallingtheshots.com    

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 Calling  the  Shots:    Women  working  in  key  roles  on  UK-­‐‑qualifying  films  in  production  during  2003    Report  produced  by  AHRC-­‐‑funded  research  project  ‘Calling  the  Shots:  women  and  contemporary  film  culture  in  the  UK,  2000-­‐‑2015’.  The  source  data  for  this  report  is  the  BFI’s  Research  and  Statistical  Unit  who  provided  a   list   of   British-­‐‑qualifying   films   from  2003-­‐‑2015.   The   report   analyses   six   key   production   roles:   director,  screenwriter,  producer,  executive  producer,  editor  and  cinematographer.    Report  authors:  Dr  Shelley  Cobb,  Prof  Linda  Ruth  Williams,  and  Dr  Natalie  Wreyford  (2019)      In  2003,  a  total  of  203  UK  films  were  in  production.  Women  constituted  just  18%  of  all  key  production  roles.  Of  those  women,  only  6%  were  of  Black,  Asian,  or  Ethnic  Minority  identity,  making  BAME  women  1%  of  all  personnel  working  in  these  6  key  roles  last  year.      

     17%  of  the  203  British  films  in  production  had  NO  women  in  any  of  the  six  key  production  roles.    

 

18%

82%

Total  percentage  of  men  and  women  making  British  qualifying  films  in  2003,  across  all  six  categories

Women

Men

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK

Film Culturehttps://womencallingtheshots.com

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17%

83%

Total  percentage  of  films  with  NO  women  in  any  of  the  six  key  roles  (51  films)

Films  with  no  women  in  any  of  the  six  key  roles:  17%

Rest  of  films  produced  in  2015:  83%

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK

Film Culturehttps://womencallingtheshots.com

Calling the ShotsWomen and Contemporary UK Film

Culture

 

Dr  Shelley  Cobb,  Prof  Linda  Ruth  Williams,  Dr  Natalie  Wreyford  (2019),  Calling  the  Shots:  Women  working  in  key  roles  on  UK-­‐‑qualifying  films  in  production  during  2003,    

http://womencallingtheshots.com    

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   Women  comprised  11%  of  directors;  only  one  film  was  co-­‐‑directed  and  that  co-­‐‑director  was  a  man.  Just  2%  of  directors  were  BAME  women  (5  women  in  total,  although  3  of  these  were  not  British).  The  only  British  BAME  women  directors  were  Amma  Asante  and  Gurinder  Chadha.  74%  of  films  with  a  woman  director  also  had  a  woman  producer.    Women  accounted  for  18%  of  all  screenwriters.  19  films  had  women  screenwriters  only,  just  10%  of  the  total  films  going  into  production  in  2003.  77%  of  films  with  a  woman  screenwriter  had  a  least  one  women  producer.  Less  than  2%  of  all  screenwriters  were  BAME  women  (6  in  total,  of  which  3  were  British:  Amma  Asante  and  Gurinder  Chadha  again  and  Catherine  Johnson  who  wrote  “Bullet  Boy”).    24%  of  producers  were  women.  38%  of  the  203  films  had  no  women  producers.  Only  7%  of  the  203  films  had  no  men  producers.  Only  15  of  the  women  producers  were  BAME  (less  than  2%  of  all  producers).      Of  all  exec-­‐‑producers,  women  accounted  for  16%  of  the  total.  9  films  had  all  women  exec-­‐‑producers.  75  films  had  all  men  exec-­‐‑producers.  We  were  unable  to  identify  any  women  exec-­‐‑producers  that  were  BAME.        

11 18 23 2 24 16

89 82 77 98 76 84

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Percentage  of  men  and  women  in  key  roles  in  2003

Men

Women

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK

Film Culturehttps://womencallingtheshots.com

Calling the ShotsWomen and Contemporary UK Film

Culture

23 71 54 5

20993

186317

186 212

654497

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Number  of  men  and  women  in  key  roles  in  2003

Women

Men

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK

Film Culturehttps://womencallingtheshots.com

Calling the ShotsWomen and Contemporary UK Film

Culture

 

Dr  Shelley  Cobb,  Prof  Linda  Ruth  Williams,  Dr  Natalie  Wreyford  (2019),  Calling  the  Shots:  Women  working  in  key  roles  on  UK-­‐‑qualifying  films  in  production  during  2003,    

http://womencallingtheshots.com    

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Women  comprised  22%  of  editors.  Two  thirds  of  films  with  a  women  editor  also  had  at  least  one  women  producer.  Of  those  whose  race  could  be  identified,  only  2  women  editors  were  BAME,  and  only  1  of  these  was  British.  This  means  less  than  1%  of  editors  were  BAME  women  in  2003.      2%  of  all  cinematographers  were  women.  There  were  5  women  cinematographers  and  only  2  of  these  were  British.  One  of   these  British  women  was  also  the  director  of   the   film:  Shona  Auerbach  on  “Dear  Frankie”.  Three  of  the  women  cinematographers  worked  on  films  with  at  least  one  woman  producer  (60%).    None  of  the  cinematographers  were  BAME  women.