Celebrating Women in Film with Vanguard
3/2/202627 min
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It’s an International Women’s Day special, and we’ll be celebrating women in film by looking back at some of our favourite interviews with women filmmakers who have joined us on the Take. We’ve got Past Lives director Celine Song, editing legend and pioneer Thelma Schoonmaker, megastar actor-turned-director, Kate Winslet, and our live show guest Nia DaCosta on directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Plus we’ll hear from our Take guest b...
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First 90 secondsSimon Mayo· Host0:00
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Mark Kermode· Host0:14
Well, that's very nice, but why?
Simon Mayo· Host0:16
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Mark Kermode· Host0:31
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Simon Mayo· Host0:43
So dedicating a full show to women in film to mark International Women's Day and explore some of the incredible work done at the moment feels like a very sensible idea.
Mark Kermode· Host0:53
Yeah, okay. So let's crack on. Now, can I- And you have some stats here. Yes. So I have mentioned this before, but the good lady Professor Hurren-Dawes was involved in a very important research project, which is called Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK. What they did was they studied, uh, films made between 2003 and 2015. I think it was like nearly three and a half thousand films. And they were looking at... They were counting the numbers of women in six key production roles. And when they announced their findings, I mean, everybody knew that women were having a very hard time in the film industry,