Calling The Shots


Release Information: September 14, 1988; Toronto (Varsity 2: Festival of Festivals) 19h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 14, 1988; Toronto (Varsity 2: Festival of Festivals) 19h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 23, 1988; Toronto (Varsity 2: Festival of Festivals) 19h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 23, 1988; Toronto (Varsity 2: Festival of Festivals) 19h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 14, 1988; Toronto (Carlton) 13h45; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 14, 1988; Toronto (Carlton) 13h45; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 23, 1988; Toronto (Carlton) 13h45; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 23, 1988; Toronto (Carlton) 13h45; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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Executive Producer: Anne Wheeler; Helen Shaver; John Walker

119 minutes, 1987

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The situation of women working in film - mainly American and Canadian feature films - is explored via the talking head technique. The directors, writers, actors, producers, and composers interviewed are: Katharine Hepburn, Martha Coolidge, Sandy Wilson, Susan Seidelman, Amy Heckerling, Anne Wheeler, Penelope Spheeris, Joyce Chopra, Claudia Weill, Jill Godmilow, Joan Tewkesbury, Barbara Boyle, Lizzie Borden, Karen Arthur, Ann Hui, Randa Haines, Euzhan Palcy, Donna Deitch, Helen Shaver, Agnès Varda, Linda Hunt, Jeanne Moreau, Léa Pool, Joan Micklin Silver, Marisa Silver, Mala Powers, Lee Grant, Margaretha von Trotta, Mai Zetterling, Margot Kidder, Paula Weinstein, Sherry Lansing, Marilyn Bergman, Patricia Resnick, Amy Jones and Chantal Ackerman.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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