I really enjoyed Christine Vachon’s visit to campus, not just because of her attitude and approach to producing films, but because it provided an insightful look to yet another aspect of filmmaking. We’ve already covered female directors, actors, and cinematographers, but getting the perspective of the person who puts everything together for production to occur was something that was quite enlightening. (I actually had no idea that producers worked so closely with casting and directors prior to Christine’s discussion, so her anecdotes about her work alone made the event worth it.)

Something that Christine’s visit made me curious about was the representation of women in film production altogether. Obviously, the field is far from being as welcoming to women as we’d like it to be and hearing from women in every step of a film’s production would be helpful to identifying the institutionalized problems in the industry. For the rest of you, I’m wondering: What jobs within film that we haven’t delved as deeply into would you like to hear more about in this regard? (I, for one, would like to learn more about female editors since that position holds a great deal of power over the final cut of a film.)