Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara

In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by actress and founder of Primetime Victoria Emslie, film financier Jasmin Morrison, and Laura Grange, who is Head of Acquisitions at a major broadcaster. Helen asks her guests how things are changing for the better in the film industry, especially in terms of finance, distribution, and diversity on set. They also discuss what we still need to do to make sure that things continue to improve in the future. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

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Our Guests This Week Were:

Victoria Emslie (she/her): @monhublot on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4990981/ 

Jasmin Morrison (she/her)

Find out more about her work at https://www.soulcognition.com/ 

Laura Grange (she/her)

Find out more about her work at https://uk.linkedin.com/in/laura-grange-93554065 

This week’s recommended films were: 

Polisse (2011), directed by Maïwenn (recommended by Laura Grange).

Two For the Road (1967), directed by Stanley Donen (recommended by Jasmin Morrison).

Daisies (1966), directed by Vera Chytilová (recommended by Victoria Emslie).

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by investigative journalist Lucy Osborne, film historian Shelley Stamp, and actress Jessica Regan to discuss the impact of the #MeToo movement on Hollywood and society at large. We’ll hear how far back sexual abuse in Hollywood goes, what impact it has on women in the film industry, and what we can do to make things better. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Jessica Regan (she/her): @itsjessregan on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/jessica-regan  

Shelley Stamp (she/her): @StampShelley on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/research/Shelley_Stamp/Home.html  

Lucy Osborne (she/her): @Lucy_Osborne on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lucy-osborne 

This week’s recommended films were: 

On the Record (2020), directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (recommended by Lucy Osborne).

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/  

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by economist Dr Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez, academic Susan Kemp, and actor Jessica Regan to talk about the gender pay gap between men and women in Hollywood. You’ll hear about research into Hollywood’s wage inequality, how society dictates the value we place on ourselves, and our guests’ personal experiences of the gender pay gap. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Dr Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez (she/her)

Find out more about her work at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/10/28/the-unexplained-25-wage-gap-between-male-and-female-hollywood-actors/ 

Susan Kemp (she/her): @kempiefilmy on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://susan-kemp.com/

Jessica Regan (she/her): @itsjessregan on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/jessica-regan 

This week’s recommended films were:

Hidden Figures (2016), directed by Theodore Melfi; Suffragette (2015), directed by Sarah Gavron

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Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by film critics Anna Smith, Simran Hans and Rebecca Harrison to discuss the impact of film criticism on the movie industry. You’ll hear about our guests’ experiences as female film critics, great critics of the past like Pauline Kael, and also how things are slowly beginning to improve for marginalised folks in film criticism. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Anna Smith (she/her): @annasmithjourno on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at http://annasmithjourno.com/ 

Simran Hans (she/her): @heavier_things on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.simranhans.com/

Rebecca Harrison (she/her): @BeccaEHarrison on Twitter

Find out more about her work at http://www.writingonreels.uk/ 

This week’s recommended films were:

Leave No Trace (2018), directed by Debra Granik, recommended by Anna Smith

Wanda (1971), directed by Barbra Louden, recommended by Simran Hans

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/  

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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EPISODE 5 - STUDIO ERA

In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by Shelley Stamp and Susan Kemp to discuss the Studio Era, which began in the early 1920s and lasted until the end of the 1940s. The studio system was designed to treat film as a factory product, and it had a huge impact on women, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ people in Hollywood. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Shelley Stamp (she/her): @StampShelley on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/research/Shelley_Stamp/Home.html 

Susan Kemp (she/her): @kempiefilmy on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://susan-kemp.com/

This week’s recommended films were:

Not Wanted (1949), directed by Ida Lupino (recommended by Shelley Stamp)

The Day I Became A Woman (2000), directed by Marzieh Makhmalbaf; Locked-Up Time (1990), directed by Sibylle Shönemann (recommended by Susan Kemp) 

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/  

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe; Night on the Town - Track Tribe 

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Helen O’Hara is joined by Phyllida Lloyd, Tina Gharavi, Amy Adrion, Sarah Grant and Cathy Brady to discuss their experiences as female directors. We’ll hear about their struggles, their triumphs, and their hopes for the future. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Phyllida Lloyd (she/her): @PhyllidaLloyd on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.herself.film/home/ 

Tina Gharavi (she/her): @Gharavi on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://bridgeandtunnelproductions.com/ 

Amy Adrion (she/her): @amyadrion on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.halfthepicture.com/ 

Sarah Grant (she/her): @SGrantCreative on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.sarahgrantcreative.com/ 

Cathy Brady (she/her): @Cathy_Brady on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.bafta.org/supporting-talent/elevate/cathy-brady 

This week’s recommended films were:

Valley Girl (1983), directed by Martha Coolidge, recommended by Amy Adrion

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), directed by Penelope Spheeris, recommended by Amy Adrion

Alexandra (2007), directed by Alexander Sokurov, recommended by Phyllida Lloyd

The House is Black (1963), directed by Forugh Farrokhzad, recommended by Tina Gharavi

Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), directed by Marielle Heller, recommended by Sarah Grant

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/  

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through The Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Members Only – Track Tribe

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Find out more about Stripped Media and our other shows on our website, here: https://stripped.media/our-podcasts/  

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EPISODE 3 - SILENT MOVIES

In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by Radha Vatsal, Shelley Stamp and Pamela Hutchinson, to discuss the very beginning of the film industry, and the women who found success in the Silent Era. Surprisingly, women often had better opportunities to make it in the movie business in the early 1900s than they would in later decades. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Radha Vatsal (she/her): @RadhaVatsal on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.radhavatsal.com/ 

Shelley Stamp (she/her): @StampShelley on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/research/Shelley_Stamp/Home.html 

Pamela Hutchinson (she/her): @PamHutch on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://pamhutch.wordpress.com/ 

This week’s recommended films were:

The Women Film Pioneers Project, recommended by Radha Vatsal https://wfpp.columbia.edu/ (Helen Holmes and Tsuru Aoki, recommended by Helen O’Hara)

Suspense (1913), directed by Lois Weber, recommended by Pamela Hutchinson https://youtu.be/gCOk5jVaJNo 

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; The Cascades – E’s Jammy Jams; Peacefully – E’s Jammy Jams; Book Bag – E’s Jammy Jams; Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3457-breaktime - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license; Jazz Piano Bar – Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider giving us a five star review on iTunes or your Podcatcher of choice, and telling your friends and family about the show. Word of mouth is still the best way to market any podcast, and every little helps! From the whole team at Women vs Hollywood: thank you.

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In this episode of Women Vs Hollywood, Helen O’Hara is joined by Clare Binns, Holly Tarquini, Sophie Monks Kaufman and Tricia Tuttle, to discuss the impact of festivals on women in the film industry. They’ll explore the ways that festivals have excluded women in the past, and the ways that women are fighting for better representation today. 

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Tricia Tuttle (she/her): @TriciaTuttle on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.bfi.org.uk/flare 

Holly Tarquini (she/her): @hollytarq on Twitter 

Find out more about her work at https://filmbath.org.uk/ 

Clare Binns (she/her): @ClareLBinns on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.bifa.film/people/clare-binns/ 

Sophie Monks Kaufman (she/her): @sopharsogood on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.sophiemonkskaufman.com/   

This week’s recommended films were:

The films of Joanna Hogg and Chloe Zhao, recommended by Tricia Tuttle

One Night in Miami (2020), directed by Regina King, recommended by Holly Tarquini

Proxima (2019), directed by Alice Winocour, recommended by Clare Binns

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/ 

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him) 

Find out more about Stripped Media and our other shows on our website, here: https://stripped.media/our-podcasts/ 

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through the Park – TrackTribe; On Hold For You by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6928-on-hold-for-you - License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 

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Welcome to the very first episode of Women Vs Hollywood, in which Helen O’Hara explores the glamorous world of Awards. With the help of Amy Gustin, Tom Salinksy and Jessica Regan, she’ll discuss why female filmmakers are often overlooked at awards ceremonies, and how things may be changing for the better.   

You can find our host, Helen O’Hara (she/her), on Twitter @HelenLOHara.

You can also find Helen on The Empire Film Podcast.

Comments? Questions? Talk about the show on your social media platform of choice using #WomenVsHollywood.

Our Guests This Week Were:

Amy Gustin (she/her): @AmyGustin on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.bifa.film/people/amy-gustin/   

Tom Salinsky (he/him) 

Find out more about his work at https://bestpickpod.com/ 

Jessica Regan (she/her): @itsjessregan on Twitter

Find out more about her work at https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/jessica-regan 

This week’s recommended films were:

Rare Beasts (2019), directed by Billie Piper, recommended by Amy Gustin

A New Leaf (1971), directed by Elaine May, recommended by Tom Salinsky

Titus Andronicus (1999), directed by Julie Taymor, recommended by Jessica Regan

You can purchase Women vs Hollywood in the UK, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/women-vs-hollywood-the-fall-and-rise-of-women-in-film/ 

You can purchase the audiobook of Women vs Hollywood on Audible in the UK, here: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Women-vs-Hollywood-Audiobook/ 

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Host: Helen O’Hara (she/her)

Producer: Maddy Searle (she/her)

Executive Producers: Kobi Omenaka (he/him) and Ella Watts (she/her)

Artwork: Steve Leard (he/him)

Music: Jazz Apricot – Joey Pecoraro; Jazz Mango – Joey Pecoraro; Walk Through the Park – TrackTribe

SFX: stefan021 via freesound.org 

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