”If we are going to talk about the bearded men. What is it, two/three years? Everyone is brewing
their own beer and has a beard, so you can say trends are present, all the time. It is good to trust
your gut, I would not do something just because it is a trend, because no one will know when that
trend might end” Annika Hellström tells me during her interview for this essay.1
The purpose of this essay is to investigate and gain deeper insight in what it is like to be a female
producer in Sweden. To get an answer to this question I have interviewed four Swedish female
producers whilst also looking for answers in literature. Several subjects have been discussed to get
find an answer to this, rather large, question. The essay discusses what is popular i Swedish film
and television right now. It also contains a job description of what a producer does, and includes a
gender perspective.
The conclusion that I have reached from this is that you can see a whole lot of different
developments in what is currently popular in Swedish film and tv. Something that you can clearly
see, is that there has been a great development in equality in the film industry in Sweden. We can
also see that the work tasks are relatively alike whether you are a producer working in fiction or
documentary. Also that all four of our interviewees are rather pragmatic and that they all think that
it is important to listen to the rest of the team and take in what they have to say.
2015.
Producent, producent-yrket, jämställdhet, organisationsteorier, utvecklingsriktning