Sarah Radclyffe (born 14 November 1950), sometimes credited as Sarah Radcliffe is a British film producer.She began working as associative producer in the late 1970s on movies like The Tempest by Derek Jarman. From 1983 to 1984 she worked on the series The Comic Strip Presents and in 1984 she founded the production company Working Title Films together with partner Tim Bevan. That company's first major production was the Stephen Frears film My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985. Most notable films with Sarah Radclyffe as producer were Caravaggio (1986), Wish You Were Here (1987), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1988), A World Apart (1988), Edward II (1991), Sirens (1994), Second Best, Les Misérables (1998), The Lost Son (1999) and The War Zone (1999) for which she was nominated for the European Film Award. She has been married to William Penton Godfrey since 1996 and has two sons, Sam and Callum.
So why do more women not want to direct? There are a lot of female producers, and that's true all the way through production. Perhaps that's something to do with having children. When you've just had a child, you can go back to the production side of things relatively easily.
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I've worked with embarrassingly few women directors throughout my career as a producer. Why? I don't know, is the honest answer.
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We don't expect 50% of the working directors to be female - that's not going to happen, certainly not in my lifetime, but at least let's have a few more female voices out there, a few more visions.
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There are some fantastic people coming out of film schools, directors and producers, many of whom definitely will make it. It's certainly the first time for a few years where I've found the next generation of film-makers coming into my office are women, which is great.
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Cofounded Working Title Productions with Tim Bevan [1984]