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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,

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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.

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

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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%




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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.

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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.

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